granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, peter and mary kalikow, cliff and laurel asness, and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - sviatlana tsikhanouskaya, katya snytsina, natalia kaliada. - i'm the easiest one. (interviewees laugh) - welcome to the three of you to "firing line." natalia, the belarus free theatre has used art to stand up against alexander lukashenko's dictatorship for 20 years now. we watched something just now here in this theater that was extraordinary, a play about katya snytsina, a former captain of the belarus women's basketball team who is also the star of the play. what were you hoping to accomplish with this performance? - we do many different shows for almost 20 years. and for 20 years we try to bring the value of one human life back to reality. recent years, especially after events of 2020 in belarus, when thousands of people went to the streets against the usurper of the country who occupied his own country, put into jails thousands of people, kidnapped and killed main opponents to the regime, those people went to

we can rest on our laurels as a great state. they chart a new path like our pioneering predecessors to make indiana the standard bearer for small business growth. i intend to do that. we can accept high health care costs as inevitable or take on the opaque system to lower costs and increase transparency for all hoosier families like i did in my own business 16 years ago. we can settle for complacency in our education system. our empowered parents and prepare students for the jobs that will power the future. we cannot accept rising property taxes as an unfortunate fact of life or explore every avenue to reduce the burden on hard-working hoosier families and businesses. i guarantee you we are going to give it one good shot of getting that back in place where it needs to be. we can let government inefficiencies impede our success or reshape government to sincerely serve the people. how about that? now is a time to empower the next generation of hard-working hoosiers and once again pursue freedom and opportunity without fear. as a ph

granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, peter and mary kalikow, cliff and laurel asnessd by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - juan williams, welcome back to "firing line." - thank you, margaret. - on monday, donald trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the united states, on the same day that our country celebrates martin luther king day. if kamala harris hadn't won fewer votes than joe biden did in 2020 we would be instead inaugurating the first black woman president. these are two very different histories and narratives about america. what do you make of it? - well, i have just written a book called "new prize for these eyes." and the subtitle is the rise of america's second civil rights movement, margaret. and it speaks to this idea that you are talking about, that you can see one moment, we're about to see donald trump begin a second term. but we could be about to see the first black woman inaugurated as president. and what i'm speaking about here is, the important point in the book is that we are in the midst of a second civ

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can't rest on yesterday's laurels and need to continue to innovate and china, don't believe that deepseek as good as it is. they're not that far behind. i remember openai executives saying we used to talk about china being years away -- behind, they might only be months behind. so i agree that maybe china hasn't come up with deepseek and incredibly revolutionary product and a quart ere of the cost and everyone else in the u.s. overvalued and overspending and it puts us on notice that we need to be very careful with ai. we need to innovate and a pro business at ministration, and we need to support -- administration and support entrepreneurs to make sure we don't fall behind to china. larry: i agree. it's a great riff you have. i agree. i don't know whether they spent $5 million or not. that could be a phony number but that aside, our big hitters, i mean, even in the paper today, microsoft, openai they're all prepared to spend a lot more money. >> that's the soleoff; right? larry: today the market came back and nvidia lost 16, 17% yesterday and last i heard up 11% today and bouncing back. they

during the election campaign, you know, pretending to be coming in as batman and robin and it turns out that they're little more than laurelhardy. they are just not going to do anything about it. and, you know, we laugh. but the problem is that we're going to get another 35, 40, perhaps 50,000 coming across next year because there's so much money in it and there's thousand. well, you know, who knows. you never quite know. it depends on the weather. it depends on the weather. it depends on. but we could do , depends on. but we could do, which means over 200,000 people coming in illegally across the channel since it all started in 2018, when sadiq sajid javid almost said it. khan. but even sajid javid declared an emergency. well, frankly, had he acted decisively then, had the government acted decisively, then we wouldn't have the problems that we do now. as it is, i think that the government at the moment is clueless about how to stop it, and it's just going to continue. >> i mean, fundamentally, it's one of the issues and we've seen this with this sort of botched chagos island deal that's been going on at the moment that th

asking as consent the resolution be agreed to the motion to be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. >> of that objection if the senator from iowa laurel present himself at the desk i will administer the oath of office. >> of theoretical estimate raise your right hand placed you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. you take the obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god? >> i do. [cheering] [applause] >> president pro tem.

laurels. and think about helping to comb through the trees to identify infections. thousands are already helping. >> and that way, we can get a better sense as to how many more trees are infected and look at where it could be spreading to. to help maintain as healthy a forest as we can. >> reporter >>> a new strain of the bird flu has been detected at a duck farm in merced county. this strain is called h 5 n 9. the department of agriculture says it's a combination of the strain widely detected around the world. it's likely a little pathogenic mild virus that moves through the birds without killing them. according to the world health on, the new strain is unlikely to increase the chance of human bird flu pandemic. >>> more electric vehicles but not enough places to charge them. how one bay area city is hoping a multimillion- dollar federal grant will help ev drivers avoid problems like this. >> this charger is unavailable. i'm not going to be able to charge my car. >>> and the csu board of trustees getting an earful today. the pushback against drastic budget cuts at one bay area campus. >>> our hearing sense is the most 3d sense we have. it w

laurel. this was a joy. she everytime say he's like for us in washington dc. she have of course, uh president trump hesitate to sort of significant steps as we've seen and heard in those 1st few hours. just talk to see what we've seen and then how significant it is. i mean, a lot of these executive orders may well be may well be challenged in quotes, the ones those that are making the biggest headlines here, the ones where the present in, in dispute has the authority to act immediately. or kevin sees without sleep. a pause, and so the $1500.00 people who are convicted or charged or up for a to do with the january 6th to january 6th. right. that's raising eyebrows because there were suggestions for the incoming attorney, general vice president of that is convicted, a violent crimes would not be positive that that isn't the case. but, but this was a campaign promise he needs to keep the mag make america great again. faithful on board, this is something with the base once i don't have time when it's clear that trump is very and far more towards the, the tech ability it has rather than the, the gross roots part of his condition. you know, this is the sort of thin

as we've done since march so that's what theadministration will focus on . >> what is the president interested in deferring a question about vaccines? >> this is something that rests in the laurels of the fda so we want to let them dr lead by science . we've been pretty consistent on that over the last four years so we're going to leave it to the fda but i'm not going to get intohypotheticals about what the next administration will do or not do . >> there have been reports of the chinese government hackers have reached a sensitive office within the us treasury . opec of course administered us sanctions . what can you tell us about the scope and what information has been compromised? >> we're closely tracking the incident . we are working to identify actions to mitigate the future risks to us government networks and anything further i would have to refer you to the us treasury department, the fbi can specifics on this incident but the spresident has been brief and we are closely tracking . >>. [inaudible] >> i would have to refer to the treasury department and the fbi as you know is investigating >. >> have there been signsof the social security fairness act? >> he will sign the

as another significant fire just broke out in that area. so the 101 freeway to mulholland drive, hollywood boulevard on one side, laurel canyon on the other. the wind has just been relentless. you know, southern california is currently enduring some of the most historic fire conditions on record. this is extreme weather, strong winds, dry conditions, multiple fires across the region, and it's putting immense pressure on our agency and all other agencies. it feels like you're in a boxing ring with a heavyweight champion, and you take blow after blow after blow after fire after fire. and it is very challenging. we're up to the challenge, but believe me, we are being tested. >> do you expect there to be more evacuations in the coming hours? should people who live in this area and around nichols canyon and the hills here should, should they be prepared for that? >> yes. we already sent out a wireless emergency alert that forces notification to people in the area to make them aware of a fast moving brush fire. we've already. polygon or created the area of concern, and the target hazards inside. essentially where the fire is, where it's going, a

laurels. canada and mexico, we're okay. drones in new jersey. we don't know the origin of. terrorists coming across the northern and southern border and now having to say we're maybe not as safe here in the homeland as we think we are. do you think 25 years after 9/11 that would be a no-brainer. thankfully this administration understands it. >> martha: president trump on the iron dome issue. >> president trump: to immediately begin the construct of the state-of-the-art iron dome missile defense shield to protect americans. we protect other countries but we don't protect ours. when ronald reagan wanted to do it many years ago. we didn't have the technology then. it was a concept. now we have phenomenal technology. the united states is entitled to that and everything will be made here in the usa, 100%. >> martha: one of the things that comes to mind is the extraordinary success level of the israeli iron dome system. reports of thousands of missiles, and rockets as you pointed out that are deflected. it works extraordinarily well. it is stunning actually how few actually get through. but you also just touched on the issue of hypersonics, which we are behind on. that they have th

laurels, so to speak. they are out trying to find other types of social media homes. you mentioned bytedance's lemon8 ranked second on apple's free top apps. but coming in first, red note, also known ast app's name is inspired by communist china's first leader, mao zedong, and yet we are still seeing hundreds of thousands of these so-called tiktok refugees flocking to it. it has soared to the number one spot in apple's a app store. of at least 700,000 downloads in just two days. but there is a question on how long in this flight the red note specifically will last or is permitted. you know, tech analysts are quick to point out it is completely chinese-owned, so information gathered by red note flows direct directly into china. and our colleague, edward lawrence, he spoke with the current ambassador the to china about the rise of these other chinese apps. reason to this. listen to this. >> reporter: as tiktok threatened, other apps are rising. you're seeing this as -- is this a strategy by, you think, the chinese communist matter? >> i do think it is a strategy. you know, china is a very significant global power. they want to overtake the united states in power. they want to diminish

laurel in oklahoma giving us a call. our show will continue on throughout the morning and give you the front seat so to speak to today's inauguration ceremony held inside blair house ast is commonly known, which is close to the white house, where the president and his team is staying as they prepare for the transition to take place later on today. we will see him come out and the incoming first lady of the united states melania trump and others to start their day. that starting with the church service at st. john's as you heard john tell you about earlier. and then we will follow you along. speaking of which, john, give us an update. >> pedro, one of your callers earlier were talking but the theme of this inaugural address that president trump will be giving. it will be president trump taking the oath and giving the inaugural address. but to expect elation about what that theme will be -- plenty of speculation about what that theme will be. the los angeles times right trump's first speech was american carnage and this time it will be different. this is the headline from npr. trump says the theme of this inaugural address will be unity. the wall street journal got som