who s got loads to say. it s thangam debbonaire, shadow leader of the house of commons. hello, hello, hello. and thank you so much for mentioning us in the house of commons last week. this is how it went. the leader famously once reassured this house that another prime minister wasn t hiding under a desk. words immortalised on the bbc s newscast intro. now i hear from the parliamentary press gallery reception news that she s a big fan of the podcasts. so, mr speaker, i ll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. is that where the prime minister really was on monday evening, hiding under a desk? so this is a great way for our politicians to get on the podcast. just name check us in parliament, put us in the historic record forever for historians to read about. and then you can come on. yeah, but i m the first, i was the first to put newscast in hansard and that was very exciting moment. i mean, if this starts an arms race, it will be amazing. who knows? bu
up on parliamentary terms and one of the things that they are claiming is that this could have been what s called contempt. now, contempt means if you look in your erskine may, the parliamentary rule book, and there is an online version so people can look it up to check my working. the important point here is that contempt is any act or something that someone says or the opposite. so not saying or not doing something in a way which would obstruct parliament s work. now that really matters because parliament is here to represent the people, to serve the people, and if we are obstructed in our work, then we can t do that properly. and i felt like last monday, when we debated the original privileges committee report into borisjohnson, who had been shown to lie, that was a really important moment of reasserting democracy and reasserting, frankly.. and that still happened fine, despite these comments. yes. but what would be an ok thing to say about a committee that might be a bit critical b
forestall the actual electoral vote from being counted. they took with them bear spray, items that they could use to attack police officers and the capitol police. they refused to comply with commands by the police. that never happens. we have demonstrations at the at the capitol all the time and everyone complies with the rules. so meadows should be stripped of his retirement, as far as i m returned, because he has violated his oath to the constitution. that would be one way to go after him. with regard to what the committee does tomorrow, voting whether or not to advance the contempt charges if it gets to the house tuesday or soon thereafter, will you vote for it? no question about it. frankly i think we should be using what s called contempt.
martha: two nights untold story from the man who served as independent counsel during the most publicized political scandal of our lifetimes. ken starr is the author of a brand-new book called contempt, a memoir of the clinton investigation. he is recalling for the first time his dealings with bill, hillary, monica lewinsky, and power players of the time. in stories that were previously untold until now. reading the book is like stepping back into that moment and all of those gates you had travel gate and a trooper gate into the whitewater investigation and monica lewinsky. after all of it was over, bill clinton became an elder statesman and hillary clinton became the nominee of her party for president and you were the villain. is a great country or what?
him of independence. i think the current regulations tell us that before bob mueller goes out and investigate something having nothing to do with russian collusion, he has to check with the boss. he has to check with the deputy attorney general. martha: given what we heard from brett kavanaugh, after he was done with that experience, it made him think twice about the whole process, about how far afield it became. how dangerous it was to the presidency and to the country. i think that something bob mueller who i know and respect is painfully aware of. this is a distraction to the president. brett kavanaugh who was a part of the investigation and described his role in the book which was an important role, he performed brilliantly just as he did in his confirmation hearings, i think what wade on brett kavanaugh was the