To exclude from trial . Therefore, from the American Public evidence. I mean, were prosecutors, we are used to evidence. Thats how we measure our cases, measure our progress. And if Senator Mcconnell has decided in coordination with the white house that its going to be run in a particular way to exclude facts and evidence and witnesses an documents what does that make the senate . It is just an amazing point for you to be making. Americas history is being an advocate around the world for the i think it is fair to call that a banana court, a banana republic, a kangaroo court. We used to be a country that helped bring the rule of law to other countries. So impeachment wasnt designed to be a trial like in an article 3 court but it was designed to be a process and a high mined one in which facts mattered. Right . The framers had this fascinating
trial. You could have put an Impeachment Trial in the judiciary. They didnt want to. Theoretically, the house, the house had the other job of sort
get out. military are now forced to stay and fight. and as more and more civilians pick up weapons, soldiers or dying and that is the reality. talk to me a little bit, you just mentioned about 1 million people have fled already since the conflict began. talk to me about how the authorities are managing that exodus, the flow of people, both on the ukrainian side and in the neighboring countries from what you have been able to gather. the ukrainians are reeling from this. just over a week ago, the ukrainian government was saying that there is likely not going to be an invasion. they were disagreeing with washington s intelligence. and there was clearly an effort on behalf of the government not to spook people. they didn t want to so, they didn t put in the preparations that they otherwise would have put in because they didn t want to raise alarm. so, here we are a week later. the train stations are being overrun. people are sleeping and train stations.
former leader of germany and gazprom. there s a lot of financial ties between russia and certainly europe and here in the united states. is there something that can be done to try and cut those ties, which have been very beneficial to a lot of people in western europe. they have been. and when you see bp and shell and others announcing that they are extracting themselves from joint ventures with russian firms, that s hard to do. they are very entangled, but they are extracting themselves and that can set a model for others. we are experiencing other sanctions. there could be secondary sanctions, maybe not on the direct financial institutions, but those who are doing business with others who are doing business with russia. the important thing on any of these sanctions, they really work when we do them in tandem with our partners. that is what the biden administration has done well for months. they have patiently gone to our partners in europe. germany didn t want to cancel the pipelin
supported they say by the united states in the territory of ukraine. that s something that both the ukraine and the u.s. deny. they say, no, the opposite is happening. that s what they re worried about. the fear that putin could deploy chemical weapons is real. what are nato allies saying? they re very concerned about it. this is an escalation where russia was talking about u.k. facilities. we spent much of last week being concerned about the rachetting up of tensions surrounding whether or not russia believes nato might get involved by helping give arms to ukrainian soldiers, planes to ukraine. we saw all of that talk of poland putting its mig planes ukrainian pilots can fly at the disposal of ukraine. the united states decided not to do that. they didn t want to, if you like, poke the russian bear on
evacuated those who took us to this very day today. and before you joined public service, you of course worked on human rights. women s empowerment. in a 2019 interview with foreign policy magazine, you said the women and young people of afghanistan quote, are not willing to give up their rights. they re not willing to compromise their human rights and go back to the old days. obviously, tragically, that isn t turning out to be the case. the old days seem to be back. so what happens to those women and young people now that we have reports of the taliban are already sending working women home? yes. i said it then and i am saying it again. they didn t want to. they are forced. it s once again, afghan people are imposed. their faith has been imposed to them. they do not have a role in charting it. they do not have agency over it.