Here in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, dc, web donald trump is under new pressure over his sacking of the former fbi director. Where. James comey will give evidence on thursday about whether he was given any pressure to drop an enquiry into links between a senior white has official and russia. And Written Testimony has been released injames comey. In it, he says he believes that the president asked him to drop the investigation into general michael flynn. Here are the key lines from his statement. 0ur Washington correspondent says that the evidence is eagerly anticipated. They are saying that this could be a bigger box office, if you like, as far as capital hill is concerned, then the Clinton Impeachment hearings, all watergate. It will very closely watched. We have this Opening Statement released on the Senate Intelligence committee website. Or watergate. On the Senate Intelligence committee website. Orwatergate. It reveals, amongst other things, the donald trum
Congressman, the issues were all watching besides trump is issue of the confederate statues. 3 of 5 people in virginia including all races and genders were for keeping the statues the way they are, dont want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. Position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. Thats how he started anyway. Says to me, voters said thats where i am on this issue, didnt vote on this issue. It was not the issue. But gillespie and trump. Gillespie didnt know who trump was in Northern Virginia but ran a Television Ad campaign that absolutely invoked worst of the trump campaign. Southerner . This time it didnt work. Catholic guy who grew up in new jersey running down there waving the flag of stonewall
a controversial president in byelection. Anybody with any problems with the government party, any problem they lay on you. Right . Absolutely right. You take all the hell with trumps name on it. And historically thats how virginia performs
Going to be converging on a main square on the same main square and we are expecting some very large crowds at least from the counter protesters side its still unclear how large the white supremacist crowd will be. Joining us from washington thank you a jury in the u. S. State of california has found one some two guilty of causing terminal cancer in a plaintive who was exposed to its weed killer as they ordered the Chemicals Giant which is now owned by germanys bya to pay millions in damages Court Authorities in San Francisco fast tracked the case because the man is dying. Shortly after the verdict was handed down joy is written and when johnsons face monsanto must now pay around two hundred ninety Million Dollars in Damages Johnson blames the companies we killers like round up for causing his cancer they contain the chemical glyphosate there i learned about roundup in. And going to save everything im glad
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but most people don t. the net effect on the justice system, i think, tests, could be profound, as you look at all these judges who are facing these direct threats from the plaintive. the threats against, and this is how the landscape has evolved. rather than the street based mobilization s that we were seeing in 2020 leading to january 6th, now it s a diffuse environment, threat environment, where elected officials, election officials, election workers judges judges who rule unfavourably towards a former president. lawmakers, democrats are even republican, more so republicans, moderate republicans who don t stay in line. it s not just limits their families that get the torrent of death threats. that has been an ongoing issue for a few years and becoming worse. i would also say, in addition to this real fear that it creates, it s sets a kind of
to use the example of those who have crossed him as a warning to wavering lawmakers, to anyone who risked resists the force. i believe that jamele point this out in his column. you saw after, the reason donald trump is now the front-runner for the republican nomination is because the republicans and in the senate, after january six, many of them knew that he had fomented insurrection, and should be impeached. according to mitt romney, at least some of them didn t vote to impeach because, unlike him, they did not have the money to pay for their own personal security. and it comes to that simple fact of, if you can withstand the terror, fear, if you have the resources are the backbone, maybe it ll stand up against him. but most people don t. the net effect on the justice system, i think, tests, could be profound, as you look at all these judges who are facing these direct threats from the plaintive. the threats against, and