This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of israels Supreme Court, and as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times Paul Friedman about the politics involved and with his colleague Emily Bazilon about the legal issues. Then the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin lose or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zigov. But first heres my take. The mysterious disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister qin gang is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations will be determined not just by american policy and whats happening domestically in the United States such as the president i
hunter demanding millions of dollars from a china-linked energy venture. one irs whistleblower tells fox news the investigation into hunter s finances was repeatedly stonewalled. throughout the investigation, i was documenting various issues as they arose to include the search warrants that weren t allowed to be done. what happened with that? between april and june of 2020 the, we drafted an affidavit to the execute a search warrant in a couple different locations, and the prosecutors at the time stated that probable cause had been achieved. but as we moved closer to the election, it just seemed like they kept putting it on the back burner, and they eventually didn t allow us to do that search warrant even though the legal requirements to execute that search warrant were met. jason: this weekend hunter biden s attorney, abby lowell, is suggesting the irs agents are claiming whistleblower status to evade their own misconduct. but hunter s lawyer does not write anything d
hunter demanding millions of dollars from a china-linked energy venture. one irs whistleblower tells fox news the investigation into hunter s finances was repeatedly stonewalled. throughout the investigation, i was documenting various issues as they arose to include the search warrants that weren t allowed to be done. what happened with that? between april and june of 2020 the, we drafted an affidavit to the execute a search warrant in a couple different locations, and the prosecutors at the time stated that probable cause had been achieved. but as we moved closer to the election, it just seemed like they kept putting it on the back burner, and they eventually didn t allow us to do that search warrant even though the legal requirements to execute that search warrant were met. jason: this weekend hunter biden s attorney, abby lowell, is suggesting the irs agents are claiming whistleblower status to evade their own misconduct. but hunter s lawyer does not write anything d
it s december 31st. i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. good morning. good to be with you. i m amara walker. thank you for spending part of this final day of 2022 with us. we re following breaking news. pope emeritus benedict has died at the age of 95. his health had been faming prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the first time in modern history, pope benedict resigned, which paved the way for pope francis to take control of the catholic church. cnn cnn s deana gallagher has more. a german childhood, he lived in the shadows of hitler s nazi regime, he was referred to as god s rottweiler. years caused accomplishments to go unnoticed. he was the first pope to go green, making the vatican the first country in the world to go with a zero carbon footprint and bringing in electric vehicles including a hybrid popemobile. he was cardinal and pope dur the year whence the catholic church sex scandals came to light. it was too little too late for some, but it wa
details about the suspect arrested in the brutal killings of four idaho college students. a source telling cnn police were tracking 28-year-old bryan kohberger as he drove across country from idaho to his parents home in pennsylvania around christmas time. the arrest comes seven weeks after those four university of idaho students were stabbed multiple times as they slept. a source telling cnn that dna found at the scene was entered into a geneology database and that helped crack the case. the suspect identified as a graduate student in criminology who made a chilling social media post trying to solicit information from criminals to try to understand how emotional and psychological traits influence decisionmaking when committing a crime. now now, i understand you just spoke with the suspect s attorney. what are you learning? that s right. he only has one attorney at this point. it s the chief public defender for monroe county, northeastern pennsylvania. his name is jason leb