100, more than 100 backers, then that vote will go out to the tory membership across the country, the vote will be online and hopefully we get a result by friday of this week. so that is where we stand so far this morning. you are watching bbc news. let s turn our attention to other world events now. xijinping has secured a third term as china s leader, at the end of a week long congress that reinforced his control over the ruling communist party. he s been re confirmed as the party general secretary which means he s almost certain to be re elected president in march. mr xi appeared in the great hall of the people in beijing alongside other members of the politburo standing committee the top decision making body. in brief remarks, he said the communist party would remain the strong backbone of the chinese people. translation: china cannot develop without the world, | and the world also needs china. after more than a0 years of unremitting efforts in reform and opening up,
overturning of the landmark abortion case roe v. wade. and this is the fallout from the leaked supreme court draft opinion on it. the actual ruling could come as soon as this week. president biden s justice department and attorney general merrick garland so far are doing nothing to protect the justices and their families at their homes. critics say this inaction is basically condoning violent attacks on pro-life centers. here is utah senator mike lee on the federal law you hear me cite here daily. the justice department has turned a blind eye to blatant violations of of the provision that prohibits people from showing up at the home of a supreme court justice to protest. by not condemning and prosecuting them the biden administration is legitimizing and propelling the attacks. harris: ron johnson from wisconsin, great to have you in focus today, senator. let s start with what we re seeing. that is what i call a leveling up potentially more of this from activists and it
xl spreadsheet. it looks like rishi sunak is closing in on 40% of mps and borisjohnson has less of a fifth of the party that elected him leader three years ago. what fifth of the party that elected him leader three years ago. fifth of the party that elected him leader three years ago. what will be the thinking leader three years ago. what will be the thinking right leader three years ago. what will be the thinking right now leader three years ago. what will be the thinking right now of the thinking right now of conservatives? the best party of the party s survival, nobody likes to lose power, are the best candidate for the country? if lose power, are the best candidate for the country? for the country? if you talk to them, they for the country? if you talk to them, they obviously - for the country? if you talk to them, they obviously say - for the country? if you talk to | them, they obviously say their champion would do both. i think what is clear in the conservative mps m
this is part and parcel the democrat party and our justice department is doing nothing to enforce the law. it is very sad. harris: i don t think any of us thought we would see the situation where the soft on crime bled all the way to the top. we re looking at people who don t care about that 18 u.s. code 15.07 and they sit at the justice department and inside the white house. is that soft on crime or something i m missing? it s definitely soft on crime going back to what schumer said on the steps of the supreme court. he was issuing a direct threat against justice kavanaugh and justice gorsuch and the media won t be upset about it. democrat colleagues in the senate weren t upset and elected him leader. turn the tables. there is no way the republican would survive that. that republican leader would no longer be in congress and wouldn t have elected that person leader. no, it s a complete double
that it seems mccarthy is still trying to do this, as dan rather would say, texas two-step. you can never do that with donald trump. you re either all in or you re all out. he s doing the chris christie. mccarthy looks at a situation where the majority of his conference, the majority of those house republicans are all in for donald trump. and maybe a majority of that majority are truly in. like, believe everything. they re part of the cult. and so mccarthy is the leader of that conference. and his vision of leadership is doing the will of those that elected him leader. and there you are. i think that s why you see what you see. hey, john, it is john. congratulations on the book. i want to talk about the new reporting that was bandied out a lot during the trump years. the 25th amendment, which allows