Antisemitic Attacks In Amsterdam, Musk And Trump, Federal Judiciary Future
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How could must benefit once trump returns to the White house.

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political eyes. The violence and amsterdam broke out after a soccer match between israel's mcb televise team and ajax amsterdam thursday night.

Israel's foreign fairs minister is in the nevels today to discuss the situation with his dutch counterpart.

Terry shots is an amsterdam. Join us now. Thanks for being with this theory after dams miracle thursday at dark night. What is IT like there now? Well.

it's common on the outside, but there is still plenty of tension under the surface right now. I'm outside the amsterdam modern orthodox synagogue, and the city said I was putting extra security in place around locations like this, which they feared could be targets.

They're determined to prevent more incidents like we're seen overnight thursday, where supporters of the israeli soccer team more, in the words of such authorities themselves, hunted down and brutally beaten for being jewish. All demonstrations have abandoned and answer them through the weekend, and there are reports police are conducting home searches of people suspected and taking part in the attacks. The israeli fans were given security and special transport to the airport friday, and extra flights were added to get them back to television quickly.

Members of the dutch government and even the king I gather, spoken out. What if they said.

and that's right. There's been a lot about rage from abroad and domestically. Here's dutch prime minister dick shop.

the terrible enthymeme attack and we will not tolerates and we will prosecute latest. And i'm even be ashamed that this would happen in an advance in twenty three four.

And of course, there's there's a ugly history here, isn't there?

That's right, israeli president, he saw her dog, said dutch king will lamela ander called him friday and said, quote, we failed the jews h community of the netherlands during world war two. And last night we failed again. That's referring to the fact, as you mentioned, that the netherlands is one of the countries which had the highest percentage of its jewish population, over seventy percent killed during the holidays and beyond. Scott, tonight i'll be the eighty six anniversary of Crystal knock when notices and their supporters RAM page through jewish synagogues and businesses and arrested tens of thousands of jews after that. Mir, if fk, how some even refer to this tragic history and a press conference about the socket incident .

over live and on the holocaust, anda and clean canada.

The survivors of the holocaust, y're children and grandchildren, he said, have adorably rebuilt their own communities after the war and made their city, which had failed them terribly during the war, flourish again. Hosea says she's ashamed of her city and furious.

Terry desk officials have confirmed reports that some israeli soccer fans ripped up a palestinian flag and shouted praise, sometimes using graphic language, for the destruction of gaza. Is that being discussed?

Well, IT is a bit on the authority side. They're really focused on condemning the antisemitic attacks for now. But on social media, and when talking to people in the streets, as I have, they also criticize the actions of the israeli fans and soccer hooligans. What seen as this imbaLanced response is being called out by propelling stan activists like nautice slimmy, a twenty year old woman who was present thursday. I had a planned protest that was kept away from the socket stadium the way that they treat us, the palestinian protesters um with so much violence and and we do not get descartes to our houses, we descartes to jail and we get square too far out. Told SHE doesn't feel safe, urging our parents to stay at home for feared they'll be attacked so as I said at the beginning, on the surface things are calm here, but underneath there's a lot of fear and anger on all sides.

Reporter Terry shouts in amsterdam. Terry, thanks so much for being with us.

President elect Donald mp gave a special shutout during his Victory speech this week to the billionaire e. With companies that make electric cars and shoot for the stars iron mask.

we have a new star. A star is born island.

Elon mosque is the richest man in the world and own several companies that could benefit from Christ presidency. And there is tech reporter dare a curr joins is star. Thanks for being with us.

Of course. Nice to be here.

We've seen this relationship a grow right in front of our eyes. How did I get started?

Elan mask has been a supporter of trump for a while, but that was really in july when things got rived depth right after that first assassination attempt on trump almost immediately must posted on his social media platform. Ex, I fully endorse president trump and hope for his rapid recovery. And that's when the romance between the two of them really took off. Muk started deeply fundraising for trump and posting more and more protruding p content on x the same time he was criticizing vice president kala herri and in the last few weeks must hit the campaign trail, speaking at terms, rallies and all. Must has donated more than one hundred million dollars of his personal money to the campaign, and this has really earned him what seems to be a very close relationship with the president elect.

In addition to the benefits of friendship, what else could flow from this relationship?

IT really boiled down to all of the companies that mask owns. Besides x, he has tesla and spaces, the rocket company. He has starling, which is a satellite internet company, and even more.

And many of these companies rely on government grants and subsidies. Tesler, for example, has gotten millions in government funding to install E V charging stations. And SpaceX has been awarded billion dollar contracts from NASA for emissions to the moon.

And so now there are some fears that he can get more contracts or that he may face less government scrutiny. I spoke to a guitar johar. She's a professor at the columbia business school.

I think the government contracts would be given without much overset to mask whether it's for tasks or whether IT is for his satellite links. And that lack of regulation, lack of oversight, all of which will serve to benefit.

must I should say, the trump campaign representatives from space x and ex anan mus. Concelled did not respond to our request for comment just yesterday trumped call with ukrainian president falloon MaaS illinoy and several major news outlets have reported that musk was also on the call, though epr has not independently confirmed to those reports, musk satellite company starlink has played a big role in providing internet access to ukraine. E during the war.

And of course, didn't Donald d trump mention that he might put him on musical some government commission?

Yes, yes, he did. This first came up in August when muk interviewed trump during a life's stream conversation on ex. Muk told tram that he should create a quote, government efficiency commission.

Shortly after that, trump announce that he would create the commission and put mask in charge, which is something that experts are saying could create a conflict of interest, because must could have some sort of influence over the agencies that are tasked with policing his companies. And a lot of most companies are under some sort of federal investigation. We're talking increases by the justice department, the security and exchange commission, the environmental protection agency and so on. And with this quote, unquote efficiency commission, both musk and trump have said they want to slash federal budgets at rally is trump has hailed mask as the equal secretary of cost cutting and musk a said he wants to cut two trillion dollars from the federal budget. That's nearly a third of the budget.

Something that that has puzzled be because, of course, san moscow, a huge investment in electric vehicles. Donald trump, stuff hate EV didn't.

Yes, yes. But now he really seems to be on board with them and trump has been been giving tesla rule shout outs in his valleys and August trump said that he was all in for electric cars and then he said, quote, I have to be, you know, because elan endorsed to me very strongly. So sky, it's really hard to tell what's going to happen come january, but there's no doubt that we are gone to keep hearing about this very public relationship between the president of the united states and the world's ritz. man.

Thanks so much. Thank you.

Former president Donald trump appoint IT more than two hundred judges the first time he was in office.

Now he said to return next year and what they were, republican controlled senate overseen the appointment process for federal judges that .

this further shaped the federal judiciary. Steven flag is a professor of law at George's child university, and he joins us now. Welcome to the program. So how different are federal courts today compared to win president electron first assumed office eight years ago?

Yeah and I think they're really quite different. And one of the things that was a real hallmark of the judicial appointments during the first trump administration wasn't just that they were republican judges at issue IT, was that they were a particular kind, judges who are more willing to entertain novel constitutional arguments, judges who might feel less beholden to precedent. You know, we saw a number of appointments like that across the trump administration. You know, now with president trump coming back into office next january, he'll have those four years of appointments, plus you know, dozens, if not hundreds, of judges who will be able to appoint his second term.

But many of his policies during his first administration were stopped or delayed by federal judges. I'm thinking of the travel ban from majority muslim countries, his effort to enda and others. Can we expect that this time around? Or is he more likely to face less resistance?

I think what we will see is democratic states and left leaning interest groups trying to chAllenge trust policies in those parts of the country where there might be a higher ratio of more sympathize judges.

I think the difference is that even if democrats and you know others, sort of critics of president trump, find some succession onal lower courts, president trump, you know, was able to put three justices on the supreme court, including justice bar, right at the very end of his first term. That's a different majority for these policies than the five to four court that trump had to deal with. Four, you know, almost all this first term, I don't think kd lose as many cases in the supreme court. And I think that's gonna a really interesting and important, you know, test for just how much she's able to do in the second term.

What would talk to me about the supreme court? You know, during a second trump administration, as you mentioned, he'll have a sixty three conservative majority first, like what your assessment of how truly independent those six justices have been?

Yeah, I know theyve been. I should independent in the sense that I don't think any of them feel, especially be holding the president. I think that the tRicky your question is, you know, how much do we expect any or all of those six dresses ces, to actually stand up a president trump if he really does something crazy? I mean, he Carries through, for example, on his campaign promise to try to end birthright citizenship. And I think the most likely scenarios is that we see a bit of a split among the sea republican appointed, I think, you know, at least with regard to the current composition of the court, the two most important figures in a second trump term are absolutely going to be chief justice Roberts and justice bar IT and exactly where they're going to draw the lines in cases where, you know, the trump s administration really tries to reach out and set new precedents.

Let's turn to the future of the supreme court. The two most conservative justices, clarence Thomas and Samuel eeo, are in their mid seventies. If trump does get to more appointments, how far reaching would the effects of that be?

I think what's interested in, I usually if that were to come to pass overnight, IT wouldn't change that much on the supreme court. The difference is that all entrench that perspective and all entrench those viewpoints. If you replaced the justice who's in their late seventies with the justice who's in their mid forties, that's another may be twenty five to thirty years of having one of the nine seats on the supreme court, you know, occupied by someone whose views are so far out of culter, right from sort of most mainstream american thought. That's the real impact, right, that it'll be the decades long effect of those appointments, not the overnight effects.

President biden does still have two months, uh, left in office, over two months left in office and a senate majority to go with IT. What do you expect from him and the democrats in the senate?

So you know there's already a whole bunch of pending nominees that are in the senate as we speak for lower court drug ships um and I think there's going to be a real effort by the democrats to push as many of those through before january third when the senate turns over.

But I think for all of the talk that we've seen on social media about whether someone like a justice sodi or should retire so that president biden could fill that sea in the next, you know, six or seven weeks, I think that's a bit, I don't know, extreme in the sense that one you know just a sodi or knows Better than we do what kind of shape she's in and how our health is. And to you know, it's not clear to me that the democrats would even be able to get a new nominee through in that period of time. It's quite a risk to run if you are the democrats and you're worried about the possibility of actually having a justice. So to my own retirement, create a vacancy that a president trump could fill.

That's professor Stephen vlad of Georgetown university. Thank you so much for being with us.

Thank you.

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