of the titan sub were dismissed by the company s ceo. also on the programme: us presidentjoe biden and vice president kamala harris are joining the democratic national congress as well as other pro choice advocacy groups to mark one year after the us supreme court s decision to overturn its landmark 1973 ruling on roe v wade. and the tents have been pitched, the sun has been shining and now two hundred thousand people will spend the weekend enjoying some of the worlds biggest music stars. yep, it can only be glastonbury. tonight with the context, paul waugh chief political commentator for the i paper and jennifer carroll who was the former lieutenant governor of florida. hello to you both and will be taking us through our headline stories this evening. we start with those developments on the death of five people on board the submersible which went missing in the atlantic on sunday. canada s transportation safety board has announced an investigation because the titan s surfa
yeah. i mean, one thing to say that you have to remember china is very different from japan because there are so many chinese. they don t have to be as productive as we are to become the world s largest economy. so by some measures they already are. but they are also having a lot of problems. the chinese model, it really does seem to be coming apart at the seams right now. and the u.s., look, america has been, at least it is a very i think our openness, our openness to different people, to different ideas, our creativity that comes out of that has been our underlying strength. and i mean, if you think about how did america do so well in high-tech. there are a lot of reasons. a lot of that is in silicon valley, the claim is, the anecdote is that venture capitalists won t back a company unless it has a few east asians involved because we need the diversity of ideas and diversity and our openness, our openness to new ideas has been our huge strength. i do worry given everyth
Investigation of russian interference into the u. S. Election and other matters. Its up to mueller to decide the other matters, to include the firing of the fbi director. Michael flynn, a meeting between the fbi director and the president in the white house. Just to be clear, the fbi investigation thats been going on, that was under Director Comey, that continues and that is what mueller is overseeing . He has oversight over the entire probe as it were. Youre not going to stop any activity in the fbi anymore, youve got a whole team there, and thats something youve heard from the acting fbi director, as they search for a new director, that theyre continuing their work. I have spoke to people inside the bureau, but this is a very independentminded mueller. One other thing ill note. I have been talking to people around washington in reaction to this, yes, comeys out, if you Huge Development today. Just two days ago, White House Press secretary spicer says frankly theres no need for a Spe
yeah. so, carol, not only did trump politicize the secret service and we talked about how that happened, putting his person in a key position. but it appears now that he politicized even the role of the inspector general inside the department of homeland security that is supposed to oversee the secret service. so it seems as if the entire secret service process, of oversight has been corrupted. well, joe, you know, when phil rucker and i wrote in our book i alone can fix it , one of the devastating things that we learned and i think it is coming out very clearly in the january 6 committee hearings, although maybe not in every detail, we learned that every agency had been a play thing to donald trump. how can i use it for my gain.
Soon after the announcement, twitter employees held an all hands meeting with current leadership where questions were raised about everything from what the sale will mean for them to whether former president trump would be allowed back on the platform. i m joined by anchor of reliable sources brian stelter. we were talking about just this possibility, we didn t think that the odds were high of this happening now. elon musk wants to take this company private. he s all about freedom of speech. how do you balance that with regulating hate speech and misinformation? and did to experience an extraordinary education in the complexities of that very topic. elon musk pursued this, people thought maybe he s buying it as a play thing, didn t know how serious he was, he s very serious. he committed his capital to it. it is clear he has very little understanding of the complexities that go into content moderation and hate