editor faisal islam. this is clearly a mess but the expectation in financial circles is that shareholders will provide the funds to keep thames water going. but the question is how did this come about in an industry that should be so simple, providing a product that everybody needs, and provided the monopolies of several million customers with no competition. and the answer is in hugely complicated structures, huge debts, and lots of regulation. the boss of thames water, sarah bentley, abruptly stood down on tuesday. she was battling to turn around the company after a legacy of under investment. let s discuss what s at stake with dr kate bayliss from the centre for water and development at soas university in london. thank you for being on the programme. faisal islam there talking and touching on some of theissues talking and touching on some of the issues why thames water is where it is. can you elaborate on that, please? on that, please? yes, well, thames on that, please?
reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. time for this rat pack to pack it in. thanks very much for joining me this evening. i m jim acosta. we ll be back tomorrow night. good night. your way round the hill. and now the party bosses want a meeting. they have a proposition. they want you to take a shot at the white house. not eventually, but now. - think about it, will you? narrator: well, first you ll have to get past her, the senator with decades of experience and friends in high places, already at home in the oval office. and then you ll have to get past him, a senator and bona fide war hero backed b by a mean polititical machinine. [crowd chanting indistinctly] let s say you are ready. here s the real question. is america? [dramatic music] only one way to find out. [tense music] america, president george w. bush s second term. [chatter] at war in iraq and afghanistan, teetering on the brink of a global economic crash, disillusioned, divided, and despera
are treated what i m talking about is the fact that if the republicans win if the republicans win this election, there will know they are committed to passing a federal abortion ban, and that includes presidential contender nikki haley. and that will mean that no matter what state you live in, in the united states, women will not be able to get abortions even when their own personal health is in jeopardy. the vice president and the president are committed to codifying roe, and the vice president is on tour right now, starting an order that started in wisconsin yesterday, which is a battleground state. and she is today in northern virginia with the president. and they are going to keep hammering home for the american people that restoring roe v wade and an abortion rights for women in this country is what s at stake. let s just quickly go to manassas and dip into a little bit of this. i thought we had settled years ago. last year at the white house, i met with a group of women