once part of the soviet union, with a shared border with russia, but nowadays is a staunch member of nato. and its changing society, when it was forced to move out of moscow i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear... president trump used to say he'd sort out the war in ukraine within 2a hours of coming into office. that was never going to happen, of course, but getting a peace deal russia will keep all or most of the territory it's captured, and ukraine won't be allowed tojoin nato for a long time, that'd be victory of a kind for president putin, he was lucky to survive an attempted coup but has the war now turned decisively in putin's favour? here in riga, still, he's in power. he doesn't have any plausible opposition. it seems like russian forces so, like, he has some territorial gains. whether it means that his winning now allows him to stay in power because, as we have seen working inside the country, russia is an amazing place to make sure that putin doesn'tjust do the same thing again in the future. in ten years. i can't even imagine what sort of pressure they could try putting on h

so that's normal nato. we're basically are going into a regional ideas on age or we have to stay around germany sofa within the he is. so the dole i going to do so i'm she has been greater than any other sanctions. it is a sign that they don't understand what extra hopes of all things to begin. it's plus, there's no real job. i'll send over a new dean towards the end of this. you know, a bonus is oh or you great and it's got a new and lots of policies been, is awesome language barrier. i some culture, you know, mistreating. it'd be about this a to so point a j existing shows that i have to russia and you know, they have to, they have neighbors, the friends, that brothers an extra knob like they, they were born, they get not just this unacceptable. i don't think she's so far addressed that i went to the, you know, me, is a landscape and body and talk about what about what that's the problem is, you know, pepe. you're a frequent visitor to moscow. um and you know, sanctions is always 112 on the tool box for t

the nato secretary general, that that's thing. and it's, it's beyond the, as you said, it's beyond a joke and they are inflicted on themselves. and they want to keep going with this war, even if they can not do it from the point of view of the industrial complex and us as a complete a different proposition because they're making a lot of money out of it. so this good from their point of view and the fact that the americans are not direct me, both american troops and my lives all direct and vote is perfect, this slab, stealing slobs and until the last ukraine. so there are a lot of hidden interest to one, throw this up, plencik and thread. so of course the one that the war to, to go on trump is he sees the war purely on a cost benefit basis. no, i don't want to pay for it. no, i have better things to do and better things to do is that for with china and the war that he's going to launch against many of the bricks countries. in fact, theories everywhere is going to be a battery. so now i mean all over the place, this is what his thi

they're still nato troops, right. whatever have they or where it, however, i would say i've seen one positive, even optimistic, maybe data points. and that is general kellogg mentioning as you briefly alluded to, the idea that there should be elections in ukraine. right? because uh, currently zelinski, even according to the quote and elections as they have happened in ukraine since 2014, despite more than 20 p o o essentially all non my gone party is have been banned in the country, right? all parties representing east, you gray, know all the left as parties in the country. so i don't consider any elections in ukraine legitimate. but that being said, boston has made clear that zalinski has passed his presidential expiration date. he's only continuing under presidential power is due to repeated declarations of, of, uh, emergency connected with the conflict. and so therefore that he is not a leader. he can't legally sign anything. right. he, even if they agreed right at a to sit down and talk and agreed to a deal that r

nato. ..nato ally, yeah.t would make him sure that the alliance like, to redraw the borders in europe. ..carry out more adventures. even though if putin does not try to... other leaders could look at him and realise that and he gained what he wanted. and they could try doing the same. do you think...? do you think you're safe? thinking about that all the time... they can label anyone as an undesirable organisation. they can even kill anyone. their goal was not to actually eliminate all the adversaries, and as you mentioned, once you're afraid, once you're too paranoid, it paralyses you. from its bureau here in riga, the bbc has been contacting people inside russia and patiently building up a picture of the effect wars tend to have a brutalising effect on the societies that launched them. and violent criminals have been let out of jail and put into uniform. and in january 2020, and neighbours heard screams. they called the police. they called the police again and again, the girl was already murdered by her ex—

the lead is meet alongside nato boss of elk river and u. k. p. m. as a gustavo, all of whom seek to prolong the proxy war on russia through grain. ironic then that it's atheist of the day since allies you as president roosevelt. you gave him winston churchill and russians. joseph stalin, met to forward your peaceful world of the old confidence in crimea at the end of world war 2. joining me now from lake jackson, texas is the executive director of the run pool institute for peace and prosperity . daniel mcadams, he goes there on full liberty reported x u. s. presidential candidate run, pull, who we learned must call for the position to in the new trump administration. daniel, thanks so much for coming on. i hope to run pool as well in the institution as well . i know he didn't take up the invitation for milan musk i noticed to join the department of government efficiency. i don't know whether you have the details on that. why didn't want to do it. it probably didn't refuse it. actually there was he didn't, the citizen didn't want a formal title. yea

and if you think of the european union, then you go to nato. it is largely the same group of countries. until i came along, we were paying almost 100% of nato, only to get bad trade deals. and now it has been evened out. very unfair. it was evened out pretty good. they paid $444 billion and he said that recently, one of the most amazing things i have ever seen, what president trump was able to do with these countries of europe, which he was in charge of but could not get them to pay. i said if you do not pay we will not protect you but very unfair because we are in it for $300 million plus and they are in it probably for $100 billion. it's a $200 billion difference and they need it more than we do. we have an ocean in between, they don't. and so they will have to step it up a little bit. reporter: with efforts to reduce the federal workforce, whether it is offering what we call the buyout package or other efforts do you have any concerns there will be employees who might take that up? there are many different ways the agencies protect the publi

so the nato issue rises even higher in terms of priority.hey believe that an invitation, some kind of more concrete step when it comes to nato, is really the only guarantee against future russian aggression. and zelenskyy, continuing his sort of flattery of donald trump, has made it clear that he believes the u.s. holds the key to that. so that is really significant. we see nato officials informally meeting today, so ukraine will be looking for any tea leaves that it can read out of that. keep an eye on that. and claire, thanks very much now, one of greece's top tourist spots is issuing warnings after experiencing more than 200 small earthquakes. >> officials say people should avoid large indoor gatherings on the volcanic island of santorini. millions of tourists visit the island each year. so far, there's been no damage, but officials are telling people to stay away from ports, including one that's popular with cruise ships. >> santorini is also closing schools on monday. the island hasn't been hit by large earthquakes since 1956. >> ahead

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was bad, basically created, not just a, a nato colony, a with advanced weapon systems on russia's border, but also one of the most well funded propaganda apparatus is on the planet. now if you look at homogeneity, for example, a ukrainian media outlet that just sprouted up on the eve of the my done crew, they're begging for money. they're, they're pan handling on the front page of their websites because their funding is dried up. and this actually includes funding to neo nazi tied activists from c 14 who are complaining see 14 being a neo nazi group in ukraine that has been sponsored by state interest, as is also seeing it's funding dry up. so for all the liberals who freaked out over e landmarks sig, heil, they enthusiast weekly supported the whole project ukraine, including the state sponsored neo nazis. and now they're howling about usa id cutting these organizations off. this seems to me to be a huge scandal that of course western media is sleeping under the rug. yeah. and we await that audit. but to be clear, you are in a death list of one of those outlets, presumably funded by one

get in negotiations going was ukraine and the west have to recognize that ukraine will never join nato and ukraine will be a genuinely neutral state. furthermore, ukraine and the west have to accept the fact that russia has next these 40 boss plus crimea those or absolutely essential for me to start negotiations. i find it impossible to imagine how the west and ukraine are both going to agree to those conditions. and if they don't agree to those conditions, hooton's gonna continue to push, push forward on the battlefield. listening to you, john, are you saying that you expect donald trump to fail in achieving a piece of chord between ukraine and russia? yes, i don't think you're going to get a piece of court. i think what you're going to get is a frozen conflict. in other words, i think the russians are eventually going to reached a point on the battlefield, where it's clear they are victorious. and the conflict will stop much the way the korean war ended in 1953. you'll get some form of armistice. but i think it is. and i'm choosing my words carefully here in light of your question. i

he so has long stood up against him, said to join nato. he said there is in tell that foreign forces had been trying to foment a revolution in slovakia, ukrainian man was recently detained by slovak authorities, and allegations that he planned to conduct the food at top. so baki is formed, ministry has some under the training ambassador to express condemnation of attempts to meddle in the country the ministry of foreign affairs, some of the basset, or of ukraine. to slovakia. it conveyed a sharp protest against the statements from the ukrainian side and considers it to be interference and the internal affairs of the slovak republic. and one other point of contention between the 2 countries has been the issue of gas plumber zalinski recently criticized to feed. so accusing him of referring russia to the united states and its allies when it comes to supplies of fuel. at the end of last year, the contract for the trends of russian gas through ukraine expired and to have refused to renew it feed. so subsequently threatened ukraine with cutting

until i came along, we were paying almost 100% of nato only to get bad trade deals. now it has been evened out. it was evened out pretty good. they paid $440 billion if you look at the secretary-general's report. he said that. he said one of the most amazing things i've seen is what president trump was able to do with these european countries of which she was in charge of but could not get them to pay. i said you have to pay and if you don't pay, we will not protect you. very unfair with ukraine because we are in for $300 billion plus and they are in for probably $100 billion. they needed more than we do. we have an ocean in between and they don't. they will have to step it up a little bit. >> efforts to reduce the federal workforce, whether it is offering buyouts, do you have any concerns that there will be employees that might take that up? there are many different ways agencies -- food inspection, water safety. >> everybody is replaceable. we will get everybody to replace them if it turns out to be more than thought. it could be a lot, it could be a little but we

expansion of nato, and america's role in that was the reason why russia had to invade ukraine.. joining me now is tom nichols, staff writer for the atlantic, author of the atlantic daily newsletter. he's the author of several books, including our own worst enemy, the assault from within on modern democracy. and i know that he got exactly as much sleep as i did because we were talking late last night. tom, thanks for being here. the there were some skepticism on the part of some republicans in in the testimony. i guess i'm curious. does it matter? did the testimony help or hurt her, or does it not matter? or do you think there are enough republicans who will say, you got weird views on, on in particular on, on russia and that you're not capable of doing this job. >> you know. >> i hate to predict it looks like this nomination is in trouble when you've got senior republicans saying, you know, i have a real problem. i have real heartburn here. it could also be that the committee will just decide not to report out a recommendation. but interestingly enough, gabbard, more than all o

this has to do with the expansion of nato in the 1st place. so, i mean, is he just gonna, is trump, can i get incredibly angry with the people telling him the wrong information, making him look stupid? you've kind of said rubio may go early because trump is going to flip. uh, when he realizes all this information is, is rubbish. and as i understand that he's d, classifying papers, the presumably will show all sorts of corruption. and he's very aware of, uh, ukraine, not so much as a proxy warrant, frustrated because of the ties to the corruption of the binding crime family. yes. and that's a great angle. it's very important. here's how you can stop is doing an audit. and i think they're leaning towards this, do an audit of the spending on, on ukraine, of the $200000000000.00. you know, and you have a, you know, the government oversight a chairman in the senate uh by the name of senator rand paul's, who could certainly do some oversight on some of that money out of this stuff. and when you audited americans, we'll see where the money went, and

clue wasn't it's not so much nato. treated as a joke. but then a few days ago, he had a very angry conversation with the danish prime minister. i happened to be in copenhagen the next day, and i witnessed the ripple effect of the of the conversation. and people were just genuinely confused by it. you know, already the united states can do whatever it wants in greenland. there's no restraint on american defense activity in greenland, and it seems like trump just wants it because he wants the map of the us to look bigger. and that's a that's something we haven't had in foreign politics, you know, in foreign politics, you know, in a long time. 60% of women experience side leaks with bladder protection underwear. try always discreet! it's rapiddry core absorbs up to 25% faster than depend and fits up to 95% of body shapes. try always discreet! designed to protect. must a bigger hug than. >> that and best picture of the year. it's one of the great year. it's one of the great american movies of the the average dog only lives

it doesn't matter if you're a free—trade agreement partner. a nato or other mutual security treaty partnering, particularly for the european union. michael smart, speaking to me a little earlier. here, the prime minister has been holding talks will be attending. to impose tariffs on europe. and in the discussions i've had with donald trump, that's what we have centred on in those strong trading relations, so it's very early days. looking at what the trump administration tariffs could mean for the uk. to navigate, as it tries to forge closer ties to the eu but also maintain a close relationship with the united states. of putting tariffs on the eu, the pressure to pick and already, opposition parties here are trying to nudge the government into one direction or the other. are realistic propositions. he's also said today that the matter of brexit it alone, or, in this global tit—for—tat, does it end up helen catt there. for comments he made within hours of the disaster. mr trump suggested — without evidence — diverse aviation workforce. initiatives in safety roles. here's some of what he said

but they've had a very tense phone call since then so the idea of nato countries squabbling amongst themselvesably to xi jinping taking what they want. we have a live page up and on the bbc news website running on the bbc news website with the latest on the tariffs after those comments from president trump ahead of president trump and ahead of that meeting. a warning to panama over what he called chinese influence and control of the panama canal. over the waterway — a crucial route for trade, that acts as a short cut between the atlantic and pacific oceans. the us secretary of state demanded �*immediate changes' real threat from the us. the world cup in 2023. if found guilty, he could receive a jail sentence of up to two—and—a—half years. the spanish team lifts the 2023 world cup after beating but victory was soon overshadowed. but when it came to striker jenni hermoso, after this hug, he said the kiss was consensual, she said it was not. having been forced out of the federation by the ensuing backlash, mr rubiales now faces for spanish women's football. when there was a dictatorship and littl

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canada's contribution to nato was bandied around. on his inauguration day.king it very difficult is that we don't have strong federal leadership. governor of the bank of england. as was just noted on the programme. and so those two things are making this very difficult. although i will say that canada's premiers the united states? i mean, that hasn't been confirmed yet. no, we do have leverage. we're best friends in normal times, this is very unusual for us to find ourselves on the other end of a president so oil of course, energy is a big export. because this isn'tjust regional, it's not it could go global. what about the eu and what about the uk? well, i would say that if this is the way president trump is treating his friends, then everyone should be worried and it's notjust an economic relationship. personal connections. and i think the world is watching because it's such a surprise that that the us would be treating what does that say about people that maybe they're less friendly with? or, certainly, their enemies? us trading partners — his secretary of

to nato allies. they believe in the world economic forum's stakeholder capitalism is a solution to promoting better human global human rights. i have a picture of a corporate jet. they mostly in corporate jets never seen one before larry. i gave an example of a couple here larry. think who's ceo blackrock. he was formerly at first boston. he serves at the museum of modern art is a trustee that is on the board of directors for the world economic forum in davos. he's on international business council. the business is director. he's a council on the council of foreign relations. he's a trustee at new york university. he grew up in los angeles. his family were, i think his dad, older a store of some sort, but they weren't incredibly. but he you know, he did let's see. he university went to ucla, an mba, then got hired for first boston. his net worth now and he just got added to by forbes this is a billion and he gets 36 billion from blackrock and he 400 and some million dollars in shares from their he do

for example, you blamed nato for russia's 2022 invasion of the ukraine. you rejected the conclusion that assad used chemical weapons in syria despite it being the unanimous assessment of the then-trumpet ministration's dod, state department and ic as well as the assessment of our european allies. instead you blamed the united states for supporting terrorist groups in syria. now i don't know if your intent in making those statements was to defend those dictators. or if you were simply unaware of the intelligence and how your statements would be perceived. in either case, it raises at least for the senator serious questions about your judgment. it also leads me to question whether you can develop the trust necessary to give our allies confidence that they can share their most sensitive intelligence with us. make no mistake about it, if they stop sharing that intelligence, the united states will be less safe. we've seen this as recently as this past year where because of those strong intelligence sharing between the united states and austria, countless lives

. >> this war and suffering could have easily been avoided if biden administration slash nato had simplythat yes or no? >> i believe. >> you're reading. >> my tweet, senator. >> yes is the answer. >> i believe you're reading my tweet, which is yes, unless you say your twitter, your twitter account was hacked. joining us now, tom nichols, professor emeritus of the u.s. naval war college and staff writer at the atlantic. you made a comment to me, tom, a couple of weeks ago, maybe about pete hegseth and, you know, worrying about some of his retrograde views about women. and your point was that we shouldn't even be at the point in the conversation where we're talking about his views about women because he's so wholly unqualified for the job. tulsi gabbard is the opposite of qualified. she may be less qualified for this job than pete hegseth was to run the defense department. >> yeah, that's a that's a. >> pretty neck and neck competition there among the. >> various nominees that are up right now about who's least. qualified for their jobs. >> i still think. >> hegseth wins simply. because of

assad head of syria, taking trips, paid for by sketchy groups or echoing putin's comments somehow nato started the war in ukraine. that is not the judgment of somebody that would run 18 intelligence agencies. >> we will watch to see those republican senators. i want to ask you as well about what's happening at the fbi and the justice department. president trump campaigned on this promise is restructure the government. seems like he is implementing that this week. between the fbi and justice department, we have seen at least 20 terminations. some are calling this a purge. but is it overstating it if we are seeing 20 people lose their jobs? >> well, if you were suddenly taking out the most experienced folks at justice or the fbi, how does that make a stronger -- and what he is saying is every fbi agent that somehow touched the january 6th investigation, that was a comprehensive investigation, i have been told there were almost half of all the fbi agents at least had some involvement. remember this was a case that was taken up against these rioters, all across the country. if you are sudd

you sent your men and women to die in afghanistan for us as a member of nato.lf of myself as an american, i want to thank you. you do not deserve this. you are our ally. you are our friend. you do not deserve this. and i just want people in canada to understand that this is not how real americans feel about you. we are grateful to you. you are our ally and we thank you. >> and to pick up on that point, congressman, that julie just made about the relationship, the special relationship between canada and america. i saw earlier at the raptors game, canadians booing the american national anthem, which is something that is just unheard of, something you would not have imagined happening throughout all of the years, that this would now has gotten to this point because of donald trump launching this trade war against our ally. >> yeah. you know, julie, thank you. you know, i deployed ten days after nine over 11. and, you know, i also served with canadians and our security agencies. i don't think people know how intertwined our security apparatus is with the canadians.

he supports alliances, he likes nato, he is for more defense spending, he doesn't like america firstonism. on the cabinet choices on that side, because he cares so much about foreign policy and domestic policy, he wouldn't give an inch. he wouldn't tell us how he was voting. >> john: he wouldn't -- even on robert f. kennedy jr.? >> lesley: ah, well, the strongest signal was on him, because mcconnell had polio when he was a child. the vaccine is something he cares deeply about, passionately about, all vaccines. they are good for american health, and he said so, so that is a signal. >> maurice: but he played his cards close to the vest? >> lesley: always. >> john: mitch mcconnell doesn't talk much, but he did to you. we're looking forward to it, thanks, lesley stahl. >> maurice: still ahead on the friday "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn with the weather. >> john: and we will have these stories, as well. >> i'm margaret brennan in washington. we will take a look at president trump's response to the midair collision and his reshaping of the federal government. ♪ ♪ >> i'm steve hartman. w

essential honors, mushroom furnished, but i wonder when your store is thrown in the wall thinking where nato stayed most in res hose, both french and american span one they killed civilians, women and children. whenever possible. they also do away with ukrainians. quite alone. you're not bringing my phone plan. you know someone is the 1st, you know, no emotional where it's going to want to go. but the dusted in the was already set up. you want me to a, one of the cancellation storm that you were starting to really say i was kind of here before noon and i, serious. i'm actually spying on for the, for, for them as i do not face to prescribe him for the let's go little, the storm noon or one mature the so the button, if any of the for cold yesterday or on the thing is new investors are watching the people on the menu ukrainians don't want to fight and surrender. that is if they manage to escape from their own, those who would shoot them in the bag. the old book should ukrainian soldiers additional inform you successfully or you may also trusting you . it's a symbol. yes. click on it also is on

so those are only the nato, the bushings that's we want to say $34.00, i swear you, which is can and that's in all, even out and then showing up to the so not that an option that if you need to know that as we, it's a standard to go about conical but at the bottom of the instead, external governance by you and representative was introduced in bosnia and herzegovina so that in any disputes they could make unit essential decisions, including the removal of 12 of the solar from power over the years of bosnia and herzegovina is independence. age people have held this position the, the eastern months or to, to not, or the number of gone with every corner showed the bullies. today, the position is held by an ex minister, former jim and john. so the angela medical is government, christiane schmidt. it's an honor for me to take all the best responsibility and serving the people of quasi, and that's a girlfriend. thank you very much. jim. these influence is still strong. even the local currency is convertible monks in germany, of course this currency no longer exists. the union to eh, uh, as

and you know, it's worth remembering the only time nato's article five has been invoked was to defend the united states after nine over 11. but if you think of the world as divided into camps, you've got the allies, you've got the disruptors, for example, russia, iran, north korea. i mean, they're looking at this moment and saying trump is doing exactly what we need him to do. he's disrupting the very system that made america strong. but there are two other camps i'd like to mention very quickly. there's the opportunistic referred to that india, saudi arabia, many countries in the global south. they see a lot of opportunities that they can cherry pick in a in a quid pro quo world. ali, the thing i worry about the most is this fourth category of countries, smaller countries. if you're sri lanka, somalia, chad good luck. i mean the old system worked, flawed as it was, because it was a rising tide that tried to lift all boats. if you blow up that system, which is what trade and globalization and supply chains all over the world are built around, the biggest losers are the smallest countr

made some indication of that before saying you need to up your defense spending and he wants to see nato spending hit 5%. no country is close to that except for poland. lng and fossil fuels. if you are adding all these tariffs, is there is much fossil fuel to go around? and to put this into scale, the trade between the u.s. and european union is about 1.5 trillion euros every year, bigger than every single european economy except for the u.k., france, germany and italy and they enjoy 3% tariffs. and goldman sachs has suggested that could wipe out 1% of european growth also adjust the trade deficit but let's not forget the u.s. runs a surplus on services so that could be another place they get hit back. they will have a major impact on europe. >> which parts of the european economy are most likely to be impacted? where will the pain be faced and felt most acutely? >> basically germany. more than half of that surplus europe runs with the u.s. is what germany. they run a surplus of about 85 billion euros with the u.s. and now the u.s. is the biggest trading partner of germany. they have piv

the lead is means alongside nato boss of elk river and u. k. p. m. as a gustavo, all of whom seek to prolong the proxy war on russia through grain. ironic then that it's atheist of the day since allies you as president roosevelt. you gave him winston churchill and russians. joseph stalin, met to forward your peaceful world at the altar conference in crimea at the end of world war 2. joining me now for like jackson texas is the executive director of the run pool institute for peace and prosperity. daniel mcadams, he goes there on full liberty, reported ex u. s. presidential.

led by a center left prime minister once served as norway's foreign affairs minister under former nato secretary general, the installs and broad when he was prime minister of the country. now it's hard to imagine a more western establishment friendly situation than that. but even now he's personally just been strapped into the objection seat for account down to potential blast off into political oblivion. now that you energy market rules have blown, a part is coalition government and made the euro skeptic center party. that's part of that coalition want to just bailout norway's deal with the u as a non member, but also as part of the european economic area. is that it gets access to the blocks common market, including the ability to sell that you it's energy. on the other hand, they asked to abide by the rules. so that's a great deal until germany and europe having cut themselves off from cheap russian energy, suddenly ends up doubling all of yours, like some kind of alcohol. like at the pub, it last call and driving up the cost of whatever is left of your own stash. high and unstable