of the president. translation: achieving democracy will no doubt be difficult. freedom is one of the greatest values in europe. at without a doubt, we will no longer tolerate what would have been business decades of business as usual for those who plundered ukraine and put themselves above our laws and i thank the lord determine offices who have brought cases who have stalled the decade to adjust conclusion. the law must work. it is so, it must be so. glory to ukraine. glory to ukraine. president zelensky glory to ukraine. president zelensky there. peter zalmayev is director of the eurasia democracy initiative an international non profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of democracy and human rights. thank you forjoining us, peter. what do you make of this event, as it were, of kind of going after this individual, a man that clearly has some intriguing business dealings? i actually was speaking him, i have my own show on ukrainian tv, and yesterday i was inte
the first republican primary debate. hope the weekend was grand. we have a big week here. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. i m excited about the week. are you? bill: big time? dana: are you packed? bill: 50%. dana: i have it all planned out because this is a big week. this morning a big day. brand-new polling out of iowa this morning. a state that is small in size but holds a mighty influence over presidential primaries. voters there give former president trump a solid early advantage in the nation s first nominating contest. you would have to go back more than 20 years to find the last time a candidate held this large of a lead over his rivals among iowa caucus goers. bill: 48 hours from now will be the arena in milwaukee. the center of the political universe and the political event of the summer. the first republican primary duel on stage. it is all going down in battleground state wisconsin. ten electoral votes on the line t
criteria to be on that debate stage. they have the polling. they ve raised the funding. they have the number of donors for that and they have signed the loyalty pledge to support whomever the republican nominee is no matter what. not everybody, but eight of them. once this debate happens this week it is off to the races. i will be the only one on the stage that ever done it before. if i m nervous they should be petrified. it will be a vigorous exchange. we re excited to be on the debate stage. i feel like i ve been preparing for this first republican presidential debate my whole life. we ll continue to do what we have been doing. people know i m the biggest threat. we have to offer an alternative vision of our own and that s what i ll do on the debate stage. harris: former president donald trump said he will not be there. politico is reporting the former president, quote, might regret passing on the first debate pointing out that in recent nominating conte
normally when you say that l.a. river, it s a joke. you could drive your car down it. movies have been shot in it. really, there has been so much rain over the last 24 hours from tropical storm hillary that this river as you can see behind me is flowing. it is a fast flowing river and all of that rain that has fallen really causing flooding throughout the region. we are hearing of power outages as well as cancellations. parking lots are underwater. it is making driving conditions throughout the greater los angeles area not only really tough and difficult, but also extremely dangerous. out in palm springs in the desert communities, they got a heavy dose of nonstop rain. at one point it was so bad that crews had to pump water out of a nearby hospital. it s not just the flooding. all of that ring combined with very loose and dry ground is only a recipe for disaster. we saw mudslides and mud flows throughout the region as a result of tropical storm hil hillary. well we have see
news. instead trump is seeking a sit-down interview with the former fox news host tucker carlson. as a means of counter programming the republican debate. this is not something that fox and the rnc can be happy about atul. and it is shaping up to be yet another chapter in the long running saga between donald trump and fox news the network that helped make donald trump president in the first place. let me step back a little bit do you remember the first time trump ever participated in a republican primary debate? it was august 20 15th, that debate, much like the coming one, was hosted by the republican national committee and fox news. meghan kelly was one of the moderators. and when she asked trump about some of the absolutely vile language he had used to describe women in the past trump was incensed. the next day trump took his grievances to air on another cable news network. she gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of hurdles grigor s questions, and you know you cou