new this morning, the leading republican candidate for president pledged that he will be a dictator. on his first day in office, faced with questions from his pal sean hannity about whether he had plans to abuse power, break the law or use the government to go after people, after not answering for nearly five minutes, this what trump said. under no circumstances, you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. except for except for day one. meaning? i want to close the border and i want to drill, drill, drill. he said you re not going to be a dictator, are you? no, no, no. other than day one. we re closing the border and we re drilling, drilling, drilling. after that i m not a dictator. that was during a town hall last night in iowa. the authoritarian talk didn t stop there. trump also reminded everyone listening of his relationships with dictators. tell you what, we are dealing and
and ask this side of the room to tell me what they see and this side of the room what they see. and they will be looking at the same exact coin, but describing two very different realities. - calling it insurrection it wasn t. it was peaceful protest. - it s anarchists. breaking the glass of the united states capitol. - facts are indisputable. - i ve got secrets - i think that s the problem that we have. more people need to be able to stand up and say, that s crazy. it s a quarter, and we can talk about what s on each side of the quarter, but let s not disagree about the fact that it is a quarter. [people shouting] - january 6th was predicated on propaganda, in the most terrifying way. - so much for those claims that voter fraud never happens. of course it happens. they knew it happened when they told us it would never happen, because they re liars. - we re at a crossroads today between the promise of truth and the peril of falsity. between the promise of democracy and t
hardest thing. to believe it requires something bigger than ourselves. we have never had a significant anniversary of d- day where democracy and western democracy felt as under threat and as fraught as it does this year. both in europe and at home. what you make of donald trump s threats to jail his political opponents? i will talk you in about three years from now. you have to take donald trump at his word. i think there is nothing that will stop him from doing such things. the jerry and hunter biden s trial was just dismissed for the weekend after emotional testimony from hunter s daughter . will wait to see whether hunter biden will testify in his own defense on monday. will you accept the jury s outcome no matter what it is? yes. and have you ruled out a pardon for your son? yes. i just went through a rigged trial in new york. his first public campaign stop senses guilty of convictions. if we don t win this country is finished, i really believe t
the media show. hello, it s the oprah, meghan, and harry show! not really, this is the media show. but if you re bored of that spectacle, i m afraid to tell you that the aftershocks are very real and relevant to us. as we always say, the media is the story. itv s share price fell by around 5%, reuters has quoted city traders who say that the fall could be partly attributed to the resignation of itv s starjournalist, piers morgan. morgan was bringing in record ratings for good morning britain, of course, but he quit on tuesday after refusing to apologise for his on air criticism of the royal couple. so, whilst the oprah interview represents an historic move , moment for buckingham palace, is it also a massive deal for british media? perhaps so. does piers morgan s departure show that his brand of highly opinionated journalism is incompatible with an ofcom regulated tv channel? and will he resurface on the new news channels that s coming to the uk which has promised to capitali
from the met by the end of the day. labour says it will vote against a bill in parliament this week that would give the police more powers to impose restrictions on non violent protests. it wants the proposed legislation to be widened to address violence against women. the foreign secretary makes another call for the immediate release of british iranian nazanin zaghari ratcliffe after she faces new allegations of anti government propaganda in court. authorities in the republic of ireland recommend temporarily suspending use of the astrazeneca vaccine, after a report of four new cases of blood clotting incidents in adults who d had the jab in norway. and it s the music industry s biggest awards night of the year the grammys they re being held at a virtual ceremony in los angeles. now on the bbc news channel, the duke and duchess of sussex s interview with oprah winfrey delivered record ratings for itv. at its peak, 12.4 million viewers were watching, the broadcaster s bi