The british army has been stood down from supporting the metropolitan police after hundreds of officers stepped back from firearms duties. The Prime Minister has said armed officers need clarity about their legal powers. Rishi sunak was backing a home office review, after a metropolitan Police Officer was charged with murdering a 24 year old man, chris kaba, in south london last year. Earlier, the bbc was told up to 300 officers had turned in permits allowing them to carry weapons. Lord macdonald, the former director of Public Prosecutions in england and wales, told the bbc that the met police chief needs to provide more information, if he believes his officers are being unfairly dealt with. A lot of respect for mark, hes an excellent commissioner. But i think he needs to identify what there is a Glaring Unfairness is our. Evidence has been assembled by the police about police conduct. It has been referred to the cps, the evidence has been considered and the cps have made their decisio
was, i guess, miffed, at the beginning of the conference. i want to ask you when you talk about thecounter offense and what s going on. the wall street journal are reporting that several high ranking military officers have been detained in russia over the wagner rebellion. that includes general software vie can who s being held and inter interrogated. in all, 13 senior offices being detained for questioning, 15 suspended from duty or being fired. what do you think of that, congressman? and what do you think the impact, in terms of the war in ukraine, that this will have or is having? sure. i mean, first of all, i think the comments that prigozhin made about the justification of the war had to have some impact on the morale of the troops as a whole. and putin in the meantime has to
nationalists? yeah. i just again, i just don t pretend to understand the circles that he s traveling in. it s on the front pages of our newspaper all the time. it s something our country has been grappling with. it s something that has become violent in years. in this building where i m standing right now. so i can t pretend to understand it. what i think is important is that he was pressured and under pressure he changed. so i would hope that my republican colleagues in the senate would do the same thing on all the holds he has right now on over 250 senior offices, senior officers in the military. and he claims to be someone who cares about defense, national security. so then prove it and actually allow the seniormost officers in the united states to be confirmed. and the reason he is having these holds on hundreds of these military nominations, something that we typically don t see, you see it with civil appointees, political appointees, not military officers who are trying to
distinguish between people who are white and white nationalist? yeah, i just again, i just don t pretend to understand the circles that he s traveling in, that is not, you know, it s on the front pages of our newspaper all the time, it s something that our country has been grappling with, it s something that has become violent in years, and in this building where i m standing right now. so, i can pretend to understand it. what i think is important that he was pressured and under pressure he changed. so, i would hope that my republican colleagues in the senate would do the same thing on all the holds he has right now on over 250 senior offices, senior officers in the military. and he claims to be someone who cares about defense, national security. so, then prove it and actually love the senior most officers of the united states to be confirmed. and the reason he is having these holds on hundreds of these military nominations, something that we typically don t see, you see what civ
omnibus gives us a clue they won t be able to do what they want to do. your thoughts on that. it will get worse. so in 2021 he unleashed the worst border crisis in american history. 2022 it got worse by every metric. more gotaways, more encounters on the border. more terrorist watch list arrests more migrants died crossing the rio grande and it will get worse when title 42 goes away. so these problems, you don t get rid of problems by sweeping them under the rug. republicans will have to call them to account. now they will have the subpoena power to call up witnesses and demand documents and find out what the heck is going on. molly: maybe that s where the headlines will come from. thank you so much for joining us and giving us your insight. merry christmas. molly: the military may be going woke again. a new report commissioned by the u.s. marines suggest dropping sir or ma am to address senior offices and the senate passes a