up to the rally. now on bbc news, it s time for newscast. so, hello. there is usually three of us, aren t there, on the podcast on a thursday. and today, just me. because laura s been gallivanting around the middle east. and adam has covid, as you ll have heard if you were listening to newscast on bbc sounds yesterday. so, we have dr ellie cannon, gp, with us. hello. hi, there. to talk about covid. because, i guess, because of what has been happening in ukraine, it s not been making as much news as it otherwise might have done. i ve got plenty of questions, but i can start from a question from adam, who has sent us a little video from his
sure what we are getting out of it. it is tough and as jason says, world events keep getting in the way. voters were very clear and president trump is very clear in making those promises that this is going to be a new thing. it was a departure for both democrats and republicans who had been sort of gallivanting around the world getting us into hotter problems. bret: alex, talking to the national security advisor in recent weeks, there seemed to be or are they expressed this optimism about north korea, that somehow it was going to turn around. but looking at the stats of what has been launched in the past year, where do you think that optimism is coming from? we don t really. we don t see any evidence that talks with north korea are progressing.
right up front he didn t do anything wrong by trying to get the ukrainian president to come here and make announcements about criminal investigations he would launch into the bidens at the behest of president trump. then he turned around and said, china, you should do your own investigations to the bidens. if we let them off the hook for this, not only will it set the precedent for every future president they can go gallivanting around the world to get foreign governments to interfere in our elections, it will happen in 2020 or it will continue to happen in 2020. we will give license to what the president is doing. rudy giuliani was just in ukraine meeting with a sort of who s who cast of suspects, some might say discredited figures to gather dirt on a political rival and today the president has asked him to brief the justice department and gop senators on his findings. that s the critical thing.
we will essentially set forth these articles. we will have statements made by all of the different members analyzing the articles and the fundamental importance of the country confronting head on the fact that there s this crime in progress. the president of the united states has said that his conduct in this affair was perfect. in other words, he s telling us right up front he didn t do anything wrong by trying to get the ukrainian president to come here and to make enormouses abo o make enormouses abo criminal investigations he would launch into the bidens at the behe behest then he turned around and said, china, you should do your own investigations to the bidens. if we let them off the hook for this, not only will it set the precedent for every future president they can go gallivanting around the world to get foreign governments to interfere in our elections, it will happen in 2020 or it will continue to happen in 2020. we will give license to what the president is doing. rudy
we are happy to have you. tell us why you re running for senate and why do you think you can do better than cory booker? as cory booker done any job? one of the main reasons i entered this race is we ve got to bring back family values. for too long he has been gallivanting along, where is he when people are struggling? can t break free from cycles of poverty, the lead crisis in the work, he is showboating around trying to raise money for his failed presidential bid and done nothing for the state. time for real leadership to step up and bring jersey values back to washington. todd: let s look at these numbers. a percentage of missed votes from january 1st to august 7th of this year. it is among those, 45% is a lot. he is not winning currently in the democratic nomination. obviously you want to be in dc making votes and making change.