Everyone. Welcome to Sunday Morning futures, im maria bartiromo. Today, Election Integrity, ensuring an honest and fair election with 51 days until Election Day. We are digging into the most important issue for republicans as the final countdown begins for election 2024. Coming up, florida governor Ron Desantis with plans to the crack down on fraud in a new Election Integrity plan for florida as Voter Rolls are being cleaned up across the country. And the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Undated and misdated mailin ballots will not be counted as early voting is about to begin this week in the keystone state. Coming up, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich, on the race, the debate and whether anything changed after the Trumpharris Showdown in philly. Then, Joe Biden stuns as he suggests even hell be voting for trump as the president dons an Icon Kick Trump Red Hat with firefighters in pennsylvania and again as he Boards Air Force one this week. Coming up, Arkansas Senator Tom cott
Technology boss frank hester who donated £10 million to the Party Last Year is said to have made the comments in 2019. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made comments that the Prime Ministers spokesperson has described as Racist And Wrong. Its like trying not to be racist. But you see diane abbott on the tv, frank hester is reported to have said in 2019, and you just want to hate all black women because shes there, and i dont hate all black women at all, but i think she should be shot. Mr hester has apologised and said that he abhors racism. In a statement he said that he accepts that he made comments that were rude about diane abbott, but said his criticism had nothing to do with her
World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from aspen, colorado. Today, an extra special program with three, yes, three former secretaries of the treasury. First ill auck to Henne Paulson and Timothy Geithner about the downgradingst u. S. Credit ratings and the struggles the chinese economy. And then robert rubin talks about how to make hard decisions. And what a yellow legal pad has to do with that skill. Finally, david byrne came to fame with his new wave band Talking Heads. Some 40 years ago. I talk to him about his latest wave of creativity which includes a musical about former philippina first lady Imelda Marcos. Performed in a broadway theater. That has been transformed into a disco. But first, here is my take. For years now, American Politics has been shaped by the idea of the chinese shock. The term coined by three economists in a 2016 paper captures the widespread believe that trade with china has resulted in the deindustrialization of significant parts of the u. S. And loss of hu
engagement with students, teachers, families, support staff and communities that rely on our education system. we remain committed to investing £1 billion over the course of this parliament over the course of this parliament over to tackle the poverty related attainment gap. this long term targeted investment improves targeted investment im proves outcomes targeted investment improves outcomes for our children and young people and helps break the cycle of poverty, with recent statistics showing record levels of literacy and numeracy attainment and primary school level and improvement in secondary. as part of this, £130 million of people equity funding will continue to empower head teachers across scotland to invest in the best approaches to improving literacy, numeracy and health and well being of the children and young people in their schools. we will continue to provide £1455 million to councils to maintain teachers in the system and enable councils to offer permanent c
Bordersecurity, migration, and Asylum Seekers crossing the channel in small boats are expected to be major issues during the uk election. Labour leader sir keir starmer is in dover, outlining how his party will tackle them. Heres what he had to say. Lets have a look at what labour is planning to do. Sir keir starmer is promising to set up a new Border Security command to crack down on people smugglers if his party wins power. He is also pledging to hire hundreds more Specialist Investigators and cross border police. Meanwhile, Counter Terror powers would be extended to cover organised immigration crime, including the power to search people suspected of being involved in People Smuggling, close bank accounts, restrict their travel and trace their movements before an offence has taken place. And he says £75 million of the money allocated for the first year of the Rwanda Scheme would fund its plans. As the first step in this plan, a new manifesto commitment. We will set up a new command