If in singapore if in singapore and london, if in singapore and london, youre 7 if in singapore and london, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington, where a bitter battle between democrats and republicans in the us senate has drawn to a close, with the appointment Ofjeff Sessions as attorney general. It was approved 52 to a7. It came after a series of divisive hearings on his record of civil rights. Lets get the latest from our correspondent, richard lister, in washington. Donald trump may have gottenjeff sessions into his cabinet, but if you look at the list, there are still a number who have not been confirmed of appointees. Donald trump is very as. He says the democrats are doing all they can to obstruct him. Is furious. He has a point many are not happy with who he has nominated. In fact, at this stage of his presidency, he has new members of his cabinet in place than any of the previous 11 president s did in this stage
If in singapore if in singapore and london, if in singapore and london, youre 7 if in singapore and london, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington, where a bitter battle between democrats and republicans in the us senate has drawn to a close, with the appointment Ofjeff Sessions as attorney general. It was approved 52 to a7. It came after a series of divisive hearings on his record of civil rights. Lets get the latest from our correspondent, richard lister, in washington. Donald trump may have gottenjeff sessions into his cabinet, but if you look at the list, there are still a number who have not been confirmed of appointees. Donald trump is very as. He says the democrats are doing all they can to obstruct him. Is furious. He has a point many are not happy with who he has nominated. In fact, at this stage of his presidency, he has new members of his cabinet in place than any of the previous 11 president s did in this stage
met for more than an hour with the new president elect even before trump met britain s prime minister. they say that meeting was unplanned. what hasn t known until now was aaron banks was communicating with russia ambassador to the u.k. banks and whit more had lunch again with the ambassador. nigel faranalogy asked him about it on his show. we had had a pleasant lunch with them in the last six hours and he saw a picture of us in trump s apartment. and of course he got in touch. reporter: the first trump even was august 24, 2016.
unfolding right now over chick-fil-a. the issue, same sex marriage. i m wolf blitzer in aspen, colorado. you re in the situation room. they re not the headlines mitt romney s campaign was hoping to see as the candidate met britain s prime minister today. romney sparked an uproar with remas about london s readiness for the olympic games and promptedprompt ed pointed rebuke against himself. jim acosta is in london traveling with romney right now. what s going on with the republican candidate? what happened? reporter: wolf, earlier today mitt romney told british leaders he s hoping to take in an olympic swimming event during his time here in london. but with no pool in sight he s making some waves of his own. as mitt romney chatted up the olympics in meeting after meeting with former and current british leaders, the london media were already off to the races with comments the gop contender made about the city s preparations for the games. you know, it s hard to know just