or like say my cave they're speaking to do w richard walker recalled rainfall is pounding new zealand north island for 3rd straight day, triggering more flash floods and lamp landslides. the death toll has risen to for oakland, the country's largest city, as declared a state of emergency prominence, the christians as described, the flooding as unprecedented waiting waist deep. all calendar is fought to bring their families and pats to safety. dozens of homes have been damaged beyond repair and residents are processing the shock. there was just a swarm of people um, push responders and everything, which was really good to say. and then i looked and i saw the devastation and it's a family heim, with children, ama fortunately, everybody got a are prime minister. chris hipkins flew in to assess the extent of the damage. the mit service has confirmed that you said i was auckland's weakest day on record . i and having just surveyed some of the extent of damage both on the ground and in the year, it's clear that it's going to be a big, clean up jaw evacuation. sanchez have been set up for th

he spoke to the w richard walker earlier today, and richard began by asking why jets are now so important to ukraine at this point in the war. all jets are important because it is a part of our efforts to, to get the russian rockets down. russian launches a lot of missiles doors to the right in cities, tor, towards infrastructure. and the jets are the part of our air defense efforts. all have schultz. the chancellor here is already positioning himself as very skeptical of sending fighter jets to ukraine. would you say that while we've been very consistent in talking to different international partners and looking what kind of equipment we can get from that and my priorities as ambassador here from the very beginning where armored vehicles made metal tongues and air defense systems and jewelry units and we're progressing very good on all 4 priorities and we'll, we'll continue talking to our german partners mainly on those 4 priorities. but of course, the situation in the field might request different equipment. ok, so just to be clear what you're saying there. so you representing the ukrai

w. richard walker earlier today, and richard began by asking him why jets are so important to ukraine at this point in the war. all jets are important because that it is a part of our efforts to, to get the russian rockets down. russian launches a lot of missiles, doors friday and cities tor, towards infrastructure. and the jets are the part of our air defense efforts. all our sholtes, the chancellor here is already positioning himself as very skeptical of sending fighter jets to ukraine. what you say to that while we've been very consistent in talking to different international partners and looking what kind of equipment we can get from that. and my priorities as ambassador here from the very beginning where armored vehicles made metal tongues and air defense systems and jewelry units. and we are progressing very good on all 4 priorities and we'll, we'll continue talking to our german partners mainly on those 4 priorities. but of course, the situation and the field might request different equipment. ok, so just to be clear what you're saying there. so you representing the ukraine govern

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richard painter, chief ethices lawyer for george w.h said a foreign government could front someone to make this purchase or lobbyists could try to buy the art to win goodwill from the white house. we don't know the buyers, he could be compromised, as he could in china and ukraine and the president could be compromised, as well, this warrants attention. >> todd: finally, joe rogan calling out. >> you are not the propaganda department, you can't define things in a way to calm people down, that is not what your job is. >> that is -- >> you are acting as a propagandist, that is not mostly peaceful when a car is on fire. >> todd: saying the truth, joe. >> joe: yeah, and we saw that in atlanta recently, you had a guest on cnn presented as an independent journalist and he is an activist that works on behalf of antifa, if you look at his facebook page. he said it is not a violent protest if you set police cars onir foo -- fire and destroy buildings. joe rogan, as usual, is exactly right in this case. it is gaslighting and it is dangerous, beca

more i d, w correspondent, emily show, and reporting that from us. and dw is chief international editor richard walker, here with the cd. thanks so much t both and it's to ukraine now, where the death toll from a russian missile strike on an apartment building into the pro has risen to 41. after rescue. work has pulled the body of a child from the rubble will be 2 dozen. other residents are still missing. your trans president is calling for foster deliveries of heavy weapons from the west in the wake of this attack, which he is describing as a war crime. and not the body recovered from the rubble. rescuers say they have little hope of finding any one alive under this mess of twisted concrete. but they keep up the search any way for making you more open law. mostly dana, james said we are not giving up hope of finding anyone alive this year. the 1st group is looking for the dead. give us the more help with that to actual place with a little more them more, but not only them of those who were rescued were rushed to hospital national with there are 3 people on the ward, including the 19 year old w

i'm joined now from diverse by w correspondent, emily show and, and joining me here in the studio is our chief international editor, richard walker. and emily, i'm going to start with you if i may offer funded line started with ukraine, and i will to, she's been speaking for months now about the need for, for unity, for corporation against russian aggression. we just heard her say that we are in it for as long as it takes. was there any sort of change in her focus and tone that you heard, or is that the focus of support for ukraine steadfast? well i would say in comparison to last year, it's interesting to look at these 2 speeches and parallel last year. it was a love underline, really was almost wholly focused on the war and ukraine. the last world economic forum took place in may, so it was kind of just a few months after russia full scale invasion of ukraine. and she talked a lot about that about how europe needs to reduce it. it's dependence on russian oil and gas and about plans to rebuild ukraine. this year ukraine was also a strong focus, but it was more of a starting out point. so she talked about the bravery of uk

let's bring in richard painter, who's a former chief of fiscal year for president george w bush. he's also a professor at the university of minnesota law school. he's joining us from st. paul, that's over in minnesota. welcome to the al jazeera news hour. can i just get your initial thoughts on, on what we heard mary garland say just a few moments ago, and that he's appointing a special counsel to investigate the biden documents pro was, is exactly what the attorney general should do, appoint his special counsel. we should not have the attorney general of the united states who is on reporting to the president denies lights investigating the president. we need his battle council ah, involving any investigation of the president or you want to works for the president on they should investigate what happened in 2016, 2017. when these documents were packed up on the vice president's office and shipped to the pen biden's center as well as to the president's home in law in delaware. ah, what happened? what went wrong? because classified documents are marked as such weather cover that sa

joining me now is richard painter, law professor at university of minnesota and former chief white house ethics lawyer for president george was happened again, we saw it with donald trump and now it we had seen it with president biden. the classified documents were clearly mishandled, capped in places where they were not allowed to be kept. with people who did not have security clearance to see them. that includes the setter that they had the former vice president. the fact that they were mishandled doesn't necessarily mean that a crime was committed. in order to commit a crime, one must intentionally remove the documents or intentionally hold onto them knowing one has them, refused to give them back when asked or lie about having them to the government. now, thus far we don't see evidence that that is what happened. instead it looks likejust extreme right —— recklessness by the people packing these documents away. and recklessness on the part of the president himself at his house, going through the documents he had dared —— dared to make sure he didn't have anything he shouldn't. are the systems in place to prevent this ha

task force to modernize our nepa laws, okay, that was richard, chairman of resources says we're going to get endangered species act reform when george we white house and want to come along with nepa laws and i was like, yes, let's do this and we traveled the country and i remember, i remember that we saw the impact of permitting and the regulatory challenges on oil and gas, transportation, mining, forestry, across the board. i believe that this is the number one barrier to doing anything. manufacturing, making anything in the united states. building. it is the regulatory climate, the permitting challenges that we are facing and we must address how long it takes and the costs that are associated with permitting, so, the good news, the good news is that, last congress towards the end of the congress, we had democrats, especially in the senate, but democrats in the house, too. calling for permitting reform. that is important and the effort led by senator manchin, senator schumer, other democrats in the house, i'm not saying that i believe that they got it right, but there's a -- first of all, it is recognizing that we need to address the

richard nixon he had to leave. i remember talking with both senator scott and senator goldwater about that and they said they knew it meant their party was losing but it was te only thing that could be done and should be done. and when they were asked by the press they said we had a conversation in the senate. there were quiet discussions and i realized how heavily it waited on them. but they both told me there is nothing else we could do. our duty is first senators. republicans next but first senators. we had to go down and tell richard nixon that. how would you compare and contrast that? >> it's night and day. i know a number of senators that told me yes he's guilty but he's not going t' be convicted so i'm not going to hope for his conviction because the next year or the next time or whatever that shouldn't be the case. they tried to do it quietly so as not to get his anger but to do what is right and he, i quoted a parliamentarian who said you know your vigilance and duty to help your constituents but your conscience ise your he and you don't owe that to anybody a else. i've always found that vote your conscience. you might catch a

head of the defense staff, david richard, even accused the head of the cabinet of ministers of that he staged an unprepared campaign to remove gaddafi from power. george wows how to start deadly wars. and we are from another book of revelations, this time written by bob woodward, one of the most famous usa journalists. in the early 2000s , he released a bestseller with the telling title of a strike plan about starting a war with iraq. here's how the decision was made on january 13, 2003, in the oval hall, george w. bush received the secretary of state. kulin powell, to inform him of his intention to start a war against iraq, the inspection will not give anything. and i really do. i think i'll have to do it. are you sure you are aware of the consequences. do you know that you will become the owner of this corner of the world asks paulo in response. the president says he's all understands, but believes that he must do it. you are on my side in this matter, he asks a direct question, as befits a faithful soldier, he agrees, the conversation lasts 12 minutes. if you don't even ask paul for his opinion, the secretary of state will find out everything the las

w he had safes in our office. if the door was ajar, went to the bathroom, and richard painter was our white house ethics adviser. people want to imagine how things were handled in that white house. i find all of it incomprehensible. but there is a recency issue, david jolly. mike pence was just vice president. what was found -- again, i do think the apples to apples are pence and biden. i think we should do a sweep of of what was -- what they have. they should all go back. but the standard that has been created and a moment when there is a -- an epic vacuum of government institutions and a real growing angt that merrick garland doesn't want to do the hard things. >> did you take any classified documents with you from the white house? >> i did not. >> do you see any reason for anyone to take classified documents with them leaving the white house? >> well, there is no reason. >> so, david, let's do what they never do for us, let's give the benefit of the doubt and assume he is telling the truth. did you take anything? no. >> okay. right? that's normal. it comes in another category. it goes to his home office and f

w. bush, who inherited a $155 billion surplus, and left with massive deficits, record deficits. this is incredible. and these republicans, again, i keep saying this, richard a former republican yourself, i think you were. the republican party, they just don't learn. >> the kings of france, they experience history, they don't learn from it. this is irresponsible. it's also, joe, connected to something else ux. you said. it doesn't just fail. how you anti-china if you make the united states more vulnerable to what foreign governments might do. it's part of the mindless indiscriminate attack on government. you go after the fbi, the irs. you go after all the authorities of government. there's no discrimination between those things necessary and legitimate, and those that might not be. to me it's just totally mind lets, and it's just not in any way thought through in terms of its implications for american economic security or american national security. >> and we've talked about this, jonathan lemire, before. it is mindless, this reagan skepticism of the federal government has turned into nihilism, where you attack the irs. you have the most senior republican