What about the false eye candies from uncle bushs wilson thanks for joining us we begin in ukraine where the countrys president says he has told him what he called on launch scale anti operation is to resist attacks by all for Russian Forces in the countrys east well present as she often says that the government the army rather will be deployed in north perth and Russian Troops from michigan to prevent a repeat of what happened in crimea has to listen to an extract of president of exalted to chanels televised address whats that mean. But ukrainian heroes has been shed in a war which the Russian Federation is waging an strand those were the aggressor has not stopped its continuance of disorder in the east of the country its not a war between ukraine and its an occupation that situation confrontation. The aim of which is the week and a section of ukraine such the opening and it weakens our enemies. She has condemned by all civilized blokes ukrainian president speaking that illegal stills
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Doctorate in Political Science from the university of california at berkeley. Welcome back to cato, ray. Thank you for having me. What can i say about the impact of Citizens United . Likable academic, i will say its too soon to tell and we need more research. Bob said as much. When this is done, i will speculate. Im worried about what is happening to Party Organizations. Its not entirely the fault of Citizens United but that in combination with speech now has made it far much worse for parties. I the more money should flow through Political Parties and civic groups because at least in theory parties are more accountable and tend to use their money to help challenges and are less inclined to support extremist, which is no small matter in todays polarized environment. Here we go. Thank you. Here are some trends i see and how citizen as united plays into them. It did not cause them but it greases the wheels, especially since 2000 to when Congress Passed the Bipartisan Campaign reform act.
united nations, several of which russia is clearly violating. in ukraine. it s interesting. he did not start on a very conciliatory note. relations with the us clearly at a particularly low point, complaining in an interview with russian journalists about the fact that russian journalists have been denied visas as part of the russian delegation. take a listen to what he had to say. country which calls itself the strongest the cleverest, freest ferris got scared did something which i believe was stupid and showed what oaths to protect freedom of speech and access to information really mean. so you know, not veiled at all at the us going into this. he s not expected to meet with secretary blinking, and obviously, we know that the u. s ambassador to the un linda thomas greenfield has described russia s rotating presidency of the security council as an april fool s joke. okay, claire. thank you. another american airlines flight gets into trouble this one before it even leaves. the ground w