, including states with other democratic secretaries of state as well. that the highest court in the land is going to have to make this call, but ultimately in maine we could see the state court processing it pretty quickly. >> zak cohen, thank you for that reporting. >>> joining me now is colorado secretary of state, jennifer griswold. the secretary of state griswold, thank you for joining us tonight. what is your reaction to the ruling in maine disqualifying trump from the ballot there? >> well, thanks for having me on. good evening. i think that it's a good thing that secretary bellows followed and insighted with the colorado supreme court's decision, which ultimately disqualifies trump. look, trump engaged in an insurrection. he incited a violent group to try to stop the peaceful transfer of the presidency. in the constitution, it clearly barrs someone who swears to uphold the constitution and then does those types of actions from serving again. so, i think that it's the right decision and also courageous because the atmosphere that we are living in

>> it varies from state to state.canada has passed legislation although they have very little in the way of russian state assets. i can tell you for certain canada has passed a law similar in effect to the repo act. and other states, depending upon their constitutional system, they may or may not need legislative action. it may be possible for them to do it without further legislation. it would vary from state to state. >> your predecessor was here, was he not? >> i was a predecessor to ambassador ash. i knew him well. >> another master. >> to add to that, i think the us acting alone would not make much of a difference because we don't hold many of the russian assets. the europeans hold much more, they hold the boat. passage of repo would be a sign to the european union which is wrestling with this issue to keep governments like germany serious, us leadership could help the european union make a decision about this so that is certainly an added benefit politically of repo. >> we now proceed to richard blumenthal of co

chairman of the state security committee, ivan tertel, reported to the head of state on the operationalituation developing around belarus, as well as the situation within the country. first of all, the focus of the department’s employees is on ensuring the safety of citizens, in terms of the area of ​​​​response. current activities are based on the developing situation on the eve of the new year's christmas holidays, the head of state was informed in detail about the situation developing at the external office within our country, the plan of action of the state security authorities on holidays. we state in general that the situation remains under control, we are working in an intensive mode together with our colleagues from the ministry of internal affairs, the border committee of the ministry of defense, i would like to emphasize. one point is to draw the attention of parents to minor teenagers from 14 to 18 years old, who, as a rule, at such moments are in a high-risk zone. the head of state has set the task of enhanced control over the operational situation, preventing emergency inci

the great red state/blue state debate.antis of florida, governor gavin newsom of the state of california. let's turn to the issue of parental rights. now, in march of last year, governor desantis, as you know, you sign the parental rights and education bill and let me read from it. it says, classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade three or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students and according with state standards. critics have called the bill "homophobic." they branded it the "don't say gay" bill. should schools be focused on reading, writing, science, math, history, computers and maybe leaving values considering parents might have different values than teachers at school, to the parents to religious institutions? or is it the role of the school? what is the role? >> governor desantis: the role of the schools is to educate kids, not to indoctrinate kids. it is to do the basics a

than the united states. but the constitutional issue should be decided by the supreme court and i think will be decided by the supreme court. >> and you have a kind of over-under about whether trump's name ultimately goes on the primary ballot and the real issue sort of being litigated here is whether if he is the nominee he goes on the general election ballot. january 5th is the deadline to effectively print the ballots in colorado. asking the court to rule before then seems -- asking the court to rule quite expeditious given all else that's on its plate. >> there is a provision the colorado supreme court issued today that says if it does resolve the issue by january 5th trump's name should stay on the primary ballot until it resolves the issue. so this will be up to the supreme court to resolve. and before we dive into how the supreme court will handle it because i agree with mary they will have to handle it, i had another reaction to this when the decision came out tonight, which is that at a high level t

the great red state/blue state debate.n with governor gavin newsom, governor ron desantis. according to departments of housing and urban development, these are the numbers for the home is the population in each of your states. in the state of california, it is 172,000. in florida, it is 26,000. now, the per capita numbers are pretty much the same. for california, it is 4 44 -- while florida has -- so governor desantis, i ask you, why the disparity? what are the policies you are implementing that is different from that of california? >> governor desantis: california is adopting leftist policies. governor newsom put out a 10-year plan 20 years. he was going to end homelessness and then he had another plan and he says he is -- and it has only gotten worse. the homeless has gone up. but it has caused a huge problem with quality of life in california, the people that we always bring up this. they have really empowered lawlessness and drug use and you know, gavin newsom at point try to see that california was the freedom state.

some required state legislative action, some required action of the state level. acf has the over arcing federal rules and regulations. each state runs the child welfare system and has their definition of what child abuse and neglect are. i want to make sure that is clear. through the review that i spoke about, that's one mechanism for review. we have regional offices. they alter joint planning with agencies, in regards to how they are implementing the requirements that exist federally and technical assistance mechanisms that are available and provided to state agencies regarding workforce training, ability to connect with others that have already made changes in regards to those rules and regulations. and again, through the review process, if the issue gets raised up to us, the process of possibly doing partial reviews, we are going in and we are seeing the case review process, if the federal rules and regulations are being followed and the actual practice on the ground. >> we will dig a little bit more on that in a moment. first, let's talk about children who we

own state laws and procedures. there's this one carve out niche when a comes to kwoifrgzs of the president of of the united states which are established in various parts of the constitution. you have to be 35. you have to be a native born citizen, and when we get to the 14th amendment we learn you also could not have participated in an insurrection after previously taking an oath to uphold the constitution. so because that is an area of federal eligibility and qualification, it's appropriate for the supreme court to step in and weigh in on the law, but the difficulty here -- and jason, this is something you've discussed before is less so the very clear legal dictates in the law, but the interception of politics in law here. and the court i think will implicitly have to make a decision about whether they're willing to run the risk of following the strict letter of the law, which this supreme court is on record of saying it must do when it's unambiguous or whether there's concerns how americans will react in their ab

that is a democratic state in the states like that. all the palestinians who were expelled due to the creation of israel and who lived in the event that an event, not a political non exile, is that not a political, non starter as well? no is rarely is going to accept that because they would argue with the demographic destruction, and that is the destruction of the jewish state, which is the very premise of israel. is that a political 9 starter? as a practical matter, of course, you would say that of course you would say that everybody would say that, but i'm putting it to you and i put it in the book very, very clearly. i think that 1st of all, there is this idea. do you do me, you personally obviously, but do people support the idea of these 2 communities living together in equality and in democracy? that's the 1st question. and the 2nd question is, how are we going to get that? so in a way what happens is one starts to talk about this and immediately the 2nd question is thrown in one's face. how's it going to happen is we just will n

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is it the state government secretary of state scum of the court's, it will vary from state to state. more importantly, this question of insurrection and regardless of what people's views are of what happened on january 6, and what the former president's role was in that, somebody has to make the decision as to whether it is insurrection or not. whether that is an unelected official in a state, the supreme court or congress or may be a prosecutor, someone has to make the call and ultimately that will fall to the supreme court. before we can answer these questions of whether colorado was right or maine was right, someone has to decide and that is the supreme court, what the actual answer is. i truly don't know how the supreme court will rule because there are a number of ways they can go without -- they could just say make a ruling with respect to the 14th amendment or something like that. this is complicated, it has to go there, and we have to see what they will do with it. >> california's governor said it should be up to the voters to decide. that was a political argument he wasn't w

nonetheless, the colorado state court has a state law proceeding under colorado law that they can use circumstances, not specific to insurrection, on election questions. >> makes a difference in the other states that have considered this. >> it does, it's one of the arguments that we heard, a state court judge held a five-day hearing back in october, and november, primarily looked at the january 6th committee hearing and that judge concluded, an interesting ruling, that yes, donald trump did engage in insurrection. however the trial court judge said the president somehow does not qualify as an officer of the united states, that took a little bit of verbal parsing, but that was the ruling, and therefore that judge ruled donald trump is still on the ballot because the president is not subject to the 14th amendment, and that's what landed us yesterday in front of the colorado supreme court. >> now what will likely land us before the high court of the country, before the -- the supreme court on these questions of fact, and the question of law here. >> exactly. so this is what happened yes

there are 15 us states.g the anglo-american war 1812-1814, when the british captured washington and burned the capitol, mundra ensured the evacuation of the state department archives, preserving the original declaration of independence and many other documents. during monroe's presidency , eastern florida was annexed to the united states, and the missouri compromise between southern slaveholders was concluded. and the northern free states recognized the independence of new states in central and south america. on december 2, 1823, in his annual message to congress, james monroe issued a declaration of principles of foreign affairs. us politics. the main principle was the division of the world into the european american system. the idea of ​​us non-interference in the internal affairs of european countries and, accordingly, non-interference was proclaimed. into the internal affairs of the countries of the american continent. the idea itself was proposed by john quincy adams, secretary of state in the administr

we are, we are very populist state. we are pretty conservative now but previously even back then we had a full democrat delegation that represented us in congress. we had a blue dog democrat that the represented the state and senator john thune knew that she was coming after him and his next election and thought that if the someone could beat her in her first reelection for the representative job before she would challenge him that that would take care of his problem too. so his folks kept recruiting me for a couple of years to try to run for congress and kept sending people to me frankly from all over the country to say, would you run against her and beat her although she had a 90% approval rating in south dakota. she was one of the last few blue dog democrats, did not vote for obamacare, did not vote for the stimulus package, the only thing that she had done that i really could talk about in the campaign against her was that she voted for nancy pelosi. [laughter] >> so when brian and i finally decided to run we talked

states. where there's this question, can donald trump be legally allowed to be on the ballot in the states river states in the united states run the election. they set the rules, of course, is federal law. these are federal elections. but as the actual states themselves that come up with the specific ways in which the elections in their state get run. so that's why these cases are 1st coming up like in colorado through state courts are. right. so ton, donald trump then become president of the united states. if one of those united states as disqualified in from running or she can for sure. um, the colorado would probably be, they'd probably go for bite in any way. it's a generally democratic state. so trump, whether he's on the valid or not likely with lose the question is, and then there's nothing, of course preventing trump or any candidate from winning a you know, a number of states. we see this is the problem with 3rd party candidates. for example, united states, well, because of why you c

candidate who got 51, so in america, out of 50 states , usually between 10 and 15 states are states.e are important ones in which the competition is really held . the results of the rest of the states are already clear, which will be given to the democrats and which will be given to the republicans. regarding the colorado issue that you said, first of all, this will go to the us supreme court at the time of the ruling. we know that in the us supreme court, where there are 9 chief justices, during the trump era, trump had the chance to have 3 of them now they either died or they were really old , they retired themselves and mr. trump tunisia. at the time of the judges, he appointed conservative judges, so now 6 of the 9 judges of the supreme court of the united states are conservative judges , whose opinions are usually closer to the republican party. he can actually participate in the elections again in this state, but in general, it seems that mr. trump will not have any problem to participate in the elections , it is very unlikely that in the republican states that there are proble

it's not the first state or the second state or the third state. why does colorado matter here? >> to be honest with you, i think that's part of what i have been asking myself. does colorado matter at all? we look towards the general election and you mentioned, it's not anywhere close to the top of the primary ballot and then the general election, this is a state that safely for biden, even before the ruling came out, solid for biding according to the cook political reporting. safe for biden according to larry, the last republican candidate to carry the state of colorado was george w. bush back in 2004. it was a state that joe biden easily carried back in 2020, won by nearly 14 points. in 2016, remember this is when donald trump was able to win in the electoral college, he did it through the great lake states, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. over here colorado is blue. colorado is blue. the fact is donald trump does not need the state of colorado in order to win the presidential election and it's in the primary season it doesn't matter there either. >> looking at 2024 more br

so is israel, the normal state? could it be defined as a franchise of state or does it have characteristics of a failed state? we'll be putting those questions and more to our guests in a few moments. first bill, this report from culture lopez, what are yeah. israel is under pressure with protesters demanding prime minister benjamin netanyahu bring home the captives from mazda is still holding gonzalez'. nothing. yeah. who is often referred to as mr. security. but critics including former military officers, say he and his right. when coalition have failed the country to many social and political facilities, they say have been exposed and the war to pack and apply them. is there anything out of control as it continues to snowball and more and more of the masses in the cycle to dep continues. i don't think it's rained security now and i don't think it's fair to bring security for the future. to the contrary. the opposite. relentless attacks on casa, and the going full of custody and casualties have led to other concer

that two-state goal. this would include dramatically increased international support for the palestinian people, including from wealthy gulf states. it would also mean the promise of full recognition of palestine pending the formation of a new democratically elected government committed to peace with israel. let us be clear -- and i think, madam president, this is the main point that i want to make this evening -- that we should be clear that all of this is not going to happen on its own. left alone, sad to say, israel is not going to bring this about. prime minister netanyahu's likud party was explicitly formed on the premise that, quote, between the sea and the jordan river there will only be israeli sovereignty, end quote. and the current coalition agreement reinforces that goal. this is not just ideology, this idea that israel has the right to control everything between the sea and the jordan river. that's just not ideology. the israeli government has systematically pursued this goal. the last year sa

that do not claim any subregional or regional leadership, now... big states, states that claim regionalleadership, are beginning to solve some of their internal problems at the expense of small states that cannot, due to lack of resources, due to lack of strong armies, fight back , and these states that claim regional leadership, for the restoration of some issues of historical justice regarding the territories, essentially impose their will on these states, and on small states, well, in fact , ukraine is also on this list, since... ukraine is in the gray security zone, does not belong to any military alliances, there is only one choice, it is to find allies, to unite with states that are experiencing the same problems as in the case of guyana, in fact, in guyana has the same problems as ukraine, and now try to convey to the international community that the un, well, in fact , there is a lack of mechanisms to somehow influence those states that, in violation of the un charter, are trying to resolve territorial issues by force. thank you, george ermank, rospodin of the bbc was in touch w

a matter of state law or federal law. looking at double jeopardynd prior cas, i thinkg about bluford versus arkansas, we evaluated it as aatter of federal law. >> this court determines what nstitutes an acquittal. bluford is an example of a ce in which the jury failed to reach a verdict. >> no matter what label the state puts on it, the state can have all kinds of pceres and they can say, well, we will say that this particular result is no a acquittal. we hel a functional analysis and that as a matter o federal law we look at what happenednd determine what counts. >> exactly,usce jackson. this supreme court had arterized the granting as not an acquittal. similarly inva, michigan had held that theulg by the court in a casen which the judge mistakenly lost it was not in acquittal. the definition of acquittal just last term in the smi case, this court defined what in acquittal is and that is a determination, a resolution of criminal culpability. >> i'm sorry. to pick up on that, mr.impson, it is my understanding that there a

a matter of state l or federal law. looking at double jeopardy and prior cases, i thinking about bluford versus arkansas, we evaluated it as a matter of federal law. >> this court determines what constitutes an acquittal. blufords an example of a case which the jury failed to reach a verdict. >> no matter what label t state puts on it, the state c have all kinds of procedures and they can say, well, we will say at this particular result is not an acquittal. we held a functional analysis and that as a matter of federal law we look at what happened and determine what counts. >> exactly, justice jackson. this supreme court had characterized the granting as not an acquittal. similarly in evans, michiga had held that the ruling by the court in a case in wch the judge mistakenly lost it wasot in acquitt. the definition of acquittalus last term in the smith case, this court defined what in acquittal i a that is a determination, a resolution of criminal culpability. >> i'm sorry. to pick up onhat, mr. simpson, it i my understan

state's ballot. she cites the insurrection ban. the decision can be appealed in state court. an appeal that is almost guaranteed given trump's legal team had already demanded the maine secretary of state recuse herself from the matter, pointing specifically to tweets she wrote saying trump had engaged in insurrection and should have been impeached. trump's attorney said she showed bias by prejudging the matter. this follows the same decision and michigan, minnesota, arizona, and new hampshire. the colorado republican party saying it has asked the supreme court to overturn that colorado ruling. many legal experts expect the supreme court will settle this issue for the entire country. paula reid is "outfront" with more on this. i know we are all going through this right now. what more are you learning? what do you see here in this decision? >> maine now becomes the second state after colorado to ban trump from the ballot based on section three of the 14th amendment of the u.s. constitution. let's break

>> it varies from state to state. i know canada has passed legislation although they have very little in the way of russian state assets. i can tell you for certain that the candidate passed a law similar to the repo act. in other states, depending upon the constitutional system, they may or may not need legislative action. it may be possible for them to do it executive action without further legislation. >> your predecessor was ash? was he not? >> i was the predecessor, yes sir. i knew him well. >> just to add to what was said, i think the u.s. acting alone would not make enough of a difference because we don't hold many of the russian assets. the europeans hold much more. they hold the bulk. passage of repo would be assigned to the european union, which is wrestling with this issue and assigned to keep key governments knowing we are serious. u.s. leadership can help the european union make a decision about this. that is certainly an added benefit of repo. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> thank you. we now proceed to sena

the united states of america of his closest assistants, as a rule, deputy secretaries of state, but a concept pgr, pi - this. there is the now famous secretary of state for political affairs , mrs. victoria, i think that probably ivan stanislavich also meant this, the subtext is this, the second person is the deputy secretary of state for global affairs, the third is this is the deputy secretary of state for work with information, with the media, for public relations, i want you... are being prepared and implemented in relation to belarus, of course, those plans that exist and they, of course, are formed here on this floor, even though this and a figurative expression, but there are specific people sitting there, russophobes, people who sleep and see how to turn everything around here, fit us into the geopolitical trend that... national interests of the united states of the west, the main thing, the main thing is that we must comply with that we must understand that at such a high level are so closely involved in our issues , absolutely right, this is a corresponding challenge for u

and one of these postulates is its uniqueness, this is a state that is paradise on a hill, the statehe way the founding fathers spoke about this, a natural right to tell other states how to behave on this earth. what is the problem with the monroe doctrine? we very often perceive that it came from nowhere, that there was such a president monroe, and who suddenly took it and put forward the concept, america for americans. that's not entirely true well, first of all, let’s start with munroe’s personality, he is a brilliant diplomat, when we talk about the purchase, the famous great louisiana deal, bought from france by the united states, a gigantic purchase, we all know about the purchase of alaska, yes, in my opinion, it’s big part of the criminal chronicle, in my opinion, yes, according to the circumstances and the consequences , really, the ransom of france in louisiaana, this is of course a gigantic undertaking, this is munro, this is him, as a diplomat, he formalized it all, this is the man who worked with thomas jefferson, this is a man with a very interesting biography, to begin

and moreover, it is going to be considered ratified when nine states, not 13 states but nine states give it their approval. now, what exactly is this? what do you call it when people are actively trying to undermine and overthrow the government? under which they live. what's the common term for this? right? well, it's insurrection. if you take up arms, it's sedition. if you merely just undermine the government, it has been called treason in the past. now, it's not called treason under james madison's constitution because madison and the other framers of the constitution, they knew that treason was this catch all charge that was leveled against this mere enemies of the government. and they would not allow that. this is why there have been a mere handful of treason convictions in american history. the constitution of 1787 defines treason very specifically, it is the carrying on of war against the government of the united states or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. and in some of the famous treason trials, when aaron burr was tried for treason, james thomas jefferson accused him of tre

in various states. in what states do. but i think this is a reminder of something you've been working on a long time. which is the focus that we have to have on the threat to democracy and voting rights. i'll give you an example, you mentioned by race, i'm running against david mccormack, who is supported by a number of these trump fake electors. in fact, one of them was running a political action committee for him. that's the threat we face. the very threat to democracy, which is ongoing. it's not like it ended when the insurrection on the 6th of january of 2021 and. it that threat is still there and the threat to voting rights is ongoing. you see so many states passing these draconian voting rights bills. that disenfranchise people. so, that's gonna be a big issue in my race. and i hope that folks are fighting the same battle back home on democracy in voting rights will go to our website bob casey.com. >> that's the real issue, democracy. that's not a slogan we're talking about robbing americans of the right to vote. by

the two-state solution is somewhat of a contradiction. there is an existing state of israel. what it is lacking is the self-determination of the creation of a palestinian state. in accordance with the principle of self-determination and the values that all people aspire to and that are advocated in the united states and western europe and everywhere in the world. why would the palestinians continue to be in this position of stagnation and a lack of support for what is a justifiable aspiration? >> thank you, minister. i think we might turn back to the head of the gathering, prince faisal, with the next question. >> we have a few questions from the audience. u.s. leverage has failed. a more effective leverage exists in the sovereign nations if you were to take -- the threat to intervene militarily, israel would be forced to halt its aggression. the justification for this action would be the right to protect in the u.n. any comment? >> can you repeat? >> where you to take -- the four sovereign nations you are representing today to threaten to intervene militarily israel would be

the idea of a two state solution dates _ state. of a two state solution dates back to the i state. the idea of a two state j solution dates back to the un partition plan in191t7, solution dates back to the un partition plan in 1947, the plan proposed splitting the british territory of palatine into two separate states. a majority was located for a jewish state and 43 for arab states with an international enclave around jerusalem. the palestinians rejected the plan, whilejewish armed groups wasted no time in taking over towns and villages. by the end of the war, the israelis were in possession of 78% of ministry palestine. this became known as the catastrophe of 1948 which displaced hundreds of thousands of people. israel won another war in 1967 occupied the remaining land, including the west bank and gaza, as well as east jerusalem. but the conflict continued. in 1993, the leader of the palestinian liberation organisation, yasser arafat, and israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin signed the oslo accords. these agreements envisioned a

the united states. not now, not ever. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objectionering, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: thank you. mr. speaker, i rise today to draw attention to the u.s. department of transportation to develop inner city passenger rail cor dpors across our great lakes region from chicago to cleveland. we notice the attention that the department of transportation pays to the east coast and west coast, don't forget our great lakes northern region. take a look at i-80-90 corridor. and think about that already carved into the landscape, use it. in 2021 i joined other great lakes members of congress to urge amtrak to retool its connect on u.s.2035 plan which excluded improvements to the cleveland to chicago corridor. to this day we continue to lack daytime passenger rail service across this highly congested

the state of hermose on december 5. the united states on december 8th used its v2 power to turn down a un security council resolution put forward by the uae calling for immediate humanitarian sease fire in gaza. we do not support calls for immediate cease fire. us deputy permanent representative to the un robert a wood. said before the vote, this would only plant the seeds for the next war, alleged would with a war mongering tone. this was the disappointing diplomatic result of the uae draft resolution, which calls for immediate cease fire in gaza for humanitarian reasons, while calling for the protection of civilians, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and ensuring the access of humanitarian aid. despite srinious diplomatic efforts made by the arab ministerial contact group eminating from the... summits in the capital of the most prominent member states of the council, especially washington, it was there where the arab ministerial delegation met with several officials, most notably secretary of sta

or two state solution? eight like it has to be done or the other and thus israeli constitution or whatever, they affect, or speculate, pelosi to state working very well either so that each of you get comments on back? >> i wrote an op-ed today, my title -- was right. perhaps more user-friendly title by the editor but until palestinians except there is no plan a, there can be no peace so i agree it is hard to see any solution to this the reason i went ten years ago in 1923 he wrote an essay called the iron ball in which he makes the observation if arabs think they can eradicate the jews, but as always plan a and they think that is possible, they will not move on to plan b and what we found with the abraham accords was it not only have certain arab countries accepted that the jews would not go away but they realized they didn't want them to go away that was what led to that leap forward. palestinians obviously are not there yet. seven tells us anything, they are still fed the lie that genocide is possible in

iran has a state are they satisfied with their state?aken over lebanon they've taken over yemen they are in the middle of taking over iraq for they' were they taken e gaza strip. they want to caliphate and not just in the middle east. they are building nuclear weapons the effort to build nuclear weapons that is not for their neighborhood that is for our neighborhood. and what are we doing to stop them right now? what is the plan? what is the strategy to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon right now? on biden and blinken's watch there is nothing to stop that which is why they are racing to the finish line because they know they have friends in the united states state department. they know the 1930s and 40s the israelis an many are still there. i want to turn to our friend at a man who really knows these subjects inside and out. congressman michael waltz a combat veteran who's been ringing the bell and ringing the pots and pans for a long time about the middle east and elsewhere and we will get into that too. what is wrong with what i

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secretary of state's one of the most powerful positions in state government right now.arently they have the power to eliminate any candidate you don't like, just take them off the ballot. it's a position most of us probably do not think that much about. do you know who you're secretary of state is? or who funded their campaign? it's an important and powerful job. in 2020, the secretaries of state's made it easier to vote absentee under the guise of covid. that resulted in record mail in votes. they changed how elections operates. going through courts or congress remember, i think is before for early voting, you count the days after they arrive as well. it appears we've done nothing, nothing to rein in their power over the last three years. now it is 2024 and they are completely out of control. one guy that saw this coming was george soros. he donated $1 million in 2022 to get democrat secretary of state selected. millions and elections previous and surely in the future. george likes how his plan is playing out. it kind of feels like secretary of state is the new d.a., a

as they say a coalition to protect the red sea which they at this point they have failed the united state and france and other country has several uh battleship in the red sea but they couldn't actually stop uh any of those attack and i believe that - next step that yemanis will extend its attack to form total blockade against israel, not only by targeting israeli own ships or as they say uh 10 days ago they will target any ship that's headen toward any israeli port like the one that they have done today but i believe that in the coming days we might see a statement from yemani army that they will target any ship that's coming from israel as an example this container ship uh it was headed to heading to uh jedda but after that it will head to israel, those are huge ship would have many uh goods on them and they they they they transport this good between uh many ports and one of those port was uh in in in israel uh that's why the next step it will be to target any ship that's coming from any israeli port uh maybe if there is any ship coming from european union uh cargo ship or as this conta

every time i hear president of the united states, secretary of the united states or any american official talk about how their heart is breaking for the palestinian people, it is a lie because their heart was breaking. for the palestinian people, they would do for the palestinian people, such as insist a seasfire, but we veed that at the united nations, exactly, and venessa, the us is still doing the same thing, it's constantly kept blocking all efforts of the un security council, as you know, at stopping this carnage in gaza, so if the security council is not the venue where countries could come with these ideas to stop something like this is really savagery that's happened in gaza, where should we be able to do this, which international body? well, i think also an important point to make, not only is the us feeting peace, of course it's supplying the bombs and the weapons that are being used to carry out the genocide against palestinians, not only in gaza, but also in west bank, which is being largely ignored, of course, that's a quiet genocide and ethnic that's ongoing with us support,

this time maine's secretary of state, a democrat, issuing a decision that bars trump from the state's ballot, citing the 14th amendment's insurrection. this is pending an appeal in the state's court. with us, republican strategist. mark, your reaction to the maine secretary of state's decision, and this snowballing effect that we could be seeing here. >> well, there's no greater threat to our democracy than donald trump. what worries me is that these judicial decisions only make him more of a martyr. to beat donald trump, you have to beat him at the ballot box. all the judicial decisions will inflame his base to make a lot of people including independents, even some conservative democrats say, wait a minute. this is ridiculous. people should have the decision. people should be able to decide this ultimately. i'm not a lawyer and maybe the merits of the case are okay. but whether they are or not, i think it will be good for trump and bad for democracy if this goes through. listen, i think the supreme court will knock it down anyway. >> do you think this is good for trump? >> i think it

the united states on december 8th used its v2 power to turn down a un security council resolution put forward by the uae calling for immediate humanitarian sease fire in gaza. we do not support calls for immediate fire (us permanent representative to the un) robert a wood said before the vote, this would be plant the seeds for the next war alleged with a war mungering tone. this was the disappointing diplomatic result of uae draft resolution which calls for immediate cease fire in gaza for humanity reasons, while calling for the protection of civilians, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and ensuring the access of humanitarian aid. despite stranous diplomatic efforts made by the arab ministerial contact group enating from the summits, the capital of the most prominent member states of the council, especially washington, it was there where the arab ministeral delegation met with several officials. police secretary of state anthony blincon and the chairman of the foreign relations committee in the senate ben carden and number of committee members in order to persuad

the secretary of state of the united states of america and his closest assistants, as a rule, deputyate, but there is such pgr concept. p is the deputy secretary of state for political affairs, the now famous mrs. victoria nuland, i think that probably ivan stanislavich also meant this subtext, the second person is the deputy secretary of state. on global issues, the third is the deputy secretary of state for information, media, public relations, i want to remind you that it was interesting, so to speak, i think that this hint, it was very, very, very subtle and fair, why during the time of hillary clinton, when she was deputy secretary of state, i want let me remind you that the threat was not only... external from the seventh floor of the state department, it was even internal, the fbi was trying to uncover the alleged conspiracy of the seventh floor, which was attributed to the shadow government of the united states of america, well, let me probably say that well, victoria , of course, has a very extensive biography, a great specialist in the east in our opinion, let's call it str

it's meant the states allow it to be. but it's also being affected, but it's really, really important work and getting food and water and fuel and everything else to, to 2400000 people who are thought to be shopped into a desert coastal strip. and that really is the ultimate site. i don't just for a brief, it's in a, in a way. it's hardly reminiscence of the end of the league of nations. when the emperor haile selassie made that appeal and a cold for the well to defend his country from italian invasion in bombing and the welfare of a send you as well. so if you up here and the world is not citing the palestinians . yeah, well i guess with, with no prospect of of any blasting sci fi or any other human to terry and pause at this stage. sorry. can you just give us an idea of what's actually going to happen next to the people inside garza? i mean i, i think it's already happening. there are increasing reports of diarrhea and infectious diseases at overcrowded you and shelters. when the 85 percent of the population has been in

like the united states and other european states or other states from the global north, let's say.e international community has year after year said -- called for a solution, called for an end to occupation, for an end to apartheid, into the settlement colonization project we see in the west bank. it is only a handful of powerful states that have been trying to get palestine off the agenda. and blocking any avenue to push for the rights of the palestine people under international law. juan: could you talk as well about your own family history as it relates to palestine? your family fled in 48. in your powerful speech, you also talked about how relations between jews and palestinians were before the creation of israel. >> yes, absolutely. my family are refugees from 1948. my father was from a village near jerusalem which is one of the more than 450 villages that were completely destroyed during the nakba, which is the catastrophic events that led to mass ethnic cleansing of palestinians and to the most protracted refugee crisis in the world. and my mother also is from a city that be

the white house has repeatedly stated that without approval of this funding, the united states will runey to support ukraine in a few weeks. in total, the project was supposed to allocate $106 billion, including $60 billion for ukraine. in the meantime, kiev is allocated 175 million. and, as us secretary of state blinken noted, this package may be the last if congress does not approve biden’s request for additional funding. a white house spokesman said the same thing. john kirby, he was forced to admit that the united states is not able to account for all the weapons supplied to ukraine. the issue of reporting, we do share concerns about this, we have shared concerns about these systems and weapons since we started transferring them to ukraine. we are talking about war. if you think you can tell where each piece of art ends up. this is a war, this is a battle, now we are doing everything possible to account for the assistance we provide to ukraine for how they are used. earlier, the speaker of the us state department said that the money allocated by ukraine had been spent by 97%. accord

and those two states. in one case, the state supreme court of colorado. in the other case, the secretary of state. the first stop for questions of ballot eligibility in maine, both concluded that not only did he engage in insurrection, but that this applies to presidents, which some other states have said is not cleared and removed him. but we've seen in other states -- minnesota, michigan, arizona, new hampshire -- they have gone the other way. i will note in some of those cases, they haven't even gotten the merits. just procedurally. they have not opted to go through a trial and conclusions. in california today the secretary of state opted to include not to take him off the balance waiting for oregon. it's so interesting earlier this week, trump has not appealed these decisions. we expect he will, but the republican party of colorado filed an appeal of the supreme court earlier this week and it crystallizes the three big questions that need to be resolved. the first, does the 14th amendment, section 3, does that apply to presidents? because it doesn't s