Scalise . Who do you think might have the votes to lead your party and the house . All three of those would be Excellent Choices and i think they can do an excellent job. Theyre honorable men, to me at least, and theyve never openly mocked me, anyway. They sure as heck have always kept their word to me. Theres several others that have whispered in my ear during all of this. And of course i dont want to out them, i understand that they have to keep their secrecy about them. But there are several Milling Around that are very interested in doing this. Mark green from tennessee is somebody that people have been talking about. So theres several out there that people are talking about. Im sorry, but i just find this so shocking. What exactly did he say to mock your faith, sir . It really doesnt matter. It was just the fact that i publicly stated on your station, i think, this morning that i was praying about it and i had two paths to go, either go with my friend or go with my conscious, and
This is bbc news, the headlines. From the Campaign Trail to the courtroom donald trump has just arrived to the courthouse, where his criminal trial enters the next phase. Israels military s intelligence chief resigns, accepting Responsiblity Forfailures before the hamas attack on october the 7th. Ukraines president welcomes washingtons military aid deal, saying it could help turn the tide in the war against russia. In the next few minutes, a court in new york is due to begin hearing Opening Statements in the unprecedented criminal trial of donald trump. The former us president denies charges that he falsified accounts to hide hush money paid to the porn actress Stormy Daniels. A jury of 12 new yorkers five women and seven men will hear initial evidence from prosecutors and defence lawyers. If convicted, mr trump could be sent to prison for up to four years. Lets get some more now on some of those were expecting to see in the courtroom. Meghan owen reports. Obviously, donald trump himse
affiliated groups as well as business groups, farm associations, parent groups, young professional organizations, religious groups and conservative advocacy organizations. guests of mr. ramaswamy and grand view university are here tonight but they won t ask questions. we have asked everyone here to be respectful to each other and mr. ramaswamy so the voters in the room and at home have a chance to hear from the candidate. please, welcome vivek ramaswamy. [ applause ] i want to get right to the audience and bring simone from cli clive, iowa. she served on the board of a christian school. she s undecided. thank you. first of all, welcome to iowa. merry christmas from iowa. thank you. thank you for really adding some important conversations to the campaign. some local commentators refer to you as maybe the younger trump, not a politician, which would place you running in the same lane as president trump for getting votes. other than being younger, how would you differentia
funding why we put an enormous amount of funding in why we put an enormous amount of funding in place to support them. for social funding in place to support them. for social care, that largely goes through for social care, that largely goes through local authorities. so one of the earliest things we did was provide the earliest things we did was provide billions of pounds extra for local authorities in honouring fenced local authorities in honouring fenced grants so they would have extra fenced grants so they would have extra funds to spend on the things they needed to at the time. that was done, they needed to at the time. that was done, i they needed to at the time. that was done, i cant they needed to at the time. that was done, i can t remember exact what date, done, i can t remember exact what date, but done, i can t remember exact what date, but relatively early on in the pandemic date, but relatively early on in the pandemic. with regard to social
on whatsapp about decisions, that were made, the environment in which they were taken, and why the government was slow to respond. mrjohnson made the point that former prime ministers would not have survived this level scrutiny if whatsapp had been around at the time of the falklands or the iraq war. he played down the psychodrama that evolved in number ten, which was charactised in some of the earlier sessions, and the contents of some of the whatsapp messages. but i would make a distinction between the type of language used, and the decision making processes of the government, and what we got done. and i would submit that any powerful and effective government has, and i think of the thatcher government or the blair government, has a lot of challenging and competing characters whose views about each other might not be fit to print. but you get an awful lot done. most of the early session focused on the decisions taken at the beginning of the pandemic. in his evidence the for