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Conversation about what changes we may wish _ conversation about what changes we may wish to keep is ongoing, continuing in this place, as well as in many— continuing in this place, as well as in many other walks of national life _ in many other walks of national life and. — in many other walks of national life. and, of course, every parliamentary session brings changes. my predecessors presided over minority, majority and coalition— over minority, majority and coalition government. this s...

Provide good, credible options to be able to do that to be effective. >> you and your predecessors asked tens of thousands of young americans to fight in afghanistan and they did and thousands died. now you keep saying our troops should be proud of that. here is a question sent to me by one of thoefs soldiers. in 20 years our troops on the ground never lost a single battle yet we lost the war. the long erg we leave our -- what is left to be proud of? >> the gentlemans time is expired. >> if you ...

0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president -- former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced well implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u...

Broken. but it seems to me that its functioning this way by design. it is long past time for comprehensive immigration reform, and thats a goal we can only achieve if we rise up, together. we have to demand that president joe biden do better than his predecessors on this issue. and hold him accountable for the human rights violations occurring under his administration. the promise of this country as one with liberty and justice for all can still be fulfilled but only if we all rise up, together,...

House documents to the january 6th committee. . >> reporter: and this is the white house saying alex essentially initially theyre open to this, theyre not going to assert executive privilege, but theyre going to take this on a case by case basis. the reason this is so notable is that traditionally sitting presidents would use that to shield their predecessors from certain requests, but the point that the white house and press secretary jen psaki is really making and hammering home here is that t...

Of african-americans who have been historically and come temporaily wronged by our system. the reason we are here is because of the predecessors who fought and rebelled and died and locked up to be here. it is a slap in the face to have a gentleman like him using his credentials and others earned and fought for him to subvert and work against us. way too many people have died. people are still dying. this virus is not going anywhere. unless we follow the science, people will continually die at a...

Julie, thank you so much for that. lets go from there to monica alba at the white house. why is president biden choosing to release trumps white house documents despite trumps cries of executive privilege. >> reporter: this is a really interesting case, alex, because it centers on something that happened while former president trump was in office, but the current president, joe biden is the one who gets to decide what happens to this information that the committees are seeking as they continue t...

Unlike any of his predecessors had to deal with. back then lbj had a compliant caucus. he had a compliant congress. you know, they understood the norms and the roles and everything. we are in a different time in american politics now where all of the folks who are involved in this on both sides of the aisle feel like they can defy the president. that they dont have to listen to the president. that they are beholden to their constituents. but back to your original point, the fact that the preside...

Rivkees who was the previous surgeon general who was mia throughout the entire pandemic, is going to happen to him. if he is going to be out there, he is going to be serving the interests of desantis. he is not going to tell desantis what he wants to do. desantis is going to tell him what he wants to do and he is going to use his credentials to validate his foolishness. and thats what were seeing now. its unfortunate that theyre using this gentleman who benefitted from a lot of the sacrifices th...

Algerian president, abdelaziz bouteflika, has taken place in algiers, without the fanfare accorded to previous leaders. his body was taken for burial at el—alia cemetery, where his predecessors and other independence fighters are also interred. mr bouteflika died on friday at the age of 8a. he ruled algeria for two decades but was forced from power two years ago by mass protests. in the us, teams searching for missing 22—year—old gabby petito have found a body they say matches her descript...