second rhode island. and the regiments were integrated. the franks were not signing up for easy duty. continental soldiers lived tough pay was very sporadic. sporadic due to a limited treasury of the new federal government and the state governments as well. they were issued equipment. they were issued muskets and bayonets, issued clothing that consistent mostly of hunting shirts similar to spats. smocks, scuse me, that were large enough to cover their other clothing and equipment. shoes were always in supply in the summer, soldiers could go barefoot. and in the winter we heard these stories about the army soldiers. in the winter, sometimes they had to wrap their feet in cloth. soldiers often resorted to foraging in the countryside for food. soldiers also had to deal with diseases that ran rampant through their camps. on the screen is how. colonel. excuse me, colonel angel, describe the situation of the men who served in the second rhode island regiment. wrote back to his boss the general assembly. he said

rhode island troops. he wrote, "the two rhode island italians have been sickly, they have lost a considerable number. this is to their immense fatigue in the summer past." he means fatigue, meaning the extra duties they perform in the summer. in 2019, i had the privilege of visiting valley forge national historical park and that is me standing at the encampment. that was moving for me. to solve the problem, of dwindling manpower, excuse me, general varnum made the recommendation to fill the dwining ranks by recruiting and enlisting enslaved men from rhode island they were able to convince general washington and the rhode island general assembly to allow the enlistment of statement in return for their freedom. the slave enlistmentacwas passed on february th1778, and is situated that any negor --egro and any indian man slave in the state may enlist into either of the two battalions they sa ey shall be entitled to receive all bonuses, excuse me, bounties, wage and encouragements allowed by the cointal congre

of rhode island. not only that but they were going to fight side by side with their new allies the french who had come to the aid of the americans at the american victory at saratoga in new york in october of 1777. the expedition failed. when american troops were unable to overcome the british defenses at newport. on the screen is a graphic from the book "the black regiment of the american revolution", and it enlists step by step what happens during the battle of rhode island that would happen during the rhode island expedition. french ships were prevented from participating in the battle due to bad winds and damage upon the fleet. they had to flee to boston for repairs and did not return to give support. also british reinforcements were sent to repel the american attack. after trying to lay siege for almost a month, the americans were forced to flee the island on august 29th and during their retreat that the battle of rhode island occurred. initially they come across from the fort, march all the way

the general of the rhode island regiments was concerned about the state of the rhode island troops. he wrote the two rhode island battalions have been sickly and lost a considerable number. this is owing to their immense fatigue in the summer past. he means the extra duties in the summer and in 2019 i had the privilege of visiting valley forge historical park. that is me standing at the encampment site for the rhode island regiment. that is kind of moving in for me. to solve the problem of dwindling manpower. excuse me. general varnam made the recommendation to fill their dwindling ranks byrecruiting and enlisting enslaved men from rhode island. they will allow the enlistment of enslaved men in return for their freedom. 14, 1778, rhode island general assembly allow the enlistment enslavement in retu for their freedom. the slave enlistment act was passed in 1778 and stipulated that any, ote mulatto, or indian man slave,, can now enlist the rhode land co regiments. that went on to y, quote, that every slavsoenlisting shall be entitled to receive all the bountieswas, and encouragements

first rhode island regiment. frank brothers and other soldiers of color were transferred from the second rhode island to the reconfigured first rhode island regiment. that became known as the black regiment. on the screen are copies two documents that address the change. this document is part of a pension record from private willm amplin. - underlined on the screen. the second document isentitled return, meaning enlisting. return freemen enlisted for the wa you can e right there, i have magnified names of the frk brothers listed right there. that document lists over 35 individuals considered free prior to the slave enlistment act. their first battle will occur their home soil in rhode island. the main objective was to drive british troops - newport. the first joint effort between american and french troops. - in october 1777. the expedition failed when american troops were not able to overcome british defenses ate newport. on the screen is a book titled the black regiment the american revolution listing step-by-s

i was going to go to a rhodes scholarship. so that i think, was the better choice, although sometimes sometime in retrospect, i wish i had just gone to try out camp. so i have played with george gervin, the the all time leading scorer. think he's the all time leading scorer of this spurs. and a friend of mine actually was speculating why. do you think the spurs drafted you? glenn i said, i don't know. and then he said, oh, i think i know. and i said, why is that? said, well, they already have george gervin, his nickname is the ice man. they drafted you so. they could also have the ice cube. and there's a friend of mine telling me that. but no, i don't regret not trying out. i, i, i'm happy about the career that i had. yeah, well, let's some questions. yes, ma'am. go back to the fat leonard. yes, it was such a long running fraud. what aberration or loser and brought it to your attention. so there were some whistleblowers who were involved and in eventually people brought complaints. the u.s. attorney in san diego was involved a

fine, you're a rhodes scholar. wow, what a day, the best game of my college career. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. >> best in my college career and i won a rhodes scholarship. there was only one problem, the game was fixed. mafia mobsters had bribed the boston college players to do what's called shaving points to win the game, but by less than the point spread so the mobsters could bet on the opposing team, in this case, harvard and win a lot of money. the harvard game was the first game they bribed the boston college players and about a year later, after the game, sports illustrated broke the story that one of the mobsters confessed and it was in sports illustrated and a friend of mine sent me the article showing harvard was the first game they bribed. hey, glenn, i guess you played your best game when the other team was in the tank. and by the way, these were not any other mobsters. who has seen the movie goodfellas. pretty much everybody. they were the two main characters in goodfellas, henry hill played by ray liota, and jimmy burke, played by robert de niro

then i remembered, oh my gosh, the rhodes scholarship. i have to call back and find out what happened. so in my uniform, i went to a payphone on the concourse of the boston garden and called back the rose committee and said, could you please tell me the results of the interview. and they said, congratulations, mr. fine, your rhodes scholar wow. what a day. i had the best game of my college career. well, thank you. thank best game in my college career. and i won a rhodes scholarship, but there was only one problem. the game was fixed east mafia mobsters had bribed the boston college players to do what's called shaving points to win the game. but by less the point spread so that the mobsters bet on the opposing team. in this case, harvard, and win a lot of money. the harvard game was the first game that they bribed the boston college players and about a year later, after the game, sports illustrated broke the story that one of the mobsters confessed. and it was in sports. and a friend of mine sent me the article showing that the harvard gam

cody rhodes is joining us tonight!s and applause ] oh, yeah. and a little bit later, i'll be performing a song off my new holiday album, "holiday seasoning." there you go, yeah. [ cheers and applause ] guys, but right now, today's a a day all about giving thanks. i thought what better day to write out my weekly thank you notes. do you guys mind? [ cheers and applause ] james, can i get some thank you note writing music please? ♪ [ light laughter ] thank you, pilgrims, for always looking like a guy who has two favorite belts and couldn't pick. [ laughter and applause ] i'll just wear them both. ♪ [ light laughter ] thank yoyou, pumpk pie, for giving me the chance to end a a nice meal with some baby food. [ laughter ] [ applause ] ♪ [ light laughter ] thank you, spirit airlines, for filing for bankruptcy. [ light laughter ] and making everyone ask, "wait, you had money before?" [ laughter and applause ] found a good deal. ♪ [ light laughter ] thank you, opening my air pods case, for showing me what it'd be like to propos

rhode island u.s. senator sheldon whitehouse. from the senate to the house of representatives, joining me now is congressman glenn ivey, democrat of maryland. congressman, to start, what has been your reaction to the results of this election? >> deep disappointment. shock at some level. you know, we spent the last few days talking to friends, colleagues, advisers, trying to sift through it and figure out what went wrong. but it caught me by surprise, i must say. >> across the country on election day, harris lost two points among black voters nationally. a lot less than what was predicted. in comparison to president biden. nbc news exit polls show that trump gained black voter support in battleground states in north carolina and wisconsin, but where he more than doubled his support. however, an overwhelming 85% of the black vote still supported harris nationally. nine out of 10 black women even to the prediction about lachman with not nearly what they predicted. what role is the congressional caucus going to play in making sure th

and i want a rhodes scholarship. there was only one problem. the game fixed that two mafia mobsters had bribed boston college players to point meaning to win by just any mobsters the way it's not just any mobsters. henry hill and jimmy burke. you ever see anybody see the movie goodfellas? they were the two played by ray liotta and robert niro. they were the mobsters who bribed several boston college players to shave. and the first game they shaved points against harvard. and when i was at oxford sports, illustrated broke the story and they henry hill explained happened. friend of mine sent me the article and wrote on the top, hey, glen, i guess you played your best game when the other team was in the tank tank and it was true. and so later on, after i was nominated many years later to be the inspector general of the department, justice senator herb kohl supported my nomination and went on the floor of the senate and gave a speech in support of the nomination and said maybe the reason he wants weed out corruption in the justice department was be

david rhodes, good to see you, david. i wonder what you are hearing inside doj. >> there was shock. some people called it insane. given his own past where he was previously investigated in a sex trafficking case, no charges were filed against gaetz in that case, but there is a concern that that experience, having gone through a federal investigation, may make him biased against the doj. a bigger issue as many people are citing the lack of experience, gaetz is a laurp. briefly practiced law in florida but has no prosecution experience. the biggest concern is as trump's ally will he retaliate against people who participated in the two criminal investigations against president trump. for january 6th and for mishandling classified documents. so, multiple concerns. it's just not clear whether gaetz will become the attorney general or not. >> thank you for that. now to another controversy over trump's pick for the top intelligence job. nbc's dan de luce is covering this for us. tulsi gabbard has been known as a favorite of state media in, a once vocal backer of bernie sanders. that's been

on the far left is katherine nash rhodes, who, with agnes, would find the freyer gallery of art, part of the smithsonian now, and she was a painter. along with her good friend, marian beckett, another painter, and mercedes de cordoba, who was multitalented, a fashion writer, a dancer, an actor, singer, and they all were friends with the artist, edward steichen, and they gathered at his house outside of paris. we have a portrait of his garden also in the exhibition with isadora duncan dancing in it. but he wanted to keep that theme of the friends coming together in his garden as the theme of this mural series, and so you see there are stylized flowers and there are the women who were there. what strikes me about this is usually, with a mural scheme, either painting or sculpture that's supposed to coordinate with architecture, there's a lot of generic representation of women, usually, idealized goddesses or some kind of classical personification of an allegory or symbol, and we see that with mercedes cordoba. she's very -- her face and gown are sort of all abstracted, but notice with ka

will: discovered rhode island. joey: she was not pleased.hel: i love christopher columbus but it is a beautiful place by the way all three of us tired you were watching football game. two of us went to rachel's first ufc game or ufc fight. not game. will: take a look at this photo he here was her shawn and bare of born primitive of ufc309 and dinner first and i thought i would sneak a picture with the audience from something from dinner. here's rachel with a steak bigger than her head. [laughter] joey: that is awesome. rachel: they had brought other steaks they sliced up an not everyone ate them to i'm like i'm taking that home. that's for the tomorrow. i hate wasting food and there was expense i have steak untouched and i said -- you've got -- you've got to take to a coat check. >> coat checked it. i coat checked it. the leftovers at the little party we went to before we went to the ufc fight. you know, listen, this was amazing i had never you talk about christopher columbus i approached this like an explorer i had never been to anything li

rhode island was the lone sort of holdout. i'm concerned clearly about the proceedings, but the other 12 states sent delegates that totaled about 74 at one time or another. 55. so you get a lot of rotation here. some come, some leave that of thing. alexander hamilton, is there for a period of time as part of the three man delegation from new york. he has to leave for a period, unfortunately, when he has to. fellow delegates from new york are not happy with the proceedings. so you get some change, right? some flux in and out in the midst of it. right. but in terms of who who is attending here. well, there are some of the folks you would expect, but there are also some notable absences. and i'm going to i'm going to mention first those who aren't there that you might have expected to be there and there's some good reasons, i think, in many instances why they're not. i'd like to start with patrick henry, who after george washington probably has the most name recognition any american of the time. patrick henry refused to attend. h

just over 70 about 74 delegates from every state except rhode island.hode island was the lone holdout here i was concerned clearly about the proceedings. but the other 12 states sent delegates at total about 74 at one time or another. see you get a lot of rotation here some come in, some leave that kind of thing alexander hamilton's or for a period of time is part off the writ three man delegation from new york. he has to leave for a. unfortunately what is chief fellow delegates from york are not happy with the proceedings. see it some change some flux in and out in the midst of it. but in terms of who is attending here some of the folks you would expect. there also some notable absences. i'm going to mention first those who are not there that you might've expected to be there. and then there's some good reasons in many instances whyst they are not part of patrick henry who after george washington probably has the most name recognition of any american of the time patrick henry refused to attend he said i smelled a rat. i am gravely concerned clearly abo

and just over 70, about 74 delegates from every state, except rhode island, rhode island was the loan hold out here, i am concerned, clearly, about the proceedings. but, the other 12 states sent delegates that totaled about 74 or more at one time or another. 55 -- so, you get a lot of rotation here, some come in, some leave, that kind of thing. alexander hamilton is there for a period of time, as part of a three-man delegation from new york. he has to leave for a period, unfortunately, when his two fellow delegates from new york are not happy with the proceedings. so, you get some change, right? some flux in and out in the midst of it, right? but, in terms of who of -- is attending here, there are some folks you would expect, but there are also some notable absences, and i will mention first those that are not there that you might have expected to be there, and there are some good reasons, i think, in many instances, why they are not. i like to start with patrick henry, who, after george washington, probably has the most name recognition of any american of the time. patrick henry refu

your constituents in rhode island?have a resounding mandate. remember the popular vote will end up being about a 2 point difference. so, you know, what i will say is, we have to be strong at the state and local level. that ultimately what was happened in the first trump administration. you saw state and local leaders join together with democrats in congress who are holding trump accountable to make very clear what our values are as americans. mass deportations that are inhumane, eliminating the department of education, these are things that inconsistent with our values. and so, we will have to articulate those over and over and over and over again and mack sure the american people know very clearly what the contrast is at 1600 pennsylvania and at the state and local level, and with democrats in congress. >> all right. democratic congressman gabe amo, thanks for covering so much ground with us this morning. >> thank you. >>> we will talk to you again soon. >>> up next, president biden will meet with donald trump at the

well when i went to congress, i went on the armed committee because i represented rhode island. we have all the navy there. i didn't think i could do anything for the labor guys who helped me get elected or my environmental friends who went out and organized for me or the portuguese that came out for me. but when i got there, the labor union guys came in and said, got a whole bunch of issues in the dod that. we need to get fixed. i'm like, oh, what are they here? they and then the environmentalists came and i said, listen guys, it's army, navy, air force, and that's what i'm about. and they said, no, wait a second. the department defense has a bigger environmental budget than any of even the epa. and i'm like, i had no idea. but my point in this is we're not organized so that every single committee in congress has a list of to and. by the way, like i said, we those two dues all match whatever your diagnosis at the end of the day. and what we need is the power unity rather than end up in our little silos by diagnosis. so i think of congress are so to do the right thing. but they

202500000 also because i've so far mr. switch also between 2000000 also because currently on i didn't rhodes' office just say the few on will help eliminate many on the federal supply telling just looking for some genuine for decades. although conversion to c and d slowly gaining traction. so i'm not get into an entirely happy so we have to q for like i've been on q for more than city, which i've used to productive. so i want to do some others. i worried about the cost of retrofitting a vehicle which ranges from $500.00 to $2000.00. if you take a lot of funding, a lot of supports also from government in governmental ready to put in that support . the government says it's working to resolve that. we have seen as a progressive expansion from what used to be to where we are now expanding the footprint shore additional states. now judy has $206.00 trillion cubic feet of gas . domestic utilization is very low. in some cases, their souls is simply flat. the government hopes deepening domestic gas installation will reduce local demand for petroleum, which can be exported for forwarding exchange. ho

with it on across our union. spanish authorities have released emergency funds to begin repairs to rhodes, railways, and other infrastructure. but total reconstruction costs are, exp did be staggering. spain's prime minister said outside help is needed. that means you for them. ok. so we are in communication with the european commission, and we've become the procedures to request aid from the european. so adair to find out the use of, of the community support resources from the european union. the government says, all the resources of the state will be directed to valencia to help people rebuild the shafted lives. but many here, angry at the slow response to the disaster and trust is in short supply, victoria gates and b l g 0 for counting. the cost. joining us not from munich has talked to the sheriffs, chair of environmental employment policy at the technical university of unit, could tell you what this miranda was climate change while the regional government in valencia to blame for this, the shift scale of this disaster, or maybe even the national government in madrid. how the 3 into

withdrawal from the region. china has spent billions of dollars in baluchistan as part of its bells from rhode initiative. it's basically possibly connected to the geo politics. the politics off, off the go on the board, this china box on economic audit or uh, you know, we have to understand that the go other port is the jewel in the calling of the feedback. dyna box on economic caught it or so many people were injured in the attack and emergency has been declared across the cities. hospitals as medical staff do the best to cope with the estimate victoria gates and b l g 0. this is a spanish province all valencia protests against the government. so taking place because of the handling of flooding that has so far killed more than $200.00 people. last week, we're seeing that on you know, series is a life pictures and that's from valencia's 50 cent. so you can see what looks like hundreds of people, maybe even more. the regional president is facing closer design over his handling of the crisis and some local say, the government's warnings and response. well, and that's because the flooding is som

ben rhodes, former national security adviser under president obama joins me to talk about how we should approach this new era and how we should prepare for a second trump administration, which will be operating with far fewer guardrails than the first term. >>> plus, the atlantic top nichols calls the toasty gabbard nomination in national security risk, but also believes that the senate can't stop it, tom nichols joins me to discuss how the most dangerous trump cabinet pics can be rolled back. >>> she was one of the most successful and popular authors writing today, she is also the author of the most banned book of the last school year. jodi picoult joins me to discuss her road map for the growing threat of censorship, the special edition of the book club is ahead and another hour of "velshi" begins right now. >>> good morning to you, it is saturday, november 16th, 65 days until donald trump's second inauguration. and this time, he is going to enter the white house with fewer checks on his power than ever before. when trump this one into office on january 20th, his party will also hold

tenemos a sheldon whitehouse, demÓcrata que ga el escaÑo por rhode island.cÓmo estÁ el pleno del senado. recordarÁn que el mapa nos daba unos resultados que a esta hora han cambiado. ya tenemos 43 escaÑos de los republicanos y 33 de los demÓcratas. el nÚmero ganar es 50 y para tener la mayorÍa en el senado deban llegar a 51. este desempate lo podrÍa dar la vicepresidencia. ya tenemos cinco del lado de los demÓcratas que han ganado el escaÑo y tambiÉn cinco republicanos y estar meta estÁ del lado de los republicanos, prÓxima a llegar a 50. una contienda muy reÑida que estaremos monitoreÁndome de cerca mÁs adelante, quÉ sucede con la cÁmara de representantes. jorge: nÚmeros interesantes. son 435 representantes y no tenemos ni siquiera 100. enrique: lo que estÁ de por medio es la gobernabilidad. no importa quiÉn gana la casa blanca, debe encontrar caminos de gobernabilidad con el congreso y la configuraciÓn que resulta de esta jornada electoral. ilia: eliÁn acaba de proyectar como ganador rick scott, de la florida, que mantendrÁ su escaÑo en el senado. vamos a

harris, pretty much safe buttons, vermont, massachusetts, connecticut to kind of the off of pot here, rhode island, new jersey. that the why illinois looks like they are safely on the how about spot american politics is never short on drama. so what twists and tom still my head will be talking through more and i'll specialist you do the as well 10 all the states are expected to stop closing polls at this hour. which means that we will expect some more preliminary results and potentially projections and not crucially includes the swing state are as so you know, which accounts, but $811.00 electoral thirds. so far, trump is lead to the national race with projects and saying he's winning in 15 states. congress is a had to know i just very quickly looking at this, not we'll talking bad about arizona body is one of the swing states. it is one of the 7 why next to arizona over on the west coast. we also have no thought that traditionally seen as blue. but a lot of people that are unhappy about the economy primarily about housing prices, the average house on the donald trump costs $300000.00 on to

i was going to go to a rhodes scholarship. so that i think, was the better choice, although sometimes sometime in retrospect, i wish i had just gone to try out camp. so i have played with george gervin, the the all time leading scorer. think he's the all time leading scorer of this spurs. and a friend of mine actually was speculating why. do you think the spurs drafted you? glenn i said, i don't know. and then he said, oh, i think i know. and i said, why is that? said, well, they already have george gervin, his nickname is the ice man. they drafted you so. they could also have the ice cube. and there's a friend of mine telling me that. but no, i don't regret not trying out. i, i, i'm happy about the career that i had. yeah, well, let's some questions. yes, ma'am. go back to the fat leonard. yes, it was such a long running fraud. what aberration or loser and brought it to your attention. so there were some whistleblowers who were involved and in eventually people brought complaints. the u.s. attorney in san diego was involved a

we, it's not, you know, 2 years ago when the receipt waves of the united kingdom, we saw rhodes actually buckling. and i think unfortunately that with the floods in space, we're seeing but black benefit structure, resiliency coming into full play as well. yeah. certainly a devastating to see the effects of us had a great to have you on the show and thanks for sharing all of your expertise with this climate research cannot handle joining us from california tonight. thank you. pop up, appreciate it. or i time for some more stories at making headlines around the world . seasonal firefighters protesting about their employment conditions have clashed with police outside the greek apartments in athens. official se 14 people were injured, firefighters are demanding full time employment as their contracts currently only running from may to october. they say grease needs year round firefighting capability. the lady is armed forces, say, armed supporters of a former president. eval morales have taken around 20 soldiers hostage and ministry barracks is comes after police tried to carry roads that h

we, it's not, you know, 2 years ago when the receipt waves of the united kingdom, we saw rhodes actually buckling. and i think unfortunately that with the floods in spain, we're seeing but lack the infrastructure, resiliency coming into full play as well. yes, certainly a devastating to see the effects of us had a great to have you on the show and thanks for sharing all your expertise with this climate research hand handle. joining us from california tonight botswana is seeing it's 1st change in government in almost 60 years. president mark, let's see, my see, see of the ruling botswana democratic party has conceded defeat after being randomly beaten in parliamentary elections this week, as the celebrations began. after a surprise, landslide victory footboards one of the main opposition party and this meant to muscle like human rights lawyer. it said to be the country's next president degree of his body, the upgrade of democratic change broke the ruling. what's, why not democratic bodies? 6, stick it long group one father. my system in the country of some 2600000 people, many have expres

island rhode island. we could go on and on and on. what do you think? >> they're lying to us about this. donald trump deserves to have people around him who he trusts. we all saw how people within government tried to undermine him and miles taylor with new york times op ed trying to work against donald trump and cabinet officials are talking about the 25th amendment and this is a guy that knows what he's doing and if you watched any of the interviews he did with joe rogan or elon musk, this is incredible smart man that knows how to change things up, he's an outsider and i think he deserves to have people around him and he trusts and will carry out his mission and also the mission that the american people just voted for as well. we've also learned over the years a lot of so called experts are not experts. all these people got everything wrong during covid. look at botched withdraw from afghanistan. they were totally wrong about that. no accountability. whatsoever. you had fbi working against american peopl

and to us to, to, to, to kind of aspire to become as well. trade has been central when it's built in rhode initiative, a huge infrastructure investment drive was another way in which china sought to win hearts and minds and developing economies. however, that appears to have run out of steam with many host countries, left, settled with debt leading to protests and discontent in kenya and sri lanka, to name to recent examples for direct chinese outbound investment discharging to record levels signed that the country is increasingly choosing to invest in manufacturing operations abroad, particularly, and clean energy as part of its way of dealing with new tires. in many ways, this represents sort of a 2nd chance at winning over the support of the global south in ways that the b, r i the don't run initiatives turn out to be, you know, perhaps at this next result. but it's not clear how sustan's this type of investment will be given china's domestic economic problems. no streams because 1st of all, the trend is going right much long to let's move this company is best for growth and create truc

in ireland, the winter storm flooded rhodes and knocked out power for tens of thousands of customers. more snow and rain has been forecasts authorities in jordan say they shot and killed a gunman who opened fire on a police patrol new the is really embassy and them on 3 officers were injured in the incident state media say an investigation is ongoing us in france. thousands of demonstrators have marched in several cities to denounce violence against women. campaigners are pushing for the country to learn from the trial over the bass grape of a woman that has shocked the nation. protesters rather than force throughout france ahead of the international date for the elimination of violence against women, and demanding a fundamental change in french society. each year, over half a 1000000 women here report being the victim of physical, sexual or psychological violence principles. there are many things to change. for example, the education of young boys throughout life. we have to change things. it will be hard, but it's possible the state should really increase its efforts. saturdays marc

infrastructure nor to talk about because the belgian deliberate policy of ensuring that the one no rhodes, he ensured that there was on the most of the, amongst the tribes because it was divide and rule, so you in a sure the wrong by law a back that the law about global bi lou by the government talk to the different do was a must of divide and rule because it is in dividing and ruling the do with been able to control the labor and they did not stop there. the mode of governance also ensured the the resources of the democratic republic of congo. what rooted on deck and 2 brass cells today. i tell many people get through here so that if you go to brussels and go to literally belgium on seed sparkling as it is, that is what congress should have been. because the team, glad that you find the item they told you of what is what's taken away from the democratic republic of congo. the resources that you see there in terms of gold, on to other resources that are the minerals. what dick and from the democratic republic of congo, so that the legacy of king leo was all of the come was, was of the did

joining me now, ben rhodes, i want to go back to tulsi gabbard, from your perspective, how do you process the idea that she could soon lead our intelligence agencies?>> yeah, it's an alarming choice to say the least, there are different ways you could think about it, first of all it's interesting to me that trump has reserved some of his most ludicrous pix for intelligence and law enforcement, that is clearly an area where he wants to drive people out of bureaucracy, i think he wants to essentially empty out these agencies and restock them with a cabinet of maga people , and the second . is that the dni people should be aware, the principal adviser to the president tells us what that means, i was in a pdb with president obama for years, every morning, that is the dni who receives that product. so the information that receives the most important issues is filtered to this person, we know tulsi gabbard has bizarre views that are wildly out of step with the american national security interest, you talked about the pro-russian talking points, that is only the beginning of it. so just imagine

and to us to, to, to, to kind of aspire to become as well. trade has been central when it's built in rhode initiative, a huge infrastructure investment drive was another way in which china sought to win hearts and minds and developing economies. however, that appears to have run out of steam with many host countries, left, settled with debt leading to protests and discontent. kenya and sri lanka to name to recent examples with direct chinese outbound investment discharging to record levels signed that the country is increasingly choosing to invest in manufacturing operations abroad, particularly, and clean energy as part of its way of dealing with new tires. in many ways, this represents sort of a 2nd chance at winning over the support of the global south in ways that the b, r i the don't run initiatives turn out to be, you know, perhaps at this next result. but it's not clear how sustan's this type of investment will be given china's domestic economic problems, the strains, because 1st of all, the trend is going to might not long to let's move this company is best for growth and create tr