Republicans hes cautioned against beach meant and of course at the heart of all this youre recall is the democrats that the case for the democrats is the allegation that president try to leverage a white house meeting and military aid which was sought by ukraine to pressure the ukrainian president vladimir selenski to nongenetic ations a former Vice President joe biden any son hunter by the so happening right now in the House Judiciary Committee 45 minute question period for the republicans and the republicans so far interesting only focusing on their witness Jonathan Turley professor of law Washington University lets continue to listen you have to understand the most the senators when when it was said. They jumped into their political graves it was true most of their political careers ended they knew they would and because of the animosity of the period triangle said the following once this set the example of an peaching a president for what when the excitement of the hour shall have
Further and deeper into this conflict so tensions have only risen since this whole thing is began despite the fact that both the u. S. And the saudis say they are in a defensive posture at least until the end of the investigation into exactly where those attacks originated john hendren live for us in washington d. C. Thank you jon well for more on this we can speak to ronnie corey has a nonresident fellow at Harvard Kennedy school and he joins us now on skype from boston mr corey having listened to it we didnt hear anything today that we havent had before necessarily. Thats right and that little bit on the saudi government have a couple of problems here d he has very little credibility because he for 23 weeks he was lying and repeating lying when he was killed and turkey about a year ago now and involved in a big inefficient cover up which was later dropped because the saudis admitted that he died and they kept lying about how it all happened 2nd of all the saudis dont have any credibi
A paradigm shift going on here what its the root of this here go ahead emmanuel in paris well its oh of what youve mentioned but i asked to admit that it is not a european position and then of course not speaking on behalf of the European Union i mean and france is a president sharing the g 7 at least till the end of the year but it is not at the head of European Union finland is leading that is it has in this response ability since last july i think the position of france which is of course a new paradigm which is a shift must also be put into consider taking into consideration for very. Obvious agenda you mentioned the domestic agenda it is true that as bit has been a lot shouted on this position in regards to the internal policy and this leading him not to have a diplomatic agenda which of course is. Has been put aside with the presidency of the g. 7 and starting with the g. 7 summit in delhi its really assessing the necessity to be a president confident president speaking not on be
Hello and welcome to crossfire all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle there are growing indications the wests anti russias stance may be softening a case in point is the recent visit of frances top diplomat and defense minister or take for example the New York Times editorial calling on trump to better relations with the kremlin as a way to block china the important question remains can moscow trust the west anymore. Cross talking a thaw in relations im joined by my guest in a new well you point in paris he is the president of the institute for european perspective and security and. We have lucre of a he is an independent journalist and in brussels we rush to John Laughlin hes a political scientist and historian all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it many well let me go to you in paris i will make the the obvious admission i very rarely had good things to say about the french president emanuel mccrone howeve
Right as a lot. Put a lot of pressure on the conciliar in Great Britain the agenda of the brics it is now linked to the internal survival agenda of Brian Johnson bringing him not to be having a say or not sufficiently willing or being capability to have a say on the International Agenda and to a recent 6 to recent. Level 2 recent date the italian. Internal policy of course prevented former and now newly reelected. Nominated does it become to to be part of the International Agenda so france is now assessing the fact that india rising of the next General Assembly of inanition it is pushing a certain number of those she sort of files on which it wants to have a unique or. Lets say let me let me go to john quite. You know thats if you have a rational theres a lot of very good point here but john like france cant do this in a vacuum ok it is a european project at the end of the day if other European Countries want to join in thats another question nonetheless france is an important country