ordered the bombing of yugoslavia i was chairman of the supreme court in belgrade, which sentenced clinton blairthers besides them to 20 years in prison sentenced french president jacques chirac german chancellor gerhardgerroeder us secretary of state madeleine olbreid nato javier savana commander-in-chief of the alliance forces in europe welsey clark nato foreign and defense ministers of crimes for which nato leaders are convicted is the use of banned cluster weapons. i myself can’t get used to where i had the opportunity to ask brussels westley a question clark to nato commander-in-chief i called him a criminal on a planetary scale, because he is one. i asked how you could attack my country, which did not threaten anyone, and you did not have the consent of the un security council and he said, yes, it's true, we did not have the consent of the security council, but we reached a consensus within the natalian. here is a man such simple statements of a man who commanded the world's largest force in an attack on a country that is a thousand times weaker and did not threaten any country a member of

, sir tony blair, hillary clinton were there with tony blair, sirtony blair, unveilingnt to talk about this? i just think it is a fascinating story. let's go back to 1997 and a certain senator called a joe biden, who was sitting on the foreign relations committee in the states and arguing heavily for the united states to involve itself more in trying to secure peace in northern ireland, and he was at that time pressurising bill clinton to step in, and then fast forward 25, 26 years and we are now marking 25 years of the good friday agreement, a triumph of diplomacy that brought peace northern ireland, a great example of people working across the political divide, a great actual personal sacrifice to themselves to secure a long lasting peace, and we're very fortunate to have three of those leaders still with us and still able to reflect on what was over that time in the form of bertie ahern, tony blair and bill clinton, all in belfast this week, just a few days afterjoe biden himself paid a visit. i days afterjoe biden himself paid a visit. ., , days afterjoe biden himse

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but seeing the figures from the incredible agreement, not just tony blair and bill clinton, but the irishme minister at the time, the president of the european union, because this was an agreement that brought together not just the irish government and the british government in a way they had never been before after decades, generations of distrust, which had a lady in history between -- laid deep in history between the island of ireland and the united kingdom, but also brussels and washington, d.c., because there was an internationally underpinned agreement. to see those figures from the past -- rather grayer hair, like me -- nevertheless signifying what is possible through negotiation, and now the additional hurdle of getting self-government back up and running. christian: as you say, when you were there, you had to negotiate with reverend ian paisley, who could be quite feisty at times, maybe a lot stronger in tone than the current incumbent. i wonder what advice he would give to the current northern ireland secretary. seem to have a very difficult day yesterday. >> well, the advice i

talked to bill clinton, tony blair. just got finished talking to him. the leader of ireland. we'll be airing some interviews throughout the day and on our special next week. yeah, it's been a remarkable, remarkable weekend. >> yes later on the show this morning, we'll be hearing from your interviews, a little bit of them, from president biden, also former president bill clinton and former secretary of state hillary clinton. also talking about the news of the day. let's get to that. >>> another community is in mourning following a deadly mass shooting it's a daily occurrence, normality now. four people were killed and 28, 28 others were injured during a 16th birthday party in alabama it happened saturday night at a dance studio in downtown dadeville. among those killed was a high school senior who planned to play college football and was celebrating his sister's birthday police remained tight lipped at this point about the shooting and are asking residents to come forward with information it is not known right now if the suspect is in custody or what led up to the attack presi

including our interview with joe biden, former president bill clinton, tony blair, secretary of state hillary clinton, and many other archetypes of the 25 year old peace agreements of northern ireland. but we start tonight with the explosive news, the announcement from fox news that right-wing host tucker carlson is out of the network. this surprisingly brief statement from fox reads quote, fox news media and tucker carlson have agreed to part ways, we thank you for the service of the network as a host, and prior to that is a contributor. some reports say that it was ordered by fox corporation chairman, rupert murdoch. as early as friday. nbc hasn't confirmed the details, but you don't to look far to find a lot of reasons why fox would want to get rid of tucker carlson at this particular time. according to the l.a. times, quote, carlson cites it's related to a discrimination lawsuit filed by abby grossberg. that could be the kind -- that executive producer, just, and was also terminated. it was also reported that murdaugh was concerned about carlson's coverage of the january 6th attac

president clinton prime minister blair prime minister hearn. thank you all very much, indeed. thank you. thank you. so when you think of the bloodshed and the destruction in the world right now from the war in ukraine to the fighting in sudan and beyond, it truly was an extraordinary moment to talk to these architects of peace and to cover a good news story, a success that was backed in large part by the indispensable force of american diplomacy. and finally, we also want to highlight the role of the former u. s senate majority leader george mitchell fame for reaching out across the aisle and an indefatigable negotiator who president clinton has sent to shepherd the good friday agreement through to completion mitchell and 89 years old and battling leukemia, returned to belfast to offer a message of hope and resilience for the future. although northern ireland isn't piece it is not yet perfect, and it might take another generation to finally seal that. good friday. deal. fredricka back to you. all right . thank you so much. christiane amanpour and thank you for joining me today

clinton. you had tony blair in his prime. you had a skilled negotiator in the irish republic.tically, you have the ira through sinn fein seeming to be willing to da deal. that did not mean a deal was going to be done. as mark simpson was just saying, it is very complex. you had to balance so many different factors, different interests between britain and ireland, the two parts of ireland, and within northern ireland itself. we really do need, in spite of all the qualifications and difficulties with the agreement, to look back and recognize that it was an astonishing achievement, one of which british, irish, and american governments can be proud. >> i am struck by an article you have written today. talking about the good friday agreement, you said the irish question had to change from what are you willing to kill and die for two what can you live with? can you expand on that? >> if the question was is northern ireland in the united kingdom or should it be a united ireland, that is a zero-sum game. there was no middle way between those two questions. there still is not. you had

than my upholding international law in records of a phone call between blair and bill clinton, the former u. k. p. an express his willingness to participate in the military action against iraq. if the u. s. press to had in a meeting with his senior advisors in 1998, the british viet justified his decision by saying it was the only way to make it on her same comply. i still find the laurel facies advice, some convincing. there must, at the very least be an argument that the un security council has agreed there is a breach. the only issue is, can we use force and why not? if it is the only way to compliance the u. s. and the u. k. launched a 4 day bombing campaign against iraq and december of 1998. after that then us president bill clinton accused saddam hussein at breaching commitments to the un developing weapons of mass destruction and not withdrawing his forces from co way. as many as 1400 iraqi soldiers were killed and strikes on around a 100 military facilities. political commentator anthony webber believes that tony blair should face legal action since he blatantly light to the u. k.

than by upholding international law and record of a phone call between blair and bill clinton. the former u. k. p. an express his willingness to participate in the military action against iraq. if the u. s. press to had in a meeting with the senior advisers in 1998, the british viet justified his decision by saying it was the only way to make saddam hussein comply. might see i'm buying houses and businesses check out our t. v dot com for all the latest breaking news and not pick oh ah with mm ton of, well from to well to part of europe has to grow out of the mindset that europe's problems are the world's problems, but the world's problems are not your problems. this is how in this foreign minister is summed up, he's conscious position, visit the western frustrate, to take various side in the ukrainian conflict. how is this war changing the balance of power, responsibility, and wisdom? it's been the so called develop and the developing world. well, to discuss that i'm now joined from massachusetts by christian macbeth. senior global justice follow at yale university, was a math

that incredible agreement among not just 20 from that incredible agreement among notjust 20 blair and bill clintono virtually hurley, the average prime minister at a time, the president of the european union, because this was an agreement that brought together not just the irish government and the british government and the british government in the way they had never been before after decades, generations, of this trash —— back to stretch which had laid between the island of ireland and the united kingdom but also brussels and washington, dc. it was an internationally underpinned agreement and to see all those figures here together, gray hair like me, it signified what was possible through negotiation and now the additional hurdle of getting self—government back up and running. as you say. when you are there you had to negotiate with reference paisley who could quite feisty at times, it may be a lot stronger intoned than the current incumbent sir geoffrey denison, i wonder what advice you would give to the current northern ireland secretary who seemed to have a difficult day yesterday. seemed to

effo -- so much efforts to people we will know know, to all the high profile people, bill clinton and tony blairn it's such a short time we have to be encouraged we have gotten this far. we have to be mindful we need to keep working at it >> it was such an amazing transatlantic partnership between -- among politicians on all sides. we heard some people in dublin telling peter alexander over there that they believed president biden's visits to belfast and dublin could be unifying what needs to be done after he leaves >> after he leaves, we need to make sure that they meet again we haven't had a government for over a year. that's something which is damaging to our country. cultural and mripolitically and economically we haven't had a bunlbudget appe for this year. cost of living crisis is real. we need politicians. at the moment, the dep won't sit in parliament because they are unhappy with some of the issues around brexit. that's what needs to happen next, i think. >> kelly o'donnell, in terms of just the sentiment, the importance of all of this, the roots trip with his family, how meaningful was

tonight including ou interviews with president jo biden, former president bill clinton, former british prim minister tony blair, secretary of state hillary clinton, an many of the other architects o the 25-year-old peac agreements in northern ireland but we start tonight wit explosive news the announcement from fox news that right-wing host tucke carlson is out at the network. the surprisingly brief statement from fox reads, quote, fox news media and tucke carlson have agreed to par ways we thank him for his service t the network as a host and prio to that as a contributor some reports say carlson's depart was ordered by fo chairman rupert murdoch as early as friday. nbc hasn't confirmed the details, but you don't have to look far to find the reasons fox would want to get rid of tucker carlson at this particular time. according to the l.a. times, quote, carlson's exit is related to a discriminatio lawsuit filed by abby grossberg. the producer fired by th network last month carlson senior executive producer justin willis also ha been terminated. the times also reported that murdaugh was really concerne about ca

i'm so glad that joe biden is there, glad the clintons are going to mark it with tony blair and otherseace to that troubled, troubled area. >> yeah. look as a child growing up in england, we didn't have trash cans in the subway stations because you didn't know if there was going to be a bomb put in the subway stations. you would go shopping around christmas and worry the department store might get blown up it was a real thing. the prospect of terrorism was a real thing the good friday agreement absolutely changed that. it wouldn't have happened, frankly, without american involvement. it's one of the few issues here in washington around which there is pretty bipartisan agreement i heard from democrats and from republicans after brexit, after britain left the european union about ireland and this issue of ireland. nothing can disrupt the good friday agreement they were really adamant about that they talked to the british government about that. things are not perfect ireland's -- northern ireland's gdp is lower than that of the republic of ireland. it's lower than that of the mainland of

panelists are but just in case -- [laughter] we have the former prime minister tony blair former and former president bill clinton. [applause] i thought what i might do is to ask each of them a series of questions, but that also since this is a day devoted to reflecting ask each of them also to reflect on their experiences. these are all very seasoned political leaders who had the opportunity to lead their nations. they confronted all kinds of domestic and international challenges and so thinking about from their perspectives especially for the students who are interested in politics and government, what they now believe and feel reflecting back. but first, we are going to start with some of the background that led each of them to play the role that they did in the agreement. let me start if i could, tony, with you. i think it's fair to say that when you became pre- minister, for many people in the uk, but far beyond the uk, the northern ireland troubles had seemed insoluble, that they were really bread in the bone, that there was very little that could make a difference. so, what made you as prime minister comin

president bill clinton and sir tony— president bill clinton and sir iany niain— president bill clinton and sir tony blairte the good friday agneenenn — commemorate the good friday agreement. but— commemorate the good friday agreement. but the former taoiseach, bertie ahern and senator george mitchell, who played a key role in the peace negotiations in 1998, will also take part. it's being hosted to mark the 25th anniversary of the agreement that largely ended decades of sectarian conflict in the province. the uk's aviation industry has acknowledged measures to make flying less harmful to the environment , but harmful to the environment, but will push up ticket prices . it will push up ticket prices. it says the cost of decarbonising air travel is likely to put people off flying. it wants the government to reduce the difference price between difference in price between traditional jet fuel and greener alternatives. the transport secretary says the government is committed to helping airlines accelerate new technology and move away from fossil fuels . and move away from fossil fuels. and the brecon beacons

. >> we'll be talking to president biden, bill clinton, hillary clinton, jerry adams >> tony blair. >> former prime minister tony blair, about the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreements, brings peace to ireland against all odds also will be talking about how the republicans continue their war on democracy. >> you and john heilemann will break down the politics of the day. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now ♪ ♪ >>> hello on this monday hope you had a wonderful weekend. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york the 2024 race coming into sharper focus this morning, maybe with a little 20/20 vision we have brand new reporting on what president biden's campaign launch could look like and who will lead his team with his re-election announcement expected to come as early as tomorrow this as a new nbc news poll shows a vast majority of republican primary voters stand firmly behind former president trump despite the criminal charges and the looming legal challenges he faces. are we headed for a rematch? steve kornacki is her

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president bill clinton, british prime minister tony blair, and the irish tea shop. >> i children haverown up in a normal society. christiane: why the people chose peace. from the archive, my report on the families who decided a quarter-century ago. >>

so we expect to hearfrom bill clinton, he was there yesterday with former senator george mitchell and tony blairhear his thoughts 25 years on, that should be fascinating to listen to —— architects. also in the next few minutes, we have the imminent ceasefire, that is the hope, in sudan. let mejust ceasefire, that is the hope, in sudan. let me just show you some of the recent pictures, because this has been at the scene earlier today. explosions in the capital, that has been the backdrop over the last few days, so many people injured as well as some dead, fighting between these two military factions dominating, but the hope is in the next few minutes a ceasefire will kick in, that both sides have agreed. we will see if it indeed is enforced, all those aid agencies we have been talking to on the ground talking about the urgent need to have a ceasefire in place, a pause so that they can get to people, so many people huddled in their homes, away from all of this, some wounded people needing treatment, so the hope of the ceasefire kicks in the next couple of minutes, we will be light on the capital t

question i was asking when i talked to president clinton and tony blair and everyone else what can weut northern ireland? what can it teach us about ending the ukraine war a lot of questions that question elicited more questions. i'm curious to hear your thought osit since you've been involved in that process as well. >> northern ireland turned out to be one of the few examples of successful diplomacy as you know you were just over that way. marked the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. i was george mitchell's successor so i spent a lot of time working on that, obviously now spending a lot of time working on ukraine oddly enough i think there are some parallels the northern ireland agreement didn't try to solve everything it didn't try to deal with so called status issues would you have an irish unification or anything like that i think that's in some ways part of the wisdom of diplomacy for ukraine and russia don't try to deal with every last territorial issue don't try to deal with the disposition of the ethnic russian people living in certain places controlled by ukrain

president bill clinton, former secretary of state hillary clinton, former british prim minister tony blairore so watch joe scarborough o politicsnation tomorrow at 5 p eastern. and then his special on monday at 8 pm eastern. right here on msnbc an streaming on peacock american voices with alici mendez starts right now on

clinton. former british prime minister, tony blair and others.ask the questions that you want to hear you can get it straight, monda night at eight joe, welcome back to politicsnation >> thank you so much, rev. it's always an honor to be on. >> now, joe, probably couldn't ask for a bette weekend to have you one. because msnbc's reporting that president biden is expecting t announce his reelection bid as early as two days from now according to those familia with the announcement plan they're saying that -- you have spent some time wit president biden early last week, interviewing him for your msnb special monday night 8 pm eastern time. and we will get to that in a minute but what can you tell us about that conversation as the president prepares to ask th nation for a second term >> yeah, foul. reverend al, like you, i hav known president biden for long time. and it is pretty easy to rea him. he doesn't hide a lot, and you can tell, he was excited on th trip to ireland. you can tell he was excite about the prospect of runnin again. and i got a sen

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president bill clinton, former secretary of state hillary clinton, former british prim minister tony blair and more so watch joe scarborough o politicsnation tomorrow at 5 p eastern. and then his special on monday at 8 pm eastern. right here on msnbc an streaming on peacock american voices with alici mendez starts right now on msnbc. >> thank you so much, reverend sharpton, thank you so much, let's begin this saturday with mifepristone and what happen now, supreme court i temporarily protecting acces to the most used abortion drug in united states two of the nine justices justice clarence thomas an samuel alito dissented friday, saying they would have allowed the original ruling, you know, the one by judge matthew kacsmaryk, to stay in effect which invalidated the fda' approval of mifepristone this is thanks to the bide administration, the high court got involved in the firs place. this late -- quote, fridays stay sends long message to the lowe courts that scotus will no entertain the cynical attemp to impose new nationwide restrictions potentially even a ban o abortion if you feel like it

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bill-tony blair will be there. bill clintont's been a week of them . g 3: a week of them. it has indeed. and thank goodness this is the last of them today. yes, we've had the politics of the past. they've all been here. as mark longhurst said, the band got back together. we had all the big names from the good friday agreement 25 years ago, and today we are having the politicians lines of this era. we have leo varadkar , the irish we have leo varadkar, the irish taoiseach or prime minister. we have ursula von der leyen, the eu commission, and we have rishi sunak. now this is very much a carrot and stick approach and the pressure here to go back into power has really been on unionism throughout this whole conference. so yesterday, chris heaton—harris, the secretary of state, very much in his speech , state, very much in his speech, warning unionism, if they did not rejoin the institutions of the good friday agreement, that it would put the union under threat. and today rishi sunak speech is apparently to address and look at what

his hand, watching from the sidelines as president clinton spent two weeks trying to forge the peace agreement. watching president bush welcoming the blairs to couples getting to know each other much like as you would moved with their neighbors as you move into a neighborhood. there very poignant things to watch on the sideline for even you get to serve there, see things, you have to remember you are in the role you get to know some personal things about the families but you are not of their world you have to maintain that corm. i will tilt two stories that are a more personal nature. i think it helps to relate to the families. the first one is the final clinton weekend four days nonstop, hundreds of guests coming through, dinners, musicians performing in the chapel, just a wonderful event we said goodbye with the hanger that night with the family some walking to the helicopter at 10:00 o'clock on that sunday at the snow on the ground, thanking them for leading our country and walking them down to marina one, might for last time to see you then. when gerald student stanford turns to me and hands me too stuffed animals. when jesus commande

ed, of course, the clintons are coming here, along with tony blair, to celebrate the 25th anniversaryh them this weekend, as well just an extraordinary peace agreement 25 years ago what i find different about biden's visit, it seems that, in the past, ireland has been a place that presidents have loved to go, but their first allegiance was always with great britain. you do not get that sense with joe biden. he expects britain to do everything it can do to keep this peace treaty in place >> and i think he's right, too i mean, this was an ingenious peace deal it was negotiated between irish and british prime ministers over successive administrations of course, by the clinton administration between the communities on the ground in northern ireland and across the border with the republic it gave people in northern ireland, whether they were catholic or protestant, the right to stand on ireland's side of this. look, britain has to uphold its side of the deal it's created peace for quarter of a century in a corner of ireland and great britain that has been suffering horrific strife and sect

and in the difficult final hours, president clinton�*s timely interventions helped get the deal done. and whenever people walked away, tony blairer. applause. and in the spirit of perseverance it is also fitting to recognise the contribution of the security forces. like my predecessors i acknowledge that at times they made mistakes, but we must also recognise their bravery, suffering and sacrifice and that of the police. without their courageous service, there would have been no peace process at all. they created the conditions that allowed their own presence on the streets to be reduced or entirely withdrawn. courage, imagination and

none other than bill clinton, tony blair will be here also . and blair will be here also.at we didn't know or did know and couldn't say at the time of just when what went on in and around the behind the scenes of the good friday talks. and of course, it's very relevant at the moment because stormont's government that is very much unked government that is very much linked to the good friday agreement isn't up and running because of the windsor framework or brexit agreement and that will be interesting to see just how or what sort of advice will be handed down to the politicians of nowadays . draghi politicians of nowadays. draghi in belfast . thanks— politicians of nowadays. draghi in belfast . thanks very- c ti : draghi in belfast. thanks very much. i'll in belfast. thanks very much. t-tt te— in belfast. thanks very much. m be mete— in belfast. thanks very much. i'll be there tomorrow at eees— i'll be there tomorrow at queen's university in belfast, so queen's university in belfast, se teet— queen's university in belfast, so look forward— queen's university in belfast, so

clinton. you have tony blair at his prime, not long in office.r cobbler than party. uncritically you had the ira seeming to be willing to do a deal. but that did not mean that a deal was going to be done, because as mark simpson was just saying, it is very complex. you have to balance so many different factors, so many different interests between britain and ireland, between the two parts of ireland, and then critically within northern ireland itself. and we really do need, i think, in spite of all the qualifications and difficulties with the agreement, to look back and recognise it was an astonishing political achievement. and one of which british, irish and american governments can be very proud of. i was struck by an article that you have written today. you are saying talking about the good friday agreement, you said that the irish question had to change from what are you willing to kill and die for two what can you live with? can you just expand upon that? it what can you live with? can you 'ust expand upon thawi expand upon that? if the ques

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president clinton phoned the parties to press for a deal, but the ulster unionists wouldn't agree without further commitments that paramilitaries would disarm, so tony blairrimble. i thought maybe we had lost it but then i gave the additional commitment to the unionists. this is where david trimble did exercise real leadership. he sold that commitment to his delegation. david came into the room and there was a lot of tension. he stood up on a chair or a table and he said that it was his intention to go up the stairs to george mitchell to tell him he was going to accept the agreement. a few minutes before five o'clock in the afternoon, i david called me in, and yes. i remember his exact words, he said, "we're ready to do the business." i i thanked him. i asked him if he could be available for a meeting i immediately at 5pm, - he said, "i will be there." i called the other parties. it seems like ages, you know, just wondering who was going to come through the door. had a great sigh of relief when we saw sinn fein and then david come in. i'm not sure if that was exactly the way it was but they were the last two big ones to come in and we thought, "yes! this

on the last week, prime ministers blair and hearns came to belfast and assumed active highly effective leadership in the talks. on the last night, president clintonstayed up all night in the white house talking to the prime ministers and to the party leaders. by the morning of friday, april 10, we had assembled the product of all of these efforts into a single document. three years earlier at the beginning of the talks, i had told the delegates that if there was ever to be an agreement, it had to be theirs, no acceptable agreement could be imposed from above or outside. as we distributed the final document to them that the morning, i reminded them of that statement, orderly and in writing. i said to them virtually every word in this document has been spoken or written by someone from northern ireland. this is your agreement. it is by necessity a compromise. it doesn't resolve every issue. there is much in it you will not like and there is much you will like. but this is the end. now you must decide and i asked each of them please say yes. each of the parties then went into caucus through the day they debated the future of their homeland, of their

president clinton phoned the parties to press for a deal, but the ulster unionists wouldn't agree without further commitments that paramilitaries would disarm, so tony blairi thought maybe we had lost it but then i gave the additional commitment to the unionists. this is where david trimble did exercise real leadership. he sold that commitment to his delegation. david came into the room and there was a lot of tension. he stood up on a chair or a table and he said that it was his intention to go up the stairs to george mitchell to tell him he was going to accept the agreement. a few minutes before five o'clock in the afternoon, i david called me in, and yes. i remember his exact words, he said, "we're ready to do the business." i i thanked him. i asked him if he could be available for a meeting i immediately at 5pm, - he said, "i will be there." i called the other parties. it seems like ages, you know, just wondering who was going to come through the door. had a great sigh of relief when we saw sinn fein and then david come in. i'm not sure if that was exactly the way it was but they were the last two big ones to come in and we thought, "yes! "this has hap

blair. so we have seen just a series of days where the good friday agreement being marked. and bill clintonnd hear from the former us president in the next moments. it just gives us a chance to squeeze in another story that we have been telling you about over the last couple of hours of the programme. that story that tens of thousands of airline passengers are facing disruption after southwest airlines was forced to ground all of its flights. hold on departures has been lifted in the last little while but more than 1700 southwest flights have been delayed. it comes just four months after the carrier suffered a meltdown over the christmas travel rush which resulted in a cancellation of nearly 17,000 flights. davidjoined me in a cancellation of nearly 17,000 flights. david joined me now. in a cancellation of nearly 17,000 flights. davidjoined me now. here's an airline business journalist based in boston. and bring me right up to date. do we know what the was here's thanks for having me. yeah, we found out fairly recently the issue involved a firewall system that the airline uses. it's provide

tony blair was essential to the good friday agreement was asked about the role of the bill clinton playedbill clinton visited northern ireland in 1995 laid the groundwork, much of the groundwork for the agreement eventually being signed and his envoy was one of those was going from room to room of my house on both sides of the divided northern ireland and bringing things together. but yes, one of the great hallmarks of the good friday agreement is the ambiguity and the ambiguity and created ambiguity in the fact that he could be all things to all people and it recognise the complex overlapping identities and nationalities contained within northern ireland and so, if you arrive at the perception that you're on one side or another, that is not going to help and we already had some pretty robust language byjoe biden from some on the unionist side. not shy to give the opinion and let's face it, she has described him as per republican and anti—british and so, it does come somewhat hobbled that they make so much of the irish roots and irish ancestry. much of the irish roots and irish ancest . .

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