and the met police investigation concludes. and the delay to the vote in order to decide whether it should be referred at all to the committee. i mean, ithink, alex, there were a lot of conservative mp who didn t fancy going into local elections, being accused by the opposition of blocking or preventing, or the word cover up being used, and they didn t like that. labour made that quite clear, didn t they? if you don t support us in this, we re going to suggest that you re not open to scrutiny, that you re stopping this being properly looked at, that it could be quite damaging to them personally. so yeah, the government put forward its amendment, which they thought would kind of placate the conservative mps that were worried about which way they were going to go on this vote. so we all thought that that was basically going to be kicked down the road a little bit, right? and then today happens. well, yeah, then there was a classic politics live episode, cos things tend to happen when
articles. i think it s established whether you love trump or hate trump, he has no idea of american political history. i mean, how much is sort of the sad, short history of impeaching a president on your mind? well, in the two instances in the last 50 years, they involved the cover-up being bigger than the crime. here the crime alleged $391 million of taxpayer dollars. that s a lot bigger than the cover-up. we think the cover-up is going on. but this is a lot bigger than, you know, asking people to lie for you. this is taxpayer dollars inviting a foreign power to help. and actually it s more mindful of what the founders warned us about was that they envisioned that foreign powers may want to have their candidates or people that they thought would be helpful win in america, and they designed a system that sought to protect against that. and that s what we re called to do right now. the. all right. we somehow talked you into staying so we are going to ask you to stick around. after
they were kind of embarrassing. and, you know, the president was very angry. and i think that was the point where they severely restricted the distribution of those kinds of transcripts. and now apparently are putting them in the sort of special storage system which usually is used for operations, military operations, and covert operations that are being conducted abroad, things that they really need to make secret and limit the distribution of. the goal of this basically was to limit the distribution that people in the room when this conversation was going on very quickly said this is not good. we need to limit the number of people that can read this and have access to it. and, karen, the historical echo of the cover-up being perhaps as egregious in this instance as the crime is undeniable. i want to read you some of what