Breaking news from here in the uk. Opposition mps in parliament have failed to block Government Plans to cut Winter Fuel payments for millions of pensioners. A total of 348 mp5 backed the government, with 228 supporting the opposition motion. It means the government won the vote with a majority of 120. As a result, an estimAted 10 Million pensioners wont get the payments to help with their winter heAting. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, Vicki Young whos inside parliament in central lobby for us. In terms of the Reaction Youve had so far, and a breakdown of the numbers, is it any clearer who voted against or abstained here . No, it isnt quite the short answer. Here . No, it isnt quite the short answer. We know one mp did vote against. Short answer. We know one mp did vote against. We short answer. We know one mp did vote against. We think short answer. We know one mp did vote against. We think thAt| did vote against. We think thAt is the only labour mp. WhAt you cant tell fro
Debate in philidelphia. But lets start this hour, by going to westminster on A Busy Day of politics the result of the latest ballot in the conservative Leadership Race about to be announced. Let s go back to Vicki Young, our deputy political editor. Five candidates become four, Mel Stride being the lowest in terms of those ballots cast. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, Vicki Young whos inside parliament in central lobby for us. Tell us more. We didnt hear the results, tell us more. We didnt hear the results, unfortunately. L the results, unfortunately. Luckily, i have a colleague who is. We have the latest ballot whittling the numbers down from five to four. The result this time around was robertjenrick with 33. He was top last time and remains in that position. Again in the same position of second. James cleverly was 21, which i think is the same that he was last time around, Tom Tugendhat with 21, and as you say, that means that Mel Stride is eliminated, what this means now
Senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Senator, why has the replacement ofjoe biden with kamala harris, on the democratic side of this presidential race, why has it knocked the trump campaign so badly off balance? i think it was a. . . It s taken a while for them to get their sea legs, but i think they re good to go now. I thought he would be replaced. You know, we were all saying, as republicans, the guy is not capable. He s in decline. And all of a sudden he leaves. You know, it sjust switching up candidates that late, it took a while to absorb that, but i think he d be ready. . . This coming tuesday is the debate, and i think it ll be probably the most consequential debate maybe in a long time, if not ever. You talk about the way in which, for so long, the trump campaign was built around the idea thatjoe biden was too old, he wasn t competent. Yeah. Right, right, right. There s a big problem now for trump, isn t there? he s the old guy. He s 78 years old. And people
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with joy reid next tonight on the reidout it angered me but i turned to my daughter, who was standing there by me it doesn t take courage to break the law, it takes courage to uphold the law the president s words were reckless it s clear he decided to be part of the problem mike pence back in november with about as much anger as pence is able to muster. today, the former vice president presumably said much more to the grand jury in the doj s january 6th probe. also tonight, you can t beat me up for not screaming. the chilling words of e. jean carroll who was back on the witness stand today, facing cross-examination in trump s civil rape trial and we begin tonight with the breaking news that former vice president mike pence testified before the d.c. grand jury investigating donald trump s role in the january 6th insurrection the path to pence s testimony was cleared yesterday, when a three-judge panel rejected trump s emergency bid to prevent pence from testifyin