Paul welcome to the journal editorial report, The Middle East is on as the world prepares to mark the 1year anniversary of the October 7th Terror Attack with the israeli military pressing forward on multiple frontend taking the fight to irans socalled Axis Of Resistance in gaza, lebanon and yemen. Benjamin netanyahu vowed to change the Balance Of Power in the region. How has the at least changed since the israel hamas war began . Lets ask seth jones, senior Vice President and director of the international Security Program at the center for strategic and international studies. Good to see you again, happy to have you here. How has October 7th and the Israel Response to that changed The Middle East . There is both a shortterm and longerterm impact in the change of the Balance Of Power. The first is in the short term, weve seen hezbollah knocked on its back for the Command And Control structure that has been severely degraded. The leader of hezbollah has been killed and its interesting to
An impact. But like i said earlier, it will take a lot of Digital Media literacy that we dont have. Brian, its great to see you. Thanks for joining the show tonight. Thanks. That is our show for this evening. Its time for last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, alex. And we have a democratic nominee, joe biden has officially made it. So were going to be covering only of that and also a lot of defended trump coverage to get to. It is a big night. The General Election is on. Have a good show, lawrence. It is. Thanks, alex. Thank you. Well, its not a good day for the Trump Fanatics on the republican controlled house Judiciary Committee. It was not a great day for their star witness. Republican former u. S. Attorney robert hur was appointed to his u. S. Attorney by donald trump, conducted the investigation of joe bidens possession of classified material after joe biden left the vice presidency. That investigation found joe biden did not commit any crimes at
president. telling cnn, quote, this testimony will lead to dime. her bombshell testimony including trump knowing some of his supporters were armed in the hours before the capitol attack. he wanted to join them there despite a warning from former white house counsel pat cipollone that trump and others could face criminal charges if they did. today one of the two republican lawmakers vice chair liz cheney is calling on cipollone to testify. as we heard yesterday, white house council pat cipollone had significant concerns about january 6th activity. it s time for mr. cipollone to testify on the record. any concerns he has about the institutional interests of his prior office are outweighed by the need for his testimony, she writes. meantime, both trump and the secret service are denying hutchinson s second-hand account that trump flew into a rage when he was told not to go to to capitol. she said she was told he lunged at the steering wheel of the limo and at the secret service
right now, abortion rights supporters are contemplating next steps at the last week s pivotal supreme court ruling overturning roe v. wade. the ripple effects of that decision extending beyond americas streets. still filled with abortion rights supporters and opponents for the third day straight. as demand for abortion drugs skyrocket over fears, the fear they will lose soon to find drugs accessible to millions of americans. providers stopped newly go regime, putting many in immediate ranger danger. as several companies pledged resources and support to workers who may now have to travel to a dwindling number of states where abortion is still legal. of course, the dominoes have already fallen in at least nine states. they have already banned abortions since friday s ruling. while others are just waiting for their aunts to take effect. america, we may, by rose reversal, that s politicsnation tonight. plus, another round of congressional hearings on january six approaches af
adjust for inflation price right side not actually at record highs, but what is the white house plan for handling soaring prices and inflation that are affecting americans so severely. joining us is gene sperling, he is currently the white house american rescue plan coordinator and a senior advisor to president biden. he was a national economic council adviser in the clinton administration. gene, let s talk about maybe what can be done to take some of the edge off here. is another release of more barrels from the strategic reserve a possibility here? look, we re trying to do everything we can. you know, when you are talking about looking in real inflation adjusted terms, the day that putin moved troops to the border of belarus gas prices were at $3.31, that was actually below the average that we had over the last decade. as you say, it s now $4.97, that is $1.60 that s over $1.60 tax, putin tax, on the american pu public. little comfort that it s higher for families in