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i ve given my life to the law. i care deeply about the law. and i think that the law fare we have seen against president trump will do great damage well beyond our time in public service. now, republicans with zero irony are still pretending to be the party of law and order. even though they re literally the exact opposite. and their extremism is rotting their party away from the state level on up. plus, trump and maga republicans once again threaten retribution against his political rivals, vowing to unleash a biblical flood of partisan indictments to avenge trump s felony conviction in new york. and we begin tonight with one of our two major political parties. the maga party. the national republican party and their political stars are pretty extreme. they spend their time on capitol hill relitigating the origins of the covid virus, bickering about the vaccines, calling for the jailing of anthony fauci, and falsely accusing president biden of persecuting donald ....
handle. brent: donald trump president donald trump threatens north korea with new sanctions after pyongyang tests its newest missile, that some say s capable of reaching the east coast of the united states. brent: i m brent goff. it is good to have you with us. we begin tonight with poison in the courtroom. a former bosnian-croat military chief has died after apparently swallowing poison at a hearing at the un s tribunal for the former yugoslavia. slow but don praljak drank slobodan praljak drank the poison after judges upheld his sentence for crimes against humanity. praljak was going to prison sentence for what would probably be the rest of his life. the judge confirms a 20 prison sentence, and then this. i m not a war criminal. i oppose this conviction. stop, please. and please sit down. confusion at first, and as the judge was on to the next case, calls come from within the court. i have taken poison. ok. we suspend the, we suspend. please, the cur ....
we re fortunate to have ambassador richard armitage and koreansident of the foundation here to give some opening remarks but before introduce them, i would like to say a few words about safety here at csi us. we feel very secure but we have a duty to prepare for any eventuality. i name is lisa collins and will serve as your safety officer for this event. follow my instructions should the knees arise. please also familiarize yourself with the exits in the back on the left and on the right. is the president of armitage international. it was formerly the deputy secretary of state and secretary of defense for east asia and civic affairs in the office of the secretary of defense. he has had a distinguished career in government and policy. he was south korea s ambassador from 2013-2015. he has had a long, esteemed career working in the foreign affairs. ambassador ambassador armitage will give statements first followed by ambassador lee. ambassador armitage: good morning eve ....
washington journal continues. joined by tomow martin, president and ceo of the american forest foundation and he is here to discuss the role of the federal government in wildlife management. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you kimberly, it is great to be here. host: remind our viewers what the american forest foundation is. guest: we are a conversation a conservation group and we work with family and public course cornerstones, helping to reap the benefits of that. host: we have been talking about wildfires. what is the status? guest: at this point in the season it is in the west. earlier in the year it was in the south. 12,005 hundred square miles, almost 8 million acres have burned already this year. winterthis wonderful where we were sitting there, going all this rain, this will be terrific, maybe the drought is broken. then this hot summer has brought back wildfires with a vengeance. host: the washington post today has more on that. wildfires season, have b ....
special guest for this evening s program, katy tur and robin young who will come through this door in a minute. we are thrilled to be joined by so many community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute. membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. for those of you that might be visiting that institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. it s truly spectacular in the way senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the important role of the senate and the life of our government and every day students and adults like you and i sit in those seats and they become senators for a day and actually try to grapple with the same issues and be reminded of the important role of participation in a democracy. we all have to be involved. through our interactive programs like tonight our goal is to see ourselves with the new generation and they keep thinking to myself re ....