News by endorsing a quote, targeted advertising tax for funding newsrooms. Sanders stating part quote, todays assault on journalism i wall street billionaire businessman Silicon Valley and donald trump present a crisis and why we must take concrete action and we should not want even more of the free press to be put under the control of a handful of corporations and benevolent billionaires who can use their media empires to punish their critics and shield themselves from scrutiny. Jonathan, what do you think of bernies solution . Free press that means free from government. But out bernie. This is infuriating the government has no role zero, zilch no role in journalism and in speech and in ideas but both bernie in the last and on the right as well have consistently been attacking the free press not just one institution or one pure radical or reporter for the institution at large and thats what paving the way for these calls are more government regulation or institution into what could be
Describe what they saw and heard the night he shot his girlfriend to death. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. Great to see you this morning. March 6th thursday 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets get you up to speed. First, the growing crisis in ukraine. Even though some dont want them there, right now, 35 International Military observers from 18 nations, including the u. S. Are headed to crimea and they may be putting their lives on the line. Just yesterday, the u. N. s special envoy to crimea robert sery left the region and abandoned his mission after a tense encounter with prorussian militias. Crimea remaining under russian control this morning. Were just learning Russian Forces have scuttled an old warship in an inlet, trapping as many as seven Ukrainian Naval vessels, while two other heavily Armed Ukrainian ships remain blocked from leaving port for a second week blocked by four russian vessels. Well get the latest from our Michael Holmes live fro
Television will be here with insights from the campaign trail. Hello im jake tapper in washington, d. C. , where the state of our union is up for debate. Just four days from now, the republican president ial field will have its first chance to engage in facetoface rhetorical combat. The top ten contenders as decided by poll also line up on stage for the first debate. We are still waiting to see who will make the final cut. And then the big question, of course, how will they handle donald trump . Will the leading candidate bring his flair for, shall we call it, drama, to the debate stage . No one knows what and how the billionaire, who has never debated will respond to a challenge such as this. Theres no denying, of course, his growing lead among the republican pack. And if the other candidates want the partys nod, trump is now the one they need to take down. First among them, perhaps, governor Chris Christie. Whose strength at the end of last year was undeniable, and whose support trum
Cappard, Peterswell, Co. Galway. Gerry slipped away suddenly, but peacefully, at his home, on Wednesday, the 25th of October 2023. Pre-deceased by his dear mother Mary Joe and recently by his beloved father Paddy. Cherished and much-loved, Gerry will be sadly missed by his heartbroken wife Breda, by his adored children Paul, Brian, Derek, Edel […]