He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
So again, apologies for things looking a little higgltypigglty. No reason to worry. I will be back in the studio tomorrow night. Okay, january 2009, when barack obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States with joe biden as his Vice President , in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. The Great Recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying Wall Street Collapse. The economy had been Hemorrhaging Jobs for months at a rate not seen since the great depression, when President Obama was inaugurated. Unemployment was headed for 10 . The Wall Street Collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. People were hurting. People were very scared. And one of the reasons people had just elected obama and biden by a nearly 10 millionvote margin, and also given democrats control of the house and the senate, by huge margins, was that americans really desperately wanted the new government to dig the country out of the smoki
Are you in the path of the storm . More on when and where were going to see the snow and ice coming up. Also this morning, the Washington Football Team just revealed its new name. Its commanding attention. Im going to talk with the group spearheading that movement. We have our team covering the crisis in Eastern Europe. Courtney kube, Richard Engel and michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia. Courtney, let me start with you as you were in the room for the pentagon briefing. We know french troops are also being sent to the region. Talk you through what more we learned today during that briefing. Theres even some other allies that are considering sending some troops, the british, theyve sent assistance, the dutch, among others. We heard from press secretary john kirby a very key words. The military and pentagon are making it very clear that they look at this as a temporary deployment, not a permanent deployment and the ultimate goal is to deter russia from making an incursion into uk
Warning from the met office for snow across a large swathe of scotland. Could see ten to 15 cm. This band of rain across east anglia, will clear away, but for their snow showers for scotland and into Northern England pushed through quickly on those gusty winds. It will be a cold feeling day for all. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Reports from morocco say a rescue team has finally reached a five year old boy who fell down a well while playing on tuesday. Ministers are strengthening a bill that will force social Media Companies to take down harmful content more quickly. A parent, whose daughter took her own life, wants the heads of these firms to be held to account. As another senior uk conservative mp submits a letter of No Confidence in borisjohnson, Cabinet Ministers insist he still has majority support across the parliamemtary party. Back to morocco and the news but the reuters news agency, which says reports will morocco say a rescue team has finally reached a five year Old
Warning from the met office for snow across a large swathe of scotland. Could see ten to 15 cm. This band of rain across east anglia, will clear away, but for their snow showers for scotland and into Northern England pushed through quickly on those gusty winds. It will be a cold feeling day for all. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Reports from morocco say a rescue team has finally reached a five year old boy who fell down a well while playing on tuesday. Ministers are strengthening a bill that will force social Media Companies to take down harmful content more quickly. A parent, whose daughter took her own life, wants the heads of these firms to be held to account. As another senior uk conservative mp submits a letter of No Confidence in borisjohnson, Cabinet Ministers insist he still has majority support across the parliamemtary party. Back to morocco and the news but the reuters news agency, which says reports will morocco say a rescue team has finally reached a five year Old