rebalance and expand this road to supreme court? bus, when donald trump looks and amir, does he see richard nixon staring back at him? how one disgraced ex president pave the way for the latest disgraced ex president. msnbc exclusive tonight, the former prime minister of pakistan joins me to discuss human rights and democracy in his country and the case against him. why we in america should all care. good evening, i m mehdi hasan. perhaps the two most important weapons in american politics right now are not 435 and 500, the number of house members in congress. or 40 and 44, the pulling the embers for joe biden and donald trump respectively in the latest survey. but six and three, that is the ideological division on the highest court in the land. six conservative justices versus three liberal justices. it is how we all powell fruit supreme court cans to vote on a lot of the biggest issues that come before them. six against three, before we get those cases tonight, cases that h
to brief reporters. john kirby will be at her side as well after the death of two navy seals. we will be watching for this closely. those seals going missing in the waters during a mission to seize iranian weapons headed to yemen. all this as the tehran-backed terror group shows no signs of letting up. keenly interested what happens in the briefing room a few moments from now. sandra smith in new york. john: john roberts in washington. that weekend went by quickly, didn t it? president biden mourning the loss of two navy seals releasing a statement writing in part they represented the very best of our country. sandra: and it all comes as the biden administration is reportedly preparing for a sustained military campaign targeting the houthis as they continue to attack commercial shipping in the red sea. john: and breaking a short time ago, the pentagon revealing 11 iranian proxy attacks on u.s. bases in just the past five days, upping the total number of attacks to a w
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and it is still chilly out there but today for some of you a little bit more clout and one or two rain showers. i will have the four for forecast and detail later on. it s wednesday the 10th of january. the prime minister will face questions in parliament today over the post office horizon it scandal which saw hundreds of innocent sub postmasters wrongly sentenced for fraud and theft. the former post office boss paula vennells yesterday bowed to public pressure to give up her cbe but more questions remain over the number of government contracts that are still being awarded to fujitsu, which supplied the faulty it system, and the delays in quashing convictions and awarding compensation. our political correspondent peter saull has the latest. it was an announcement that added insult to their injury, depicted in the recent itv drama. paula vennells has got the cbe. joking! but now the former boss of the post office has agreed to hand back her honour, adding that she was truly so