lecturing the rest of us about equity, meaning that straight white men are bad. yet strangely the person he chose for this job was not a member of a racial or sexual minority, he was instead a highly privileged straight white guy. he was called nick mcwade. he went to private schools, wesleyan, went to colombia for law school. that didn t matter to joe biden. some jobs are too important foray if i remembertive action. his main qualification was being former law partner of hunter biden s criminal attorney. in december of 2020, hunter biden hired a lawyer called chris clark to defend against potential federal tax charges. just a month later, hunter biden s dad hired chris clark s partner, nick mckwaid to oversee the agency to oversee the tax charges. seems like an obvious, glaring conflict. but no, nick mcwade did not recuse himself from the hunter biden investigation. more than two years later not surprisingly, no charges have been brought against hunter biden, not for lack of
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i think if we had a policy which was firm, which armed ukraine with defensive and offensive weapons so they could defend themselves i think putin would make different calculations so i think oballa s policy of weakness is actually making a larger conflict more likely that was less than eight years ago, but now, desantis wants to appease putin, calling the brutal invasion of ukraine nothing more than a territorial dispute. the latest sign the party of desantis, trump, and tucker is seriously out of touch with the views of most americans. also tonight, how the failure of silicon valley bank is exposing the myths of regulation and the hypocrisy of libertarians who seem real pro government when it comes to federal assistance for them. and donald trump rolls out the melania defense with his lawyer claiming the payment made to the porn actress whom he was allegedly cheating with were made to protect melania. not to help him get elected president. but we begin the reidout
at ten o clock, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full roundup of the days news. first, the media show and a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. now in a minute, we re going to talk about spotify. it s the world s most popular music streaming platform. it spent close to a billion dollars on podcasting, too, but there are all sorts of different developments coming out of spotify at the moment. and its ceo has said that perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we ll try and unpack what s going on and work out what that means for making money off music streaming and off podcast, too. first of all, though, we re going to talk about the fallout from a new bbc documentary about india s prime minister narendra modi. it s on iplayer at the moment, and it explores tensions between mr modi and india s muslim minority. it also specifically looks at claims around his role in the 2002 gujarat riots,
the president says everything is under control. will that convince average americans? and why didn t anyone see this coming plus, roughly 17 million people facing flood watches today. the vast majority of them where flooding has already wreaked havoc in parts of california the atmospheric referring dropping another half foot of rain and compounding misery for towns under water. will donald trump s future be decided on the campaign trail or in the courtroom. the former president heads to iowa as his former fixer, michael, cohen, heads into a meeting with a new york grand jury we start with the question americans all over the country are asking, is my money safe the federal reserve and the president himself telling them the answer is yes. right now the dow is roughly flat following the collapse of two banks in recent days with several others suddenly on shaky ground in fact, some regional banks have lost 60, 70, even 80% of their value. carol lee is covering the white hou