the percent of these are people who will most likely become patients with diabetes, heart disease, depression. it's a long list. the costs will be huge. america's next public health crisis is robert kennedy junior. is he just what the doctor order, president elect trump is nominating candidates? you had the department of health and human services. now, kennedy is not a physician. he has no medical training, but he has a strong opinions on food and medicine, some based in science, some based in anything, but i break off in berlin. this is the day i, it's the we of the sickest country in the world. and this is right. we want you to come up with things and ideas and what you've been talking about for a long time. and problem with the diesel vaccine is it's

a leaky x and it doesn't provide sterilizing amenities. vaccines of the reason, so many more of us to, to find to at all source that we ever take before. going to make america healthy again also coming up, ukraine says it's forces are in active combat against north korean soldiers. special yamma, the 1st of the battles with north korean soldiers going to white mark a new chapter. last global instability has to be in this. jim was to be together with the world. we must do everything to ensure that this russian step toward expanding the war and giving me this true escalation. escalade becomes a loss. your whole girl stuff to our viewers watching on tv, as in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin today with the president elex wish list of people to run his administration. this week

was full of donald trump's announcements, a long list of names, trump. we'd like to see heading everything from the pentagon to health and human services to the department of justice. as an example of trump staging true to his campaign promises. most of the names were expected, the shock factor was none. the less significant, the florida congressman matt gets dumped. nominated to be us attorney general, have the fox news, host, and army veterans to exit as defense secretary and the latest pick former to of opponents and vaccine skeptics, robert kennedy junior to head the department of health and human services. these are all nominations, requiring senate approval. the republicans will control the senate, but will all g o p senators fall in line and say yes to trump fix, or will the president elect find a way to bypass the approval process altogether? wrong data, just a moment. first,

this report started in florida with the president of the legal team done the banquet hall full of the staunchest supporters. donald trump took to the stage for his 1st public speech since the election welcomed by actors sylvester's to load the president elect couldn't hide how much he's been enjoying. he's come back. you have to start my term from november 5th. okay. or november 6th, if you want november 5th, because the mark is going through the roof. enthusiasms doubled. it's doubled in the last short while. the florida gala comes this trump and he's transition team continue turnville their peaks for the next administration. another controversial figure tap to be us health secretary is for my independent presidential candidate, robert f. kennedy junior. he dropped out of the race and all goes down in doors,

trump realistic, his country, the world. and this is a race that guess we need to bring donald trump to watch instead of make america how kennedy has become famous, isn't down to vaccination activists. for years he has insisted there's a link between autism and vaccines. are something that has been disproved by multiple studies. the american public health association says it will campaign to gaze his appointment, accusing him of a lack of competence. segers trump has picked up so far. thank you everybody. so gestured views and loyalty of the things that matter most. and we're going to turn our country around, we're going to make it so great, so strong, so powerful. we're going to bring it all back. all of trumps cabinet donations will still be subject to confirmation by the santa

where republicans command a majority of my 1st gets denied, sounded the alarm of a trump presidency without guard rails long before trump won re election. sherry burman is a political science professor at bernard college in new york city and is she is the author of numerous books for latest is democracy and dictatorship. in europe, professor berman george b to night professor, it's good to have you. with this, i want to talk about this this morning that you issued in december of last year. you were quoted in the washington post as saying when democratic process is institutions and norms. present a hindrance to donald trump. there's little reason to believe that he's willing to allow them to stand in his way. how relevant are your words today as well? as you said previously, these appointments are these proposed appointments really reflect on his own

personal views and loyalty tests rather than any sense of sort of competence or fitness for office on particularly in some cases as well as in particular in some cases like the one that you just highlight highlighted, which is r a k for health and human services. he is not a doctor. he does not have the support of the medical establishment. and indeed, he is advocated positions that any real research or, or medical doctor feels are incredibly dangerous. use his key characteristics for this appointment is simply that he is seen as loyal to trump. and it looks like it may be from a different angle here or present is coming go. we know that department heads serve at the pleasure of the president, but the departments and their employees, these employees may remain. so how important are these nominations are a t junior, for example? how important are they in the big picture as well? that's the question that a lot of people who are concerned about

a trump presidency, you're asking right? the short term versus the long term. someone like r a k and health and human services or mac. yep. so the attorney general's office, that is the same charges, the department of justice for hex, it at defense. i am during the 4 years that they are, if they say the whole term that they would be in office, they could make dramatic ships in the policies and the personnel of those departments. but the question is also not just what kind of damage or impact they can have in those 4 years, but what those departments would look like afterwards if or a key, for instance, manages to inject into the american population an extreme skepticism of vaccines. then his impact on the health of american society on the health american citizens could far out last. any term in office sector team so fast. you know, you mentioned met, gets we're also talking about or if you junior, if they went to the senate approval, will this be a further dismantling of democratic guard rails, in your opinion?

well, this is an interesting question because the senate is composed of many loyalties to trumpet, has a republican majority, but nonetheless, it is its job to act as a check and a balance on the president. and one of the ways you're that it's supposed to do that just by betting his appointment. so the president has the right to pick only wants to serve inherited cabinet post. what is the sentence job to confirm? we're not confirm those appointments. now, some of these appointments are, are seen is kind of me by some people, but certainly with in kind of the realm of republican or conservative. possibly what others gets me are a k policy gathered. these are people who are not just kind of extreme in their views, but who are incompetent, have no experience in any of these areas. and or in fact seen as actual dangers to the services that their departments are supposed to provide. whether the senate

therefore lives up to each job, which is to that these candidates, or simply just falls in line, is something that we are going to have to see. and can a, trump, can he bypass the senate altogether? i mean, he has reportedly pressured republican senators to forego their constitutional responsibility of holding hearings and a voting yes or no on presidential nominees. and i, i've heard that he wants them to use what's called recess appointments. cindy, do that? well, this is, this is the question that you asked before and another way, right? which is it is the sentence job to act as a check on the present. it is supposed to do that in one way by setting his appointments and chooses to not carry out the function that just has given to it, then it will of abrogated not only some of its own power, but as you mentioned its constitutional role. so we will have to see whether or not it does this shortly. trump would prefer that he doesn't want to be constrained in

any way. he would prefer to just get his choices easily confirmed, but that's not the way our process is supposed to work. and if the senate goes along with that kind of thing, then it is again giving up not only its own power, but its own constitutionally mandated ro, an you, i'm sure you've heard that the president elect once you learn, must going to be co director of this new department of government efficiency. now i understand that position would not require approval by the senate. and yet he's going to be making recommendations to fire, to get rid of possibly tens of thousands of federal employees that in combination with these department heads that do need approval. that's a powerful weapon, isn't it? absolutely, and you're right. he does not require senate approval for that kind of thing. cabinet positions do, but new appointments are new endeavors like this do not. so this is something that

the president has the right to do, how dangerous it is, how consequential it is. depends as you said, on watch mosque and his um, his companion, um a bad rap. i'm going to just pronounce his name to grab a swanny beverage. well, i think right, i to deal with that immense, with that immense power that they had been given by trump, to kind of oversea, quote unquote efficiency measures in various government agencies and programs. yeah, we'll see how many people get their pink slip in the next few months. cherry burner . we appreciate you taking the time with us to talk with us this friday. we appreciate your insights. thank you. my pleasure. the platform x has gone through to turbulent years since e one must bought what was called twitter back in 2022 since then, users and advertisers have left and drove jeff there must relax the control of

content. most support for donald trump has provoked another exodus of users. the british newspaper, the guardian quit on thursday, and the us novel. this is stephen king. he has joined them. he tweeted, i'm leaving twitter tried to stay, but the atmosphere was just or become to toxic. and he said to his 7000000 ex followers, following me on threads, if you like. alright, from morning i want to bring in is eve sanderson, who's the executive director of new york university center for social media and politics. steve, it's good to have you with us. so we've got stephen king, he's joining the x. it is just like the british newspaper, the guardian. but there is nothing new about the concerns over what x has become since must take over. so why are they? why are they leaving so late a yeah, it's a good question. so obviously this isn't a trend that's just starting now. um that being said, i was gonna put a note,

there's not much precedence for an owner of a major social media platform to be as part of seen as musk and, and just sort of, you know, be as active in, in the platform and in and content moderation as musk has been, you're likely what we're probably seeing is, is an impact from the election and mosques very active role and trying to shape the information environment around the election in order to, to nominate donald trump. now what effect this will exactly have on either x or other platforms is you have to be seen. but my guess is, you know, it's largely driven by 5 most sort of attempts to, you know, support trump during the auction. and for those people, unlike stephen king who choose to remain on the platform, did the terms of use, they change today directing all legal challenges to a conservative leaning court in texas. now that's a way from where x is based near austin. what do you think that's going to me? i mean, practically, it's unclear what it's going to mean. um,

clearly this is just trying to move uh as sort of away from being held accountable for its, its actions here towards, you know, a legal jurisdiction or with, with a specifically, i'm a judge that is going to be, i think a little bit more open to some of the masks um, you know, sort of culture, more politics. but, you know, my, my background is more in political science and taking the information environment. and i've made a mistake exactly. one's of commenting to directly on, on, on legal dynamics are. so i'll sort of the end of it, but yeah, let me ask you for your take on this, the must. because already suing the watchdog media matters in, in this new court for x, because it alleged that advertisements appear to next to pro nazi sides. have you ever seen anything like this uh, on a social media platform? you know, i mean, certainly not a major social media is a lot for him. and right there is, there's an irony here that one must bought x or at that point twitter on with that

in part, you know, his hit his rhetoric around why he wanted to buy the platform, which to make it more transparent. an important part of transparency broadly is, is research on the platform that holds the platform accountable for its actions. so, you know, i'm not the 1st certainly to make this point, but, but it is disappointing to see for further litigation in this regard. another important terms of service change that, that occurred recently was that the keys, you know, made it increasingly difficult for, for academic researchers like us to be able to, to access platform data either directly from the platform or by the call by collecting it. sort of automated means, so i think we're just saying sort of continued course in the last transparency, not more transparency. i gotta ask you another question about litigation musk if suing companies, which is, you know, lever, mars or stead. and there are others for violating anti trust laws and for keeping

millions of dollars of advertising money away from him. i mean, he says that they should spend with him. now he has the ear of president elect donald trump. should those companies that should they be worried? so i think that they could, you know, when it comes again to litigation itself, it seems pretty well established that the companies have 1st amendment protections and where they spend the advertising dollars falls under corporate speech. so i would be very surprised if, if this actually went very far in the courts. i think what we're going to see here is just another 4 years of sort of direct engagement with, with culture, more issues and, and we're trying to hold institutions and sort of from, from the right accountable effort for speech that, that contradicts their perspective. so, you know, again when, when it comes to the correct impact of litigation,

i'd be relatively surprised if there was an effect. but i think that this is going to be part of what, you know, the next 4 years of, of a 2nd. trump administration looks like, yeah, we started with stephen king. let me wrap this up with stevie king. he's asked his followers to migrate to threads with him. blue sky is currently the most downloaded app on the app store in the united states. number 2 right now is threads. i mean, there once was a migration to mastodon, that fizzled out, do you see any of these are merging as the dominant twitter ex replacement? yeah, so you're in for, for studying social media platforms. we refer to this as network effects where the value of a platform is essentially because everyone else is there and the more people are they are, the more valuable it becomes. you know, it's, you know, it's tough, tough to prognosticate. as you said, this has happened before. i think what we're likely to see is not a single x or twitter replacement. we're not gonna see a single sort of short form text based uh,

a platform that replaces what twitter was a few years ago. but i think what we're likely to see is the social media environment continue to look more like the traditional media environment where it's heavily fractured it and you see a number of different platforms of you end up becoming relative. we wrote boston and permanent, but i think it's, it's probably unlikely especially given how many right leaning accounts are going to remain on acts for, for there to be a wholesale replacement of what twitter used to be. yeah. yeah. fracturing may continue. these anderson, executive director of new york university center for social media and politics seem to talking with you. thank you. thanks so much. what you the more in ukraine now where it keeps as north korean troops are already engaging with ukrainian soldiers fueling for years of a major escalation. russia and north korea have recently strings in their military

cooperation, and concerns are now rising. that young gang could soon be supplying moscow with masses of more drones. north to reinstate media is reporting that leader kim jong on, has ordered his military to begin mass producing exploding drove. young gang has been ramping up the development of the web and reading the last few years. the attack drones carry explosives and they crash into their targets. and they are better at evaluating air defense is better than missile. so let's take a look at what this could mean for ukraine on the battlefield. and what it can mean for north korea's own relations with its neighbors. for us as cor, ask region where ukrainian troops have been fighting to hold land. they seized at the end of the summer. now they say they're not just fighting russian soldiers, but north koreans as well. this footage, released by ukraine's intelligence agency,

appears to show north korean soldiers receiving uniforms and equipment at the military base. in the far east of russia since then, western intelligence agencies say an estimated 10 to 12000 north korean troops have traveled to the course region supporting russian troops trying to retake the territory. north korean soldiers could free up russian troops that moscow wants on the front line in eastern ukraine. but it's unclear just how much of a difference they'll make in the war. not least because of a language barrier with their russian counterparts. more significant may be the ripple effects of a 3rd country sending troops into the conflict. especially for young with the 1st battles with north korean soldiers, good white mark, a new chapter of global instability. this to be honest, and we'll see together with the world, we must do everything to ensure that this russian step toward expanding the war and

giving me this true escalation. escalade becomes a loss, your whole girl stuff. the nato has reacted cautiously, condemning north korea's involvement. but falling short of proposing direct counter measures and warning that the 2 way partnership between russia and north korea will have consequences beyond ukraine. you see more and more as north korea, iraq, china, and of course of action are working together. working together against your brain, farts at the same time a restaurant has to pay for this. and one of the things they are doing is delivering technology to north korea, which is now threatening the in the future. the maintenance of the us continental your advert. also, our partners in the, in the pacific defend, for example, and the republic, a free of. indeed, south korea is intensely worried about its northern neighbors move. the north army

is massive 1200000 soldiers and regularly provoke south korea with missile tests and further consultation. south koreans worried that the north will gain valuable combat experience in russia and possibly in ukraine itself. the north is also testing its military equipment against the western systems. south korean president, here on sir your said, his country could review the possibility of sending military aid to ukraine poor and get more weapons into the conflict. the wild card is the u. s. president elect donald trump has praised both north korea's kim john own and russia's vladimir putin. trump takes office on the 20th of january, a waiting game where everything is on the line for ukraine. and marina roland from the war studies department at kings college, london, she told me how much of an impact the presence of north korean soldiers have in this conflict to hello rent?

well, the problem is that i was seeing was the use of, of a potential use of meals, korean troops as the language barrier, and they need to train them in order for them to know how that contemporary battlefield works. i would suppose that the most sensible thing for the russians would be to use them in the rare as to free up russian troops, which could damage from the sand to the dumbass. that being said, i don't think that $12000.00 is a game changer in this conflict that may be, it will offer a small bottled feel advantage, but it's not going to dramatically change the situation. there are reports that the north korean leader kim jong on has called for exhilarating mass production of suicide. drones. what's your read on that? i mean, how do you see this move impacting the more in ukraine as well?

it is an interesting question, a, when the announcement came in on the test schemes. so kim announced or called for mass production of these drones, right? when the united states, south korea and japan started the 3 d axes, sized military exercise. and in the vicinity of the island of jesuits of south korean island and international waters. so it could be a message, not just to south korea, but also to the united states and generally serving as a deterrent. but of course, these drones are much cheaper than missiles and therefore they might be also shared with russia. and the russian media has already announced that most korean long range artillery systems have been cited in russia and already on the way maybe to

the battlefield even so that it's not excluded. that the russians will benefit from something that might be even cheaper than their own journey to drugs this, that was military analysts, marina barrel. the day continues online. you'll find this on x, also known as twitter, maybe one day blue sky as well, and youtube dw nearest you can follow me on social media and frank golf tv. and remember what ever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day, have a good weekend. everybody will see you here on monday, the

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