alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
yeah, you can hear. this is the beat with ari melber, where one week at official voting of 2024, launch of these presidential primaries. candidates already barnstorming iowa this weekend. you re seeing just some of what happened on your screen. and for many reasons, these first few primary states at the pivotal and possibly last test of the republican party deciding whether to bring its trump passed into the future. nikki haley, trying to emerge as the one alternative to trump, arguing voters can get mugshot without trump chaos. by just picking her. i agree with a lot of his policies. he was really good at breaking things. he just wasn t good at fixing them. and now, we look at the fact, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. chaos follows him. and that may sound like a pretty team contrast that she s drawing, but trump views haley now as his main possible threat. an establishment hack of sorts. trump s pivot toaley after months of unrelenting attacks against desantis
happening now, donald trump remains on the primary ballot in michigan after the supreme court rejected a bid to disqualify him under the insurrectionist ban. will this ruling have any impact on trump s legal fight in colorado? also this hour, we re standing by for a readout on critical talks that just ended between biden cabinet officials and the president of mexico. did they reach any new agreement on ways to ease the surge of migrants into the u.s. as the problem weighs not only on border cities, but also the white house. also, we re following these disturbing new images out of gaza. palestinian men and at least two boys apparently stripped down to their underwear while being detained by the israeli military. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m kaitlan collins and you re in the situation room. our top story this hour, a new ruling in the multistate effort that is underway to disqualify donald trump from running
aim at republicans yet again. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: we made it to wednesday, top of the mountain, long slide into the weekend from here. i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. in a rare news conference the president said he felt yesterday s meeting with congressional leadership was productive, but speaker mccarthy proclaimed there was no new movement and warned time is running out to avoid an economic catastrophe. sandra: complete coverage begins now. steve danes is standing by. john: our senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. do democrats really know what republicans would cut? john, not really. congress funded veterans programs and meals on wheels late last year, that s why republicans believe democrats are trying to scare people about potential cuts. are those cuts that you guys talk about with the v.a., that s not real money, because it s not an appropriation.
migrant on his land. catastrophic leadership of the dhs secretary. she comes bearing in her ma. you are bringing in cookies. probably cooking these forever. the plan is to scream really loud every time somebody has the ball. both of the boys are on offense. come on over. come on in. pull up a seat, take a load off your feet come on over come on in. brian: port canaveral in florida keep the cruise ship. when we see a cruise ship it s full of illegal immigrants what we call housing. been a while since on a cruise. i wonder if they have a pool. steve: doesn t every ship have a pool? look at the top deck right there, brian. between the front part and back part. brian: how do they get up there from the dock. ainsley: salt water. you think a poll in your backyard it s all. steve: at night they drain the water. rather than haul a bunch of clean water from the land. they pump it full. you are absolutely right. i have been on those salt water crews. brian: