Stay updated with breaking news from Bet tower. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
access, is america exceptional? we will look at reproductive rights. all that with two top journalists. then president biden is in germany today for the meeting of the g7. will the world s advanced economies ramp up pressure on russia? will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarizatio ....
will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the court s decisions this week are not conservative. they are radical. one of the time honored conservative doctrines has been a respect for precedent. and yet in two days the court swept aside a right that for half a century americ ....
Even longer than roe. looking at other countries, does the success come if you present yourself as understanding there is a need for compromise or is it bet tower go hard and get your constituent? i think it is hard to know because obviously the political and legal history of these other countries is different. it is certainly the case that the kind of laws we see in europe, which say you can have an abortion for any reason early in pregnancy, then later in pregnancy if you have a health reason, some severe socio economic problem or something like that, that is where we really see american public opinion in general, about two-thirds of americans, and this has been very stable for many decades, support abortion in those kinds of circumstances. they want there to be some kind of right to abortion but they are in many cases uncomfortable with very expansive abortion rights that allow abortion for any reason until very late in pregnancy. it is just very hard to see in our current polariz ....
With, you know, where to set that limit. does it seem to you, i look at chuck schumer s proposal that abortion is to be allowed for even longer than roe. looking at other countries, does the success come if you present yourself as understanding there is a need for compromise or is it bet tower go hard and get your constituent? i think it is hard to know because obviously the political and legal history of these other countries is different. it is certainly the case that the kind of laws we see in europe, which say you can have an abortion for any reason early in pregnancy, then later in pregnancy if you have a health reason, some severe socio economic problem or something like that, that is where we really see american public opinion in general, about two-thirds of americans, and this has been very stable for many decades, support abortion in those kinds of circumstances. they want there to be some kind of right to abortion but they are in many cases uncomfortable ....
It should be. assassination of jfk, has to be something big comparable to killing a president. lee harvey oswald, acting alone, a lone nut, nobody? that doesn t feel. princess di, a princess, what did she die of, speeding, drunk driving and seat belts. nothing more mundane. she s a princess and so it had to be a conspiracy, a murder plot, assassination, that feels bet tower most people. john: thank you, michael shermer, it may feel better, but it s not truements not true. john: and coming up i ll tell you why you should not trust me. oh! [ baby crying ] what started as a whisper every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. slowly turned to a scream ....