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
and the president is at the house in delaware where the documents were found near his corvette. and lucas, the drip, drip, drip, just keeps going, doesn t it? just took the words out of my mouth, bill. just a few days ago we learned about the existence of some classified documents first here in the nation s capitol at president biden s think tank and later in the week we lettered that more documents were discovered at president biden s home in wilmington where he s spending the weekend and now minutes ago before coming on air, the white house saying additional documents with classified markings were found at president biden s wilmington home where he is now. the white house insists it never know a special counsel was coming to look into this matter. what i can tell you is we re not given a heads-up that attorney general garland made his announcement yesterday on the special counsel and something that we learned like many of you, watching the news. thanks to our colleagu
Good morning. It is saturday, may 4. I am Alicia Menendez with Michael Steele and Melissa Murray in for symone sanderstownsend. Donald trumps threats for democracy, saying he will fire attorneys who do not do his bidding. And the Biden Campaign on offense as the republicans further restrict report Reproductive Rights in the south. And hope hicks delivers potentially devastating testimony and the new york criminal trial. Susanne craig and katie phang at the table. More than six months until election day and donald trump is dangerously already refusing to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election. Pushing the big lie in an interview, trump said this about the 2024 race. Quote, if editing is honest, i would gladly except the results. If not, you have to fight to the right for the country. This is coming after speaking with Time Magazine and saying hinting at another january 6 would happen if he loses. Joining us now is former Executive Director of the New York State democratic
Forthe trump stump, today President Trump confirmed he was totally serious. The secretary of homeland security, working with myself and my staff, will begin immediate construction of a border wall. Applause the United States of america gets back control of its borders, gets back its borders. Can we go ahead . But, as previous president s have found, it is one thing to sign and seal and another to deliver. On his second full day in office, president obama ordered the closing of guantanamo bay. But it stubbornly outlasted even his second term in office. His plans were locked up by an uncooperative congress. So might Donald Trumps wall meet similar obstacles . Its obstacle is literary, build a wall. There are a lot of nuts and bolts in the process. First of all, the money has to be appropriated, it has to go to congress, and there is the question of what the physical wall looks like. If some of it fencing, and is some of it a virtual wall . Today was basically a message that they are seri
Reporter yeah. It absolutely does, anderson and mike pence releasing ten years of his tax returns and showing frankly, relatively modest numbers. These are not sevenfigure salaries that were talking about here. The pences had a tax rate of 8 and earned 113,000 and this puts the spotlight back on donald trump and his refusal to release his own tax returns and hes said that because theyre under audit and that argument has been weakened by a letter released by his tax council who has said that between the year 2002 and 2008 that they are not under audit anymore so meaning essentially that they could be released. The Clinton Campaign already picking up on this tonight, drawing that contrast between the running mate saying that donald trump continues to make excuses not to release his. Trump spoke earlier today is the Voter Value Summit in washington. What was the message there . This is a group of Evangelical Christian conservatives and donald trump did his best to try to appeal to this gr