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Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWS LIVE - 30 20240714

1st the Puerto Rico Supreme Court has overturned the swearing in of the territorys new governor clearing the way for the just the secretary to take over the senate called off a vote on monday to confirm lucy in the job while the court decided on his legitimacy. Joining us from san juan to tell us how the court reached this decision. Well they only deliberated for a little less than a day actually they just got the case on tuesday it was a 90 decision unanimous and in this decision they said that the governor pure the e. C. Who had been sworn in on friday night was illegitimate because he was not confirmed by the Puerto Rican Senate as is stated what needs to be happen in the puerto rican constitution in there they said that he needs to step down at 5 pm local time which is of a little over 2 and a half hours from now we do expect louie c. To follow the orders from the Supreme Court we do expect him to step down if not at 5 pm a little bit before it could happen at any time actually and then what happens this is a u. S. Territory that is being thrown into even further political chaos where its expected that the next in line in succession will then go to the secretary of state thats what the constitution says theres a problem though there is no sex. State that position has been vacated by that person who resigned in scandal more than a week ago so then it would go to the secretary of justice that person is Wanda Vasquez she is expected to be sworn in as soon as pierre lisi steps down just very briefly lets remember that assuming all this happens that puerto rico will have 3 governors in the course of 5 days it was last friday that former governor ricardo rowe c. E. O. Stepped down after more than 2 weeks of intense street protests he resigned in scandal and allegations of corruption and just put this into some sort of context for us gabriel remind us how all of this was set off. Yeah it did it did start off last month with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets trying to push out the former governor rell say oh im sorry yeah ricardo rowe c. E. O. Im sorry he got caught up in a Corruption Scandal he also got caught up in a scandal where 800. 00 pages of private Text Messages of his were released lol girt Text Messages where he was insulting pretty much all puerto rican people including making fun of some of the puerto rican said died during Hurricane Maria 2 years ago massive street protests like weve never seen in puerto rico before that pushed him out of office he then put paid to receive pedro. We see in his governor but thats the guy thats now being pushed out by the Supreme Court so this is just been an incredible political mess here lets remember this is a u. S. Territory puerto rico 3000000 people live on this island and its still in a deep financial crisis also a crisis striving to still recover from Hurricane Maria 2 years ago that wiped out this island on so many Different Levels and so this is absolutely the worst political crisis that could happen at the worst political time its unclear if the street protests will start again the Justice Minister is quite frankly not very well liked by many people on the streets they were part of these protests if she takes over it could mean more protests in the coming days we just simply dont know yet all right ok bro hes on the thank you. The u. S. President donald trump is on his way to El Paso Texas where 22 people were shot and killed on saturday he spent the past couple of hours in dayton ohio where a gunman killed 9 people on sunday several state and city leaders are against his visits accusing trump of inciting racist and hate crimes or both shootings have reignited the debate on gun controls and earlier trump told reporters a ban on assault rifles is unlikely but congress is working on changing some laws. There is no political appetite for that is going to get. Rolling no political appetite probably going to let like but i will certainly bring that up ill bring it up. Theres a great appetite and i mean a very strong appetite for background and i think we can bring up background like that bad for well covering his trip says rob ronalds and hes joining us from el paso rob over to you. Well during the president is expected to land an air force one here in el paso in just about half an hour and as you mentioned in your introduction there has been this a considerable amount of debate about his rhetoric and whether it had any role to play in the events that took place here on saturday many critics have actually said the president shouldnt stay here so we want to get another point of view on that so im bringing in a dull full day is hes the chairman of the. El paso county Republican Party President Trumps r. T. Adolfo thank you very much for speaking with us why is it appropriate for President Trump to visit ill pass so today it a paso texas the United States hes president of it all there was a major disaster here and he historically has gone to all the locations where theres a major disaster and he always goes a few days after to allow them to get the scene under control instead of being in the way and so hes doing what hes supposed to do as president hes coming down here hes going to visit with some of the people that. The victims and the families of the victims and he going to visit with Law Enforcement is what we understand thats going to occur with the idea hopefully that hes going to gain something to take it back and hes going to be here to offer assistance from the white house which is outstanding youve heard the debate thats ongoing about rhetoric theres been a poll out that says about 3 quarters of the people in the United States think that the temperature of rhetoric its too hot and that president has actually making things worse do you credit any of the arguments that President Trumps rhetoric towards immigration towards latinos towards el paso a city hes not it been particular complimentary of had something to do with the events of saturday you know a little bit of history when this thing occurred on saturday we the Republican Party you know passive county decided were not going to make this a political event we decided that we were going to. All our posts are our prayers. Telling how sad we are offering help everything has been nonpolitical its been to hopefully pull the Community Together and help the Community Heal what happened at the local level almost immediately which bothered us tremendously is the 1st one i heard anyway was a report he got in there in tayto iraq a rip democratic candidate for the present. Robert francis a work not a bit towards the blaze made gave him that name but anyway. You know he immediately took it out too and made it a public event his goal is to build his his image in his run for president hes not looking after all passive and then escobar got on the on the thats the local member of Congress Senate if thats exactly right. And then we also had. A couple other individuals that they got on it and started get built so your contention is that theyre doing it for their own political purposes let me ask you theres not a doubt. President trump is kind of in a bind here because i mean hes coming is suffering criticism theres a lot of focus on his rhetoric but it could exactly not come either right that would have been disrespectful wouldnt it you know it would probably been more than disrespect i dont care what he does hes going to be criticized hes coming here hes doing the right thing this is what he should do if you want to come here el paso or the same individuals that are criticizing coming here would criticize him for not coming for ignoring a passer in not coming because he doesnt like hispanics so that you know the guy just in a tough situation but he is doing the right thing by coming here and visiting with with you know the people that that are added adamantly involved and with Law Enforcement hes doing all right the city is thank you very much for being with us well have to leave it there thanks a lot and of course daryn we will have it genuine coverage from this location for the rest of the day one note that i have to give you that is a sad one the 1st funeral of the 22 people who were killed in the incident on saturday will take place later today 41 year old leo campos will be laid to rest here in el paso. Rob thanks for that update from where President Trump is expected to arrive lets now speak to Douglas Sloan hes a Democratic Political strategist and a consultant with the National Capital Strategy Group is joining us from washington d. C. Thanks very much for speaking to us Douglas Sloan so the president s press secretary said sounds from plan to honor victims comfort families and thank emergency workers for their heroic actions both in dayton as well as in el paso by going to these 2 cities where the Mass Shootings happened what do you think the message is that trying to sending out its. Well i think that trump is seeking to be the consoler in chief but this time he does not have a reputation for being very reassuring or very comforting so hes trying to control and change the narrative in that regard and hes going to go out to these 2 cities were Mass Shootings obviously occurred over the weekend to try to provide awfully some moral leadership to reassure some of the people in those cities that things are actually going to turn around and go on the right direction and to console them which is what president should be doing although trump does not have a reputation for doing that so is he going to be able to to achieve that and is his presence there going to people. Thats a big question i dont know if at this point in the game that tiger can change his stripes trump has a history of being antigun izing of being in sin the area of also starting fights lighting fires and generally spousal negative in racially tends rhetoric at the worst times so busy it will be interesting to see if he can keep his cool during this trip we already know that some of the elected officials in el paso also understand that some of the victims in el paso would rather he stay home i understand that the mayor of dayton has been quite critical of President Trump in the past day saying that he has been very unhelpful so be interesting to see of trying to actually keep his cool and actually appear president ial but this is a president some of me still has a decision come out earlier this week all of america right but earlier this week of the president did come out and and he he spoke on television and he condemned White Supremacy he condemned bigotry as well as racism and his remarks earlier this week. He did do that which is good for him to finally do that after all of these years of not saying that there are good people on both sides and he also called for. Addressing the Mental Health situation regarding guns i mean perhaps that would have been more helpful had he in the republicans not sought to lift the restrictions for access to firearms for people with Mental Health issues as soon as he got in office so the most important thing that he can do a lot of the republicans its pass the mean sensible gun control legislation in the in congress and im not sure if you heard our reporter speaking to a republican member just a few moments ago on our air where he said that the democrats are taking the opportunity to sort of politicize all of this and politicized visits to. Whats your reaction to. That is a standard republican talking point the bottom line is that the republicans never want to do anything to address the spate of violence and Mass Shootings that we are currently dealing with in this country were not politicizing it were calling for action thoughts and prayers never do anything it doesnt get anything accomplished there has to be real action we need to see a fundamental change in this nations gun control laws we have they have mentally ill people in europe and in asia they have video games in europe in asia but they dont have our gun violence problem why because they do not have better access to firearms like we have in this country until we address that issue we will continue to have these problems and we will continue to have these deaths and well have to leave it there douglas lonely thank you for speaking to us from washington thank you ukraines new leader has called on the russian president to help bring an end to fighting in Eastern Ukraine for more we can cross over to Felicity Barr and our european Broadcast Center high for the city hi there daryn thanks so much for not amazing lansky has been to resume peace talks one day off so for ukrainian soldiers were killed by private russia separatists so lansky also called on france and germany to help broker an agreement for the donbass region 13000 people have been killed since the conflict began in 2014 after russias annexation of crimea. I just had a phone conversation with russian president Vladimir Putin i call to immediately i see that this doesnt bring us closer to peace i beat you to influence the other side so that they can stop the killing of our people. As they are steadfast and has more now from moscow. It was a long phone call between the ukrainian president and russian president and the 2nd time that saloon skee the new ukrainian president has called put in since his inauguration in may this year selenski talked put in that the death of 4 ukrainian soldiers in donbass on tuesday wont help to bring peace to this region the interim russian backed militias who are active in that area for the attack and mortar attacks but the authorities in ready donbass have denied any involvement and they said there were no militias in that area at that time since 2014 more than 13000 people have died in the violence between the Ukrainian Army and russian backed militias in the east of ukraine and zelinsky has made it his highest priority since he became the president to bring peace to that area he has also suggested to bring back the socalled Normandy Group which consists of russia and ukraine france and germany and thats something both leaders have also discussed during this phone conversation and both leaders also decided to speed up the process of releasing prisoners on both sides there are still 24. 00 ukrainian sailors in the attention in russia since late last year and they were basically charged with illegally and russian watrous and despite Russia International pressure to release 2 sailors theyre still in detention here. Now that you case food and drink industry is warning of major shortages that the country crashes out of the e. U. Without a deal Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted the brics it will happen by the 31st of october even if he cant work out a new Withdrawal Agreements with the European Union but that is the beginning of winter here in the u. K. When 40 percent of the countrys food is imported its a no deal breaks it clog up ports and most who weighs the days leaving fruit and vegetables to rot reparations for no deal could cost the Food Industry 121000000. 00 a week the food and drink federation says brecks it is the u. K. s biggest challenge since world war 2 so how reports. Businesses shut supply chains interrupted jobs lost the chances of britain leaving the e. U. On october the 31st without a deal to regulate trade have become all too real warnings about the potential consequences from manufacturing to medicines now joined by the food and Drinks Federation so we know theres going to be disruption at the ports particularly across the short straits between england and france where a lot of our food comes from and we know that that will have knock on effects that there will be some shortages of food in the u. K. In the weeks and months after. The Food Industry isnt alone and u. K. Transport authorities attempted earlier this year to test the scenario of sudden customs checks leading to long queues at the main u. K. E. U. Ports of trade an exercise that involved parking trucks at a disused airfield did little to allay fears but breaks its supporters including the new foreign secretary in canada drumming up interest in a trade deal this week say the short term pain of a heart breaks it worth it for the long term gains we want to expand our horizons and raise our level of ambitions in the world and its part of that we want to take our friendship with canada and the canadian people to the next level in its 1st fortnight in office the johnson government has made clear that if the e. U. Wont renegotiate the existing Withdrawal Agreement then a no deal breaks it is inevitable and as for those dire industry warnings where the government seems largely to shrug them off never mind that lorry load of Fresh Produce wouldnt last lo

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