Page 203 - Defensive News Today

To get republicans to move on voting rights. can we get some things passed with bipartisan -- with some bipartisan votes that help americans? and i think, you know, he did that with the infrastructure bill, we did get republicans on board, but now its damned if you do, damned if you dont. hes criticized for not doing enough on voting rights and now when hes beginning to do stuff on voting rights hes also criticized. look, i think this is now becoming a big priority for the president, not only be...

>> well, i think as raf just said, basically, theyre trying to get ahead of the russians rather than let the russians set the agenda here. by putting this out in advance, just like the american government a few weeks ago put out the idea that there are saboteurs being sent by russia into eastern ukraine, theyre trying to make clear to the broader public that when they see something happen, to discredit it, to understand that this is not some sort of ukrainian internal crisis, that it would be an...

Head above the parapet. as i mentioned, the dean sahalee came out earlier, and sajid javid who was at the heart of getting an investigation into this happening, and he has come out in support of nusrat ghani and said he would support her if she made a formal complaint. support her if she made a formal complaint-— support her if she made a formal comlaint. . , , ., complaint. inevitably, leaving the substance aside, _ complaint. inevitably, leaving the substance aside, the _ complaint. inevitab...

Garbage, yeah. >> martha: lets bring in joe concha, columnist for the hill and fox news contributor. a lot of spicy back and forth. some of those go back to may. we see that at times and occasionally from president trump as well. >> this is not mr. grouchy hollingsworth. this is the president of the united states. he said to his staff on day one, if youre ever working with me and i hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, i promise you i will fire you on the spot."...

And a series of police shootings and that firefighter just lost his life. rich. >> rich: as a firefighter you know you get a dangerous call, you know when you go out there that you could certainly face harm to yourself, but to think that you could show up on scene somewhere and be shot and killed is something that, you know, i dont necessarily think everyone should have to put together or does put together in these situations, and as you heard there in the news conference, this is very early in ...

Ukraines border right now and wave it away and assume nothing is going on, but russians themselves simply will not accept something packaged as an overt offensive action, defensive, when i say defensive, its a direct attack on russia particularly in the rebel regions of eastern ukraine, and this is the kind of thing they are dealing with right now, it has to be defensive if they do anything. >> thank you so much. with me now is the former ambassador to ukraine, william taylor. ambassador, thank ...

Has sent, they are all defensive. it is a defensive alliance, so they would not intervene if russia does a further invasion of ukraine. but of course, americas eastern european allies very much on edge at this point in time, especially also about the situation in the black sea, where the russians are putting together a massive naval force, air forces, and ground forces as well. and of course, as you mentioned, those 3,000 additional troops going to poland. also, extremely concerned the u.s. show...

Measures are being unwound. and weve covered that, there arent quarantines, blue states are pulling back on the mask requirements. people know about that. but this is the most where they have to go to a different country to find a quarantine style protest in fairness, canada has had longer and more physical based safety measures than the u.s. but they have to go find it somewhere else to find the attack on liberty. it seems desperate, i guess, if you follow the evidence. >> yeah, and it is all, ...

>> jeffrey. >> or mr. goldberg. >> before he was editor -- >> it is like you get a title, you get a longer -- >> yeah. >> i what just say, sir. >> willie, this is making me uncomfortable. . >> but viewers love it. >> i dont think we still understand why he left "the new york times." . >> youve really got him on the defensive. >> your father would never leave "the new york times". >> well, he did. >> i know. >> one of the greats, as donald trump said. >> yeah, one of the greats. im interested to ...

Bigger than financial ties. it makes me think maybe the example of our democracy is not so good, so why are we following you guys? its hard not to see that. >> >> following up on january 6, the first thing that i thought of after january 6th, following up on what you said, we used to say peaceful transfer of power. peaceful transfer. >> its different. >> its different. we can no longer say that. i actually think that the situation with the olympics is somewhat unique. i believe that our response...