The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/14 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/14 at 11:00 EST

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I'm so grateful for those people because they listen to everything so you don't have to. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. A newly released report is showing that Donald Trump would have been convicted of election interference had he lost the November presidential election. The report from US special counsel Jack Smith was released earlier this morning. Richard Madden has the details now from Washington. A hundred and thirty pages were outgoing special counsel Jack Smith essentially

defends his investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He says Trump abused his power, pressured state officials and quote inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence when the votes were being certified on January 6, 2021 in a series of criminal efforts to retain power. Smith says he believes there was enough evidence to convict. Smith resigned last week ahead of Trump's inauguration and he denies accusations his case was politically motivated saying it's quote laughable. But he does acknowledge he had an uphill battle to begin with citing the US Constitution that bans prosecuting a sitting president. And while much of the evidence was already

public it's all now moot. Now there's a second chapter that gets into Trump's handling of classified documents, but a judge has banned that from being made public, so the attorney general is heading to court to fight for its release. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is appearing this morning before the U.S. Armed Services Committee. When President Trump chose me for this position, the primary charge he gave me was to bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense.

He like me once a Pentagon laser focused on lethality, meritocracy, war fighting, accountability, and readiness. That's Hegseth making a statement as his confirmation hearing gets underway. Hegseth is a combat veteran, but most recently he's worked at Fox News. He also has a controversial past that involves allegations of sexual assault and derisive views about women in military roles, minorities, and what he calls woke generals. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says as many as 500,000 Canadian jobs could be affected if Donald Trump carries out his threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods. Ford's estimate comes as the Premier is prepared to meet tomorrow with Prime Minister Justin

Trudeau. Ford says he will ask the Prime Minister to establish a financial assistance program for workers impacted by any new American tariffs. He has yet to formally announce that he's running for the leadership of the Liberal Party, but former Bank of Canada and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney appeared last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I think in a situation like this you need change. You need to address the economy. We've got an economic crisis because of what Mr. Trump is about to do or saying he's about to do but we also have challenges in housing cost of living Carney also made a point of mentioning conservative leader Pierre Poliev

We have mr. Poliev type of politician who's you know tend to be lifelong politician really tend to worship the market They've never actually worked in the private sector. Right. Sources have told Radio Canada that Carney will be formally launching his campaign for the liberal leadership on Thursday. Qatari officials say a proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement is now in the hands of both Israel and Hamas. Majid Al-Ansari is a foreign ministry spokesperson at the Qatari talks.

It's very important not to over or raise the expectations to a level that doesn't link to what's happening on the ground right now. We do believe that we are at a developed stage. We do believe that we are at the final stages, but obviously until there is an announcement, there will be no announcement. The proposal calls for the agreement to be rolled out in three stages and would involve, among other things, the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. The state of New York is preparing to offer free tuition to students pursuing university degrees in certain high-demand fields.

Governor Kathy Hochul is scheduled to announce the initiative later today. It's aimed at students enrolled in degree programs in nursing, teaching, technology, and engineering. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.