hello, everyone. welcome to the amanpour hour. here is where we re headed this week. playing politics or playing with fire? the republican party tanks a border security deal that it had spent months demanding. that is the kind of chaos that donald trump instills. you have voter i.d. to buy a loaf of bread. what the polls aren t telling you about donald trump s re-election chances. also ahead the remarkable resilience of ukraine s war-weary children, still forced into subterranean schools. the islamic revolution came to iran 40 years ago this weekend. 20 years later, there was hope for reform. democracy in iran is literally being born in these newspapers. the struggle continues today. finally, the edgy little play that could. kim s convenience comes full circle as it lights up london with its slice of asian life. welcome to the program, everyone. i m christiane amanpour in london. the world is once again watching a congress in disarray, with literally lif
Today on inside politics, What Caused The Civil War . Most would give a oneword answer. Slavery. But not nikki haley. This morning shes trying to clean it up. Plus Donald Trumps lawyers have a very busy few weeks ahead. Well tell you key dates to watch in his civil and Criminal Kriel trials. And Lauren Boebert barely won her red district last time around. Her solution, move to an even redder district. Im dana bash. Lets go hbehind the headlines and inside politics. We start in New Hampshire and one of those campaign moments that you just knew would immediately go viral. It was a Town Hall Last Night where nikki haley has been doing quite well. A voter asked what seemed like a simple question with a simple answer. Listen to part of what happened. Of course, The Civil War was about slavery. We know that. We know The Civil War was about slavery. But it was also more than that. It was about the freedoms of every individual. It was about the role of government. By the grace of god, we did t
right now, house republicans fail to impeach the border boss, fail to deliver an ally in need and they will fail to advance an immigration deal that they themselves demanded. plus an appeals court reveals that donald trump is not immune from prosecution. had what might the supreme court say. and the chair of the republican national committee offers to quit amid tension from trump. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s wednesday, february 7th. it s 5:00 a.m. here in washington, where house republicans were delivered a dramatic and really embarrassing defeat on the house floor last night. they failed in their efforts to impeach homeland security secretary mayorkas over his handling of the southern border. the resolution is not adopted. there was so much uncertainty over who would support the effort and three house republicans ultimately decided to vote with democrats against this. those three congressmen brought th
search and rescue operation under way right now. five marines onboard when their super stallion chopper went down while flying from the las vegas area to san diego in severe weather. matt gutman standing by near the scene tonight. also, that dramatic scene unfolding outside philadelphia at this hour. two officers shot, that home they were responding to now up in flames. the gunman opening fire as soon as police arrived. an 11-year-old girl believed to be inside and shot. what we re learning right now. tonight, the border crisis, and senate republicans have now killed the bipartisan bill that contained many of their own demands. $650 million to build and reinforce miles of fencing. more patrols. and a complete shutdown of the border when the number of my grants exceeds 5,000. donald trump pressured republicans not to agree to this bipartisan solution in this presidential election year. and it worked. rachel scott live on the hill. tonight, the new storm threat targeting
reinforced it. white house correspondent peter doocy has our lead story tonight. good evening, peter. shannon, good evening. officials here are telling us the mistakes we have seen president biden make this week on camera are normal, and they have nothing to do with the special counsel s findings of a president with a poor memory. no one in this building would say that what we saw in this report about his memory. peter: just days after mistaking him with a now dead predecessor, president biden met with the german chancellor olaf sholls swing and miss leaving it up to the vice president to clean up a special counsel report that challenges president biden s mental acuity. the comments that were made by that prosecutor gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. white house officials believe the special counsel was pressured to be tough. republicans in congress and elsewhere have been attacking prosecutors who aren t doing what republicans want politically. democrat