by now six months after the referendum so when do you envisage being independent well the dream of independence will never be extinguished i think that's a fact that everybody has to live with but we're also pragmatists after the referendum there's been a collective punishment of our people our neighbors have reacted the united states and europe were not helpful so we understand the realities that we live with right now we're focused on the iraqi elections which are coming up in may and looking forward to the next phase after that but you didn't answer my question when is independence going to happen it depends because it depends on our dialogue with baghdad we want to separate the referendum said that we want to separate from the rest of iraq that has to be a negotiated settlement but we're not in that phase right now we are in the wake of the referendum where the people of kurdistan are being punished and we are just trying to manage they're being punished you talk about collective punishment i'm sure the iraqi government would agree with that assessment but let's take your word they're being

from the rest of iraq but what was the point of that vote given you're not independent more than six months later and you know it you don't seem to be anywhere close to being independent more than six months later our intention was never to declare independence immediately we never and we still don't believe in a unilateral declaration of independence aren't an intention was to allow the people of kurdistan or express their will for the first time ever and also to send a message to our neighbors to baghdad to the international community that this is what people want we. believe that having a referendum would allow that to happen and then we would talk to baghdad about our future relationship so we never envisaged that we would be independent by now six months after the referendum so when do you envisage being in the bible well the dream of independence will never be extinguished i think that's a fact that everybody has to live with but we're also pragmatists after the referendum there's been a collective punishment of our people our neighbors have reacted the united states and europe

his complaints would spur the nation to declare independence a decade later. remember though this is nearly ten years before patrick henry's famous give me liberty speech. later throughout the long war of independence it was lee who masterminded the financial and diplomatic victories that insured washington's military victory, and after the nation took shape it was lee, not james madison, it was only the first conceived of the bill of rights our nation enjoys today. he was truly our first founding father. well, why, asked a member of the audience a few minutes ago, why isn't he recognized as such? i'll get to that later, keep you on pins and needles. [laughing] richard henry lee was born into one of virginia's and north america's wealthiest and most powerful families. his family is one of those fabled dynasties at the time. they ruled over hundreds of thousands of acres across the colonial virginia, maryland and pennsylvania. their fleet of ships carried on american tobacco to all corners of the earth. at the peak of their wealth and power, the lees controlled

be sufficiently independent with adequate resources to make high-quality impartial decisions without any improper influence particularly when that influence makes the judge here for their job security. number two, fairness and the procession of fairness not only must the system be just and fair but it must appear fair to all the participants particularly to the noncitizens who may not have had any other experience in the government. number three, professionalism, judges should be talented and experienced lawyers who treat those appearing before them with respect and professionalism and finally, increased efficiency. an immigration system must process immigration cases quickly without sacrificing quality, particularly in cases where noncitizens are detained. three models we evaluated our once the independent article one court to include both a trial at the appellate level and second an independent agency which would be a new executive adjudicatory agency which would be independent of any other executive department agency and three, a hybrid approach placing the agency and the appellat

close to being independent more than six months later our intention was never to declare independence immediately we never and we still don't believe in a unilateral declaration of independence aren't an intention was to allow the people of kurdistan or express their will for the first time ever and also to send a message to our neighbors to baghdad to the international community that this is what people want we. believe that having a referendum would allow that to happen and then we would talk to baghdad about our future relationship so we never envisaged that we would be independent by now six months after the referendum so when do you envisage being independent well the dream of independence will never be extinguished i think that's a fact that everybody has to live with but we're also pragmatists after the referendum there's been a collective punishment of our people our neighbors have reacted the united states and europe were not helpful so we understand the realities that we live with right now we're focused on the iraqi elections which are coming up in may and looking forward t

second an independent agency which would be a new executive agency which would be independent of any other executive department or agency and three, a hybrid approach placing the trial level adjudications in an independent administrative agency and the appellate level tribunal in an article i court. we concluded an article i court is likely to be viewed as more independent as a true judicial body to engender the greatest level of confidence in its results to attract the best candidates for judgeships and to offer the best balance between independence and accountability to the political branches of government. in our view the immigration courts must be moved out of the department of justice to ensure that judges have full decisional independence without fear of repriceal or improper political influence. the need was emphasized by the recent announcement on until pending on case quotas for immigration judges. we believe this would spur more appeals as well as burden the federal courts as well as result inremands. timely disposition of cases is critically important but not if it is to c

freedom independence a separation of state and church that used to be.

were you surprised that that did not cause the sea change of opinion towards independence given that the indications are that independence supporters stayed roughly put it was in the early forty's much much higher than previously but not subject beyond the fifty percent mark i wasn't surprised in fact and the political cabinet just after mikell had taken over where we were discussing the prospect of possibly happening knew you wanted it to happen particularly because clearly the s.n.p. didn't want to come of europe but. at that discussion i specifically made the point that i did not believe that if we ended up with a differential between scotland the less the u.k. then that would automatically lead to a stampede for independence or anything like it but in particular your emotional attachment may be less than the s. and p's and been suggestions that you personally voted against voted no in the european referendum is those able to clear the one way or another for all time i've been on is about i voted no i didn't campaign in the referendum presented just leave the government and i thou

independent. to put out ated statement for all the people concerned with mueller's investigation on trump. hang onto your hats. you are about to find out a when paulof dirt manafort goes to trial. it is all about money and he is the guy. watch out. host: that will do it for open phones. up next, it is our spotlight on magazine series. we will take a look at the recent piece. thornberry talked about iran nuclear deal with called for the removal of sanctions on iran and in iran'se for a run's -- nuclear deal on may 12. once the deal is in place is what happens if the united away and i think others, y mattis, among to my ear, at least, has been very consistent, saying whatever deal to begin the with, you better understand what the consequences of walking away from it are and at the same time macron was esident arguing in congress just this past week that there may well be some improvements that could be ade to the deal or around the deal, as far as iran's other activities are going. think we should t

independents, 202-748-8002. outside the u.s. -- 202- 748-8003. debbie on the independent line.ller: thank you for taking my call. i have been listening to a lot of the callers this morning. everybody has input on how they feel and they are entitled to that. honest, when they came on and announced president trump announced what he had done, i just started praying. because we are living in a world that is so unstable. not just in the middle east but in the united states. there is instability all over the world. my prayer was, lord, do not let these people retaliate. i know these machines have to go up and our forces have to know about it in advance but we do not know because we live in a world that is so unstable. whether bashar al-assad chemical eyes -- did chemical weapons against his people, they may have found that the evidence or not, but what happened to humanitarian and diplomatic talks? wherejust bomb everybody there are chemical areas just because it came through the grapevine and we heard it? or do we sit down at the table and try to come together as people because we a

nothing to do with it being independent of the any independent nature which is something that lip service is being paid by the sponsors and their allies and we do know what the price for such an independence is of some of this is an icky and manipulation. at one of the stages of working on the american initiative we have insisted that the secretary general of the un should select to the staff or they investigate the mechanism on the basis of the maximally broad geographical representation and then this is to be subsequently approved by the security council which is visiting the size of incidence and strictly following the principle of six eventual an ag access whilst at the same time protecting the chain of custody of evidence is not something that is optional and has to be mandatory working principles so everyone has the security council through collective decisions there would be a determined who is responsible for the use of chemical weapons on the basis of reliable evidence a kind of evidence that would leave no doubt in the right conclusions being reached and if you were good medical

marched through barcelona to call for the release of those imprisoned over the region's push for independence. and in formula one red bull's daniel ricardo who almost didn't even make it to qualifying has emerged victorious in shanghai. and now because of os and welcome to the program the u.s. and its allies say they have no further plans to launch missile strikes on syria but the white house has warned the united states is lost and loaded to act again if damascus carries out more gas attacks syria's president assad has said the western air strikes were based on a campaign of lies and the u.n. security council a bid there by russia his regimes main backer to condemn the strikes has failed. after saturday's u.s. led strikes on syria it was a war of words between russia and the united states in the united nations. a sign of cynical this day in a group of western countries decided to take military action without waiting for the results of the investigation russia condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack against syria through its actions united states makes an already catastrophic huma

security team is at the site independently decide on access for an o.p.c. devaney team investigators were looking to a suspected chemical attack on april seventh that went assign blame syria state media had reported on tuesday and weapons experts had entered the former rebel enclave when you. i mean today the u.n. security team and duma around three pm in order to assess the security situation on the ground if the security team to you and security team decides the situation is sound and do more than a fact finding mission will begin its work in duma on wednesday the decision for the arrival of the fact finding mission is the decision of the u.n. and the old p.c. w. alone the russian military says it's found a chemical weapons stockpile in duma that belongs to the rebels a russian state media released this video describing the items as chlorine and components for making mustard gas russia had previously published information on syria that turned out to be fake moscow has repeatedly accused rebels of chemical attacks saying it is monitoring the situation from

so far the political fallout from catalonia as independence bid shows no sign of being contained on the contrary all sides digging in for a protracted battle my guess this week here in brussels is spain's foreign minister alphonso that's this how has his government failed to prevent the country's worst and arguably its most predictable political crisis in decades. alphonso dust is welcome to conflict zone thank you very much pleased to be here prime minister raw it was in barcelona the weekend valuing to end what he called separatist havoc in the eyes of number of human rights organizations your security forces were responsible for at least part of that havoc you denied this against the video evidence broadcast by a number of mainstream rock casting organizations around the world what did you base your denial on what i didn't deny i mean when i say five so yes yes and i mean on the basis of what of the fact that you know of the fact of the data that were made public after this supposedly excessive force i mean there's all the people but for form from the the government of catalonia at t

thank you very much for your company everyone israelis today celebrating so many years of independence let's take a look now at some of the key events that led to its creation now this man that you see right here behind me is theodore heartfelt he is considered the father of modern day zionism he increased recognition for the need of a jewish state and promoted jewish immigration to palestine in one thousand seven hundred british foreign secretary arthur balfour made a declaration of support for the creation of a jewish home in the middle east the first. world war saw the defeat of the ottoman empire and its partition between the european powers in one thousand twenty two the league of nations granted the british mandate over palestine and trans-jordan from nine hundred thirty three when the nazis came to power in germany more and more jews from europe migrated to palestine and the aftermath of the holocaust many survivors followed them and on november twenty ninth one thousand nine hundred forty seven the united nations proposed the partition of palestine into separate jewish and pale

but we need to fix the independent counsel.he last thing i would say is, we need institutions congress ig draw on, other than the or the gao, to help with investigations. one thing that is difficult about congress is that it is so split by committee by committee that there is no overarching wait for congress as an entity to even understand what it's sister committees are doing. the needs to be some backbone, some further support for congress to engage in systematic oversight. thanks. you, david. now josh campbell, former assistant director to the fbi director. >> i would rather be somewhere else right now, i didn't say anywhere else right now, but i would rather be somewhere else rather than sitting here talking about the incredibly negative effects that the politicos ideation politicize asian -- ourticization of institutions, the doj and the fbi. the fbi right now is an institution feels under siege. but yourself in the shoes of the net the eye employee -- in the shoes of an fbi employee. seeing to your left, and an intelligen

but we need to fix the independent counsel.that is the last thing i would we need to have institutions that congress can draw on other than the ig or the gao to help it with investigations. one of the things that is difficult about congress is it is so is splintered committee by committee that there really is no overarching way for congress as an entity to even understand what its sister committees are doing. there needs to be some backbone. further support for congress to engage in systematic oversight. thank you >> thank you, david. to josh campbell. >> it don't take this the wrong way, i would rather be somewhere else right now rather than sitting here talking about the incredibly negative effects the politicization of our institutions of justice have had on the fbi. let me back up and say the fbi right now as an institution feels under siege. but yourself in the shoes of an fbi employee. imagine yourself midway between the white house and the looking to your left, seeing an intelligence committee that continues to politiciz

mechanism where there is no real independence or impartiality we will not accept any window dressing. having a genuine mechanism is something the security council owed to the syrian victims of the chemical attacks it is also our responsibility before the entire international community for the entire international family security is threatened by the persistent use of chemical weapons by the bashar assad regime dilemma not president given that this is an existential threat for each and every one of the fight against the proliferate proliferation of weapons of mass destruction of must be more than it has been in the recent past at the very heart of the action and intention of the security council if there is one area where the security council has moral and political responsibility to come together as one and to act it is on this issue the nonproliferation of w m d's if there is one area where the credibility of the security council is at stake and where we cannot engage in tactical games of one upmanship it is on this issue that this is an essential issue at stake we cannot sit on our

the separatist leader has been in self-imposed exile in belgium since declaring catalan independence after all. referendum last october. and more on the story now with our political correspondent hans brunches with us and in our studio here a public fully aaliyah's who's been covering the spanish angle of this story good to have you both with us hans let's start with you what grounds do german prosecutors say they have to seek the extradition of pushing on to spain here. well this is all happening on the basis of a european warrant of a race that was issued by spain and this warrant lists to reasons why i've pushed upon should be extradited to the one reason is rebellion or sedition the other reason is the misuse of public funds both of these are in connection with the referendum held for cultural annex independence last year and a german prosecutor has now decided that both of these given reasons are adequate in terms of german know that there are equivalent charges that could be. raised in german boy in other words an extradition according to the prosecutor is justified the prosecu

in 44 years and frankly i have never been so concerned that the walls protecting the independent --independence and integrity of our law enforcement are crumbling. law-enforcement are a hallmark of our republic. american democracy indoors because we empower these enduresions -- because we empower these institutions to uphold the rule of law the matter who is in power. we remain a nation of laws and n ot of people. when these institutions are today,ttack as they are this committee needs to act. special counsel's ability to finish his job cannot be subject to the latest tweet for hairtrigger impulse of the president. i'm hopeful that a bipartisan stand may prevent us from waking rm that sends sto us careening towards a constitutional crisis. i do not say that lightly. i said my farmhouse in vermont thinking about it. my farmhouse in vermont thinking about it. i was at a meeting with the attorney general yesterday. this legislation represents the best of the senate. members worked in good faith on a difficult issue. they found common ground, republicans and democrats, for the good of the nation. i

the clause provides an independent reason to question these bills. in edmonds versusth united stat, a unanimous supreme court concluded thatt inferior offices who need to be presidentially appointed and they need to be confirmed by the senate are officers who work aspa directed and. supervised at some level by principal officers. if these don't prevent the from firing aal special counsel because of special counsel has acted unjustly or perhaps unwisely, that it's difficult to contend that the special councils work is directed and supervised by a principal officer in any meaningful sense. the power to remove is the power to control. if you truly arere supervising someone you have the ability to stop them if you have the ability toon remove them from te position they occupy if they exercise that power wrongly. i understand the demands of politics but that's no excuse. every member of the senate swears an oath to uphold and protect and defend the constitution of the unitedd states, and that oath means we're duty-bound too seriously personally assess the

>> guest: there has been independent analysis. you can go to the report nra.org there has been a number of analysts that have looked at the corporate programs different tiers of corporate membership they put that on their own website it is enough that note they talk about that roundup program when you purchase a product or a weapon from them you can roundup your purchase that balance goes to the team for legislative action that doesn't just add money on lobbying but on politics and a source of a lot of its funding. >>host: wise and allowed to do that? be maxis and united even though five/four decision that corporations can spend unlimited amount the justices did say that americans have a right to know who is influencing their views unfortunately i think the court was naÏve to assume that laws were up-to-date they said find this information at the click of a mouse but the laws have not keptr pace as the supreme court increasingly deregulate transparency laws have not kept place -- get pace so many of this has still been undisclosed

placing them in an independent agency and the appellate level tribunal in an article one court. we concluded that article one court was likely to be viewed as more independent as a few judicial body to engender the greatest level of confidence in its results and best candidates for judgeships and offer the best balance between independence and accountability to the political branch of the government. in our view, the immigration courts must be moved out of the department of justice to ensure that judges have full decisional independence without fear of reprisal or improperly political influence. the need was emphasized by the recent announcement on the pending imposition after case production quotas for immigration judges. we believe this spur more as well as burden the federal court and remands that in turn would increase backlog in the immigration course. timely disposition of cases is critically important, but not if it's to come at the expense of due process. i want to express our dismay over the department of justice's planned suspension of the legal orientation program. co

independents 202-748-8002. diane in bellville, michigan, line for independents, go ahead. caller: good morning john. that county up in michigan is macomb e county and the city is washington, isn't that funny. i'm calling about just a couple things. i remember listening to colbert and i don't know the actor's name, he's "game of thrones," this goes back to former keft today, you know, europe and them footing the bill. colbert asked him, he plays jamie on "game of thrones" i apologize not remembering his name. anyway, colbert asked him, oh, you got a great life up there in denmark, i believe he was from. and he goes, you got all this, free schools, you got people want to live there. and why do you think that, and he brought up, he goes, well, we only have our food to -- you all take care of the defense for us, we don't have to do anything about that. i remember the look colbert gave him and i remember the actor looking at him. he goes, oops, i shouldn't have said that. so yeah, we take care of them. they are used to us taking care of them. you know, if they have to shell out

you will‘s first independent air force. they were scoffed at to begin with.dent. the lady on the right, mary ellis, is 108. she is older than the air force herself. we will leave it there. thank you very much for coming in and taking us through the papers. thank you very much for watching the briefing. from me and the rest of the team, goodbye. hello. easter sunday was a little bit disappointing across many areas. it was rather cloudy, cool. the best of the sunshine was reserved across the north and the west of scotland. now we look to the south, to the next area of low pressure, which is going to bring disruptive weather for easter monday. it is an area of rain, sleet, and snow, fairly strong winds as well, continuing to push northwards during the early hours of easter monday with some snowfall likely across the higher ground of wales into central and northern england and even into northern ireland by early parts of easter monday. cold feel to things as well. particularly across scotland, where we'll have clear skies and widespread frost. for easter monday m

independents 202-748-8002. mike pompeo, the c.i.a. irector, president trump's nominee to become the head of is the e department subject of the opinion pages of "usa today." n their debate section, the editors make the case for mr. pompeo. saying unless a nominee has competency l or failings, presidents should be latitude to elect top aides that they trust and agree with. pompeo passes that test and approval. one republican on the foreign relations committee threatening might k his nomination win a short term victory. pompeo who has served ably as on hisdirector including own through secret missions in north korea will be branded the only secretary of state ever the committee regardless of what the committee does. however, his fate will almost certainly reach the senate floor for approval. that's in the support section. when it comes to the opposing sarah margan of the human rights watch writes that opposing section today. this argument saying nominating pompeo was a clear sign that the president wants a state w

all of us say we want an independent investigation our resolution achieves that goal russia's does not deadlock at the u.n. as u.s. and russian resolutions on investigating chemical attacks in syria fail to go through. them jailed up this is al jazeera live from doha it was a coming up president donald trump welcomes the amir of qatar to the white house less than a year after accusing doha of funding terrorism. but i'm sorry. i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here. under pressure mark zuckerberg faces members of congress and takes responsibility for facebook privacy breaches plus. the. proof avaya palestinians say gazans were shot despite posing no threat to israeli forces. rival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria have failed to pass at the un security council both sides called for new inquiries but a u.s. plan to assign blame was rejected by moscow rescue workers say dozens of people died in this is specks of chemical attack on the town of duma on saturday mike hanna reports on the united nations. yet anot

under which the independent counsel was created in the first place. i fear that if we were to passes legislation and if it were to magically become law, we would be resurrecting many of the problems with the independent counsel provision for democrats and republicans alike agreed in 1999 should expire. i think we do have an toependent responsibility assess the constitutionality of the statute. this bill will not be taken up on the senate floor. the house will not pass it and the president will not sign it. is topropriate remedy offer a resolution expressing the sense of the senate. i cannot in good conscience sacrifice what justice scalia stated was the single and greatest most important guarantor of our liberties -- i mean the separation of powers because it happens to be politically expedient. i'm not judging the motivation of my colleagues. i cannot do it. believing as i do that it is unconstitutional. i want to reiterate what we all believe, the director mueller should be allowed to complete his work in due course. thank you, mr. chairman. >> you

were you surprised that that did not cause the sea change of opinion towards independence given that the indications are that independence support a state roughly put it was in the early fourteen much much higher than previously but not subject beyond the fifty percent mark i wasn't surprised in fact and the political cabinet just after nicol had taken over where we were discussing the prospect of this possibly happening newbie wanted it to happen potentially because clearly the s.n.p. didn't want to come out of europe but. at that discussion i specifically made the point that i did not believe that if we ended up with a differential between scotland the less the uki then that would automatically lead to a stampede for independence or anything like it but in particular your emotional attachment may be less than the s.n.p. is and is in suggestions that you personally voted against voted no in the european revelent of is those able to clear the one way or other for all time i've been ordered to but i voted no i didn't campaign in the referendum presented just leave the government and i

and a independence day ceremony in jerusalem. israel seventy eight today on the new.diffs is g w news lawyer from berlin outrage at an apparent anti-semitic attack here in berlin the german chancellor condemns an assault on two young men wearing jewish skullcaps they wanted to show a jewish israeli for him that it is safe to wear the kit but. the video of their attack though suggests it's anything but also coming up israel kicks off several days of partying and dance as the jewish state celebrates seventy years of independence.

but there's been a lot of question about how independent will their work be because now there is a new sheriff in town the syrian government and russia have taken over this rebel town of duma if you've been hearing reports from rebels as well as medics on the ground that there have been some threats that have been leveled against the people who are inside duma the syrian government has warned them especially those people who have families in damascus to refrain from giving any evidence to provide details so it remains to be seen how independent can that will be c.w. mission be as it carries out its operations in duma trying to establish the facts on the ground whether an attack happened or not but it is worth noting that this mission does not have the mandate to figure out who carried out this attack this comes as we're hearing from the syrian government that it's getting ready to launch another operation as it now controls most areas around the syrian capital damascus there is also a little pocket left as you mentioned in the area where mostly isis fighters are stationed and it is exp

need for an independent air arm.ng the need for an independent air armli instrumental in realising the need for an independent air arm. i want to scoot across and talk to somebody from today's raf. you are going to be presiding over the ceremony in a short time. it is a multifaceted day—to—day because it is about remembering but so much more. we will have 100 air cadets here today, raising the raf's standards, as they would have done. but we are going to celebrate as well. we have got a variety of events around the year. 0n the 10th ofjuly, up to 100 aircraft flying over buckingham palace. and we want to inspire a generation. these eight cadets will write a new chapter for the raf. we have just been hearing write a new chapter for the raf. we havejust been hearing in write a new chapter for the raf. we have just been hearing in the studio about the technology. is this still... we are so far away from this now. we take a variety of people throughout the uk, through great training we turn them into fantastic people to

this is your 100th year of independence independence. congratulations. for centuries the united states has stood with the people of the baltics in support of their independent sovereignty and self-determination. through the decades of brutal soviet occupation the united ceased to recognize he sovereignty of the baltic republics. in our discussions today i was roud to reaffirm america's commitment to the wells declares u.s. baltic charter of 1989. the same principles lie at the of america a's approach honoring the right of peaceful nations to protect their interests and chart their destinies.ul all three baltic republics are committed. nato allies i want to express for fulfilling your obligations and meeting the 2% g.d.p. benchmark for national defense this year. burden mitment to sharing is an example that other and partners all around the world will have to together and bear. some of them do not make the same commitment. hopefully they soon will. when nations are committed to security, they have to pay their share. a much ill all enjoy more safe and pro

if the scottish independence movement wants another vote the chance to change the minds of people in aberdeen it will surely waits until it knows the time is right and it breaks its sale scotland while the generations change they may still get their child's sleep al-jazeera in aberdeen a philippine president is calling on filipinos in kuwait to come home over allegations of worker abuse philippines banned workers from travelling to kuwait earlier this year after the deaths of seven filipino domestic workers in separate incidents deter taste said the ban is now permanent but two hundred sixty thousand filipinos are still living in kuwait both sides recalled their ambassadors last week after two filipino embassy staff were arrested for allegedly allegedly encouraging maids to flee are former president joyce banda has returned to malawi after four years of self-imposed exile that's despite the risk of arrest over corruption allegations banda fled malawi in twenty fourteen after losing power in the wake of the cash gate scandal that's where tens of millions of dollars were stolen from th

that the young by a wide margin want scottish independence while older people are against it it's the identical demographic splits to the brics it votes the young identifies european the old see themselves as british the polls show that the younger people particularly are very disillusioned with the way that westminster is operated and keen to show that they are as european as anybody else in the last independence referendum four years ago the yes campaign lost by two hundred thousand votes but that was before breakfast. if the scottish independence movement wants another vote a chance to change the minds of people in aberdeen it will surely waits until it knows the time is right and it breaks it fails scotland while the generations change they may still get their child's al-jazeera in aberdeen. till mania now we're opposition activists are holding a march blocking roads leading to the capital supporters of. a push in parliament to select ten as the country's new prime minister when they vote this week mass demonstrations forced a longtime leader said exactly on to step down robin for

independent. go ahead.-ler: think of her take thank you for taking my call. it looks like you have an overcast day, but you look good. the book about the comey investigation and mueller into our past election, the russians, 410 or 15 -- i am 63 -- 20 years the russians have been doing all they can. they have new platforms through facebook and the internet to interfere with our elections. one of their goals is to divide partisan --yper hyper partisan is him -- hyper partisanism and sexism. canou divide them, you conquer them easier or sway them. that is all it was. they have been doing it for years. the thing that is kind of funny, and we elected trump -- he ran as a businessman that would be a change agent, and basically the country was a little bit tired of the clinton and the bush name brand, and they could see what dnc, hillary,the and the other candidate that, you know, bernie sanders. everybody kind of sense that. -- andelection happened this is really funny, because i have lived and been a politically

what is the percentage of independence in maryland? -- independents in maryland? >> i'm not sure. i know it is 20% in the sixth district. justice: is that a primary consideration in determining whether district is gerrymandered? >> neither party is the majority in terms of registered voters in that district. so the independent vote is critical because in the election, the first election, the democrat won more of the independent vote than the republican. the redistricting lines couldn't have caused that to happen. that happened because of the views of those voters on the strength of that candidate. justice: as a general mander in partisan gerrymandering cases, do you have a theory about how you are supposed to take independent voters into account? mr. sullivan: i think they have rights too, and what about all the people that aren't part of a major party? if they don't enter into the calculus for this first amendment retaliation, presumably they are retaliated against in every act. justice: isn't it a fact that most people who are independent lean strongly one way or the other, over

in march one thousand nine hundred seventy one a war of independence began. the military carried out massacres against civilians in the east locals who wanted to remain part of pakistan also took part in the bangladesh government says that up to three million people were killed. india's intervention led to the creation of a new country out of east pakistan bangladesh millions of people were uprooted. for the leaders of the new nation wanted a secular even socialist bangladesh. they enshrined the principle of secularism and of the preamble of the constitution. many years later in one nine hundred eighty eight the country's ruler declared islam the state religion with far reaching consequences. we do hundred subscribe to secularism any longer we don't believe that everyone has a right to life and liberty and freedom of expression irrespective of what their religious belief or background is i think what we're seeing is. a willingness to tolerate the intolerant but also embrace in that actually asserting intolerance as a way of being and saying that so long as my

out of the un altogether is don't expect much from and where are your position at this point to independently verify the allegations well even if you and investigators end up in doom let's hope it's not too late. to change state senator richard black told us members of terms of ministration make a military response more likely. but it is very possible that the entire thing was a complete fabrication and we were not even bothering to even bothering to say what is there a murderer commit and there's a long history of the these false flag attacks and one other thing that i noticed is that the reports that came out of the white know much which are a subsidiary of. the same group that bought the twin towers in new york and killed three thousand americans on the web and others. president truong has a war surrounded himself by a war cabinet the one exception is general mattis smathers made it very interesting statement and this was just last month he said the united states can have. had syria first because ever used chemical weapons this is exactly the situation. and the united states has no excuse

since the arrests catalonia is independence movement has stalled but advocates say their fight isn't over. this is about defending our democracy ending a policy influenced by judicial authority releasing prisoners allowing exiles to come back and resolving the political conflict using policy and only policy because . among the jailed separatists are members of catalonia is regional government including jordi sanchez catalan lawmakers selected sanchez twice to be their new leader but both times a spanish judge refused to release him from jail to be sworn in catalonia has been in political limbo since being central government imposed direct rule on the region after it unilaterally declared independence last october fresh regional elections will be triggered if a new leader is not a lead did by me twenty second. and brazil now where thousands have turned out in rio de janeiro demanding answers in the slaying of city councilwoman mario they frankel she was shot dead a month ago after an event on empowering black women franco had an s. fierce critic of police brutality racism and discrimi

on he has jailed leader nine separatist leaders have been imprisoned over the region's push for independence. speaking out for the woman who can speak no more a friend of mario they franco defies death threats surface for answers and the killing of the popular rio de janeiro councilwoman. i'm biased waiter welcome to the program. the u.s. and its allies said they have no plans for further missile strikes on syria but washington has warned it's quote locked and loaded if damascus carries out more poison gas attacks the u.s. also says is preparing new sanctions on russia as punishment for supporting the regime of syrian president bashar al assad the u.n. ambassador nikki haley announced the move on c.b.s.'s face the nation sanctions will be coming down secretary mineta will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use. and syrian president bashar assad has says saturday's u.s. led airstrikes were based on a campaign of lies coming from the u.n. security council as