warm until paramedics arrived. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello and welcome to the first unspun world of 202a. quite a momentous year, it seems, with elections for more than half the world s population. thank you forjoining me. our first question of the year is it a good idea for the americans, the british and other countries, though notably not the french, to be lobbing missiles at the houthis in yemen? the houthis don t seem to be deterred by this. and politically it s done the houthis very nicely. has taiwan s election made a chinese invasion more likely? china is going to take its time and prepare itself very, very well before it makes whatever moves it might be planning against taiwan. and the iowa caucus is donald trump now unstoppable? he cleared it- with flying colours. over 50% of the vote. i mean, that is a dominating. performance that tells you that donald trump could win this election. i ever since november, from their bases in yemen, the
is money. would you ever allow a shutdown in the future? a shutdowns in terms of covid? i let the governors make their decisions, some of them from south carolina, you know and frankly, north dakota a few of them tennessee, they didn t shut down at all. florida did shut down, ron desantis shut down, or ron desanctimonious as he is known. he shut his state down, very violently down. he shut the highways down. donald trump criticizing ron dissents for his response to the covid-19 pandemic at a town hall last night at iowa, it aired on fox news. that happened not too far where desantis was on with former u.n. ambassador nikki haley at a debate that trump chose not to attend. republican presidential governor ron desantis joins us now from altoona iowa. what happened yesterday, as you are well aware. i m looking at this fat check for march 1st 2020, the headline is. trump praises florida governor despite criticism of coronavirus response. he called you a great governor. i ac
we are reporting from a cold iowa tonight. now breaking only moments ago fox news can now project that donald j. trump will win the iowa caucuses by a very wide margin. a massive slap in the face to all the obsessive trump haters in washington and the swamp. all the far left prosecutors that have weaponize and politicized our system of justice. and all of those perpetrating one witchhunt after another. after yet another media mob cheering on the abuse of political hacks every step of the way. it s a big message sent to the country tonight. voters can see through it. they know our system has been corrupted. they see unequal justice and application of our laws. they are now suffering through 1 of the worst presidents in american history. bidenomics is a failure. inflation through the roof. the border an utter disaster. europe is at war. the middle east is at war. our troops are coming under attack. life expectancy is down. homelessness at record levels all around the country. j
it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
and the clock is ticking on the desperate search for five people trapped on board a sub, after crews detected underwater noises. then, money power and politics. why you need to pay attention to a new florida law on car sales. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. house republicans have moved to punish one of donald trump s most prominent critics. earlier this evening, the house voted along party lines to censor california democrat adam schiff for his comments about trump, and for his role in investigating the former president. schiff s fellow democrats erupted in protest won the vote was announced. on this vote, 218 and the nays are 209. with six answering present, the resolution adopted without objection, the motion that considers will remain on the table. the house will be in order. schiff, who was now running for senate, led the first impeachment and was also a member of the january six committee. the vo