White house, ken dilanyan in the washington bureau. Epic news week and the president is talking about all of this in this interview . Hes making a nonmarvel argument that what he pled to is in fact not a crime. The president of the United States Isnt The Ar Bitter of that. Its judges and prosecutors that decide and a jury that decides whether or not something is a crime. Also in that interview, you had a frank admission from the president that he made the payments. Hes trying to clarify things and make sure this wasnt a Campaign Violation but listen to what he had to say and well come back on the back end. He made the deals. And by the way, he pled to two counts that arent a crime, which nobody understands. I watched a number of shows. Sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. Those two counts arent even a crime. They werent campaign finance. Did you know about the payments . Later on i knew. Later on. But you have to understand, what
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in congress but now potentially signed, it could be unlocked in a vote later this week. that will be welcome news here amongst g7 nations but they are also looking at ways of channelling of finding other phones, one of those is a potential use of frozen russian assets, an idea that has been kicking around for quite some time. a lot more complicated, legally complicated than for example the us in congress passing an aid package and that is why it is been kicking around for such a long time and hasn t really happened. there are concerns about the legal implications. it is something the eu are looking at, the eu is represented here as well at the g7 and a number of the eu nations as well but that seems to be an idea of trying to find some extra money from other sources because the eu s top diplomat is here and he is saying that europe can t always be certain to rely on the us, it needs to be
control of our asylum system, but has had nothing but neglect and incompetence for the last 13 years, only backlog to get to 100 forcing the use of barges and hotels in the military camps and other completely inappropriate accommodation, costing the british taxpayer £6 million a day. the british taxpayer £6 million a da . r the british taxpayer £6 million a da. ., day. let me ask you about that, that the broader day. let me ask you about that, that the broader policy, day. let me ask you about that, that the broader policy, then. - day. let me ask you about that, l that the broader policy, then. over 1000 people have arrived in small boats this week. in terms of arrivals, you were against the rwanda plan, you were against the illegal migrants act that has just been passed. in terms of stopping those arrivals, what is labour s plan? those arrivals, what is labour s ian? ., , ., , those arrivals, what is labour s ian? ., ,., plan? two elements, one is scrapping the unworkable p
republicans. hallie jackson, that was actually friday night. he had done his rallies both friday night and last night. he s been right so far. fair, and there s new polling out even today that shows more than half of republicans think that these indictments against donald trump are an attack against people like them. he is reflecting and channelling what he hears from his base, from the people who support him, from his loyalists. the dynamics don t seem to have changed. we ve seen a semi-sharp tone from pence and desantis. those closer to trump but not so tough. here it is. anyone who puts themselves over the constitution should never be president of the united states. another sad day for america.
trump had documents. but where trump runs afoul here of everything is the obstruction. right. but that s a big issue. that s a big different yeah, go ahead. if you look at the evidence, the previous evidence plus what was added this week, the obstruction is extremely problematic, and so i do think mccarthy is channelling what the average republican would say which is biden had documents, trump had documents, why is he being persecuted and biden isn t. why is biden getting sweetheart deals and trump is getting immunity. that s how the avr republican would see iter so i would expect kevin mccarthy to channel that energy. this is where it gets important that bacon is the one with a biden won district heading into the 2024 cycle that he as a messenger for the party that talks about law and order, it s very difficult for him to be in a position to then have to