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Sarah Smith

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Global News Podcast
US and Iran hold crucial talks mediated by Oman

Ja mitä on tapahtunut samanlaisissa keskusteluissa, on se, että joitain tuntia jälkeen, kun käsitys on loppunut, käsitys, televisiokuvat siitä, ovat tehty julkisesti. Joten voimme odottaa, että seuraava päivä, voi olla 24 tuntia, ennen kuin me saamme nähdä täällä.

Global News Podcast
US and Iran hold crucial talks mediated by Oman

Exactly what Hillary Clinton said. It may be into the weekend before we can do the same for Bill Clinton's testimony. But we ought to see all of it at some point and quite shortly after the deposition. We're likely to hear from members of the committee of what happened whilst she was giving evidence.

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Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

Until now, he had looked pretty invulnerable because the Supreme Court had ruled in his favor on every major decision they had made.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

But now they have finally said there are some things that the president cannot do on his own without going through Congress and having legislation passed.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

And this is the first time they've done that to President Trump.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

He has put a lot of work into expanding presidential authority, finding ways of doing things which mean he doesn't have to go through Congress.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

Now the Supreme Court has put a stop to that on this particular policy.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

And for him, it's not just about the billions and billions of dollars that have been flowing into the Treasury in revenue from the trade tariffs or the way in which he wants to rebalance international trade.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

This is a key diplomatic weapon for him as well.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

He uses the threat of higher tariffs as leverage.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

to get other countries to do what he wants when it comes to trying to make peace deals, or you'll probably recall he was threatening European nations with 25% tariffs if they didn't agree with his plan to take over Greenland, on all sorts of different areas.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

He no longer looks unchecked or unconstrained.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

He can no longer do exactly what he wants to.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

Now, of course, if he finds a way around this ruling and he is able to introduce...

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

the tariffs as nimbly and as often as he likes by another authority, maybe he will look as though the court simply cannot stop him.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

But there are other big rulings coming up on things like whether or not you are automatically a citizen if you're born in the United States, where the court also may rule against Donald Trump on that and some other big decisions.

Global News Podcast
Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling

So over the next few months, we may see he doesn't appear quite so all powerful as he maybe did yesterday.

Global News Podcast
Trump hints at possible Greenland deal at Davos

Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.

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Largest anti-government protests in Iran since 2009

If you look at recent polling that was conducted before this incident in Minnesota, you'll see that most people do generally support Donald Trump's immigration policies, his desire to stop illegal immigrants coming across the border and to deport undocumented migrants who are living in the United States. But over recent months, when we have been seeing more ICE agents moving into different cities and using quite aggressive tactics there, more and more people have been concerned about the method in which this is being conducted.

Global News Podcast
Largest anti-government protests in Iran since 2009

It seems that they don't feel that this is damaging the popularity of the Trump administration?