were forced to reveal a massive drop in party membership this week. now it s over to the sports centre for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. ireland are grand slam champions they defeated england in dublin and the celebrations are onlyjust beginning. france kept their end of the deal, but ultimately not enough they came away with a win over wales in paris. also coming up on sportsday: a blow for f1 champion max verstappen he won t be on pole for this weekend s saudi grand prix. we ll tell you why. and a big fight at the 02 can we expect fireworks in the ufc, in the rematch between leon edwards and kamara usman? from the bbc sport centre, this is sportsday. hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. plenty to come but we start with the six nations, and ireland have won a first six nations title since 2018. they ve completed the grand slam with a 29 16 win against england in dublin. jess softley reports. this is ireland s night. this is the
in the faulkner focus. well, many people are saying there is no way this could actually be a coincidence. lawmakers say it is an example of all-out intimidation by the federal government. republican congressman jim jordan is the chairman on the subcommittee of government weaponization. we still do not have the answers from the i.r.s. about that unlikely coincidence. it appears to be the latest example of the weaponization of the federal government against the american people. harris: matt taibbi testified to that committee on the government s censoring information on twitter. the white house with a game of dodge ball yesterday. i was wondering if you could respond to this taibbi visit by the i.r.s. and say whether it is part of a campaign to harass or intimidate related to the journalism. i have refer you to the i.r.s. harris: i.r.s. has not responded to a fox business request with an explanation. we ll have house oversight chairman comer questions as he comes up
questions from children. it comes as concerns over the president s age and ability to did the job if re-elected. hello, welcome. i m sandra smith. we have made it to friday. john, hi. did you say friday? we call it fri-yay here in washington. the president struggling with fairly simple questions about his grandchildren and even the last country that he visited during a take your child to work event at the white house yesterday. where are your grandsons or granddaughters? i have one in new york, two in philadelphia, or three no, three, i have one granddaughter who is, i don t know the last country i traveled, thinking what the last one i was in. um i was yeah, you are right, ireland. that s where it was. i heard you had to get back to the oval office. by the way, the one thing i thought when i got to be president, i get to give orders. but i take more orders than i ever did and you are right. sandra: all right. a few interesting moments and exchanges there.
this morning, brooke. the families of the victims who lost their lives, we are honoring them at a vigil. all six victims from the deathly rampage that left three 9-year-olds and three faculty members of the covenant school data. the family of 9-year-old evelyn dieckhaus lost her life trying to pull a f fire alarm ad an unthinkable spirit her sister said again, i don t want to be an only child. her family adding, our hearts are completely broken. we cannot believe this has happened. evelyn was a shining light in this world. katherine koonce was on a call at the time of the shooting. she hung up and went for the shooter after three gunshots, something that her friend said she would do for her students. she was an absolute champion for her students and her students always knew that she was in their corner. she was an educator herself, so she would tutor them, encourage them and the smartest person in the room. the daughter worked for the school for a decade and spoke
jean-pierre, and john kirby as the irs continues to stay silent amid growing questions over why the agency made a surprise visit to twitter files journalist matt taibbi s home, the same day he was testifying before congress on the weaponization of the federal government. john: house republicans are demanding answers over the unannounced house call and whether biden s beefed up irs will target democrats political opponent. is the agency being weaponized? here to weigh in coming up. we are probably not going to be able to do anything to stop, slow down, disrupt, interdict or destroy the chinese nuclear development program. i have a hard time seeing where we are. please tell us what we are going to do with this threat that s at our doorstep. we are interested in investing in the right capabilities that will support the war fighting concepts. can you look us in the eye today and say the dei strengthened the military or weakened it. sandra: our nation s top military l