We hear this every year and wait for the words and message and a year ago certainly was a lot different than the reality on the grounds overseas now. Biden has a few months left for his term. This image will not be easy. A series of major Foreign Policy conflicts breaking out during his term. Afghanistan in 21, ukraine in 22. Israel and gaza in 23. The u. N. Secretary general condemned countries feeling entitled to invade others. Today a growing number of governments and others feel entitled to get out of jail free card. They can thumb their nose at international humanitarian law and can invade another country, lay waste to societies or actively disregard the welfare of their own people. And nothing will happen. Dana Eric Shawn is outside united Nations Headquarters in manhattan. Whats the scene like down there . Yes, President Biden about to take the podium in the General Assembly. You may hear the Police Helicopters that always signal the arrival of the commanderinchief. Across the s
Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Thank you for joining us. Right to the breaking news at the United Nations this morning, President Biden is about to address the general assembly for the final time as this Countrys Commander in chief. His address comes amid global turmoil with War still raging in ukraine. And conflict escalating in the Middle East. Israel ratcheting up its attacks against hezbollah over the last few days, killing more than 500 in a series of deadly Air Strikes within lebanon and injuring at least 1600 more. Much to discuss. Joining us now, Richard Engel from tel aviv, and nbcs Mike Memoli at the u. N. , and New York times diplomatic correspondent Michael Crowley and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of state joel rubin. Good to have all of you here. Richard, if you will, paint a picture for us of this moment globally as the president prepares to address all these World Leaders. Well, things look very rough right now. And i think a lot of people are sayi
are learning of. obviously we know that she has a very wide ranging investigation. she s looking into a bunch of different facets of the effort to overturn the election. shaffer was important because he was one of the people who served as a pro trump fake elector in georgia. he organized the slate of alternate electors there, and he had been cooperated with prosecutors as part of this probe. he was initially told, we were told by sources that he was initially viewed as a witness in this investigation. obviously now this is changing. look, we know she is in the investigative phase of this pr probe. she has a special grand jury seated. this is an indication that she is serious about potentially bringing in indictments in this case, whether it will stem, you know, whether david shaffer could actually face an indictment. we don t know whether it will go further than him. it s clear she s chugging ahead down in georgia. sathank you for that breakin news. there are new developm
no response there from the crown prince. he sat back in his chair. some people say he smirked at the question. the question was eliminated from the broadcast in saudi arabia. that is an opinion column in the wall street journal put it this way. the saudis know that they host a humbled joe biden who spoke one way as a candidate but now is desperate for the king to open the oil spigot that the president has worked towards shutting down. jacqui heinrich traveling with the president? saudi arabia. hi, jacqui. the president of the united states on camera fist bumping with the man that u.s. intelligence believes ordered the death of a u.s. journalist, a grisly murder. u.s. journalists were allowed into the meeting and evidently upset the saudis by asking whether they would apologize for ordering that man s death according to u.s. intelligence. peter alexander that shouted that question said the saudi aide grabbed his arm tightly after he asked. the crown prince appeared to sm
so that s a quick summary of tonight s outcomes. tomorrow with nine leaders from around the region we ll have more. one thing we will discuss is the multi-billion dollar commitment of the gcc to invest in the partnership for global infrastructure investment, which i announced at the g-7 last month. to help address infrastructure needs of low and middle income countries that don t have the wit wherew pwithal to borrow funds. we have now finalized an agreement to connect iraq s electric grid to the gcc grids through kuwait and saudi arabia, deepening iraq s integration into the region and reducing its dependence on iran. it was pointed out to me, i was reminded by staff at the meeting that i tried to do that back when i was in the early days of my vice presidency. finally it s done, being done. tomorrow i ll also be laying out an affirmative framework for