the moscow to ron partnership. really come a live do you think washington is inadvertently playing matchmaker? here to i think they've been doing that for many years. the ronnie in the russian relationship has been growing ever since the collapse of the soviet union. and in recent years, it has gone faster and especially after the war and ukraine. the 2 sides have been cooperating at all levels in ways which i couldn't have imagined before. the military political, economic. and since both countries are sanctioned, they have no fear of cooperation with one another because no one can sanction rush or a ron for cooperating with the other because we are both already sanctioned. and the 2 countries have a very important project that they are developing, the north south for door, which will link, of course, iran to, to russia and to eastern europe and fellows. but also it will link 3, ron russia, to the persian gulf, the indian subcontinent, africa, even southeast asia. now the indonesia is drawing, joining breaks. so eu

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and welcome to "mosaic. " i'm ron swisher.real privilege to host "mosaic" on behalf of hugh burrows our producer and co-host. we're fortunate today to have what i call -- i'm not alone in saying this -- one of the icons of oakland. he was once a city -- not city council, but the school board, he was once the editor of the religious "oakland "tribune"" he is the owner of "the post. " when i met him in the late '60s and early '70s he was a community organizer working with the oakland black caucus, you might say he was mr. naacp along with mr. urban fly. always a gadfly when workingworking justice in our community in oakland, grew up in oakland and has been in oakland all of his life. welcome, paul. >> it is a pleasure to be here today. >> great to have you. tell us a little bit about your background. >> i was born in oakland. my parents come from oklahoma and mississippi. >> uh-huh. >> but i was born in oakland. i have attended schools in oakland and i've had the opportunity to travel all over the country as a journalist and as

ready to get tax, the weakening of key allies and the collapse of the outside raising have shaken to ron in the past. yeah. so what is each side looking for and could iran because you a little hard line stones or is a deal really possible? well, hey, from august surely. but 1st, this report from victoria gates and b, as it's been nearly a decade since world power assigned to land ma, do with a rand, under the 7 nation to quote, around agreed to scale back its nuclear program. at western nations agreed to list financial trade and oil functions that is isolated and crippled iran's economy. but donald trump pull the united states out of that agreement in 2018. he said it ran was a threat in the middle east and the new plan was needed. he re impose sanctions that squeezed a rams economy to run into suspended some of its commitments. and then you could do an increased uranium enrichment european powers have been battling to save the 2015 do ever since the head of the international atomic energy agency, roughly i'll go see met toper, rainy, and officials into around november including presiden

it depends on how serious the opposite policies are and this messa, ron made the nuclear agreement and implemented it with good will. it was the other policies who withdrew the the regents political landscape has changed dramatically since the last deal was agreed. rand and its proxies including hezbollah and him, us then we can buy israel in the past. j. israel also attacked who ran it, responded with me, saw strikes. well, trump pull down to the deal, painstaking me forged a decade ago. the bite and administration has not reinstated it, as you are paying powers and do ran, consider what to do next. that doing so with the uncertainty of what policies the incoming from presidency will pice you as victoria gates and b l g 0. the inside story the i let's bring in august hass on i'm a d n a is a professor at the university of tyrone he joins us from the running capital at 8 grand man is the deputy director of middle east and north africa program. you are paying council on foreign relations to joins us from london and treat the policy. is the executive vice president of the quincy in seduc

ron leonard in the show.h we appreciate very much, hitting the ground ready to go. talk to us about -- good to see you. talk to us about the show. what drew you to it? >> yes. my coat is not natural fur. let's get that out of the way. >> it is chilly in here. >> i asked for a great script. shooting in town. i was a young daughter. you know, you have your wish list. i give this to my team. days later, they gave me the script. i had 24 hours to decide. it was easy. for once, it was easy. >> you earned it. tell us about how much fun it was day after day. stellar cast. >> i'd never worked with anyone, but for the first time in hi my career, i got emails from nbc. we would love you to do this. i'm used to going, hey, if you say no, we have other options. a friend of mine, anna, who worked with the show creators, sent me a note and said, we love these guys. you should do it. i was like flooded with you should do it. it was always the script. i didn't know any of the actors. i knew the work of wendi and allison. i k

i wish ron howard and i were close personal friends. what happened was i wanted to ride back this book for a long time and apparently ron howard has wanted to write a story for a long time. i just finished my novel got the news that ron howard was filming inis australia for the story starring jude law and so it was a moment where i had to quickly finish my draft and every write and copy it and compile and notes and do it within the period of months. my update was 2025 so i tried to coincide with the movie. unfortunately there's no trailer yet and no release date yet. i hope people will read the true story. >> don't get me wrong i love a movies that a movie already. i was telling you earlier people are so strange and these characters are so awesome and you realize, i guess if you hadn't to pick a favorite character is there one way you would choose out of this passolt? >> i've had to go at the baroness. i'm delighted to report she does feel the semblance of her hotel and called at the hacienda. one american tourist visit and cleared it w

i like to say that i wish ron howard and i were very close. first of all, friends. but what happened was, you know, i've wanted to write this book for a very long time. apparently, ron howard has also been obsessed with the story for a very long time. i had just finished touring for my novel and got the news that ron howard was filming australia for this book, for the story starring jude law, sydney sweeney, ana de armas and vanessa kirby. and so it was a moment where i think, i resembled, you know, the and i had to quickly finish my draft, edit, rewrite, copy edit many times compile 70 pages of notes and do it within a very period of months. my initial pop date in may of 2025. so i lost eight months of work on this book to try to coincide and meet movie which just premiered at toronto film festival and unfortunately there's no trailer yet. there's no theatrical release date yet. our streaming release date yet. but i, you know, i, i hope people will read the true story before they see ron's, i'm sure wonderful, fictionalized version. but they can't. i mean, honestly

you'll see bill in for us there until of a i think is of a ron from germany and the u. k. are in geneva in switzerland to discuss around the dispute in nuclear program. it's the 2nd meeting between ron and you are p, an official since november, and is being held in practice a meeting times a week before donald trump tags offices, us presidents in 2015 a ron bridge, details with western powers to limit its nuclear program. and it claims around could soon have the capacity to produce and nuclear weapon to ron has always denied those accusations. in 2018 donald trump's administration pulled the us out of the 2015 packed and bri. impose sanctions on around this problem to toronto, to rebuild stockpiles of enriched uranium. and just last month, the chief of the united nations nuclear want stronger express concern that iran is dramatically accelerating it's enrichment of uranium. stephanie dixon has more from geneva, diplomats making it very clear that these are not negotiate, shows that they are tulips about hoops. they are discussions, trying to find some kind of common ground

just when india is doing a massive deal with a ron, as is russia. and as is china i, i don't think that the moment there is much understanding of the middle east, but i think most of them at least experts that were in the state department and other places have been removed. they have been removed and we have a being run essentially by people who do not have much expertise in it. or if they have expertise like pay most cost time, it is really from the is really perspective problem from a united states perspective. that's the us ongoing, it was an idea for us. this is basically as rails man in the abiding cabinet. yes, he has, or he has an office in the white house. a he moved from state to buckland, where he did the demarcation negotiations with lebanon, about maritime areas. so the expiration and then he went into the white house with one secretary, and the team in the state department was dissolved as i understand it. so he sort of operates as a one man band out to the white house. yeah, well, i want to explore whether it is incompetence or it is a

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also, new details on florida governor ron desantis now saying florida will be ready to enact trump's deportations of illegal aliens starting on day one. look who's here, jason chaffetz, we're excited to talk to him and details on that . plus this story, -- >> we're approaching america's dawn opportunistic golden age and over the next four years, united states will take off like a rocket ship. liz: kristi noem for dhs, pam bondi for u.s. attorney general and john ratcliffe for cia and confirmation hearings ticked off with pete hegseth and more about that and a preview of what's coming up along with a bare knuckle fighting from democrats looking for viral got you moments and stick with us a lot more after the break. we'll be back in two. >> did you lead an audit to shoot protesters in the leg? yes or no? yes or no? [coughing] hi susan, honey? yea. i respect that, but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? robitussin, with real honey & elderberry. from starting out... wh

jack: baer ron's is out with its annual playbook.stodgy in a mag 7 world, but there are places to look beyond stocks and and bonds. it's the cover story the week, and it was the written by our very own andrew berry. he joins the panel now. thanks for coming, ann true. >> happy to be here -- andrew. jack: we've all been loving the capital gains, but those can't go on forever. so where do you find regular payouts? >> basically, this the past year was a pretty good year for dividend investors although it was tough to top the s&p 500 with a return of around 25%. utilities nearly matched it and pipeline companies beat the s&p. in the bond market, you got high single-digit returns in areas like convertibles, but treasuries had megayields. jack: -- negative if yields. jack: often stocks and yields move in opposite directions. overseas, you're finding some nice yields. >> international stocks have badly underperformed the s&p 500 for the past year, the past ten years. you're getting dividend yields of 3-6. the u.k. is a pretty good area to l

i've already spoken with ron johnson and lindsey graham and ron johnson said there's no way he's votingeliminating or raising the debt ceiling. >> right. you know, there's an old saying, everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die. all right. and so what we have to do and the problem is, maria, once you start taking care of the easy stuff, you won't get the hard stuff done and so you've got have some of those sweeteners in there in order to get the whole bill passed and so that is the argument against this. well, i don't like salt, well, i love salt, hey, i don't like to do the debt ceiling. but you know what? we've got energy to deal with. we've got regulations to deal with. we have to get the border security done. and by the waying president trump can take care of a lot of the border security on his first day in office by reinstituting many of his executive orders and getting rid of the biden orders. that will take care of a lot of issues on the border. the money aspect of it, the deportation aspect of it will take time anyway. so yeah, i think we need to do one bill and i

security team many if placement senate homeland security and budget committee member wisconsin senator ronohnson on cutting spending while still protecting the homeland. plus, the joint session of congress set to certify the 2024 election tomorrow, january 6th, as joe biden issues a string of questionable civilian awards and presidential pardons as he walks out the door. florida congressman byron donalds on the incoming policy priorities and the outgoing political favors. plus, editor many in chief of with the the federalist," mollie hemingway, on the democrats' biggest donor, george soros, along with hillary clinton and anna wintour receiving the nation's highest civilian award, the presidential medal of freedom. what's behind joe biden's 11th hour moves? it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ if. ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with president trump's agenda now that speaker of the house mike johnson has secured his re-election. even with a slim margin and pressure from some conservative members, johnson was able to defend the gavel friday to to win re-ele

[laughter] i wish ron howard and i were very close personal friends.ughter] but what happened was, you know, i had wanted to write book for a very long time. apparently, ron howard has also been to on to accessed with this story for a very long time -- obsessed. i had just finished touring for my novel and got the news that ron howard was filming in australia for the s story starrg judede law, sydney sweeney and vanessa kirby. it was a moment where i think the i resemble the scream -- [laughter] and i had to quickly finish my draft,, edit, rewrite, copy edt if times, compile 700 pages of end notes -- 7 to 0 pages, and do it within a period of months. my initial date was may of 2025, so i lost eight months of work on this book to try to coincide and meet the movie, which just premieredded at the toronto film festival. unfortunately, there's no trailer yet,, there's no theocrt yachtly call or -- theatrical or streaming are release are date yet, but i hope people are will read it first -- >> don't get me wrong, i love a movie, i work here. [laughter] but

i would have to say e, ron, but china comes close behind and russia hasn't gone away. george? yep. what, what's your, what's your ranking? i think i think it's the russian. 5 any around in china? ok, we still got 30 seconds. go ahead. george. as well. i think it so because russian work is the ongoing want and, and therefore, because i think this is going to be the subject of, at least for the 1st 6 months, maybe even the year of the trump administration. i've tried to deal with this uh, ukraine issue that's i think it's going to be very dangerous because i think it's, it's probably will fail. and if these initiative fails, then i think trunk will escalate and try to take risks. you know, that he sees himself as a risk beta and, and that's when it gets good. good, good for. okay. okay. i hope everybody had a good new year because according to my esteem, guess here is gonna be to be a pretty gloomy and dreary 2025. anyway, i want to thank my guest in budapest and here in moscow. and of course, i want to thank our viewers for watching us here at our to see you next time. remember, the

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ron, good morning to you. fascinating piece as always.hese big packages where anything was actually going to happen at all basically, and it seems like the trump team knows that. >> yeah, you know, this is one of those trends, kasie, there are many in which our modern politics is really different from what has been the case for ÷÷most of american history, but it's so much a part of our experience we don't even really notice it or comment on it, but the fact is that every president who has gone into a midterm with unified control of government since jimmy carter, has lost it. biden in '22, trump in '18, obama in '10, george w. bush in '06, bill clinton in 1994. that is the longest streak in american history of presidents ÷÷who had unified control going into a midterm and then saw voters who had streaks of four before, in the 19th century, but we're at five, and with republicans clinging to a ÷÷220- seat majority in the house, ÷÷it would not surprise anyone, i think, if we get to six in 2026, and what that means is as you noted, there is a

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florida governor ron desantis was there and he joins us now.everyone has been saying you know if ron desantis were in california and there was a disaster like this, it would be great criticism but we know that you would handle this differently. you had this interesting exchange with a reporter yesterday. let's watch this president-elect or a president to be criticizing. >> is it appropriate for people in your industry to try to create division and to try to create narratives any time these things happen? now, you are not as interested in doing that because newsom is a d. if newsom was a republican, you guys would go try to -- you would have him nailed to the wall for what they are doing over there. >> lawrence: why aren't they criticizing him or the mayor. >> my point is just simply, you know, they were trying to pin this on donald trump and they were going after donald trump's comments and i'm just thinking to myself i have seen how these people in the press react to when these things happen in the state of florida. all they try to do is defin

french president shift blame, but as far as policy missteps in africa and the middle east on to get ron tech on 5 . 20. yeah. but it's the power is failing to commit the lives from our international new center in most center. this is all the welcome to the one is at least 51 passed in. so being killed by is ready for us as in gaza over the past day. now that's according to local authorities. also in the west bank is where the troops offsets to have detained 4 to 5 local residents. they law a rule that is what a saw it is uh, being positive was legal actions as they are accused of having submitted by pro passive. and here the other human rights organizations are being filing lawsuits and other proceedings to get an idea of fits. one prominent case a good recent meet and brazil and is right, a soldier on holiday was before the evacuation from the country with the help of these really states in order to evade war crime charges against him. so out of the war id, if so just have posted a new list of videos on social media marketing, local policy is some of the videos the page at the pix won'

i mean, it, ron is not alone in the style. lemme which i well did rush, i give them bad advice, reflected rush, i give them bad advice. me sure. stood by me just to make sure you know the day before as well. you know, russia has had had the same dilemma, and during the war in new grade, there would be times where they've had setbacks reverse thoughts and they've had to stop them thing. come reassess and, and actually then they've been changes in the, in the senior military leadership in moscow. so, i mean, these things are not confined to iran is the general opprobrium about this guy. lemme that, you know, if you act with restrain, it'll get great, wrongly interpreted this weakness and actually bring the boy you don't want onto. that is the danger. and so possess cams is being much criticized for those comments that he made. and for, in the sense, almost go behind the backups of the system to talk about them in with the americans and with the europeans. because he does not have a monday to do that. he does not have that monday

florida governor ron desantis. >> he is blasting the media mob for not holding democrats accountable. imagine for a second what their response would be if this happened in my free state of florida. we'll have a lot more coming up. also, we will ask our democratic friend from the five, harold ford jr, to defend the party's terrible policies, failed leadership, high taxes and lack of services. but we begin with good news tonight, against all odds, after years of sketchy warrants, subpoenas, early morning raids, dozens of cooked up charges, one after another, far left judges and trump hating juries. donald trump has eviscerated the left's lawfare campaign. today, new york judge democratic donor juan merchan announced that trump would receive no jail time, no fine, no probation after a manhattan jury convicted trump on what is a novel, bizarre legal theory surrounding a case that had no victims. i mean, it was a legal nda put together by a lawyer, and it was chronicled as a legal expense. judge merchan told trump, sir, i wish you godspeed as you assume your second term in office. it was a

thanks, ron. all right.coming up next here on cnn this morning, a deal reportedly imminent, how the outgoing biden and incoming trump administrations are working together to secure a ceasefire agreement in gaza. plus, an emotional win. the los angeles rams, paying tribute to their hometown, giving their fans a reason to smile. >> i mean, we knew what we were playing for today. >> you know, it was it was go get this win. but man, it was for the people of los angeles struggling right now super man, the christopher reeve story. >> february 2nd on cnn. >> what do you got there, larry? time machine. you're going to go back and see how the pyramids were built or something? nope. ellen and i want to go on vacation, so i'm going to go back to last week and buy a winning lottery ticket. can i come? only room for one. >> how am i getting home? >> sitting on my lap like last time? ronald? >> fine. but i'm bringing this. >> all right. or you could try one of these savings options. >> the right money moves aren't as far