punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. they re waiting to see. i love it. will the groundhog see his shadow? fantastic. band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. we have to do the show live from there sometime. oh, my god, i d love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, it s good or it s bad. it just doesn t stay with me. maybe because i don t care. i don t know. i don t know. but that would be fun. yeah. gobbler s knob. exactly. that s where we all want to go. we have a lot to get to this morning. i really want to hear that. including president joe biden s meeting at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy. both sides were upbeat about their conversation. it appears we re not any closer to a deal on the debt ceiling, but we will follow the developments there. gave him a box of white house m&ms, and mccarthy le
good morning. it s thursday october 20th. our main story. the prime minister s position is looking increasingly vulnerable today after some of her own mps called for her to resign. it followed a chaotic day for the government with the resignation of the home secretary, accusations of bullying, and confusion over whether the chief whip had resigned. our political correspondent ione wells reports. reporter: is this a coalition of chaos, mr schapps? - another day, another new cabinet minister. grant shapps, sacked just six weeks ago by liz truss, returns as her new home secretary. look, obviously it s been a turbulent time for the government, but i think the most important thing is to make sure that people in this country know that they ve got security and that s why it s a great honour to be appointed as home secretary. he stepped up after suella braverman stepped down, resigning over two data breaches. but have a look at her resignation letter. she wrote to the prime minister
date of birth matches a georgia resident who died in 2020. 2,506 ballots were cast by individuals whose name and date of birth matches an incarcerated felony. 4,502 illegal ballots were cast by individuals who do not appear on the states voter rolls. that s january 4th, donald trump, two days before the january 6th attack on the capitol speaking in georgia and making those claims about election fraud in georgia he knew were false, and now a judge says trump and his legal team also knowingly made those false claims in court. that s a problem. we ll have some new reporting on that. plus, an eye opening conversation with pennsylvania democrats. is abortion really a make or break issue for them in the midterms? and should president biden run for reelection? we ll play for you what voters are saying in a new focus group with elise jordan. and when asked if he would vote for trump if he runs for reelection, former vice president mike pence dodges the question and instead, hint at
that your wages aren t going as far as they once did. and if you re looking for work, let us know how that s going. you can get in touch with me. the footballing world throws its support behind blackpool s jake daniels, who has become the uk s first current male professional footballer in more than 30 years to come out as gay. i feel like i ifeel like i am ready to i feel like i am ready to tell people about my story. i want people to know the real me. lying all the time is not what i wanted to do, and it has been a struggle. now ijust do feel like i m ready to be myself, be free and just be confident with it all. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the foreign secretary liz truss is expected make a statement to the uk parliament today paving the way for making changes to the post brexit trading arrangements for northern ireland, known as the protocol. one of the main parties, the democratic unionists is refusing to enter power sharing at sto
united kingdom government to act to restore peace and stability in northern ireland. the thing which made it tolerable was that we knew business. today we face just the problems which the particle itself would solve. the protocol has provision for it to be changed. can ijust invite her come as a welcome this, the right solution for the way forward, and what nonsense we have heard, this is a solution that could be negotiated as a welcome it, could i ask her to repeat once again that we will protect the eu s legitimate interests as we restore the primacy of the good friday agreement and the constitutional integrity of the uk? my constitutional integrity of the uk? my honourable friend is absolutely right, we have already established the trusted traders scheme, we have already established data sharing with the eu of commercial data. what we are proposing as part of this bill is proper enforcement to make sure the eu single market is protected. that is the best solution in our vi