local election workers, in 2020, he was harassed and threatened, as he did his job faithfully. he did not bend. he did not bow. he did not yield to the plim threats and pressure. political threats and pressure. he was so trusted by both political parties, that the new democratic governor of pennsylvania, josh shapiro, appointed him as pennsylvania s secretary of state, a republican who ensured the integrity of the elections. that s a high compliment. [ applause ] his character and his commitment speak volumes of we the people. that s what we are also seeing in benson. twice elected jocelyn benson, twice elected in michigan to protect the sacred right to vote and have that vote counted fairly. that s what she did in 202. when she oversaw a record number of michiganders turn out to vote in that election. finding an armed mob, an armed mob outside of her home on christmas eve, which she and her son were decorating their christmas tree inside. but she refused to back down
On the face of it, israel has achieved a form of stability, led by the same man for eight years, locked in a state of hostile Non Communication with the palestinians, and confident in strong support from washington. But dig deeper and cracks appear. Prime minister netanyahu is under investigation. Israeli society appears ill at ease with with itself. My guess is moshe yaalon, mr netanyahus former Defence Minister turned harsh critic. How fragile is israeli unity . Moshe yaalon, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure. Israel has just marked 50 years since the victory in the six day war. But you seem to feel, right now, there are very serious questions about the direction israel is going in, and about national cohesion. Why are you so worried . From the Security Point of view, we enjoy, today, a relatively calm situation, security wise. This is a result of the six day war, in which i believe it was the peak of the idea of our coalition. Since then, the idea of our c
On the face of it, israel has achieved a form of stability, led by the same man for eight years, locked in a state of hostile Non Communication with the palestinians, and confident in strong support from washington. But dig deeper and cracks appear. Prime minister netanyahu is under investigation. Israeli society appears ill at ease with with itself. My guess is moshe yaalon, mr netanyahus former Defence Minister turned harsh critic. How fragile is israeli unity . Moshe yaalon, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure. Israel has just marked 50 years since the victory in the six day war. But you seem to feel, right now, there are very serious questions about the direction israel is going in, and about national cohesion. Why are you so worried . From the Security Point of view, we enjoy, today, a relatively calm situation, security wise. This is a result of the six day war, in which i believe it was the peak of the idea of our coalition. Since then, the idea of our c
last one for hakeem jeffries. now, one way to look at this, the simplest path for mccarthy to win the speakership tonight is any of these names that say jordan, win over two of them, at least mathematically, the simplest path to get votes from two of them. that would be 218. the other path when you start to hear the talk about present votes, waiting for mccarthy s team to reason some of these republican holdouts and say, you still don t have to actually vote for mccarthy, you can say you didn t vote for him on every ballot and you can vote present instead, because remember, a present vote does not count as an official vote. and what they could do with that, they could get, if they could get three, three from this list of six, to vote present, it would lower the number of total voting members to 431. and the magic number with 431 is