41 people were killed, many of them children. they blamed the blaze on an electrical fault in the air conditioning system. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isn t driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my guest today has a prominent voice in that debate. shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. it s great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it s described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months
and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here, thank you for having me. it s great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it s described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender story, as we put it, the issues around transgender rights has consistently been prominent in the political debate. would it be right to assume that you are delighted those issues are so prominent? er, i think. in one way, i feel vindicated. the argument that i make in the book, essentially, is that there has been an explosion in discussion of transgender people across all forms of media and in politics. but what i argue in the book is that trans people are often not at the centre of these conversations, and the actual issu
did this kind of damage to whole apartment blocks. remains of the missiles are still scattered in the rubble here. at the fed we understand the hardship that high inflation is causing. you know what is worse than high inflation and low unemployment some it is high inflation and a recession with millions of people out of work. it is thursday, june 23rd, 4:00 a.m. here in atlanta and also in washington where the white house committee is investigating the u.s. capitol riot which will begin its fifth hearing in just a few hours. today s focus the former president s pressure campaign on federal officials. three former trump justice department officials awill testify. the next round of hearings will be delayed until july so they can sort lthrough new evidence. and they are looking at a filmmaker s footage to document the final weeks of the trump presidency. it will be released this summer by discovery plus can which is owned by the same country as cnn. okay. my father is
in just a few hours jeffrey rosen, former acting attorney general who oversaw the department for only a few pivotal weeks in time is set to testify before the january 6 committee later today and cnn has now obtained some of what he plans to say. rosen will be joined by two other top justice department officials, both of whom threat enned to quit. and jeffrey clark with no criminal trial experience was all in on the bogus theories being bandied about and told trump exactly what he wanted to hear. meantime cnn has learned that the justice department is widening its investigation into the plot to send the fake slates of electors to overturn biden s win. there is a fresh round of subpoenas to rogue electors from several swing states. here to help me sort through all of this is a former federal prosecutor and host of the podcast on topic. so great to see you. it has been a while. good to see you. great to have you. so today we re going to hear from more people, guards at the g
committee, three top officials who led the justice department in the final days of the trump administration including the former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen will make clear the doj saw no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the election and will detail how he and others resisted trump s pressure to back the baseless claims. a preview of newly obtained footage from the documentary film crew that followed former president trump and his team for six months before and after january 6th. it was just released by discovery plus, which, of course, is cnn s parent company. watch. okay. my father, he s very honest and he is who he is. he believes everything he s doing is right. i think i treat people well, unless they don t treat me well, and then we go to war. can we talk about january 6th? yeah. obviously people want to hear what he had to say there. so that documentary filmmaker alex holder has said that he will be deposed today after receiv