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As Blinken heads to Ukraine, Zelensky undercuts Western support with surprise sacking of energy executive Jamie McIntyre BLINKEN’S UKRAINE MISSION: Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps up his meetings with G-7 foreign ministers in London today and heads to Ukraine, where tomorrow he meets with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Blinken’s primary mission is to show solid support for Zelenesky’s government in the face of Russia’s recent military buildup along the country�...

‘A CALIBRATED, PRACTICAL APPROACH’: Speaking at a meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers in London, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined to return fire in the wake of incendiary statements from North Korea in reaction to President Joe Biden’s reference to the North’s nuclear program as a “serious threat.”

Hard-fought thing when it comes to both accusing him and defending him. if the stakes are as high as i believe they are in terms of this investigation, there can be no question as to whether or not hes well represented, that he gets the best defense possible and that all of the truth comes out. you have to have faith in the adversarial nature of our justice system in order to hope for an outcome everybody can abide by and believe in. if youre against this president, dont root for him to have a b...

Concern about reputational risk to their firms. would the -- would taking on the representation of donald trump, such a polarizing figure, kill recruitment of top notch lawyers coming out of law school. or how would it play with their existi existing clients and that is extraordinary when talking about representing the president of the united states. >> he does have an outside lawyer. he has brought on a lawyer who represented him in some of his atlantic city casino business. its a lawyer who, i...

But for most other modern presidents, there is somebody. president nixon went through not one, but two outside private lawyers. his first was a man names charles alan wright, the preeminent constitutional lawyer of his time. wright, however, was unsuccessful in his efforts to prevent nixon from having to hand over the white house tapes. and so nixon canned him. replaced him with another prominent lawyer names james st. clair. st. clair defended the decision to withhold the tapes all the way up t...

Lawyers. his first was a man names charles alan wright, the preempent in institutional lawyer of his time. wright, however, was unsuccessful in his efforts to prevent nixon from having to hand over the white house tapes. and so nixon canned him. replaced him with another prominent lawyer names james st. clair. st. clair defended the decision to withhold the tapes all the way up to the supreme court before they lost that case. during iran/contra, president reagan retained republican super lawyer ...

>> good afternoon. welcome to the library of congress. i am john cole, the director of the center for the book in the library of congress which is the reading and book promotion arm of the library. we are very pleased to be cosponsoring this program with the libraries photographs division. it was created to help the library of congress we are private public partnership with the library of congress but indeed we have raised private funding from the beginning to help support o...

i only have to decide each case based on the evidence presented to the court. and in the "out of order" appellate court, which the supreme court is, the evidence has been introduced and presented at the trial court level. the first court to hear the case. that is where the evidence comes in. it is a matter of recorkill it is in the record of that case. if you want to look back on the appellate court judge that what was it in the record at the time the case was resolved, it is all there...

>> i am glad -- there are other waitress jobs, somebody else part-time. >> that is a big debate in economics, whether what really happens is you stop hiring. the facts are the evidence -- this is after years of debate. the fact i you dont see that. the rate at which it increases may slow down slightly. and example like at mcdonalds, you have to have machines where people fill out their own glasses instead of having somebody fill the glass but generally speaking there isnt evidence that...

"saving justice." and im here because i worked as one of bobs assistance for two and a half years we are friends between 1974 and his death last fall. but i need to open with a compression. i cant say very much about the book. ill talk instead about bob bork, the man and solicitor general. the reason i cant say much about the book is his principal focus is his first six months on the job. she plead guilty and resigned as vice president when he persuaded the supreme court to stop justic...