and pulp fiction star is now suffering from a type of dementia. and the deadline looms to see who might want to buy manchester united, with offers expected to come in from prospective owners in britain, the us and qatar. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister will hold talks with stormont leaders in belfast today, with hopes that a deal between the uk and the eu on northern ireland s brexit arrangement could soon be reached as early as next week. the current trading arrangement know as the northern ireland protocol was negotiated during brexit talks. it was put in place to deal with the fact that northern ireland is in the uk and the republic of ireland is in the eu. some goods passing from england, scotland and wales into northern ireland are getting checked when they cross the irish sea in order to keep an open order on the island of ireland. unionist parties argue that this places an effective border across the irish sea which undermines northern irel
soon because time is running out. congress is ready to get on the easter recess. they had gop priorities, too, into the administration, all sidelined because they re rallying again to the defense of donald trump who continues to exert influence over the party thank you, as always great to see you this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts now. after he was arrested, apparently today, donald trump has called for america to de-fund the police, ithe fbi, te department of justice, because the democrats have weaponized law enforcement. all right. who in this panel, who thinks that is a good idea? all right. nobody oh, man well, yeah. donald trump s vengeance messaging doesn t seem to be resonating with his base the former president continues to rage post that s a thing, on social media. despite a warning from the judge not to do so meanwhile, mike pence will have to testify before a federal g
government is corrupt, elections are rigged and that people who hold different political views are bullies. up first, the investigations into the january 6th insurrection. the justice department asking a judge to reveal who is paying lawyers representing members of the oath keepers, and if that person is the former trump attorney and conspiracy peddler, sydney powell. the january 6th committee faces a will they or won t they moment? oronado attacking the credibility of what some of what hutchinson testified to earlier this week. specifically, he denies telling hutchinson that donald trump lunged for the steering wheel inside the presidential suv after being told on january 6th he could not go to the capitol and could not join the rioters. hutchinson stands by her committee, and the committee says they are they are deciding whether or not to bring him back under oath and in public. do they want to hash this out in public or see it as too risky. reporter: there s a lot of
there s a need for bold action to fight is pandemic. we re still facing a very dark winter situation and when it comes to gas prices, we re going through an incredible transition that is taking place and god willing, when it sng over , we ll be stronger w. the idea we re going to be able to, you know, quick switch, bring down the cost of gasoline is not likely in the near termik . we aren t likely to see the kind of blockbuster job reports month after month like we had over this past year. that s a good thing. yeah, that s a good thing. and remember, record high gas prices are good too because it means that more of you are going to be forced to take out a loan to buy some electricff car that you can t afford and you don t want the fact that americans are getting poorer under biden s kind of european style socialism. it s also a good thing as far as the elites are concerned. let s face it, they ve always preferred countries like france and germany over the united states an
he joins me ahead with his personal story of living under china s covid lockdown. but we want to get right to cnn s john avlon, charlie dent. alice stewart is here as well. i m happy to have all of you on. good evening to you. john, let s start with the new stuff, the stuff that s breaking. hi, everyone. the fbi issuing investigators issuing, i should say, a subpoena to the national archives to access classified documents that trump took to mar-a-lago. are we going to find out what he took to mar-a-lago, and what does this mean for the former president, you think? well, we will find out what he took to mar-a-lago. we may find out the context in which he took it. was it trump cluelessness, or was there classified information that hadn t been declassified? there s also a statute having to do with these documents which might end up being material. there is a law on the books that says if you steal, spindle, mutilate official documents, that there are punishments that go