opposition labor party. they re far too socialist. they re not pro european enough for many people that do support the e.u. and boris johnson would rather roll the dice than get in any form of discussion about delaying brexit again. that s why he s going to push for this election. shepard: there s no way boris johnson could have thought when he went to the queen and said let s suspend parliament, there will be a deal or not deal, we ll hard brexit or if we need to. the idea that he might have had these votes against him and and the parliament might havover taken his power, that wasn t even on the radar, was it? absolutely right, this is humiliating for boris johnson, this is a symbol for the fragmentation in british poll tox. there s four or five parties filling up the political spectrum. that said, boris johnson is a
on halloween day. so they couldn t get a majority together in parliament. there s three camps. there s the brexit no matter what group, that s one group. there s the we want a brexit with a deal only group. and then there s the remain group. everyone is leave or remain. those three groups are split just about evenly. so they can t get a majority together for anything. as a result, there s been chaos. boris johnson said look, here s what we re going to do. she went to the queen and said i want to suspend the parliament. in other words, send the parliament home so they can t do their work, so they can t come up with a way to block boris johnson for allowing britain to leave the european union without any sort of deal. so he suspended parliament with the queen s blessing and said we ll have a lot fewer legislative days and they won t be able to get anything done. well, yesterday after the summer
herridge with the late-breaking developments from washington. catherine? we ve confirmed that the jury has found greg craig not guilty on this count of misleading justice department investigators about this contact on behalf of the ukraine. this was an issue related to something called the foreign agents registration act. what is striking about this verdict, it came down so quickly. the jury just got the case about four hours ago. they had one question for the judge and the anticipation is that they would probably break at the end of the day and resume deliberations next week. but they have come with a verdict of not guilty on that count, shep. shepard: catherine herridge live from washington. back to the brexit deal, which is breaking before our eyes. these are live pictures in parliament. members of parliament speaking. let s listen.
against, has called this request for a general election tool to avoid scrutiny. so this country has been quite divided over brexit. as you can hear in the house of commons, there s even more screaming and shouting than we re used to hearing, shep. shepard: amy, we re going to listen in for a second so our viewers get a feel for what it s like. i ve got a rusty old heap of a car. it s yours for 15,000 pounds. i m sure he will just take it without looking at it any further. but when this house was presented with a withdrawal agreement by the previous administration, i obviously voted against it because i felt it was a lousy, rotten deal. i don t need to put those objects further tonight. but there s others and i m looking at them. i m looking at those many others who voted against that deal and
yeah, shep. that s what happens. we saw so much energy near the center of the storm and when it was over, abaco and grand bahama island. we expect that energy to be spreading out widespread and to be working its way all the way up the coast. so the on set of the surge will be sooner. the big waves from the tropical storm force winds will be sooner. it s just going to be sort of a nightmare all the way up the coast. certainly not as bad as grand bahama island. we feel bad for our friends there. we want everyone to pay attention to the emergency managers and take the actions that they need. jack, certainly do appreciate it. jack parrish who is about to fly into that hurricane and bring us a new update. the next official update from the hurricane center, 5:00 p.m. eastern, 4:00 central. there s breaking news now in brexit. there s new volume in the past