is a republican, ben sasse who is on the judiciary committee. he didn t mince words writing, jeffrey epstein is a child rapist and there s not a single mom or dad in america who shouldn t be horrified by the fact he received a pa theically soft sentence. the victims of epstein s child sex trafficking ring deserve this investigation. for acosta, the labor defendant said department said he welcomed the investigation. pete williams and cynthia oxney are joining me. pete, i do remember very vividly the part of the miami herald investigation that showed that when epstein was in jail, not prison, he, six days a week, was often out on work release for 12 hours a day. that riled a lot of people then. so why is this happening now, and what happens next? you ve already mentioned the factors. one is the miami herald series. two is ben sasse. he asked bill barr, the justice
vacancies in the region. lawmakers triggered an investigation on wednesday that could pave the way potentially for sanctions against saudi arabia that could make for a potential confrontation with republicans. listen to senator lindsey graham. he didn t mince his words. there will be a bipartisan tsunami building against saudi arabia if they did in fact do this. this being the demise of a journalist dissident that they would suffer a lot in the eyes of the american people and the congress. but the president said no matter what, the united states is not going to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia. listen. i will tell you up front right now and i will say it in front of senators. they are spending $110 billion purchasing military equipment and other things. if we don t sell it to them, they will say we will buy from russia or thank you very much,
personally of that. he didn t mince words and didn t use diplo speak, he was very blunt and direct about what he said. unfortunately i don t want to connect dots that i don t know yet. i want to be careful about that. but this man paid for his political views about russia with his life. and one other thing i want to say, ir respective of who killed him and why he died for two years this regime through their state controlled media channels have called him a tralter, enemy of the state, stirred up hatred against people like nemtsov, that sometimes spins out of control. i hope those who have been responsible for this kind of propaganda might rethink their strategy. ambassador michael mcfaul, thanks for being with us. thank you. and up next the temporary homeland security stop-gap passed by congress but has a
trip and message to russia is just that. as you said, he said stop talking and start acting. it couldn t have been more than a symbolic show of force i should say a symbolic show of support for kiev over a 24-hour full business day, but he did hit a lot of notes. you mentioned, of course, the package. it s not a substantial package, but it is a very tough message to russia. he didn t mince his words. the ukrainians are listening very carefully to what biden was saying today. when he told russia to stop talking and start acting, that resonated here. now, this is a post-geneva accord phase. he said it is not open-ended and he made it clear that russia will face further sanctions if it doesn t de-escalate. but in terms of reaction here, people are going to continue going about their business and sometimes it s hard to believe
capitalist countries that later came on board and were opposed to apartheid but also the socialist nations. we re going to see a number of people from nations of africa and other latin america who more identify with this socialist communist side of things which was very active back in the 1950s and 60s in supporting revolutionary movements. and nelson mandela is kind of has feet in both worlds, so to speak. you are seeing small crowds of people. people being allowed in and kind of making their way to seats. let s just watch and listen to the sights and the sounds of inside the stadium here. tony blair coming in at the moment. and just remember, nelson mandela was incredibly critical of tony blair and george bush in the lead-up to iraq. he didn t mince his words. he called tony blair the united