Thomas now who has been watching there with me. dominic, we heard him start off with that phrase, this is a time of crisis. top of the speech he was talking about having to act in order to avoid aggression, clearly referring to the war in ukraine. macron sought to play a peace-making role since the beginning of the war. what do you get a sense here? will he continue to carve a path separate from the european nations to try to get russian to the table? or are we going to see macron fall more in line with the rest of europe and become more confrontational perhaps with russia on this issue? i think that emmanuel macron is ideally poised now, particularly given the fact that the merkel era is over in germany, to assume the kind of leadership position in the european union. he still controls the presidency until the end of the european union, until the end of the
Sort of embarrass and humiliate people on national television. so ginni thomas, she seems to be a wonderful, strong, passionate leader. but one of your co-organizers quoteded you as saying thomas was playing a peace making role among the different factions. is that accurate that you said that or where did you get that idea from? that was a quote from another individual. i was a little confused by it. i think in the article, it says ms. wren disputes that, but i didn t really i don t feel comfortable litigating out people s personal messages that i don t really feel like that congress has a right to in the first place, and to comment each time individually when press reaches out on those. but i did not ever hear or understand ms. thomas to have that role. that s good to know. that s you giving the view. you mentioned the texts. there s government texts that congress has obtained. katrina pierson was someone who was the liaison to the white
A week now. qatar, hot, traditional, on the one hand, modern and cosmopolitan on the other considers it has an important peace making role in the region, if not in the world. they see their role as trying to remote moderate islam so they re accused of funding extremists in libya and syria, something they deny. when it comes to this particular deal with the taliban, they feel that getting bowe bergdahl home was very important. united states has done a good thing as people see here to get their boy over there in afghanistan. now, i think that it s going to be very interesting in the coming weeks to see what sort of analysis is put on the taliban which in light of all of this violence has been under the spotlight for maybe being splintering into different factions and whether qatar can have any positive role going forward. we simply don t know. in the 1990 s when the taliban
A peace making role as well as a support of israel role. well, we ve seen this in newt gingrich s career time and again, where he will stake out a seemingly outrageous position, and then he will figure out ways to pull back from it. he does that for a couple of reasons. one is he knows how to get attention. another is he likes to be provocative. and then at the same time, he does have some, often, some pretty good political antenna when he gets into situations like that. and i suspect that you will see him vacillate back and forth, or oscillate back and forth, in the way he tones that out. but this is what you get with newt gingrich. that kind of provocative statement that puts him way out on the edge, and then an effort to try to ameliorate it afterwards. let me stay with you for a second and then back to chuck with the same question. i m thinking of all the paradigms that you and i have been through, dan, all these different cycles, four years. i think we all keep looking for the