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
remove former president donald trump from its 2024 primary ballot. big bipartisan backlash over this. some are calling it a far left political ploy to try to get trump out of this race. maine s top election official democratic secretary of state shenna bellows announcing her unilateral decision last night. last week colorado s state supreme court voted on party lines to boot trump from the state s ballot citing the 14th amendment section three. both state decisions are on hold pending appeal. colorado s secretary of state announced yesterday trump s name will be on the ballot unless the supreme court decides otherwise by january 5th. the maine republican party not holding back on unelected bellows single handed trump takedown. a statement excerpt reads we ve been fighting these back roomy leitz since they started their push to subvert democracy by tossing president trump. we reserve our right as a private organization to use a caucus system if that s what it takes to keep a d
maggie and i would never hurt my son paw paw. murder of your wife maggie murdaugh, i sentence you to a term for the rest of the natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. john: convicted double murderer alec murdaugh set to spend the rest of his life and after life behind bars after a south carolina judge handed down two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. john roberts in washington. good friday to you. gillian: good friday, that s an awful long time, two life sentences. i m gillian turner, i m in for sandra, this is america reports. so in this fairly dramatic sentencing hearing, judge clifton newman admonished him, called the defense not credible and assault on the integrity of the judicial system. john: murdaugh repeatedly claimed he did not murder his wife and son. his conviction capped off a stunning fall from grace for his family which the judge described
A humanitarian way of enabling people to seek asylum in the united states as our laws provide and the second part of it is to disen sent viez those who do not avail themselves of the lawful pathways. we have seen an approximately 70% drop in the number of individuals encountered in our southern border as a result. all that sounds like you re handling the kind of crisis of the moment, but you have 2.4 million a prehedges at the border. you re getting all these people trying to come in. they re all essentially claiming to be asylum seekers. they seem to me, adlt least economic migrants and fleeing poverty, disease as people have traditionally. isn t the asylum system broken if anybody can claim, if there s no real distinction between a
And i ll restore faith in our elections, too. as governor, i signed voter i.d. in 2011. the media went crazy and i was vilified for it. they said i was trying to disen franchise voters. i called their bluff. anyone unable to get an i.d., we will pick them up, take them to the dmv, give them a free i.d. and return them home safely. out of 5 million people in south carolina, you know who how many people asked for a ride? 25. now south carolina has more people voting than ever before and it s racist to think that minorities are incapable of getting an i.d. for themselves. i ll make america strong at home. we ll have safe streets, secure