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donald trump continues to be the center of this for obvious reasons, but this is not his only place of concern, right? you have an investigation from the justice department, special counsel, where folks continue to look at what he did, what others around him did, rudy giuliani, as they were running up to the election after the election, up until january six. >> right. joyce, we don't know who, we don't know when, i think we've all now heard that emily course sounds, i'm not gonna play them for you. for now at the point where the sound itself is being lampooned because of its ubiquity. i want to, though, who revelations -- what they tell you, choice, when you read between the lines about the scope of this investigation? >> so i think it's a mistake to read too much into what she says. as you pointed out, this was an investigative grand jury. the job was to investigate. and while they made recommendations to the da,
two years in which the current president today -- not the current president, pardon me, the former president today is doubling down on. and saying things like, protest, protest, protest in reference to detroit, which is very troubling, because it harkens back some of his invitations for people to take matters into their own hands, which as we know the last time he did that in a big way resulted in the attack on the capitol on january 6th. we certainly don't want to see anything remotely like that, even if it's at the different locations where votes will be tabulated. >> mary, the press conference in which rudy giuliani's hair dye appeared to roll down his face was lampooned. he was up there with the lawyers who had been sued for defamation. they were saying asinine things about space lasers, but the
President Muhammadu Buhari Some twenty-four hours after taking one of the most lampooned decisions since he came into power six years ago, there is no respite for Nigerian President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as world superpowers on Saturday flayed his government over the suspension of the ‘operations’ of microblogging site Twitter in the West African country. In a joint statement, Canada, the European Union, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America said banning systems of expression is not the way forward. The statement was titled, ‘Joint Statement From The Diplomatic Missions Of Canada, The European Union (Delegation To Nigeria), The Republic Of Ireland, The United Kingdom And The United States Of America’.
The Conversation: How the much-lampooned Paris Hilton has rewritten the celebrity script 27 Feb, 2021 01:13 AM 5 minutes to read Paris Hilton recently announced her engagement to Carter Reum. Photo / AP Other Paris Hilton — model, reality TV star, actor, pop singer and DJ — gained worldwide notoriety in 2003 because of a leaked sex tape. Over the years she has been viciously parodied and lampooned, famously on South Park and in World of Warcraft. But she has endured — and this week launched a new podcast, This Is Paris. In the first episode, Hilton and her co-host, US television personality Hunter March, discuss love, commitment and hard work. Hilton's fiance, Carter Reum also appears — apparently as a favour to her "because you know I hate this stuff". The episode ends with a modern advice column in which Hilton responds to fan voicemail questions, including "how do I look hot on Zoom?"
we live in a world with spotify and whoever, and for them, the beetles, duran duran, ed sheerhahn, are all of the same play lists. and there's no reason the beetles should be be as relevant at everyone else. >> beyond the music, the album cover itself has become iconic. it's been copied, mimics, lampooned and recreated countless times. and fans of the fab 4 still flock to the site to capture their own mementos. neal curry, cnn, london. >> thank you so much for watching "cnn newsroom" this hour. i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. let's do it again. another hour of news right after this break. stay with us. of cybercrime every second. when a criminal has your personal information, they can do all sorts of things in your name. criminals can use ransomware, spyware, or malware
getting them to listen to the album. they will listen to "come together." and separately, they will say, we were really good on this day. if i can bring them closer to the day they recorded on, that would be well done. we live with spotify and amazon and google and whatever. and there's a global jukebox. the beatles, duran duran, ed sheeran, whatevoever it is, is on the same playlist. and there's no reason why the beatles shouldn't be as relevant as everyone else. >> reporter: the album cover has been iconic. featuring the band outside of the recording studios. it's been copied, lampooned and re-created thousands of times. and fans flock to the site to capture their own memento.
i mean, there is all this economic anxiety talk. i think that's rightly been kind of lampooned. >> right. >> there really is a question, to me, about democratic messaging and labor unions as part of the democratic coalition. the degree to which they concede the economy to trump which is like, okay, the economy's good but, and the degree to which they say, no, there's still lots of problems with the trump economy. >> right. i mean, let's remember the last time that trump was attacking unions -- i shouldn't say the last time. the last time i remember that trump was attacking unions was when a gm plant was closing in ohio and he basically blamed it on -- >> that's right. >> high union dues, right? so we see a lot of, you know, the idea that the jobs are coming back to these areas of the rust belt. they're not. the manufacturing sector is now in a kracontraction, is not jus not growing anymore, but actually is shrinking. >> right. >> so there is obviously a case to be made about the claims that he was kind of fighting or that his policies were benefitting
this is a guy who spent his life fighting for workers and the guy who was tweeting about him is a guy who spent his life figuring out how to shirk workers so he could make more money. when he really didn't want to pay them, he'd just go into bankruptcy and get rid of any obligations he had to people. he think the little guy is the only one that has to pay his bills. so this was really shameful. i think also it was a pretty masterful tweet. it looks exactly like what management would do. something he has practiced clearly over and over in his career because it looks exactly like something management will do when we are in contract negotiations and they want to distract from their bad proposals by talking about the conversations that they're having with union leaders behind closed doors and misrepresenting that. >> that's very interesting. there's also, to me, there's a real question here, right? i mean, there is all this economic anxiety talk. i think that's rightly been kind of lampooned. >> right. >> there really is a question, to me, about democratic messaging and labor unions as
what's going on in the middle east with iran. >> slimmer than what we've been going here. one or two words. >> our existential threat is climate change. we have to confront it before it's too late. >> senator warren. >> climate change. >> castro. >> nuclear and climate change. >> china without a question. the they're wiping us around the word economically. >> and mr. mayor? >> russia because they've been trying to undermine our democracy and they've been doing a pretty democrat good job of it and we need to stop it. >> this question has a history and legacy. the question was asked of mitt romney and he said russia, and he wasn't just sort of lampooned, i might be too strong but he was ridiculed. he was mocked by the parties, by the dnc. >> how'd that turn out? >> it didn't work for him.
>> no, i think we're all set here. >> trooper, what have we got? >> mayor, thank you for coming. there's a two-alarm fire on state street. a car is broken down on route 1. and a little girl has lost her cat in a tree. >> governor, i got this. >> booker! >> of course booker was criticized, lampooned, for always running to fires and trying to be out there in the streets with people. and so, alex seitz-wald, that's another side of booker, people would say he overplays his hand. >> he was one of the first politicians to really get social media and use twitter. he was famous for, during a snowstorm, you could tweet at him and he would show up. >> he was beto before beto was beto. >> exactly, and before alexandria ocasio-cortez was alexandria ocasio-cortez. i don't know, now that he is competing with younger people who are more digital natives, how much that works to his advantage. there are so many ways to divide up this primary field, and the voters that they're going after.