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right now on msnbc, breaking news overseas. a massive earthquake and aftershocks rattle japan. tsunami advisories triggered for the country s wester coast. israel announces it s pulling some of its troops from gaza. what that means for a war the prime minister still says will last for months to come. also ahead, donald trump facing multiple trials in 2024. how that s raising the pressure on the u.s. supreme court and an appeals court in washington. later, what this new year will bring for congress with a new speaker, contentious issues and an election year all on the calendar. calendar i m stephen romo in new york. we begin this hour with the breaking news we ve been following out of japan. right now a tsunami advisory remains in effect after a 7.6 magnitude quake hit the sea of japan. this morning japan s prime minister said he would personally head the nation s disaster response as officials have already started arriving in the areas affected by this quake. jo ....
my guest is us democratic party insider, jake sullivan, a key adviser to senior democrats, including hillary clinton when she was secretary of state, as well as on the campaign trail, last year. president trump has attracted a lot of criticism at home and abroad over his rhetoric and style of leadership, but is he not proving more effective in important foreign policy issues, like the fight against extremists, than the previous democratic administration? jake sullivan, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. as a key adviser to hillary clinton, can give be objective about the trump administration? probably not entirely objective. i would have to put my bias on the table, that i spent two years trying to stop him from getting into the oval office. but i think a lot of the things that we predicted during the campaign about his lack of fitness for office have borne out over the last six months. so i ve tried to take a step back be as fair minded as possible in assessing ....
my guest is us democratic party insiderjake sullivan. a key adviser to senior democrats, including hillary clinton when she was secretary of state as well as on the campaign trail last year. president trump has attracted a lot of criticism at home and abroad over his rhetoric and style of leadership. but is he not proving more effective in important foreign policy issues like the fight against extremists than the previous democratic administration? jake sullivan, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. as a key adviser to hillary clinton, can you be objective about the trump presidency? probably not entirely objective. i would have to put my bias on the table, that i spent two years trying to stop him from getting into the oval office. but i think a lot of things that we predicted during the campaign about his lack of fitness for office have borne out over the past six months. i ve tried to take a step back and be as fair minded as possible in assessing what he s don ....
These questions from sci fi movies, but this is very real, a very real life consequences to it as well. absolutely. we are all familiar with drones which are used quite extensively in conflict zones already. with these you see the user, the human being does have the final decision whether thatjerome takes that attack at the last few minutes or not. the next step up, some of these are also being used apparently are pre programmed art weapons, killer robots if you like, where they apparently know what they are going to do, who they will kill even long before they leave their port. so you have this big ethical question, who is the chain of command? who if something goes catastrophically wrong, hundreds of civilians get killed, who is ....
But whatever it is we re going to have to watch it closely, like we did with other variants. in the meantime, not to worry, and people should still get the vaccines that they need to get. wasn t delta at one point a variant of interest? i m sorry, what i said, wasn t delta at one point a variant of interest? yeah. yes. the delta and other variants start if people are listening or watching what s going on, they ll say it s a variant of interest. it could become more than that, and the next step up from a variant of interest is a variant of concern. and that doesn t mention it s not given to the new mu variant. all right. dr. scott gottlieb warned this week the northeast has yet to have a true delta surge. is there a likelihood the northeast could see another surge when it comes to the delta ....