Whatwe that means, its to use e power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring orfi injuring the national interest, or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, this question of whether the president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And president nixon famously said, if the president does it, it is notde illegal. And this body rejected that because thats not so. That goes directly contrary to what the founders said. But President Trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by the Department Of Justice and defending his conduct. Heres what he said. I have an article 2 where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. That he has the right to do whatever he wants as president. That is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. That is not what
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and it will lead to destabilisation first of all inside of the elites, inside of the kremlin and inside of the army. and of course, as a result, it will influence on the battlefield, on the front line. and i think it will be a distraction, you know? 0r de motivation of the soldiers on the front line. president zelensky in his message today said to nato to stop looking at the kremlin when making important decisions. but the problem is that what you re saying may come to pass, but vladimir putin is still in power at the moment. yes, and actually, i agree with my president. because, you know, this rebellion with prigozhin clearly shows us that even inside russia, some part of the elites
around this war and people siding with the ukrainians? you around this war and people siding with the ukrainians? around this war and people siding with the ukrainians? you have the fiuuhtin with the ukrainians? you have the fiaahtin on with the ukrainians? you have the fighting on the with the ukrainians? you have the fighting on the battlefront - with the ukrainians? you have the fighting on the battlefront but - fighting on the battlefront but everyone acknowledges that the battle for international support for ukraine is as important and today we saw president zelensky making a call to the indian prime minister. india has not condemned the invasion expressly and it has stayed friends with russia and india is the second biggest buyer of russian oil so russia needs india on board and india also buys a lot of weapons from russia. it would seem that president zelensky is trying to win over narendra modi, seeking the support of india, but no word from the indians as to what they make
territory were killed and it says they were carrying submachine guns, navigation equipment and improvised explosive devices. they distributed some pretty gruesome footage to news agencies are showing some body is covered in blood with guns. we have to emphasise, there is no way we can be sure about this and verify this but if it turned out they were commandos attempting to infiltrate into russia and into russian occupied ukraine, that would not be a complete surprise. ukraine are in a complete surprise. ukraine are in a difficult position because they have not claimed responsibility for any of this and when it comes to the assassination, there a good reason, assassinating officials is a crime under international law, whether you are in occupied territory or not, so no one expected them to claim responsibility. we are in a murky world that happens in no war like this. ~ , , ., this. we finished the year with president zelensky this. we finished the year with president zelensky in - th