griff: hour two, here we go, i m griff jenkins. aiming to keep the focus on the latest jobs report amid the fallout. lucas tomlinson is live on the north lawn with the latest. reporter: good afternoon. all week the white house has refused to rule out the biden family from its list of suspects of who brought cocaine into the white house. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre even called it irresponsible to even can th. earlier you had a former justice department attorney asking the question that many americans are asking today. she s the one that s irresponsible in not giving a direct answer. it s very simple to come out and say no member of the biden family had anything to do with this cocaine, and the white house intends to insure that whatever staff member or guest put this cocaine in the white house is fully prosecuted under the law. we ve not heard that from the white house press office, and you have to wonder, why not? reporter: there s the question. now,
wales and northern ireland in the new year. last week, borisjohnson, the prime minister at the time of the pandemic, arrived 3 hours early at the hearing just after seven am. here s how the 6:00 news began its coverage at six. boris johnson apologises for the way the government handled the pandemic. arriving at the covid inquiry under cover of darkness, the former prime minister admits he should have twigged much sooner the need for action. several viewers wrote in to newswatch to say they thought that was unfair. caroljefferson from loughborough protested. daphne turpin emailed from northampton. ken holden agreed. we asked bbc news to respond to those complaints and they sent us this statement. the government s plans to send some migrants to rwanda if they arrive in the uk illegally has dominated the news in the past week when the new home secretary, james cleverly visited rwanda to sign a treaty. the bbc s political editor chris mason went along to report on the event. but
possession of secret documents, joe biden had himself unauthorized secret documents, don t worry, it is not a big deal. unlike you and donald trump, joe biden is a good person, so virtuous he s transcended law issue not a crime when he does it. details are interesting. week before the last mid-term election, joe biden lawyers were rooting in a locked closet in the pan-biden global engagement and while in the locked closet biden lawyer found highly classified government documents, why were joe biden s lawyers doing this in the first place? it is weird. lawyers don t typically search locked closets, yours probably don t. biden s lawyers did and we guess because they understood republicans were about to win back the house and congressional subpoena power. cleanup operation to get ahead of a scandal they knew was coming and hid what they found until after the midterm election, no reason to influence voters with information, there is that. then the question of pan-biden center a
criminal because he had unauthorized possession of secret documents that very same joe biden himself had unauthorized possession of secret documents. but don t worry, it s not a big deal unlike you and that despicably orange donald trump joe biden is a good person. joe biden is so virtuous. he is transcended temporal law. it s not a crime when he does it. so that s the frustratingly familiar headline from this week s story, which you probably seen by now. but the details of the story are actually pretty interesting. so a week before these last midterm elections, joe biden s lawyers were for some reason rooting around in a locked closet in the washington office of something called the pen biden center for diplomacy and global engagement. and while in that locke s closet, biden s lawyers find a sheaf of highly classified government documents. so the first question here is , why were joe biden s lawyers doing this in the first place? and we can t say for sure because they
the production company podot. also with us is lewis goodall from the news agents podcast and tony pastor, the man behind goalhanger, which is the podcast production company he set up with gary lineker and makes all sorts of hit podcasts, including the rest is history, the rest is politics. there s something very intimate about listening to a podcast i mean, in many ways, a bit like radio where people have their headphones on, they re cooking, they re commuting, they re walking the dog and they get very, very close to the people in theirears. they develop a relationship with the people they re listening to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this and it s just one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to