And the cream of us politics. Valerie jarrett was the longest serving Senior Adviser to president barack obama. She was co chair of the obama transition team. Valerie trained as a lawyer and worked in a number of civic organisations in chicago before moving into politics. And richard haas is a highly respected former us diplomat whos currently president of the council on foreign relations. He was a senior official in the Us State Department under president george bush and was adviser to secretary of state colin powell. Richard has written a new book called the world a brief introduction. Big topic there. Richard, welcome to you both. And remember, you, too, can join the conversation. Its hash tag bbc global questions. And lets get right down to our first question is from des kimara in quebec, canada. But i believe youre originally from sierra leone. 0k, fire away. Thank you. Thank you very much. Until 2016, america is seenl as the father for democracy. However, with the Trump Administr
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A good performance. I think one of the interesting things about the president s speech how lackluster it was. In response to the crowd, he hit his stride when he talked about gun control, but before i was surprised how lackluster, what a lukewarm response he got on particularly on economic issues. Chris less than 30 seconds, do you see much that republicans will be able to be sign on to from the president s speech . No at lot. There wasnt much in the way of specifics. Its like senator wicker said, where his plan on sequester . I did think he did the right thing immigration by restraining comments and not jumping in the middle of it. Chris now from the speakers conference room, senator marco rubio with the republican response. Good evening. Im marco rubio. Im blessed to represent florida and the United States senate. Let me begin by congratulating president obama on the start of his second term. Tonight i have the honor of responding to the state of the Union Address on behalf of my fel
Is anything but when a recruit is rush to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the head. We will update you on his condition this morning. The president of the United States. It was all about the economy at the state of the union. What the president is doing today to push has agenda forward helping the middle class. Those stories coming up on this wednesday, february 13th. Good morning i am charley crowson. I am megan pringle. A lot of news to get to and we have been busy in the newsroom but we want to let you know about the weather because things are changing and its not going to affect your morning commute but will affect your day. Heres lynette with whats going on. Its not affecting the morning commute this morning. Tomorrow it could be icy outside when i am on the air and when we are all on the air. We will talk about whats going on right now. We have a Winter Weather advisory. This is the only one we have for our viewing area. And this is foresees i will county. So we are talking
Divide. Al jazeera speaks to syrian journalists on both sides of the conflict. We have a scandal involving hundreds of millions missing, including aid. More than 60 people are due to go on trial for that. In a moment we are live to the capital. First the setting for a corruption trial. Charges are being brought separately against individuals. Within two weeks its suspected that as many as 10 simultaneous hearings are underway. The prosecution will in part argue that Government Computers were hacked into, but sums of public money were transferred into private accounts, and amounts are staggering. The countrys current president estimates that as much as 30 of the countrys budget had been stolen over the past decade. It was president joyce banda who ordered the investigation that led to these criminal proceedings. Even though evidence indicates the widespread corruption that flourished under a Previous Administration did not end when she took office. She appointed a new Justice Minister t