of his job by this gray mob on the radical right that is increasingly going after even low-level nonpartisan officials who will not go along with republicans efforts to undo and overturned election results to benefit donald trump. so, there is these huge international stakes in terms of standing up for democracy and the world. right? president biden saying that the role of america right now is to show that democracy performs for its people. that democracies can get stuff done. democracies can show up the tyrannies and autocracies competing with us so the future of the world is free and self determined. could not be larger stakes. that is with the new u.s. president is selling today out star in the mizzle in the g7 cold. wall saying that america s, back in the world saying, yeah, we sure hope so. but the home front is wobbly. in terms of whether we are successfully fighting off our own rapidly consolidating
it can t go because cicadas. you might have seen one landing on president biden s neck as he was leaving the white house to go start his leg of this trip. that s a cicada on him. but it was more than one, more than one that invested the plane that the press was supposed to travel on alongside the president. a spokesman for delta which operates the press plane in this case, told them that they infested and overran something called the exhilarating power unit, a small turbine engine that powers the cabin another so many onboard equipment. cicadas got into that artillery power unit, that it broke. delta telling usa today, quote, that issue was the presence of periodical cicadas within the ap you, rendering it unremarkable. the spokesman said we apologize to our customers for this
there s no indication any reporting that there was any wrongdoing on their part that might have at least retroactively justified this kind of unprecedented step. we have no idea what the justice department was basing this on. we had no idea what type of evidence there was to get them to this point. issuing a subpoena for a member of congress is supposed to be treated as something that has to clear a high bar because of the fact it s another branch of government and it is a very invasive thing, and it can be seen as a political action, given the give and take, certainly the one going on at the time. we don t know with the justice department was basing this on, but we do now this is exactly what trump was saying, and what trump wanted. trump was ranting and raving and private about how the powers of the justice department should be used to go
prevent that sort of thing. and we leave it open to future abused by deciding he is never going to face charges for any laws he broke while in office. it couldn t face charges while a sitting president and now he s out of office, let s just hope it doesn t happen again? the presidency is still like that. the presidency is still affording those opportunities for self dealing and corruption, if we get that pattern after and their again. that s like an etymological mizzle that we have to get olva if we ever going to set ourselves back on the right course. [laughs] more on that ahead. stay with us. liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need.
to do the right thing regarding world affairs? last year, the percentage of people around the world saying that they had confidence in president donald trump to do the right thing was 17%. this year under president biden, it is not 17% anymore it is 75%. that is not a jump of 70 to 75%, it is a jump of 17 to 75%. that is an uptick. that is how the world s confidence in america and the u.s. president to do the right thing. [laughs] that s how it has a leapt by virtue of us voting trump out and biden in. that said, some considerable damage is done. only 11% of people around the world say that the united states is now a very reliable partner. i mean, yeah, how can we be all that reliable and what we just did in the past four years. a majority of people around the world, 57% say democracy in the united states quote, used to be a good example but we haven t