How things work and many other places or ever have. They dont have representatives. In most places and times, if you wanted to take over a country, first you had to control its military. The guys with guns. The army is essential for political control. Government dictators have no meaning without the credible threat of force to back them up. Guns are two laws is what gold is to paper currency. Value and strength in a democratic system. The military serves to protect the entire population no matter who they voted for. Thats what democracy is. In an authoritarian system of the armies the Enforcement Apparatus of a specific political party. Thats the difference between the two systems. Its worth remember and that given what we are seeing happen All Around The World right now. The german Defense Ministry recently announced its dismantling its best to train special operations unit. Dozens of operators have recently been fired. None have committed any kind of crime. The Ruling Party in german
Continues Firing Shells into Gaza Strip. Right now, you can hear the israeli military is shelling the Gaza Strip in between incoming rocket rounds. This is the Front Line of this conflict thats expected to continue forthcoming days. Griff incredible reporting in the middle of it, i believe youre on the israelgaza border. Griff, thats right. A lot of developments today. Inside gaza a 13Story Building that houses international Media Outlets was completely destroyed by the israeli Air Force. Idf provided little evidence to support a claim that hamas was operating from this location and all of this tomorrows as earlier in the day, We Saw factions Inside Gaza, the second largest city, Tel Aviv. They say it was in retaliation of the killing of 10 people all from the same family, 8 of the 10 are children. 10,000 people have left their home. In israel a 50yearold man was killed in a Rocket Strike South of Tel Aviv. A number of Rocket Impacts caused minor centers. And they look for a possible i
hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka wit field. we begin with breaking news out of southern california where a major oil spill off the coast is called a potential ecological disaster. the leak three miles off the coast of huntington beach and experts estimate as much as 126,000 gallons of post-production crude spilled out from an offshore oil production site. the imypacts to wildlife are visible. oil has started to wash ashore with dead fish and birds. natasha is live for us at huntington beach. do we know how this happened and has the leak been stopped in any way? a lot of questions that are still unanswered at this time, we don t know how this started and according to orange county supervisor katrina foley who i believe is a guest on your show coming up, will tell you that the responsible party is trying to repair this leak right now. everything is still sort of ongoing and not a whole lot of clarity at this time, but we do know that this i
a bunch of news that just makes you want try. is everything the most depressing? could the change season be the reason why some news helps you avoid this? but you know, that s right. noti it s the time of year whereng nothing is going. and by nothing i mean women s soccer. so as we h hear constantly toda, is a deeply polarized nation, black versus whitesize barbie versus oppenheimer, bud light versus drinking the toilet. the only thing we seem to agree upon is my smoldering magnet is i mean, that s okay. but traditionally,t one of the places the country s collectively left politics asid left e is in sports, especy international sports, because,as you know, it s us against them. anyone oany onf a age will never forget the miracle on ice. and no, i m not referring to that time i discovered vodka . it s when the olympic u.s. men s hockey team beat m soviet red army. bernie sanders is still demanding a do over, but it was 1980 and the team and the country celebrated. it was a v
washington where a grand jury has been hearing testimony regarding efforts to overturn the 2020 election. nbc news has confirmed that the target letters sent to former president donald trump from special counsel jack smith includes three federal statutes relating to deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the united states and tampering with a witness. the former lead investigator for the january 6th select committee reacted to those statutes earlier today. find something all along has been from the time we conclude our work in turnover materials to the special counsel to today that the 15 12 tampering with a witness statute, which is really obstruction of the official proceedings. would fit within that statute. that is likely to lead count. notably, the target letter did not include any statutes relating to the incitement of the actual attack on the capital. on january 6th. special counsel jack smith visited the federal courthouse where the grand jury has been meeting