hello, everyone. i m christiane amanpour. we will take you around the world to ask questions and tackle the big problems and let history be our guide. here is where we re headed this week. the united states fights fires on multiple fronts. will it win? a briefing from one of america s best-known generals, david petraeus. we face more challenges in number and more complex and more dangerous challenges than arguably at any time since the end of the cold war. also ahead, the imf chief optimistic about the u.s. economy. cheer up, this is a new year, people. then can you feel it rock star lenny kravitz on life, legacy and vying for an oscar. and from the archive, the anniversary of the pope s first visit to atheist communist cuba. welcome to the program, everyone. i m christiane amanpour. this year crises overseas could also tip the scales. first in ukraine where the war grinds on and president biden s request for emergency funding could die in congress.
by russian fighter pilots forcing down an american drone. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. get set to roll again, sandra. sandra: a breaking news two hours, john, and following through on that. the latest move by an american rival, and just like the spy balloon, critics are calling on the president to act. response can t we do nothing. our adversaries are going to be on the march as long as we let them. direct test of the biden administration to try to see what the limits are and it s a message of their displeasure, and a test to see if we ll respond to it. john: how will the white house respond to the criticism? sandra: start us off, jacqui, a lot could come up a few moments from new. no kidding, sandra. after the spy balloon, the biden administration responded by sanctionings some of the chinese entities involve in the airship of this. and russia hawks are saying the biden administration has to strongly respond to a fighter jet taki
we re glad you re here tonight. we are tracking multiple breaking stories, including bombshell new allegations from a former irs whistleblower about your president, joe biden ,hunter biden and at least one high ranking biden official . you will love this breaking news tonight. also, new information about the biden family syndicate you did not know about, along with an explosive exchange between congresswoman marjorie taylor greene and eric swalwell . that s all coming up. oh, and don lemon s latest public meltdown. and i m saying don t fire don lemon because nobody will get lower ratings. keep them right where he is . all right. but first, a we start with this bit of news. i think you ll all like it. a big, huge loss in court today for manhattan d.a. alvin bragg, a huge win for the rule of law . and tonight, a court, a federal judge denied bragg s request to stop the house judiciary committee from issuing a subpoena to want to swarm of prosecutors. that guy that wrote the b
look forward to working closely with spain going forward. james in the back. i m sorry ok. i have a question, thank you. wait, wait, wait, you don t have a question, james? are you kidding me? are you kidding me? can we just have this for the record you didn t have a question. i m going to frame that transcript. simply a tribute to your loclasity and el if russia strikes nato, poland or the baltics, nato, do you have enough troops in the region right now to respond, and from day one, not five months ahead, and the second question would be many of those who called for sending leonards and abrams to ukraine argued that russia right now is too weakened to militarily too weakened to respond conventionally in a significant way. how confident are you in this assessment that russia is so weak, or maybe you have a different assessment, but many people think russia is too weak to respond in a significant way to the move that was just announced about tanks? le
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