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or related. how does this show how vulnerable some of our critical infrastructure really is here? >> incredibly vulnerable. i will just say, this laura. it strikes me that more and more, nothing really works in america anymore. our roads are falling apart. bridges are falling down right in front of our eyes. pieces of airplanes are falling out of the sky. now we have got these outages yet at the same time the congress of the united states and the president, what do they want to do? spend hundreds of billions of dollars more on foreign wars, use tax dollars to subsidize chinese industry, electric vehicles, paying the chinese to make stuff we don't want. whereas our country or while our country is falling apart. if ever this was the moment to say wake up and start investing in america, it would be right now. >> laura: now, the gw parkway which is one of the major arteries into d.c., they have ripped that up, senator. this is just one little example. effects millions of people in the course of a week in the nation's capital.

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PALI LEHOHLA | The unbrotherly callousness sends shiva-ahem-shivers down the spine — exhibit A: VBS' demise

The empathy-devoid destruction of the VBS Mutual Bank and Enron holds major lessons for load-shedding, the absence of energy and development in SA

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Prime Weekend

but what it means to them. democracy, it's about freedom, it's about, he says, trump says obamacare sucks, forget my crudeness, but i'm just quoting. >> you're quoting him, it's not your words. [laughter] >> obamacare sucks. no, obamacare cures. so he says he wants to undo that, he criticizes the senators who voted against terminating at. and so, this is about freedom, freedom to have access to health care, freedom to have access to health, care in terms of reproductive freedom for women and families, -- and if they will have the families. the freedom of people to be able to have care at home, so that they can have freedom to work and grow their families, in a very productive way for the future. so it's not just about the ideal of freedom, which would be enough reason. our constitution, the congress

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because people vote that way. i did want to ask, you wrote this powerful op-ed, i re-read it again, about the anniversary of january 6th. and you were there that day, you were so heroic that day, and you outline a lot of what happened. and recently this weekend, donald trump repeated the lie that those convicted for their involvement are hostages. he used the term hostages. and i just wanted to know, what you thought of that, or what your response was, when you heard him say that? >> well, he is a disgrace, let's put it this way. we've known that for a long time. he is disrespect for the congress, for the capital and the rest has been clear. he came to the capitol and gave a presidential of medal of freedom to one of his thug friends, right there -- this is, he talked politics on the floor of the house, we don't do that, it's about policy. and in any event, that's not even worrying so much about what he said. except, that is what he says he

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the supreme court this year will be one month from right now. on february 8th, this supreme court will hear oral arguments in the case of donald j trump versus not -- which is the title of donald trump's appeal to the united states supreme court, of the colorado supreme court decision banning donald trump for the presidential ballot in colorado, based on section 3 of the 14th amendment, which was enacted in 1868. section three of the 14th amendment says, no person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or elector of president and vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states comp, or under any state, who, having previously taken an

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assassinate members of congress. and again, mark esper, his former defense secretary said he wanted to shoot people, and esper wouldn't do it. >> it's thug behavior. >> it's thuggery. >> and here, here is what i want to say, in a political context of it all. go back to 2004, and when i was doing polling for the dnc, one of the things that was a bedrock of republican party, and something that helped them win the suburbs, especially moderate middle america, was the idea that they were the party of strong values. they were a party of strong morals and values, and even if democrats had -- and issues of health care, the central value that middle america claimed to was this ideal that they were strong values, and george bush was a good man, a strong man, a man of values. he goes to church, right, he loves his wife, those things. i find it hard to believe, and it's not the one thing, julia.

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oath, as a member of congress, or as an officer of the united states, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the constitution of the united states, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. but congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each house, remove such disability. former federal appeals court judge michael luttig, who was appointed to the court by republican president george h. w. bush, believes section three couldn't be any clearer. >> the supreme court is not -- wrong to decide this case. and it will likely look for every legitimate way possible, legitimate way possible, to avoid deciding whether the former president is

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now. but honestly, i don't know if he is afraid of them or he is afraid that he is going to upset them. all of that is completely irrelevant. his inaction has been unconscionable and he's now responding to pressure from the congress of the united states and i'm sure to our allies from around the world that something had to be done and i think he is very reluctantly taking action. hejust got is very reluctantly taking action. he just got back he doesn't want to do it. i condemn him for that. that is absolutely dereliction of duty and he should be held accountable, most likely at the polls this coming year. we accountable, most likely at the polls this coming year.- polls this coming year. we 'ust have about ﬂ polls this coming year. we 'ust have about one i polls this coming year. we 'ust have about one minute i polls this coming year. we just have about one minute left - polls this coming year. we just have about one minute left but if you say the president have not been active enough, what would you like to see him and the white house do right now? firstly, i think he needs to reemphasise how really serious he is in going ahead and targeting yemen. and lay it out that he's going to, if they

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CNN This Morning

humanitarian assistance over $10 billion into gaza has not been taken up by the republicans. so, when people say, well, these people need help and the rest and the president should make it happen, well, it is an expenditure, a fiscal bill that has to come from the congress of the united states. so i think that when the election as we go through this and it's a terrible situation, it's heartbreaking in every way, whether it's about -- >> do you have concerns -- >> -- whether about the assault or consequences of that. >> do you have concern about how the president has operated is trying to work behind the scenes as he's always done on foreign policy reeled issues. do you have concerns about netanyahu's leadership? how his government operates right now and the path forward? >> yeah, i've never been a particular fan of netanyahu. he hasn't been a particular fan of the two-state solution, which

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governments have protections to offer those two noes do not make a yes. >> there's no question there are sharp ideological differences between the two parties, certainly seem to be exacerbated now. the current speaker did put out a statement of support for president biden's order to have the coalition strike in yemen. you were talking about the weight of the world on the president's shoulder. that is certainly the case right now. do you support this decision? there have been some in your caucus or in the democratic caucus that have raised concerns that this is not within the presidential authority? >> no, there are a few, but it is within the president's authority. this is -- they were making strikes on ships that affect commerce and the rest. it's a multilateral decision to go forward. it was not a declaration of war that has to come from congress. i respect those would have that view but i don't agree with them and i think the president made the right decision. >> are you concerned more broadly given the conflict in the middle east and the

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