rescinded abortion lights, and regulations, president biden commission a body of economics, and judicial efforts, to study the structure, and calm of the nation s highest court. and they focus on matters of transparency, and ethics. but, ultimately, they were brushed aside. ignored by a president, largely resistant to large scale institutional reforms. half a year later, they re calling from the bold action are saying, i told you so, including our next guest. a former federal judge, nancy gardner. judge gardner told politico, the conservative victories only happened because they can, and that is an exercise of pure power, not legal reasoning. judge gardner said, they were initially resistant for major court reforms, but after hearing testimony from legal experts, she said not only with the justices be selected to term limits, but that the number of seats on the court should now be expanded. this month, we learn damning new information, that further emphasizes the need for the
guest. former federal direct nancy gardner. judge gardner told politico the conservative victories from this term have been quote, only because they can, and that has been an exercise of pure power, not legal reasoning. judge gardner said that she was initially resisting to major court reforms but after hearing testimony of legal experts, she believes that not only should the justices be subjected to term limits, but also that the number of states on the court should now be expanded. and this month, we learned damning new information that further emphasizes the need for these major reforms of the high court. the former leader of a religious right organization told politico that he recruited a coach wealthy volunteers to wine dine and entertain conservatives supreme court justices while pushing conservative positions on abortion, homosexuality, gun restrictions, and a lot of other issues. for 1995 to 2018, he says he arranged over the years, for about 20 couples, to fly to was
more urgent. my guest is boss of the international energy agency, fatih birol. will the much vaunted transition to clean energy be derailed by a short term energy panic? fatih birol in paris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, thank you very much. let me start, if i may, mr birol, with words of yours. not long ago you said, what the world is going through today is a major, it might be the first, global energy crisis in terms of depth and complexity. with words like that, aren t you in danger of turning an energy problem into an energy panic? i don t think so. what i am trying to do is that people understand the dimensions of the crisis we are in and to take corresponding measures. if we are not able to read the game, how deep and how complex our global energy crisis is, then we might not be able to get the right solutions and give the right answers. for example, when we look at europe, we have seen on 2a february, the invasion of russia, and the international energy
condemned trump that day are still working for him. also tonight, democrats were accused of lying about a 10-year-old pregnant rape victim. now that the story is confirmed, what it tells us about the terrifying future of reproductive rights in america. jfk said the torch has been passed. now another generation of young americans is saying loud and clear, pass the torch to us. we begin the reid out tonight with january 6th committee s eighth public hearing. the final chapter for now of a damning and horrifying story about donald trump electrifying a violent mob to block the transfer of power on that fateful day. one must imagine trump is watching or rather hate watching every second of these hearings. i mean, they are about him, after all. now we are learning about trump s attempt to possibly influence witness testimony. this week congresswoman liz cheney revealed that trump called a witness in the panel s investigation after one of the previous hearings. today chairman be
is cnn newsroom, with kim brun brunhuber. we begin with breaking news out of moscow. russia is confirming for first time that it did strike the ukrainian port of odesa. the russian foreign ministry now says it hit military targets in the port with precision missiles, but these strikes came one day after ukraine and russia signed an agreement in istanbul, which would allow ukraine to resume grain exports through its ports. now, turkey said moscow initially denied it had anything to do with the strikes, and turkey said the attack hit port facilities, but didn t damage any infrastructure that would be used in grain exports. condemnation of the attack has been swift with britain saying russia s word can t be taken at face value. it is absolutely appalling that only a day after striking this deal, vladimir putin has launched a completely unwarranted attack on odesa. it shows that not a word he says can be trusted, and we need to urgently work with our international partners