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Hello, i'm matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start here in the uk, where rishi sunak and the conservative party have suffered two major set backs and pulled off a surprise narrow win in three by—elections in england. there were massive swings away from the tories in the two defeats — and the main political parties have been taking stock — of what the results mean. there were celebrations for labour in the north yorkshire seat of selby and ainsty — the party overturning a conservative majority of mor...

Election in venezuela. we are 18 months away from that day, though, and we do have time to build strength. one of the biggest obstacles you've got is actually sort of an act of self—harm, in that the opposition in venezuela has been deeply embarrassed and damaged by the failure of that political initiative launched byjuan guaido back in 2019 to offer up an alternative government, to say maduro is illegitimate and i am the real leader of the venezuela. the americans backed that idea and many countries in the west and latin america but the whole thing ran out of steam. guaido is now politicall...

Finished and it embarrassed the entire venezuelan opposition because it made you look incoherent. would you acknowledge that? let's say we have had several set backs, that is true, you have to understand we are facing a criminal regime that's willing to do anything, to persecute, to blackmail, to go against families, and that is one of the reasons you see people will use to trust, in different sectors, not only politicians, that somehow, decide to abandon the fight. and it's tough and i don't want tojudge anyone. but that is why venezuelan people have in the last month somewhat, let's say, qui...

From the circle of hawkish advisors that had advised him to go into ukraine and that same piece makes clear that putin is still counting on pretty high popular support for the war and for this kind of national sense that russians will suffer and are willing to suffer economic set backs and economic hardship for his vision of national imperil greatness. so that piece even though it does have that little grain of hope that maybe there is fractures emerging in the elites doesn't make clear they likely won't change anything and that putin is not listening to them and not planning to. >> yeah. by t...

Lani guinier as our friend elie wrote, there were few clearer voices how to protect the rights of people of color in this country. i want to give you a chance to give us your thoughts on lani guinier and her impact in this world. >> this is an incalculable loss. i didn't have the privilege of learning from her but every other that came after her, we know that we walked a path that she blazed and she was truly an amazing scholar and researcher and she showed us that even professional set backs, when she was for example withdrawn as a nominee for a civil rights office in the clinton administrati...