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And as First Minister of scotland when his party faced the latest in a series of crises. John swinney, welcome to political thinking. Lovely to be with you, thank you. It has been something of a rollercoaster six months, havent it . You retire from Front Line politics, then the First Minister of scotland is forced from office and you decide to come back into Front Line politics, come to your partys rescue. Then Rishi Sunak calls a surprise early election in the summer, then you have a bit of a k...

Of the United States. Its kind of our way, or the highway. Mississippi senator roger wicker on all of that very shortly, In The Meantime, to Mark Meredith on how this is all going down, fueled by not only the president stating that this is the only way to do it, republicans, at a jobs report which might have helped his argument. Mark . Reporter neil, good morning to you right that jobs report is having an impact on the discussions. President biden counting on house and Senate Democrats to pass h...

. ♪. ♪. ♪. you were in the cnn newsroom paula read in washington, jim acosta is off. we begin with the latest emergency act aimed at a time global banking crisis, switzerland ubs is buying the rival credit suisse after the bank lost 25% of value the past week as major depositors fled in droves. even as an emergency loan from the swiss national bank failed to shore up confidence. that bank says the take-over of ubs should, quote, secure financial stability and protect the swis...

Article: Daniel Ellsberg: Master of War, Champion of Peace - This is a goodbye appreciation piece for the value Daniel Ellsberg brought to the public with his revelations about secret government workings.

Complex, theres a lot of people reflecting on that 20s years later and saying what was our strategy? what were we attempting to do? the intelligence was flawed going into iraq and there wasnt a very good end state other than to depose sadam hussein as a dictator, the biggest lesson i think a lot of people -- if they havent learned they should, is dont go to war unless you have a very good strategy for what youre attempting to do and you have a very good preliminary end state for what you want to...

>> kate, that is the question of the day. first, if i can comment on what susan just said, there will most definitely be not just a military after-action review of the last 20 years, but im certain there will be an interagency review. and the critical part of that, if i may, is to make sure its a bipartisan and calm effort to determine what we did right and what we did wrong. there was certainly a lot of things we did right as well as many of the things that we did wrong during our time in afgha...

North koreas solid fuel rockets? does it change the equation. >> it does provide a degree of efficiency and mobility and gives you less warning than do a liquid fuel rockets but theyve been moving in this direction for years. again, its another thing that we watch. because it reduces our warnings, if you will. but we have very good intelligence on north korea. we work closely with our partners, the south koreans who are capable ally as well. these are all things its my responsibility along with ...

They will range death and destruction on the capital city. then whatever follows that, are they going to engage japan, launch any kind of other attack? and it will start the war that will probably end his regime. so we do have options, but all of them are bad. the best option of course is not to have to fight. if we can get through some sort of diplomatic effort. if we think that the north koreans are going to diplomatically remove their nuclear weapons, i think thats not going to happen. >> gen...

Caused yourself a little bit of trouble. the current administration has achieved great things over the last seven to ten days in terms of diplomatic action and informational action. to have the leader of that administration using the bellicose language that a lot of the world sees in a very different way than many americans do, causes some challenges when youre talking about a strategic event with dire circumstances on the peninsula of korea. as were focusing on this one area of the world, one o...

Of diplomatic effort. if we think that the north koreans are going to diplomatically remove their nuke weapons, i think thats not going to happen. >> general hertling, we had ambassador baucus on earlier, saying that he believes china would get involved, they wouldnt just stand by and watch a conflict get under way on their border without getting involved. do you think thats a possibility? >> i think thats probably very true, and he knows it more than most having been the ambassador at one time....