So i mean listening there to Martin Griffiths the u. N. Special envoy to yemen appealing for more calm especially in this situation with aid and also reporting as he sees it some progress having been made in implementing the stop home agreement lets bring in our diplomatic editor james bass hes live for us at the United Nations james what do you make of that. Well martin gryphus addressing the u. N. Security council at a regularly planned meeting on yemen the monthly meeting on yemen to update them on the situation in that country but clearly a meeting that has been overtaken by recent events the attack on Saudi Oil Installations and that was the subject of the very start of his address to the Security Council he described this as a terrifying moment that made regional conflict more likely he said that in conjunction with an attack on a prison at the beginning of the month that killed more than 100. 00 people and the tension in the south in aden and the separatist attendances there mad
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Maria welcome back. Good friday morning, everybody. Im Maria Bartiromo thanks for being here. It is friday, august 18. 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. House judiciary chairman jim jordan subpoenaed the Justice Department and fbi for documents showing conversations between the agencys private companies and other third party groups, allege showing big tech collusion. In a letter to ag merrick garland, jordan writes this, numerous documents that have been made publicly available reflect the weaponization of the federal governments power to censor speech online, directly and by proxy. It is necessary for congress to gauge the extent to which doj officials have coerced, pressured, worked with or relied upon social media and other Tech Companies to censor speech. Jordan demanding the agencies turn over response documents next month. Daniel, we know what happened here because of the release of the twitter files. We were told 1,000 people in government were wo