President biden has called to advanceit advance it swiftly so you can head to his desk in the oval office so he can sign off on it. The pentagon for its part watching the political infighting going on has been trying to pre position weaponry where it can so that those weapons can head to ukraine, head to troops on the ground sooner rather than later. Potentially even days as opposed to weeks. That doesnt rule out the prospect of further political infighting despite the fact that Congress Woman nancy pelosi had called to sign off on the bill for ukraine. We know that it had been facing resistance from the republican party. They had wanted tied to strict immigration laws, Stricter Border security with a us mexico border. In that particular vote failed. They needed to two thirds majority so that did not come to pass. Instead what you saw with the ukraine bill is that more republicans voted against it. And actually voted in favour. We know that republican Congress Woman Marjorie Greene has
And with just over 100 days to go until the paris olympics, the river seine water could be unsafe for athletes. Let mejust bring let me just bring you some breaking news that has come in in the last few seconds, Imported News Being reported by reuters. They report that three sons of the hamas leader have been killed in israeli air strikes in gaza. That has come from a Hamas Affiliated news agency. The leader has been based in qatar, but they are quoting the Hamas Affiliated news agency on the ground, saying that three sons of the hamas leader have been killed in an israeli air strike in gaza. So thatis an israeli air strike in gaza. So that is significant. We will try to find out more details on that in the coming minutes. Sport, and for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, heres chetan. Good afternoon. We start with news that athletics will become the first sport to introduce prize money at the olympics in paris this summer. The governing body, World Athletics, is breaking 128 y
Mike lane and brad bowman are here to talk about it. Lets talk a little bit about Jeff Sessions and this new revelation that more of trump surrogates or campaign aids had contact with folks within the russian government. Mike ill let you go first and then brad feel free to respond. How big of a hit is this for the Trump Administration . Not at all. This is so much nothing about nothing. Look, all of these meetings were entirely proper. All of them were meetings that should have been held. All of them meetings as a new administration is coming in, they want to get to know the players, the first thing you do is call the ambassador and sit down and have a facetoface meeting. Im astounded at the good fortune the democrats had in being able to turn an absolute nothing story into something that captivates the news even Michael Flynn his meeting was fine, he little bit more forthcoming with the Vice President when he was asked about it. But there was you know, not only was there nothing wrong
Visitors entry when their own governments are unable to or unwilling to provide the information we need to vet them responsibly. This executive order responsibly provides a needed pause, so we can carefully review pow we scrutinize people coming here from these countries of concern. We are not immune to terrorist threats and that our enemies often use our own freedoms in generosity against us. Unregulated, unvetted travel is not a privilege, especially when National Security is at stake. Liz an allnew refugee pause to keep americans safe. Top cabinet officials oversee National Security announced the new revised executive order today. As congressional sources reveal that the fbi has more than 300 terrorism investigations on refugees who are already here in the u. S. And more details on the Obamacare Repeal and replace bill expect this hour. Were going to bring you that as soon as it breaks. Welcome to risk and reward im Elizabeth Macdonald in for deirdre bolton. President trump signing
Youre in the media youre part of the print media. What do you make of what hes saying with respect to the media giving Hillary Clinton the edge. I think its a very balanced newspaper. He is right. The hell hill just came out with a report. He does just look at the three Major Networks they had 27 minutes of anti trump coverage versus only one minute of anti hillary coverage. And it was bad on radio. They had 11 negative stories on donald trump and zero on hillary. Of his blatant i dont know what is. Thats its a serious charge. If we can trust elections how much of an influence we dont know. All you need is 250,000 votes across five or six battleground states. An cyber hacking. Thpontial is tre. His raising a very real issue. 70 of republicans actually think could happen. Some of the states have republican governors. It would seem that the state apparatus would have to be involved. Carl, where could we see this potential for rigging at the election and throwing it. You also have the dem