House of representatives is hereby declared vacant. And with that, Kevin Mccarthys nine month term as speaker was over. The final straw his decision to do a deal with democrats to keep the government open. He didnt hesitate to point the finger of blame at the eight republicans who ousted him, led by matt gaetz, his nemesis. Look, you all know matt gaetz. You know, it was personal. It had nothing to do about spending. The unprecedented removal of the speaker has Left Congress in chaos. So much so, theyve decided to take a week off while they work out what to do next. One rebel, though, was unrepentant. This was the right call. The American People deserve a leader and a speaker who will tell the truth, and so too does the international community. They need to know that the next speaker is going to be honest and wont go back on their word. With republicans focusing firmly on themselves, the question of funding for ukraine, which congress controls, remains undecided. It does worry me. And.
In patiala here and elsewhere within the country. Really, really lovely to hear and lovely to see. Were just seeing as youre stood there, samira, some pictures of the young girls playing. And and of course, we all know cricket runs deep in india when it comes to the world cup, is it going to be Cricket Mania . Well, i think its going to be Cricket Mania for a few reasons. One, cricket isntjust a game here. Its notjust a sport. Its almost treated like a religion. The fans are quite exuberant when it comes to their teams. Now, there is f course, the Big Thing Of India being the favourite to possibly win the world cup this year. And even one of the captains of the Indian Cricket Team was asked about this and decided to be demure about that kind of answer, not to jinx it. But whats important to note is that, yes, mens cricket is going to be here on the global stage, but womens cricket has really taken off in terms of mainstream interest. Earlier this year, india had created a womens profes
Film making? first of all, i grew up on that film. it meant i was, you know, learning about editing. we were learning about acting. you grow up in the melvin van peebles by any means necessary film making family, you learn it all. that s actually good because dad said, i don t play ball well. i m going to try to teach you how to own the team. when he did sweet back and i was there as a kid, i saw hollywood look at this and say, this is a movie about a black sex worker who becomes a revolutionary, who gets a consciousness. they didn t want that, but they wanted that revolutionary money. so they had a film about a white detective, and they just did it in black and called it shaft. after that came soup uperfly, bt did sort of make drug dealing look hip, and that was hurtful to us as a community, but it was too late. we were now seeing ourselves on-screen with afros and black