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July 7, 2024
the decision made in bucharest on membership for ukraine. welcome to madrid. you dont have a crystal ball, but im wonderin-, how crystal ball, but im wondering, how much _ crystal ball, but im wondering, how much longer will it take for finland and sweden tojoin nato since its a prettyโ and sweden tojoin nato since its a pretty urgent situation? 30 and sweden to join nato since its a pretty urgent situation?โ pretty urgent situation? so far, this is the _ pretty urgent situation? s...
July 7, 2024
state party convention. the line in those negotiations that he says he will not cross. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." im jonathan lemire. on this monday, june 20th. well start with the news. a new poll finds a majority of americans, nearly six in ten, believe donald trump should be charged for his role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. the abc news ipsos poll conducted this last friday and saturday after the first three hears in the attack, it found 58% of thos...
June 29, 2022
They have the agreements they need, but more specifically on what it is that turkey wanted and what they got, joined by a retired ambassador. its really fascinating to see. you served as nato assistant secretary general, we are seeing how turkey has now lifted its veto so that these two countries, finland and sweden, canjoin. can you explain to us the thought process, what did turkey want, what did president began want in order to come to this decision? . . began want in order to come to this de...
November 6, 2021
Problem with any sibling of mps as they are always marking their homework on a consensus basis and thatis homework on a consensus basis and that is why we had the system. whatever the motivation and set of circumstances that led to this unfolding, the overarching question is why did this, why was this allowed to happen? was this boris johnson deciding that this is what he wanted to do and not listening to any advisors, or were the right people nothing to him that this is not going go down well? ...
November 1, 2015
Will you faithfully adhere to the hastert rule or cobble together a coalition of democrats and republicans to get past the freedom caucus. >> i was elected to unify the -- not to disunified the republican conference. so i think on the big controversial issues of the day, i want to reach for not just a narrow majority, i want to get us to consensus. thats what i think a good leader does. bring us to consensus. so to answer your question, i wasnt -- i wasnt made dictator of the house, but speaker ...
August 13, 2010
Sacramento, they have to work on a consensus basis. >> because of prop 13? >> no, its because of a number of different things. prop 13 just being one of them. 2/3 of the budget has been part of the system since the 30s. but weve had 2/3 on other initiatives that protect spending for education, local government, et cetera. >> let me follow up, then. do we have to get rid of the 2/3 rules. if you need 60 senators youre in a world of trouble. it seems impossible. >> youre right. we do need to get r...
April 30, 2010
Elected iran a state where stoning is enshrined in law, lashings required for women judged immodest. how do we make sense of it? john bolton, former ambassador to the u.n., he knows the hallways of this all too well. good morning to you in southern california. why would the u.n. make such a move? >> well, its business as usual at the u.n. you know, i think most americans are outraged when they hear that iran is going to be voting on questions involving womens rights, but this is par for the cour...