The competition with the major authoritarian powers, the transnational threats from climate change, drugs, and cyber crime, and the regional conflicts in ukraine and gaza that could yet cascade into something much bigger and far more dangerous. All three challenges are affected by trends in new and emerging technologies, environmental changes, and economic strain that are stoking instability and making it that much more challenging for us to forecast developments and their implications. These dynamics are put in unprecedented burdens on the institutions and relationships that the United States relies on to manage such challenges, and perhaps more than ever, frankly, highlight the need for sustained us leadership to uphold the rules based order. Lets speak to Lieutenant General mark schwartz, former United States security coordinator of the israel palestinian authority. Thank you for being on the programme. What did you Hearfrom Avril Haynes to date that concerns you . Avril haynes to d
time for the midterm elections. white house is calling opec s decision short sighted look at alternatives to wall street to reporting the administration is preparing to ease sanctions on venezuela and its dictator nicholas in an effort to increase the supply of oil on the market. let s bring in our panel also journal columnist kempster also, editorial board members kyle peterson. so why did saudi arabia make this a judgment after all the president had gone to the country earlier this year to try to persuade the crown prince there to produce more oil. now they are going in the opposite direction, what happened? from saudi arabia s perspective you have to consider they are looking at two factors. once the long-term alliance with the united states and hopefully try to keep that altogether. but they also have to look at their bottom line. and frankly, if you look at the signal sediment coming from all corners of the economy recently it looks like a 20 a pretty major slowdown la
more testimony from the indicted leader of the oath keepers jason rhodes. we begin tonight with trump summoning the mob, a memorable line from liz cheney laid out exactly what happened. president trump assembled the mob and lit the flame of this abeing at all. today s hearing spelled out exactly how the mob was summoned that day and as with most things donald trump can be traced back to a tweet. in this case on december 19, 2020. as the committee showed it s important to note what happened in the frantic final weeks of the trump administration leading up to that tweet. today s hearing filled in those blanks focusing on everything that happened after december 14th, the critical date when the electors meet and the election is finally over. in fact, here s what mitch mcconnell said the very next morning. yesterday electors met in all 50 states, so as of this morning our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect. many millions of us had hoped the pre
Described as the bar scene from star wars with rudy giuliani and sydney powell. you want see any starker contrast by the rule of law and the rule of trump and by the rule of trump, if you can t get what you want get there by any means necessary so we saw then the next step is the tweet, you know, that says be there. it s going to be wild, right, and we also heard that white house call logs show two calls on january 5th with steve bannon, and what does steve bannon do after call number one with the president? he gets on the air, and he says all hell is going to break loose tomorrow, so about as close as we re going to get to a smoking gun. not the smoking gun showing direct knowledge, but when you combine it with the secret service telling him don t march down to the capitol, and he still wants to. he wants that march to the capitol, that rally cry to be kept secret just among a few people because he says i don t want to get in trouble with the national park service, right? i m not bu