Welcome to the amine for our, heres where were headed this week this week, we examined power and all the ways it affects our lives. First, were going to compete with china were determined to do that. Todays big Power Conflict between china and the United States. My conversation with veteran diplomat us ambassador To Beijing Nicholas Burns, then people have always been interested and now theyre sort of worried. And concern about oh, no Luck Power unchecked power. And the fact that it might be coming for america, the writer who examined a man named Robert Moses who had the power to build and trample over new York Pulitzer prize winning Author Robert Kara joins me. Why 50 years on his seminal book is still flying off the shelves now its safe, you know, so people stay in the deadly Power Struggle in El Salvador between a Strongman President and the criminal gangs. And what it all means for the United States and then in our letter from london, he unleashed her as his secret Weapon Kingmaker
Forward on a political process that will lead to the establishment of a president ial Transitional Council that will lead to elections. And we think that it lead to elections. And we think Thatitis Lead to elections. And we think that it is urgent, that it is urgent that he moves forward in that direction and starts the process of bringing normalcy back to the people of haiti. Meanwhile, the violence in haiti is worsening. The un high commissioner for human rights, volker turk, is calling for International Action and says the situation is beyond untenable. Since the beginning of the year, 1,193 people have been killed and 692 others wounded by the gang violence. The uns humanitarian coordinator in haiti told the bbc that gang members are killing and raping indiscriminately, and that bodies can be seen on the streets of the capital. The un says that gangs have stepped up their campaign of violence since the Prime Minister travelled to kenya a week ago. For more on the situation, i spoke
Oh mess every day in every state across the country our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers pulling in millions of dollars a race sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phonebook, and emails, so many emails. But for all those little fish drawing 100 to their local race, its the whales, those Campaign Fundraisers really need powerful and rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 20 5,000, 1 million, they want a favor or ten it should be obvious that thats corrupt, but with a wink and nod, political deals to the bribery line every single day. And we may never have noticed that certain illinois the governor hadnt flung back the curtain within unrepentant ego, a political corruption, crime spree in a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. Ladies and gentlemen meet Rod Blagojevichs it was Early Morning because i used to get up every mor
Alert. Devon archer, the man who hunter biden once called a biden, just flipped on the first family. And its bad bat archer, whosed been in ukrainian board meetings, chinese dinners to Thefa Bee Biden Family beach house, is saying that joe biden wanner, ans on the phone with hr and his foreign Business Partners a hunt least 20 times. 20 times. Archers. Says it was to sell the biden brand and huntered described the biden brand as gold. Heres how it worked. President barack obama would assign joe biden a country to handl biden ae. And when biden was assigned to a country, a dirty company with a lot of problems in that country would hire hunter biden because they needed something from joe biden. Hunter would have dinner wit with some crooked foreign kleptocrats, and in the middle of dinner hed say, hey, letsla call my pop. Hed get his dadad. Dn the on the phone, put it on speaker, and joe biden would wos business hunteron partners. And that was what the Business Partners were paying for t
this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, i am lynda kinkade. after unleashing u.s. military on iranian backed targets and syria and iraq, president joe biden is making it clear, this is just the start of the retaliation in the deaths of three americans. this video from what appears to be one of those strikes early, saturday morning local time. the mayor of this town says the strikes hit houses used for weapons storage. the pentagon says u.s. bombers hit 85 individual targets in iraq and syria. the u.s. says the locations were used by iran s revolutionary guard and by iranian backed militia. the pentagon says each was used by iran backed groups, the video you just saw comes from iraq on the border with syria. an iraqi military spokesman says the attacks violated iraq s 70. the white house says iraq was notified before the attacks. u.s. president joe biden issued the statement, our response began today and will continue at times and places of our choosing. the united sta