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Related point, is that, you know, the justice department is very careful about its institutional role and trying to make sure that they follow precedence that subsequent administrations would and should follow. i think its likely. but all im saying is that in a congressional investigation that has a real time limit with, you know, this -- this congress ending in a little more than 12 months. the idea that steve bannon will be actually forced to testify or actually jailed for criminal contempt st...

Under two very different administrations. can you compare for us the difference that youve experience between these two presidents so far? >> well first thank you amen for having me tonight. yes, there would be a lot of differences between those two administrations. the reason why we have reacted so strongly in particular, the fact that we were surprised and shocked not to have any consultation on an issue which was clearly a very central issue to my country. i mean this now famous deal on slumb...

Sends party affiliation. oklahomaens are independent thinkers and they are not limited to letters behind a name. individuals do not fit into tidety categories. instead, oklahomaens vote for the person. i havent changed. i have the same values that ive had before but those values align with regular everyday oklahomaens, republicans, independents and democrats who value working together, common sense solutions and respecting one another. >> so if you were to win as the democratic governor, would y...

You know, things that were on autopilot in previous administrations went off the rails. >> i mean, i think missing gifts from foreign leaders is pretty essential to who is pulling the strings, ben rhodes. what is the bigger scandal for the saudis, that the furs may or may not have been real or that trump had them somewhere undisclosed for three years and then turned them over? >> i mean, for the saudis, its probably that they may or may not be real. these are people that are sitting on a billion...

We dont know how many will make it here but they do seem to be determined so the department of homeland security will do as we look at the miles and miles of border wall fencing sitting there being stored, which will eventually rust away or be destroyed or something. dhs is saying, chad, it will take the money that was appropriated for border wall construction and put it toward environmental projects in the border region including biological cultural, and natural resource surveys. is that a prod...

The world is concerned, is america really back? joining me now is a man who can help us answer that. the french ambassador to the u.s. thank you for joining us. i have to say, welcome back. i know you were recalled to paris. you are now back in d.c. i want to start broadly. you have been an ambassador to the united states since the end of 2019. basically, you have been here under two very different administrations. can you compare for us the differences that you have experiences between these tw...

Journalists press-titutes. this kind of language we heard from both administrations. in the philippines, it obviously goes further where we saw 19 journalists murdered since duterte came to power. but i think looking forward, we are seeing in the u.s. a very different tone and very different approach by the biden administration where theyre saying that human rights is back on the foreign policy agenda and preserving democracy and proving that democracy works, as president biden put it, is now a ...

Journalists press-titutes. this kind of language we had from both administrations. in the philippines, it obviously goes further where we saw 19 journalists murdered since duterte came to power. but i think looking forward, we are seeing in the u.s. very different tones and very different approach by the biden administration where theyre saying that human rights is back on the foreign policy agenda and preserving democracy and proving that democracy works, as president biden put it, is now a pri...

Beginning in the 90s, the clinton and bush administrations deported thousands of gangsters back to central america to unstable countries recovering from years of brutal civil war. but which never had a gang problem. this was a time bomb. in 2005, i witnessed its explosion. >> so we hadnt even been in el salvador more than a half-hour before we learned a member of ms 13 had been shot. >> central america is now one of the most dangerous regions on earth. now in the u.s., a new generation of ms 13 ...

Years. the last 15 years weve seen rising authoritarianism, more countries every year declining in respect for political rights and civil liberties and improvement. the united states is part of that global story. >> and thats partly a president trump story but it continues with trump out of office. >> president trump was certainly an accelerant to that, but i believe its something that crosses all administrations. weve seen -- weve actually tracked democratic decline for about ten years. and we ...