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paul: as the house votes to approve crucial aid to our allies i spoke to former british prime minister liz trust on the role of this in the world, trust is author of 10 years to save the west of the revolution against globalism, socialism and the liberal establishment. >> this debate in the united states, a contentious debate over new weapons for ukraine. you were foreign minister when clara putin invaded ukraine. how crucial are those american weapons and if we don't deliver those, could vladimir putin win in ukraine? >> very crucial that everyone steps up, europe steps up in providing the weapons they
fighter jet and shot a ballistic missile right through the air defense of the irani ends. russian purchase air defense more sophisticated than the first battlefield operation, and that struck and irani and air force base. we can do it successfully so that the message to the supreme leader that military assets, leadership assets and nuclear assets are held hostage. paul: do you think the israelis would have responded with more missiles in response. of the president of the united states hadn't been calling for them not to respond at all. take them in was the quote. it was the israeli defense minister called it week online. would they have done more? >> they would have done more.
math. she didn't have the votes. democrats would have been willing to try to help him. that was not the case last fall with kevin mccarthy. democrats kind of with a wink and a nod indicated they would be willing to help mike johnson if he did, quote, the right thing. it may have been putting this bill to aid ukraine on the floor. they passed it. they passed it with democratic votes and mike johnson stays, marjorie taylor greene would have lost. paul: let's bring in our panel, columnist kim strawser land bill mcgurn and kyle peterson. you heard that from chad. all of this would appear to vindicate speaker mike johnson's policy of breaking up those bills so each could pass and you could have different coalitions with each one. is this vindication for his strategy? >> absolutely. i did the math. in the end if you look at the
paul: as the house passes crucially into israel the biden administration is making clear the us was not involved in an early morning strike at an airbase in central iran in what appeared to be is relapse first military response to terror on's attack. g7 meeting in italy friday, antony blinken emphasize the administration's goal continues to be de-escalation in the region as president biden looks to calm tensions ahead of the november election. the chief executive of the foundation for defense of democracy. good to see you again. this response from israel seems to have been effective in the sense that it hit the target but it was also restrained. why do you think the israelis responded like this? mark:the israelis trying to thread the needle, to keep close relationship with the
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use them to build the flagging support among mainstream democratic voters who don't like this even if they are sympathetic to a cease-fire, they don't like the things kim laid out, inconveniencing them. another point. there is not only a student -- when you start permitting those people to get outside forces coming in and lose control. paul: when we come back, hits and misses of the week. (inner monologue) seriously, i'm on the green and all i can think about is all the green i'm spending on 3 kids in college. with empower, i get all of my financial questions answered. so i don't have to worry. empower. what's next. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need... ...without the stuff you don't. so, here's to now. boost. before apoquel chewable
do that with immunity. that's why it was important the columbia president said the reason i had to call the police is you are breaking a bunch of rules and standards, you don't have the right to do this and we need to see that for more mayors because go out, express your concerns and that doesn't mean you get to overthrow everybody else's life in the process. paul: the columbia president acted after heavy criticism on capitol hill but a lot of other mayors have not acted forcefully, bridges shutdown, they shut down the golden gate bridge, the brooklyn bridge, has shut down for a while. why are so many mayors leaders and institutions so unwilling to act against protesters like this? >> democrat politicians are
the people who voted against zeroing out ukraine aid but didn't vote for the final package, they may have been eyeing the fact $20 billion to buy us weapons for us forces in that package and would not have wanted that to go down in the end. paul: what does this tell us about the republican party, seemed to be deeply divided at the grassroots and loud voices in the online media, talk radio and so on. does this tell you they don't control the republican party after all? >> they remain a minority and that's important for people to remember. it has ever been so. this isolationist streak is certainly there but if you look at all the votes that have come up on these issues through congress they remain undecided.
there's probably some appetite on the supreme court to extend that to the criminal context but one of the interesting questions, is what donald trump is accused of doing in this case, the january 6th case, is that stuff that was done in his official capacity as president or in his private capacity as presidential candidate? paul: does that supreme court precedent for civil cases apply to criminal charges? that's number one. but then, do -- is what trump is charged with part of his official duties? that question is a more complex one. >> that one might get returned back to lower courts to be dealt with. the first one is the first ordered question for the court here at the moment. what is are markable about this is when the circuit court looked at this they totally blue by that entire question.
afraid of the progressive left, challengers in democratic primaries but it would be wildly popular with the broader public, think about the governor of illinois presiding over the democratic convention in chicago. hard to see what he has to gain from this disruption and show himself to be a mainstream popular figure by saying you can have free speech but we are not going to shut down bridges or streets, the same is true, mayor eric adams had a lot to gain politically if he were to take a hard-line. paul: he is a former police captain. is it because the police were restrainer he was afraid of the political left? >> he was not the leftmost candidate in the mayoral race but he narrowly defeated the left most candidate in the mayoral race but i do think it