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in the next 24 hours one of 2 events could seal the political fate of the us president the vice president could move to strip donald trump of his executive powers or congress could vote to impeach the president most bets are on impeachment as for president trump he is denying reality and responsibility while makers blame him for last week's siege of the capital saying his comments ignited the violence today trump said his remarks were quote totally appropriate i'm burned off in berlin this is the day. on their feet it's really a continuation of the greatest which is a stiff politics this should be removed from for the for the because it dangerous

and this impeachment is causing tremendous anger and he needs to be impeached for the 2nd time for dancey for years just pure to continue on this bad i think it's causing tremendous danger to our country for it only hoping that he will never run for anything ever again except from the police. also coming up just days before the end of the trump presidency the u.s. secretary of state is accusing iran without providing any evidence of giving al qaida a place to hide al-qaeda has a new home base it is the islamic republic of iran. as a result it logs wicket creation is poised to gain strength and capabilities. and to our viewers on p.b.s.

in the united states and to all of you around the world well we begin the day with washington's wishful thinking and its realistic expectations democrats in the u.s. house of representatives are calling on vice president might pins to exercise his constitutional authority which allows him to strip the president of all powers it would be the quickest way to remove the president following last week's seizure of the u.s. capitol by a violent mob of trump supporters if the vice president does not act which is what most people expect congress has a plan b. on wednesday the house of representatives is expected to vote to impeach president trump on a charge of inciting an insurrection the 2nd impeachment of president trump this time with bipartisan support were today truck called the impeachment threat yet another witchhunt and he rejected claims that his remarks were responsible for igniting last week's violence at the capitol. the 25th amendment is of 0 risk to

me but will come back to haunt joe biden and the biden administration as expression goes be careful what you wish for impeachment hoaxes a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt in the history of our country and is causing tremendous anger in division and pain far greater than most people will ever understand which is very dangerous for the usa especially at this very tender time the president speaking there in texas it's just moments ago let's go now to washington a bureau chief in his poll joins me now i'm going to need to you enos the president he says he wants no violence yet we all heard what he said last week to a crowd of his supporters just moments before they morphed into a violent mob assaulting the capital could he be accused of didn't sign the violence again by saying today that those remarks were totally appropriate.

well that is certainly not helping his case prendes despite calling for an all of violence today twice actually he also did not take responsibility for his actions last week so this has been donald trump's tank think actually from day one on and he'll make a soft statement calling for unity but he will never never isolate his loyal group of supporters so even if he plans to call for peace when joe biden takes the oath on inauguration day next wednesday it might be too little too late we know that his supporters plan to return next week to washington and also maybe to other capitals of other states so it seems that the damage has already been done we know that an impeachment vote is expected tomorrow but the u.s. senate may not be able to try the president until after job becomes president next

week so do we know in is do we know how president biden in the new congress how would they be able to conduct an impeachment trial at the same time debating by a political agenda. yeah this is going to be a very tricky tricky for biden and also the soon to be senate majority leader and chuck schumer at this moment it seems amateur of all that the house will vote to impeach donald trump tomorrow the pressure is just too high after all the information we learned over the course of the last days but indeed biden has whether he can continue with his agenda and conduct an impeachment trial so unfortunately this is going to be very very difficult for joe biden to really do what he needs to do to get get ahead of this

a horrible horrible cold the 19 pandemic which costs more than 4000 lives on many many days here in the united states all right our washington bureau chief with the latest tonight from washington is as always thank you. the business world is moving much more quickly against the u.s. president than the political world the new york times reports that germany's biggest lender deutsche bank says that it will no longer do business with president trump or his company or japan is the biggest lender to the trump organization which is being run at the moment by the president's son george banks' move that follows last week's assault on the capital by a mob of trump supporters don't you joins a growing list of companies that have cut times to donald trump. for more now i'm joined here by my colleague ferguson from business kate it's good

to see you we know that deutsche bank was the only bank willing to lend donald trump money no american lenders were willing to do that how much of a blow is this going to be then to donald trump this is really the moment that all the elements that were profit donald trump up are beginning to crumble politically personally and financially as well so a large chunk of the republican party no longer supports them social media platforms have bond him and now the money tops are being turned off as well when it comes to georgia banks pacifically this has been an incredibly important relationship as you mentioned most mainstream lenders stayed well away from donald trump because i was a reputation for not paying back his loans he currently owes deutsche bank by 340000000 dollars those loans are due to be repaid in 20232024 if he can't come up with the cash voice he can actually sees has pressed that and given how increasingly isolated trump is looking that is not an outlandish prospect amazing there's a what to do is trump george make relationship isn't there i mean i know there are

suspicions of a connection between. russia and don't trump well yeah this is a relationship that has lasted longer than any of donald trump's margins house and just to give you just to give you an idea the woman who managed affairs. are to mine and mine. tom's affairs that boy to rosemary drop back she was a v.i.p. guest at his inauguration so that gives you some idea of just how cozy the relationship has been the money that he borrowed he used to buy luxury hotels golf courses skyscrapers but that same woman who wrote she resigned very abruptly last month from deutsche bank most we know is that she was the subject of an internal embeds investigation into a purchase of an apartment from a company that was partly owned by none other than jarrett kushner drum's son in law so if it seems like i'm just jumping on the bandwagon because everyone else is

actually they have been trying to distance themselves from trump for a while now because quite frankly he is bad for their business and companies they're also rushing to distance themselves from donald trump yet it's really a domino effect and one of the most interesting examples of this i think it's strike the payments companies so it is no longer processing donations to trump's campaign website and that potentially could be a huge blow now the other day that was working with to with the troth signature bank they have closed as a kind and they have also called for his resignation and of course many other companies like microsoft 18000 air b.n. b. there no longer donating to republicans who are not accepting joe biden's election victory so it certainly does look like the business empire is crumbling the u.s. in politics money talks and i keep forgetting as always keith thank you so much. and ireland with no formal diplomatic ties with most of the world is about to welcome a high ranking u.s. envoy on wednesday u.s.

ambassador to the un kelly craft travels to taiwan an island which neither the united states nor the united nations recognize as a country in fact until recently official u.s. policy restricted interactions between us in time when these diplomats now that policy began in 1979 in a delicate balancing act between china's claim on taiwan and taiwan's claim of sovereignty u.s. secretary of state he has overturned this policy saying it was meant to the chinese government. and we advise u.s. secretary of state compared to have a clear understanding of history to stop manipulating taiwan related issues to stop acting against a trend and not to go further down this wrong and dangerous path otherwise he will be severely punished by history needed to move on. well time one has lived with the threat of a chinese invasion 1st 7 decades but with china dramatically building up its navy

and military in recent years the threat seems more acute than ever international editor richard walker as. february 2020. f force releases this image to the media he chose a time when nice jet fighter intercepting a chinese boma flying near its airspace. limits of the dangerous tension in the skies so we're spending our skies with defending all it want to see it every more but in the last few decades is constant pressuring from the chinese side it's like a stress test on multiple levels it's hardly going to demoralizing the taiwanese public but it's also simply wearing down taiwan's planes.

and it also takes 'd away all their activity that would prove. and perhaps most importantly all of these probing generates hugely valuable insights for the chinese military james final who led u.s. naval intelligence in the pacific explains you have to know your adversaries defense a structure and its network which there's radar systems where the weaknesses were the strengths how long does it take a fighter f. 16 fighter i want to get off the ground to respond to a dream. based on their mapping all of that out in the cyber realm to china continues to chip away. this unassuming building in shanghai reportedly has is the military hacking getting 613982 tie one suspects of launching many attacks.

and of course. and with its open society taiwan is highly vulnerable to disinform ation campaigns and for those of us watching from the outside we owe it to the people of the region to sit up and pay attention. to a flashpoint they could blow up into a conference. was richard walker there reporting let's bring in l. steve saying he's the director of the china institute at the university of london school of oriental and asia studies it's good to have you on the program steve hella cute is the security threat posed by beijing to taiwan at the moment is a very severe threat it may not be immediate maybe because the chinese do not i said have the capabilities to deter them eriksson's and. sed but the chinese have taken the tea table all will certainly use force against taiwan so do

you think it's just a matter of time until taiwan is confronted with the chinese invasion. assuming that she tipping will be made china in the next 20 years. and east him at all she will take taiwan it is his contention that this what his speech instructing the people's liberation army to keep their full and he is preparing china for why do you think that president trump assuming a high level visitor to taiwan with such a short time left in his own presidency. what we don't know is whether it is a decision made by the secretary of state himself or he was it isn't meet by president trump i think if it were a decision made by president trump it was almost certainly designed to mix things

more difficult in terms of relationship because by the demonstrations and the chinese government if it is really made by pay you i think this may well have to do partly with the causing problem for the bye to diminish and and partly with compay you prepare himself for a 2024 run for the u.s. presidency. china we know is clearly unhappy about this visit and i'm wondering what is the benefit to taiwan i'm dense taiwan have reason to believe that the biden administration will pick up in forward trumps policy. well thailand has been treated so badly hit by the rest of the world for so long that they simply cannot politically resist the temptation of hosting a cabinet level to see the 8 u.s. official which the u.s. and boss that to the u.n.

and it's. and they may also calculate that one has a high level visit like the has happened it will be more difficult but it biden and ministrations to prove back and their full u.s. taiwan relations will still be on a stronger basis moving forward but they're also mindful that they will have to pay a price because the chinese will be very angry and they will punish somebody and get the companies to us do you punish taiwan and one of the hong kong in this equation joe biden he's going to become president he is going to say this is what china is doing to hong kong isn't that all the manically going to increase the push on washington to stand by taiwan isn't that all the manically going to increase the likelihood of a military confrontation. it east village to put the

u.s. and chinese relationship on a more difficult basis because the biden administration will be much more interested in human rights matters than a trump administration's has ever been and this would make the chinese government very very unhappy but hong kong is still a separate issue from taiwan and hong kong is. not disputable chinese territory taiwan is a very highly contested territory as to whether it is chinese at all so they are not exactly the same and they still questions of the united states using force to help on call but the united states has under the taiwan relations act of the united staes a commitment to help taiwan defend itself against an external requirement for taiwan to change its status we know mr singh that taiwan has always been held up as the

poster child if you will of this is what china could be with freedom democracy capitalization of does that this i guess does that poster child does it have much efficacy with in china at all now. it actually does have. a certain element of effort to see in china and one of the things that's chinese to risk on this is to want to when they were committed to do so fun very impressing we impress it was watching telly these television television and see how companies politicians being forced to justify that policies and he said stat policies so yes it is having a significant impact on a don't all chinese but overwhelmingly most chinese do not get to see that side of taiwan they only see decide to taiwan

a sport straight by the police party of china all right mr steve saying the director of the china institute at the university of london school of oriental and asia studies mr saying as always we appreciate your time and your insights thank you you look. u.s. president obama dropped kept his campaign promise to get tough on iran in a radical departure from the obama administration trump abandoned the iran nuclear deal back in 20 tensions between washington and tehran have increased ever since now there is hope that president elect joe biden will be able to turn down the volume some but that goal is getting more difficult by the day on tuesday u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe accused iran of providing a new base for the terrorist group al qaida you now have the world's state largest state sponsor of terrorism islamic republic of iran as the home base for al

qaeda their partners in terrorism partners and hate this axis poses a grave threat to the security of nations and to the american homeland itself i would say iran is indeed the new afghanistan as the key geographic upper of. but it's actually horse unlike in afghanistan when that kind it was hiding in the mountains ok and it today is operating underneath the hard shell of the iranian regime's protection i want to bring in tripp arsenio he is co-founder executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft he's also an expert on u.s. and rainy in relations or policies for it it's good to see you again maybe you can explain to us here the thinking of mr pompei of al-qaeda is an extremist sunni muslim group in iran is run by shia muslim hardliners a meat can these 2 can they live in the same place can they be allies.

if there was any conclusive evidence that there is some sort of an alliance between iran and al qaida then pompeo surely would have put that forward much earlier than he does now for him to come out with these last minute accusations 8 days before his his administration comes to an end is hardly convincing mindful of the fact that the administration has been pursuing maximum pressure against iran for 4 years if there was evidence for this they would have come out with that earlier on the reason why they're coming out now i suspect is because pompei 0 is trying to do absolutely everything he can to make it impossible for the by the administration to pursue diplomacy not just with iran but with other actors in the region as well and undo the mess that trump and pump aoe has caused i would point your attention to the terrorist listing of the who tees yesterday another measure that seems to have

nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with making it impossible for by them to put an end to the war between the governments and the saudis well is this is this just politics or is it something much more substantial a much more dangerous me what you're saying is that pump a president from there not only trying to sabotage the biden ministration but they're doing things that could actually bring the us to the brink of war with the wrong. well one of the dangers with what he's doing right now is that there is an authorization of use of military force by congress for 2002 that says that attacks against al qaeda is essentially permitted the president doesn't need to go back to congress to ask for a pit mission for that by claiming that iran without any evidence of course is the base for al qaida he has now laid forward a kaz's belli that would allow the administration to go and attack iran in its last

couple days in power so there is definitely that risk but i personally suspect that this is more of just making it as difficult as possible for biden to pursue diplomacy if al-qaeda actually was the priority of this administration then this in a station would have gone after those that are actually providing funding for al qaeda and those would be a lot of folks as saudi arabia for instance instead to said mr asia has been protecting the saudis it would not be continuing the war in yemen because the who tease and yemen where the main force against al-qaeda and instead this administration is fighting that hooty so the idea that now suddenly all count as a priority for this administration again is highly unconvincing we know that iran has denied these latest allegations but we also have to say it has also been upping the ante here for example announcing you know that it is further enriching uranium is it possible knowing all of this for the u.s. and iran to return to the status quo pre trop.

i think so i think frankly some of the latest signals that are coming out from both places seem to suggest that the posturing is not about going back into deal it's about the negotiations that would follow after i return to the uk which in and of itself indicates that they return to deal more or less is something that both sides now agree upon and may end up happening rather quickly so the prospect for this despite some of these negative steps taken by the iranians as well is still pretty good and i think again that's part of the reason why there's such a desperation in what pump it was doing it should have been about a minute let me just ask you from foreign policy to domestic policy you are there in washington d.c. it's been almost a week since the seizure of the capital what's the feeling like there and considering to see that there's no warnings of more violence next week i have

to say it's a it's a very uneasy feeling here because it's not until the couple of days later that i think most of us have come to understand and seen the images of how violent this actually was the 1st images that came out did not show it for reasons that may not then that need to still be explained and now we also know that we kind of got lucky because they were cars filled with weapons and bombs and other things they could have ended up being using used fortunately that do not happen but we are ahead of us some very nervous days because this is a much more serious threat than we 1st thought try to parse it is always good talking with you we appreciate your time your insights tonight thank you. the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter you can follow me a bridge golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then never.

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