idea, nato expected to invite finland to negotiate. and sweden also 1kexpected to announce its intention to join the alliance a. russia has warned both countries saying that there would be consequences. let s go live to helsinki and bring in nic robertson. put these developments into context for us. reporter: huge developments. rapid change in public and political opinion here about nato membership as you have when russia invaded ukraine. fins no longer felt safe. they felt threatened by russia. saying that the country should join. good for finland. good for nato the next steps and they are fairly low hurdles, if you like. the prime minister discussing over the weekend. the foreign affairs committee to put their paper forward and the parliament to vote in the session. i spoke yesterday with one of the prime minister s and they said look, already over 180 of the 200 are ready to vote yes to join nato. this is all but a foregone conclusion. the nato secretary-general saying f
he s been really quiet, really reserved, but very funny. just a quiet, dry humor. it will be interesting to see how one of the greats, their minds, translates the games for those who are watching it with them as opposed to those who are watching him play it. that s going to be the exciting part for me and everyone woiho a fan of football. it s hard to not like tom brady. it really is. thank you so much for being with us. now day continues right now. good morning to our viewers ear in the united states and all around the world. it is what day is it? it is wednesday, may 11th. i m john berman with breonna taylor brianna keilar. a vote needs 1r060 votes to pasn a senate that s currently split 5050. what it will do, says majority leader chuck schumer is get every member on the record on the critically issue of abortion rights. pennsylvania senator bob casey, one of the historically anti-abortion democrats says he will vote to codify the roe v. wade decision. this is com
Senators grilled two members of PGA Tour leadership in a Tuesday hearing on the organizer’s pending deal to form a new for-profit golf entity with LIV Golf, the league backed by Saudi Arabia’s Private Investment Fund (PIF). PGA Tour chief operating officer Ron Price and board member Jimmy Dunne, who helped broker the truce between…
senator, we certainly don t condone or support that type of activity. yes, sir. let s talk a little bit about your lobbying activity as it relates to the saudi deal. public reports say that you paid lobbyists last year in one quarter of the year six figures or more to lobby congress on the saudi golf league proposals. we went to members of congress, as we faced a very threat to our existence, to make them aware of what the public investment fund was attempting to do through its operations of the liv golf series. and so make congress aware and ask for what? what did you want this body to do? senator, anything that congress could do within its power to help preserve an american institution. this is before you agreed to take a billion dollars from the
this bill is written currently. but here is the other point, neil, is that cal-osha has been wor working regs for workplace violence for years and working for years on the regs. and osha, the government appointed board, tasked with work safety, that s the group that should be working with us on workplace environment. we all want to save a workplace environment, but this is not the way to do it to rush through legislation because we re going to have unintended consequences if we continue down this route. neil: you might alreadien seeing that to your point, rachel. keep us posted. i will, thank you. neil: forget live and get live. right now the justice department getting involved into the investigation into that deal that liv, the saudi golf league made with the pga and golfers are teeing off for the u.s. open today and they