Accepted the community and to be able to be a cce pted by the community and to be able to be accepted by our parents. The reason i would not come at my was because i would like to be disowned. The reason i would not come out to my pa rents reason i would not come out to my parents is because i would be disowned. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Do get in touch if one of your relatives has received poor care or if you work in a care home and are worried about workload and standards. We also want to hear about excellent care and your ideas for how things can change. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The chairman of the iraq inquiry, Sirjohn Chilcot, has told the bbc that the former Prime Minister, tony blair, was not straight with the nation, or his inquiry, about the decisions made in the run up to the iraq wa
Peace between the israelis and the palestinians. Pope francis. Wholl be weve will be looking back at royal year later. The queen has missed her annual Christmas Day visit to church because of a heavy cold. Other members of the royal family including the Duke Of Edinburgh attended the service at sandringham without her. In her traditional christmas broadcast, the queen focussed on the theme of inspiration. Our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, reports. She recalled that this had been the year of her 90th birthday and paid tribute to the inspiring work of charities with which she has been associated. And she said much more could be achieved globally by acting with others. It is understandable that we sometimes think the worlds problems are so big that we can do little to help. On our own, we cannot end wars will wipe out injustice. But the humility and impact of thousands of small act of goodness can be bigger than we imagined. Her own life, she said, had been guided by the inspiri
Beyond those who have been so outspoken to push back on that. Will we see other senators come out today and take a flake or corkerlike position on that . Well find out. But right now i doubt it. A standing ovation. I want to bring my panel in. Robert costa, National Political reporter for the Washington Post and bret stephens, an oped columnist for the New York Times and megan murphy, the editor of Bloomberg Business week. Brett, i want to start with you. One trump critic said the ice is beginning to crack. What were seeing with bob corker, with jeff flake, youre going to see more republicans follow suit. Do you think thats the case . Follow suit in denouncing the president . Yes. Or in renouncing their political ambitions. Fair point. This is the key thing. Theres a law in economics, greshams law, bad money drives out good. In a sense what we have is bad republican politicians driving out good ones who are just removing themselves literally
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Pictures. Afraid he will catch me picking my nose. Cant believe that guy was president of the United States. Because he is branded as a crook. Its important to remember the wrong approach that Executive Power that led nixon to those crimes. You want a level, dont you . Good evening. This is the 37th time i have spoken to from you this office. So many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation. Need more . There was good in him. He had been a good vicepresident. But he was fatally flawed and a fatally flawed president. Nixon, he had been a hero to millions of americans. Here is a guy who received more votes than anybody else in the history of this country. The Richard Nixon they supported through the years was not the Richard Nixon that they thought
they knew. Every generation has to lose their virginity. It was just the day that my generation did. To think that were the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot of generations make. H
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. 17 angry democrats. They take value in the number 17. A potential sign. I hope he didnt use that number for them. He doesnt always use the number 17. I dont see that as being intentional. But who knows these days . But he has their interest. So what are they doing now . Well, they join in support of him and attacks of others. You saw what happened with jim acosta. If we go back to this video, when it gets to where jim was, youll see there were a lot of those q people who were in front of him. Theyre even stalking Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti. Why . Why go after Michael Avenatti . Because hes identified as one of trumps opponents. And they are now out to defend the president ial from their imagined array of opposition. And not a word from the white house about this. Actually, thats not true. Sarah sanders did say this today. Unfortunately, its now standard to abandon common sense ethical p