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University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange will join Arnaud Mentré, consul general of France in Boston, and Mary Thompson-Jones, former acting ambassador to the Czech Republic and a career foreign service officer, for a conversation on March 30 about “‘The West’ and the War in Ukraine.” ...

Truth and accountability. kabul did not fall in 11 days, dana. that is a lie. it took months for the afgan army to desert and surrender. the taliban takeover came after three months. biden was briefed by the intelligence agencies, state department cables went out, embassy cables went out. biden knew in july that the taliban was taking over because he got on the phone call with the afgan president and said lie for me. make sure it looks better on the ground so i get help politically and then mayb...

Administration declared me first withdrawal? >> thank you congressman. we inherited a deadline but we did not inherit a plan. so no plan at all. >> among us 5,000 people released with the consent and it negotiated agreement with the trump administration, i guess our concern about terrorists is pretty selective. >> dana: it just say, your thoughts? this before and thats why they didnt really lay a glove on him because they dont have to write questions. republicans today needed to zero in on what ...

Are. of >> jesse: doing everything possibility to pass. but not doing the minimum necessary to make sure we do not leave the citizens behind. we will see american hostages, we will see thousands of allies trance behind enemy lines and we are witnessing the slow-motion collapse of american credibility all over the world because of the absolute incompetence within the white house right now. going to pivot back into schools, covid, schools, getting ron desantis in the mouth to get away from the afg...

Russia was kind of flat on its back. we tried to actually help it. and we had, i would say, close to friendly relations with the regime at that time under boris yeltsin. we werent quite prepared as a government with what putin brought in in 1999. the united states also tends to feel overconfident in the world, particularly when we looked at how bad off russia was then. in truth you can trace these techniques back to the 1980s when russians were, in that period, in the soviet period, were forging...

The economic recovery is fragile at best and of course with prices going up for the oil prices, gas prices go up and if were paying $4 or $5 a gallon at the pumps which some experts say we could be by late spring into the summer if all of this unrest continues, people are not going to be spending money on other consumer goods and that could really hurt the economic recovery and certainly could also have an impact on inflation, shep. we have seen the markets themselves the dow again down by tripl...

Bodyguards he has become so well known for. you see some of them here. for years whether at the u.n. or traveling abroad, he has them by his side. in uniforms of green, tan, olive, and other colors. also ukrainian nurse who travels as well. and speaking of which, embassy cables from wikileaks describe him as a hypochondriac. his vanity was discussed with his loss of facial muscle control was debated as a cause of a stroke or botox treatments and zigzagging hairline was blamed on hair plugs and t...

Going to let that happen. >> i dont think we can. i think that would be disastrous. >> reporter: democrats wanted to raise taxes only on the rich. >> id be willing to go along with a one-year extension so we can protect the middle class. >> reporter: president obama says hell sit down with republicans this week, and come up with a plan. >> weve had more conversations in the last two weeks than weve had in the last two years. and i think thats a good sign. a growing awareness that the powers goin...

Headache brought about by the historic security breach and now another dump could be in store. malini wilkes has more from washington. >> julie, if wikileaks julian assange is arrested or shut down, he plans to trigger release of even more sensitive documents. for the first time assange is talking about a massive heavily encrypted file labeled insurance posted on wikileaks in july and believed to contain the quarter million embassy cables last week and documents on guantanamo bay and the company...

As this story unfolds, a big story today, about wickileaks. jon: good day to you! im jon scott. jenna: im jenna lee. were here in the fox newsroom and happening right now, wickileaks founder julian assange under arrest in london, not for stealing american secrets, though, but for alleged sex crimes in sweden. hes now facing extradition to that country and a london judge just denied assange bail. jon: in an op-ed piece scheduled to appear in the australian newspaper, quote, if you have read any o...