also knighted, the artist grayson perry. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are geri scott, political reporter at the times, and broadcasterjohn stapleton. we will say hello to both in just a moment. first, though, let s take a look at those front pages. the telegraph focuses on the return of covid tests for travellers to the uk from china, amid worries over the spread of the virus. the mail calls the new controls drastic but says they ve been brought in because of concern beijing is withholding data. the times leads with a warning that middle aged people are dying from heart conditions because they didn t get common medication during the pandemic. the express has obtained figures showing more than 700 prisoners have either escaped or been released in error over the last decade. as the year ends, the ft points out how far many stock markets around the world have fallen this year. the mirror looks at the new year hono
Tweet and propo kbgate the idea that interference by russia was a hoax. And we all remember the debacle in helsinki, i wish i had heard just some of the righteous indignation that we had heard in the committee today when the president questioned that fundamental conclusion of our intelligence agencies. But of course they will silent when the president said that. They will show indignation today, but they will cower when they hear the president questioning the very conclusions that our Intelligence Community has reached. But we saw Something Interesting also today. My colleagues sought to use you, dr. Hill, to besmirch the character of Colonel Vindman. And i thought this was very interesting. It certainly wasnt unexpected i could not tell was very
interesting for this reason. They didnt really question anything Colonel Vindman said. After all what he said is what you said. He was in that July 10th Meeting. He heard the same quid pro quo, the same comments by sondland. If you want this m
whole team was recognised, why not the whole team? there is a quote from someone associated with this process saying, you cannot do this in this instance because you might be giving an award to somebody who was only on the pitch for five minutes the but a bit of a controversy. at the end of the day, let s rejoice about four have been recognised and i am sure the rest of the team don t mind that, anyway. congratulations to those who did, commiseration suit to those who did not. , ., , ., ., , not. there is lots of names here. brian not. there is lots of names here. iztrian may. not. there is lots of names here. iztrian may. we not. there is lots of names here. brian may, we have not. there is lots of names here. brian may, we have mentioned. l not. there is lots of names here. - brian may, we have mentioned. frank skinner, the comedian, all getting various awards, and some will always argue when the stories come out that big celebrities don t need any more awards, they ve got reco
bill was too partisan. keep in mind that senate leader chuck schumer allowed republicans to offer more than a dozen amendments which led to substantive additions like revisions to punish china for ip theft and forced labor. no wonder the co-sponsoring republican senator praised a straightforward and complicated regular process saying, i can t recall when this has happened since i ve been in the u.s. senate. now it s not his imagination. there have actually been more amendments aloud on senate roll call votes this year than in any of the trump/mcconnell years. that s not stopping many republicans from complaining. check out this howler of a headline from a mitch mcconnell op-ed. democrats must choose bipartisan solutions over grasping for raw political power. that s some primo projection. remember, after trump s covid relief billed passed with broad bipartisan margins, not a single republican voted for the rescue
i was just going to say, i think democrats presented an abundance of evidence. facts after facts after facts. we haven t even talked about david holmes, who was a damning witness. he was able to say he heard the president commit the crime of asking a foreign government to interfere in our elections. that was damning as well. the thing is, it doesn t matter how much evidence democrats present. republicans have already made up their mind. isn t that bananas that republicans started this process saying, because i have i used to say it off camera, i ll say it on camera. during the mueller probe, i said it s going to take a dead russian hooker at the bottom of the rudson river before republicans wake up. i think you could find a dead body and they would be like, she died of natural causes. they don t care about anything. now they also don t care about foreign interference in domestic elections. here s the moment i m waiting for. what s going to happen when it