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the us state department has officially declared it is prepared to remove sanctions on iran, to resumeear deal. talks are under way in vienna to try to rescue the deal, first struck in 2015. former president donald trump pulled out of the deal in 2018. diplomats have said the aim is to reach an agreement within two months. dr assal rad is a senior research fellow at the national iranian american council. she says there is an impetus to want to come back to the deal. well, we already have a deal, right, so that's one thing to keep in mind is that, aside from the united states, every other party to the 2015 jcpoa are still a party to the deal, including iran. and so that's why you see these direct talks with everyone except the united states. but, of course, without us co—operation the deal has been very, very difficult to sustain. so there's reason to be hopeful knowing that on both the iranian side under the rouhani administration and now in the us under the biden administration there's an impetus to want to come back to the deal. yes. the state of iran's economy suggests that iran wou

the us state department plans to give around $150 million to the palestinians — restoring some of then. most of the funds will go to the un agency for palestinian refugees. the decision is part of a deliberate effort to repair us ties with the palestinians that all but collapsed under president trump. 0ur middle east correspondent, yolande knell reports. hanadi grew up on the streets in aida refugee camp. now, she's responsible for repairing them. but three years ago, herjob at the un refugee agency got much harder, when the trump administration slashed aid. she's relieved the us is reversing course. everyone used to get such great and generous support coming from the us, and when we heard about this cut, it was a real shock for us, because many, many of the basic service were cut. thousands took to the streets in gaza to protest in 2018, fearing an end for support for unrwa meant an end to support for them as refugees. their fate is one of the key issues in the palestinians' conflict with israel. 0riginally, unrwa was set up to take care of hundreds of thousands of palestinians displ

and now the events that have occurred here today — i'm joined now by barbara plett usher, our us state departmentnt who is following closely what is happening outside the us capitol. we heard a very emotional acting head of the capitol police, but take us through what happened at lunchtime today.— us through what happened at lunchtime toda . , ., ., lunchtime today. yes, a car rammed into the security _ lunchtime today. yes, a car rammed into the security checkpoint - lunchtime today. yes, a car rammed into the security checkpoint about i into the security checkpoint about 100 yards away from the entrance to the senate side of the capital building, ramming itself into the structure injuring two police officers, and that a man came out of the car wielding a knife. and lunged towards the police officers. at which point he was shot. taken to hospital and has been pronounced dead. the two officers got medical attention from one of them got medical attention outside on the scene. the other one was medevac to hospital. and one of them has passed away, he succumbed to his injuries. it's been a very cheb

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the us state department has said america is prepared to remove sanctions on iran, in order to resume ance with the 2015 iran nuclear deal. president trump pulled the us out of the agreement in 2018. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. if afghanistan is to find a way out of seemingly never—ending war, the next few weeks will be critically important. the biden administration is pressing the afghan government and the taliban to accept a transition plan based on a ceasefire and power sharing. it's a tough sell, given the taliban has intensified its military campaign in recent months. but what is the alternative? my guest is afghanistan's combative first vice president, amrullah saleh. is the afghan peace process running out of road? first, vice president amrullah saleh in kabul, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to be with you. it's a pleasure to have you on the show, mr vice president. i would like you first to tell me how you feel about the biden administration sending your government a very clear and blunt message. show leader

i have been speaking to barbara plett usher, our us state department correspondent, who has been monitoringutside the us capitol. she now gives us a sense of how the country has been reacting to the incident. over the past weeks, i think the city had begun to relax a bit more because since january sixth, there'd been a massive security increase around the capitol building, as you know. there had been some warnings about possible attacks, but nothing had happened. and now something has, so people are on edge again and nervous about what to expect. now, this is nothing like on the scale, of course, of what happened onjanuary 6th, which was a mob storming the capitol building with arms, hunting down congresspeople, attacking police officers. this seems to be a one—man attack. at this point, it appears that he acted alone. it's also not at all clear that he might be, you know, connected to some kind of political or other cause. the officers who spoke to us earlier said that they were not calling it a terrorist attack, and this man has not appeared on law enforcement radar before. he's not known

the us state department says america is prepared to remove sanctions against tehran that are inconsistentwo sides are holding indirect talks in vienna, as diplomats try to bring them back into compliance with the 2015 accord. the british prime minister says he's deeply concerned by further scenes of violence in northern ireland. crowds in a unionist area of belfast have set a hijacked bus on fire and attacked police with stones. the stormont assembly is set to be recalled tomorrow morning for an emergency debate following days of violence. king abdullah ofjordan has spoken for the first time about an alleged plot to destabilise the country, involving his half—brother prince hamza. in a statement, he said sedition had been nipped in the bud and the former crown prince was now under his "protection". prince hamza earlier denied being part of any conspiracy, though he criticised corruption and misrule injordan. police in los angeles say excessive speed was the primary cause of a car crash involving tiger woods in february. they say the golfer was travelling at speeds of up to 87 miles an hou

the us state department has said america is prepared to remove sanctions on iran, in order to resume ance with the 2015 iran nuclear deal. president trump pulled the us out of the agreement in 2018. now on bbc news — click. this week — need a new career? this is where the jobs are. the new smart city in the desert. and the robots that can build more robots. what could possibly go wrong? welcome to click. it was exactly one year ago that i stood on this beach, looked into that camera and said some pretty improbable—sounding things. first of all, click had been on airfor 20 years. secondly, the world was going into lockdown. and, thirdly, because of that, we didn't know whether we were going to be able to continue making the programme. and then, of course, the next week, wejust forgot to stop. and now, 12 months on, the vaccines are offering us a way out and that is thanks to science and technology. and also, i am still pretty much in one piece as a human being, and that is thanks in part to the person who i am so glad canjoin me on the beach today. hiya! oh, thank you! i have tried my

let's speak to barbara plett usher, our us state department correspondent, who's been monitoring eventsthe us capitol. once events from outside the us capitol. again the us c attack once again the us capitol under attack in a shocking situation for the country. attack in a shocking situation for the country-— the country. yes, it is. in fact i have to say — the country. yes, it is. in fact i have to say that _ the country. yes, it is. in fact i have to say that over - the country. yes, it is. in fact i have to say that over the - the country. yes, it is. in fact i have to say that over the past | have to say that over the past weeks, i think the city had begun to relax a bit more because since january the 6th there have been a massive security increase around the capitol building as you know. there had been some warnings about possible attacks but nothing had happened. and now something has swivel are on edge again and nervous about what to expect. now this is nothing like on the scale of course of what happened on january the 6th, which was a of what happened onjanuary the 6th, which w

founder julian assange to the us being blocked on human rights grounds back in january the us state department continues to push for his extradition and insists the whistleblowers human rights are being respected. human rights. and 29000 or songe was arrested in london where he spent 7 years taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy that's after he found himself wanted by the u.s. or thirty's following wiki leaks his publication of thousands of classified files exposing u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan he would face espionage charges and up to 175 years behind bars if extradited international human rights groups and world leaders have held him as a champion of press freedom and pushed for the charges against him to be dropped well the latest remarks on the astonished case from the state department come right after the release of its annual report on human rights the document singles out china iran venezuela turkey and russia accusing them of violating civil liberties but russia's foreign ministry has already said the document is quote imbued with double standards saying the state departme

virus genetic epidemiology so-called because he came under scrutiny because apparently he had us state department contracts with his firm and would hand funding contracts we were aware of yes well oh yes yes absolutely so we all declared any potential conflicts of interest before we went that that's an agreement that w.h.o. insisted on any expert group so we did that that was declared by peter desert as it was and as were other conflicts to you know declared by all of us and they were reviewed by w.h. and by that same themselves and felt to be a manageable 'd in the context of the investigation and what did you feel when reportedly you weren't given some of the data you wanted i mean have you got this rule patient into 174 covert patients from december 21000 the you were requesting. that's right said look there are a number of things we are such chinese on our side to do before we got there including going back looking through the last couple of months before december trying to identify potential cases that they might have missed and we insisted on that work being done and they did it and they pr

the us state department says america is prepared to remove sanctions against tehran that are inconsistent diplomats try to bring them back into compliance with the 2015 accord. the british prime minister says he's deeply concerned by further scenes of violence in northern ireland. crowds in a unionist area of belfast have set a hijacked bus on fire and attacked police with stones. the stormont assembly is set to be recalled tomorrow morning for an emergency debate following days of violence. stay with us on bbc news, still to come... evidence is submitted to the united nations to support accusations of extrajudicial killings and torture by myanmar�*s military since it took power in february. ..years of hatred and rage as they jump upon the statue... this funeral became a massive demonstration of black power, the power to influence. today is about the promise of a bright future, a day when we hope a line can be drawn under the bloody past. i think that picasso's i works were beautiful, they were intelligent and it's a sad loss to everybody who loves art. . this is bbc news. to the situatio

i'm joined now by barbara plett usher, our us state department correspondent who is following closelyappening outside the us capitol(. this car came this carcame up this car came up to the security entrance just outside the senate building and rammed into the barrier, the police barrier. the physical structure. and he hit two police officers and then according to the briefing we have just heard he got out of the car wielding a knife and started to aggressively run towards the police. at which point they shot him and he was taken to hospital and he has been pronounced dead. the other two officers receive medical care can we saw some pictures of one of them apparently being treated at the site by a paramedics. the other one was and that he backed —— medevac by helicopter. i would've the police officers succumbed to his injuries, one of the police officers has died. currently the suspect is not note the capitol police or to the metropolitan police. no indication of his motivation. we were told that it was not being viewed as an act of terrorism at this point. and that there was no indica

the us state apartment coming in, issuing a you are interested in, which is that the us is prepared to remove sanctions on iran to resume compliance with the iran nuclear deal —— us state departmentlieve we should be withdrawing sections — believe we should be withdrawing sections without getting any concrete concessions from iran —— look, _ concrete concessions from iran —— look. i_ concrete concessions from iran —— look. i do — concrete concessions from iran —— look. i do not _ concrete concessions from iran —— look, i do not think we should be full to— look, i do not think we should be full to yesterday's conversation was a good _ full to yesterday's conversation was a good discussion, it i think it is initial. — a good discussion, it i think it is initial. but— a good discussion, it i think it is initial, but there would be workgroups created to move to try and find _ workgroups created to move to try and find a — workgroups created to move to try and find a resolution. that must include — and find a resolution. that must include the _ and find a resolution. that must include the release of american hostages — include the release of american hostages who have been injail, inc

prime minister borisjohnson offered his "unwavering support" to ukraine's president, and the us state department— as many as 25,000 troops — that have appeared along russia's border with ukraine. that's in addition to the 3,000 russian military agents already embedded in separatist—held donetsk and luhansk regions according to the ukrainian army. the kremlin insists that the military presence poses no threat to ukraine and has warned nato against sending any assistance to the country. ambassador kurt volker previously served as the us special envoy to ukraine. he joins us from washington. talk to me about the timing of this build—up of troops on the border. evenif build—up of troops on the border. even if they are not planning some kind of offensive operation they do seem to be sending a signal of some sort don't they?— sort don't they? absolutely it is not the sort don't they? absolutely it is rrot the first _ sort don't they? absolutely it is not the first time _ sort don't they? absolutely it is not the first time they - sort don't they? absolutely it is not the first time they have - sort do

state department. who knows at this point, we don't have all this information yet. they're still collecting and gathering and doing the damage assessment whether they were able to use department again as a jumping-off point to get into other systems. what we do know is they were able to steal thousands of emails, that this likely was a separate hacking attempt from solarwinds which suggests another entry point that the russians had. so as the biden administration continues to weigh its options in responding to the cyberattacks and cyber espionage campaigns of the russians, they really have to consider as well how to strengthen our own defenses against these attacks. >> so the state department released a statement but didn't give much information. they didn't elaborate as to what they actually were able to access on these hacks. what do we know about what they accessed? what degree of classified documents do we know were they able to access? >> so right now it does not look like they were able to access the classified network. when you're at the state department, you have to toggle between the classified network and unclassified network. it's unlikely that people wo

>> yes. >> during that, would you provide training to your department's use of force policy? >> yes. and state law. have you reviewed generally the use of force policies across the policies in your department? >> i'm the aid to the inspector general which is oversight entity that is in the los angeles police department i'm the only sworn officer that works for that unit. during my time there i was able to travel nationwide and go to a number of different police agencies to basically compare their use of force policies as well as training with the los angeles police department. >> your policies in the department were fairly consistent with the policies and standards nationwide. is there a reason why there is a reasonableness of the police officer that is generally accepted? >> approximately how many los angeles police department officers did you provide training to in that time period? >> approximately 3,000. >> can you explain to the jury the types of training that you provided specifically? >> the main focus was de-escalation. we talked about basic patrol tactics as well as firearms manipulat

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religion for ethics and public engagement at luther college and i would also from the us to - - was state department washington the author of two books on islam a phobia. the spirit of islam and presumed guilty on - - presumed guilty. please join me in welcoming our guests. >> thank you also to rachel sadly cannot be here this evening i am delighted to be here virtually at north shire box. also looking forward to being here with todd. also would like to think everybody was taken the time to join us this evening. thank you. >> thank you for having me as well and i look forward to the conversation and a brand-new book that i think is groundbreaking to bring together two important topics that are often not linked together in public and political discourse in the united states and those conversations of why that is aside from the fact that they have not read the book yet. [laughter] i'm happy to be in this position to talk about the book and along those lines, i know there are a lot of media pundits and politicians s do not readily see a connection between white nationalist but that you set out to write

all good liz: joining us now former state department official christian white and, today kicks off theo days of the congressional hearing with u.s. intelligence chief about the new threats of national security. in this order china, russia and iran. china, newsweek says china was simulating an attack on a u.s. naval carrier when it sent a record 25 warplanes into taiwan airspace, your take on this. >> it's an effort to intimidate taiwan into testified in a administration, president trump grew very disillusioneded with china and have a significant show of force at times and elements of a administration were pro-taiwan, this is china basically seeing what they can get away with and it's very clear that they are a peak threat to the united states. liz: china trying to get away with stuff in taiwan. in the philippines that is happening and christopher races the fbi is opening a newop investigation into china every ten hours. let's move on to moscow massive troop buildup on ukraine borders, and our hearing russia is launching live fire drills and the boxy three missiles and a pipe speaker, t

elizabeth: joining us now former state department official christian whiton.congressional hearings with u.s. intelligence chiefs about new threats against u.s. national security, in order, russia, china, iran. first up, china was simulating an attack on u.s. naval carrier when it sent record 25 warplanes into taiwan's airspace. your take on this? >> this is an effort to intimidate taiwan and to test the biden administration. president trump eventually grew very disillusioned with china and had a significant show of force at times and elements of administration were very pro-taiwan. so you know, this is china basically seeing what they can get away with and it is very clear they are the sort of peak threat to the united states. elizabeth: yeah. china trying to get away with stuff in taiwan. teddy roosevelt area strike group is in the philippines. there is that. that is happening. fbi director christopher wray is opening a new investigation into china every 10 hours. let's move on to moscow, russia, massive troop buildup on ukraine's borders. russia is launching

> yes. >> during that annual training, would you provide training to your department's use of force policy? >> yes, and the state law. >> and the state law. and have you reviewed, generally, use of force policies across the nation and compared those with the use of force policies in your department? >> yes. so my current position, i am the aide to the inspector general which is oversight entity within the los angeles police department, independent of the department itself. i'm the only sworn officer that works for that unit. there's 28 overall employees. during that time, during my time there, i was able to travel nationwide and go to a number of different police agencies to basically compare their use of force policies as well as the training with los angeles police department. >> and are your policies in the los angeles police department fairly consistent with the policies and standards nationwide? >> yes, sir. >> is there sort of a nationwide sort of acceptable reasonableness of a police officer that's generally accepted in your field? >> objection, leading. >> overruled. >> yes. getting back to your days as

california is following the federal recommendation and pausing the use of the johnson and johnson vaccine. the state's health department sent us a statement that reads in part, quote, additionally, the state will convene the western states scientific safety review workgroup to review the information provided by the federal government on this issue as the federal government has said, we do not expect a significant impact to our vaccine allocations. the state says less than 4% of its vaccine allocation. this week is the johnson and johnson vaccine. and on to the south in our santa clara county has announced a huge boost in its vaccine supply. kron four's. rob fladeboe has more on that now live for us from san jose. rob. >> that's right. sanaz another 300,000 doses. that's right. 300,000 doses coming from the federal government. another 60,000 from the state of california next week. officials here at this afternoon calling this a game changer. let's take a look at some video. and i can tell you that the significance of this, among other things is that this is going to mean that the county fully utilize capacity in all of

during that annual training would you provide training as to your department's use of force policy yet since state law and state law. have you reviewed generally use of force policies and compare across the nation compared with the use of force policies in your department yes so my current position on. the 8 to the inspector general which is an oversight entity that is within the law says police department independent of the department itself i'm the only sworn officer that works for the. that unit there's 28 overall employees during that time during my time there i was able to travel nationwide and go to a number of different police agencies to basically compare their use of force policies as well as the training with. police department. or your policies in the los angeles police department fairly consistent with the policies and standards nationwide he has or is there sort of a nationwide sort of acceptable reasonableness of a police officer that's generally accepted in your field. or will. yes. getting back to your duties as a trainer for defensive tactics. instruction how approximately how man

here's some of the latest numbers coming to us from the state department of health as of this week. we have 2.4 million doses available to give out next week, though, that drops to just 2 million. and then they're projecting that could be less than 2 million the week after that, the drop right now is being attributed to fewer doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine being available. we'll see if they can't correct that and get these numbers turned back around and heading in the right direction. >> meantime, what spraying the most in the u.s. now is the uk variant of coronavirus to really contagious one. now, luckily, we are getting vaccinated. so that's going to mitigated a bit. but this is believed to be 70% more contagious and 64% deadlier than previous strains and that is the dominant strain now that's floating around the u.s.. let's take a look at the numbers that we have. there are 5 states that account for nearly half of all the new infections right now across the nation and they are new york, pennsylvania, new jersey. florida, and michigan. they account for about 200,000 case

rhetoric this can be i personally but the fact that language like this is used and is not refuted you know nobody in the state department dressed him down for using terms like that for example on the question of the 10 diplomats being expelled i read this morning 8 of them are being expelled specifically over russia's reincorporation of crimea. as you know this is not the. yes somebody other sanctions are as a result of the russians alleged. interference in the presidential election last year and you know again you cannot build up in the public mind of the public as subconscious you know such a visceral suspicion and hysteria and hatred without it having a very real political consequence incident i read today on tasks that a poll was conducted in russia were 54 percent of russian citizens believe that the in american election last year was not fair so you know 2 can play this game and do it and we can hold up to the world. you know there's this little democracy as the u.s. house has been referred to recently you know that i would imagine you know probably a comfortable or. similar amount americans don't believe last ele

we would also contend that you can use the state department to set that up so you don't flag it for the actual company. >> especially since there are certain countries where a lot of this is done, you would almost have an easy footprint already in place, so you would already have that system set up, especially as many years as the fda should have been able to do this. in the article, one thing that really stood out was they said that because of this backlog in inspections, there could be surges of medicines. i know they explicitly talked about a drug, and i apologize, i'm trying to find it, a cancer treatment drug. what did you find along those lines? >> so for our overseas inspections, we haven't looked specifically at what shortages they cause. if they can't preapprove some of the drugs, that's what the "new york times" article was talking about. or manufacturers have critical drugs such as the cancer-related chemotherapy drugs, they're not going to be able to bring them to market in a timely manner. so shortages are a concern we will continue to keep our eyes on. >> mr. chairman, com

. >> cnn's kylie atwood joins us from the state department, interesting perspective that we're slappinghment but we hope in the long run something better comes of it. >> reporter: that's right, the administration essentially is making the argument that their response today is proportional in response to what russia had done, the malign actions that they had carried out that undermined the united states and americans and america's allies. so i want to kind of work through the tremendous costs that have been inflicted on russia by the biden administration today. first of all they sanctioned individuals and the government, and intelligence agencies that were involved in that solar winds attack on u.s. government agencies and private companies, they also went after individuals who were involved in the 2020 presidential interference efforts. the other thing that they did was expel ten russian diplomats. those are folks that essentially are saying -- are spies of russia. so they are kicking them out. they have to leave in 30 days and then the third thing is that with an executive order, and w

us now. i understand the state department has now issued a "do not travel" warning for more than 100 countries. what do we know about that? >> reporter: norah, that's up from roughly 30 countries just a week ago. now, more than 80% of the world's countries. and it includes india, which today set a new global one-day record for cases. the healthcare system there is overwhelmed. they're experiencing a shortage of both hospital beds and oxygen. norah.onne >> o'donnell: global travel still risky. all right, janet shamlian, thank you. and we want to take you now to minnesota for an eye-opening interview with lisa christensen, one ofhe altnate jors from rek chauvin's murder trial. cbs jamie yuccas asked herorr: e decided any er d? >> i felt he was guilty. >> reporter: why did you think he was guilty? >> i just felt like the prosecution made a really good, strong argument. >> martin tobin. >> dr. tobin was the one that really did it for me. he explained everything, i understood it, down to the moment where he said "this is the moment he lost his life." that got to me. >> that's the moment the life go

state department. secretary of state antony blinken tells us he will head next week to ukraine, which has been shaken byacing buildup of russian troops on its border. we asked blinken about it in a wide-ranging "60 minutes" interview. president putin has amassed a very large force at the border with ukraine, more than 100,000 troops. what is putin up to? >> huh, you're right. there are more forces massed on the border with ukraine than at any time since 2014, when russia actually invaded. i can't tell you that we know mr. putin's intentions. there are any number of things that he could do, or choose not to do. what we have seen in the last few days is apparently a decision to pull back some of those forces, and we've seen some of them, in fact, start to pull back. >> o'donnell: well, our interview with secretary of state antony blinken will air this sunday on "60 minutes." all right, tonight, there's lots of cleaning up to do in oklahoma and arkansas after a round ofree some neighborhoods were completely swamped by about six inches of rain, with flooded homes and washed-out roads. norman, oklahoma was b

. >> would you provided training as to your department's use of force policies. yes in the state law. and have you reviewed generally, the use of force policies across the nation with the use of force policies in your department. >> yes. so my current position, i am able to then the oversight inspector general the entity within the los angeles police department independent of the department itself. mls one officer that works for that unit. there's 28 overall employees and during that time, during my time there, i was able to travel nationwide and go through a number of different police agencies to basically compare their use of force policies as well as the training with los angeles police department. >> are your policies and los angeles police department fairly consistent with the policies and standards nationwide. >> yes. >> is a short of a nationwide reasonable event of a police officer generally accepted in your field. >> yes. >> getting back to your trainer for defensive tactics and instruction, approximate how any los angeles police officers did you provided training and th

cease this a bio weapons research accident is likely the source of covid-19 will join us in a moment. state departmentsorting live on the latest. hi. >> john: rich. >> good afternoon, martha. a year into the global pandemic, these scientists say there still has not been a credible investigation and study into how it all began. china's foreign ministry is castigating this group of scientists, accusing them of deception and calling out one of the organizers by name. former u.s. national security council official jamie metzel. >> it's really unfortunate rather than addressing the serious concerns raised in our open letter, the chinese foreign ministry has decided to attack our group of experts a year later. >> last week, the w.h.o. released a report from chinese government investigation that found the virus had likely jumped from bats to another animal and humans. it also claimed the theory that the virus leaked from the wuhan instituted of virology unlikely. even the w.h.o.'s director general says the lab hypothesis needs more study. the scientists say that they want reforms at the world health organizat

it's all been a part of the larger us government response edit small compared to what the state department and usaid have done. with vaccines the us government will provide eventually and we are making sure we take care of the american population we ask for input to provide that input to the department of defense and the government for decisions where vaccines might go first. >> to add on that with the state of vaccinations at home and in a much better place than it has been the plans are underway how the us government can help overseas the state department colleagues at the forefront of those efforts. we will see the results of those in the coming months. >> the prior administration chose to close the attachÉ offices in african countries performing overall in representing the us military and removing them with the importance we put on the relationship. as you review the decisions of the administration to me about the status of the attachÉ offices. >> congresswoman i would be proud glad to i am sure general townsend would like to add on this is fundamental the way the department of defense

cnn's kylie atwood joins us live from the state department. foreign minister say exactly? >> reporter: he said that the former top commander in iran souleymane in a he had actively worked to sabotage the iran nuclear deal by working with russia to do so. he also said that he had done things in syria that were not in iran's interest. he makes it very clear, you know. this is -- kassam souleymane was killed by the united states during the trump administration but what the foreign minister makes clear about iran is that even though that commander is gone the iranian military is the supreme force when it comes to iran. he said, quote, the islamic republic is the military field. that's what rules. demonstrating that no matter what he does diplomatly he has to give up a lot on his diplomatic efforts just so that the military can do what they want to do. we asked about this to the state department spokesperson ned price during the briefing because it's significant giving the u.s. and other countries that are trying to re-enter to salvage the iran nuc

ceo of empowerment and inclusion capital is with us along with former state department spokesperson and and a lot of responses from both sides of the aisle, but i have never seen someone so vilified on the basis of race the end senator tim scott was last night. what does that say about the left and the tolerance of competing ideas? >> well, first off, thanks for having me on. i would agree. i thought both speeches last night sent a signal to the world that america's politics, the best of our politics when we are debating ideas and putting forward ideas is a good thing. i thought that president biden laid out an economic plan and a plan to defeat china. i thought that senator scott laid out a very personal story, very moving story and one that i think you could organize arounda has become a place where awful things are said and often times are repeated. it is unfortunate that we have all been victims by or targets of it. often times things we didn't do, didn't say a word on our walls but we deal with it. senator scott is a grown-up. he is an adult. and it is unfortunate that he had to de

review of use of force with the los angeles police department in your investigation of uses of force? >> correct. >> you ultimately submitted your report to the stateof minnesota, january 31 of this year? >> yes, correct. >> since you have submitted your report, have you received any additional information, investigative or otherwise about this case? >> no. >> any training materials that came to us subsequent to january 31, the investigative information received, he is not had opportunity to review? >> correct. >> since submitting your report, it's fair to say you have several conversations prosecutors, correct? >> correct. >> i believe you met with prosecutors or conversed with prosecutors february 1 of this year, march 3 of this year, march 11 of this year and april 3 of this year, would you dispute me if i told you those were the dates? >> i have to look at my calendar but i believe that's correct. [silence] [silence] in addition, you have an additional meeting with prosecutors after court last night? in addition to the dates of referenced, you had an additional trial of preparation yesterday with prosecutors? >> no, we had a conversation. >> yo