Live, unfiltered coverage on cspan. Listen on the radio app. We want to welcome back terry jeffrey. Morning thank you for being with us. This from the editorial page this morning. The Bipartisan Spending Party. Congress has left town for the year. Anotherbefore Bipartisan Spending Party that has typified the trump residency. The numbers deserve noticed because they are likely to have long term impact. Exceeding 1ebt trillion. Guest they are exactly right. On theartisan agreement hill is an old one. It has been going on for decades. They are allowing the government to get out of control. You have the baby boom generation continuing to retire. Increasing the amount of money spent on those programs. Social security costs more than a trillion dollars last year. As the wall street journal points out, you have massive Discretionary Spending. Both parties in congress are doing nothing to try to roll that back. This number courtesy of the debt clock. The nations debt is 23 trillion. How much m
Nothing dilatory, nothing prolonged, but what joe friday said on dragnet. Just the facts, maam. President trump said he wants due process. Our proposal gives it to him. The tradition of due process is when you are accused, you get to confront your accuser and make your case. We urge President Trump to do that, through documents and witnesses. We have said from the beginning that there are two components that are necessary for a full and fair trial. First, the senate should hear testimony under oath from four key witnesses, all of whom would have eyewitness direct knowledge of what happened in relation to these charges. They should include michael duffey, associate director of National Security at the office of management and budget and second and just as importantly, the senate should issue subpoenas for a limited set of documents that we believe will shed additional light on the administrations Decision Making regarding the delay in Security Assistance funding to ukraine and its reque
The judge says he will always be a danger to society. And russia is banned again from all major Sports Events for doping, this time forfour years. And coming up on bbc news arsenal and west ham look to get their seasons back on track in the premier league. Who will have the edge . Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. At least five people have been killed and dozens more are assumed dead after a volcano erupted off the coast of new zealand. Live images from the volcano showed a group of visitors inside the crater before the picture suddenly went dark. Up to 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time 23 have been rescued. Fears of furter eruptions means Emergency Service arent able to get to the island. Theyve flown over it and say there is no sign of survivors. White island is new zealands most active volcano. Its in the bay of plenty around 30miles off the coast of the port of whakatane on the north island. Our correspondent Shaimaa Khalil is there. Fiona
Society. And russia is banned again from all major sporting events for doping this time, the band will last for years. And coming up at 8 30pm, a question time special with an audience entirely made up of under 30. Thats live on bbc one in the news channel at 8 30pm. Hello, good evening to you. If youre just joining hello, good evening to you. If yourejustjoining us, welcome to bbc news. At least five people have been killed and eight more are missing assumed dead after a volcano erupted off the coast of new zealand. Live images from the volcano showed a group of visitors the british high commissioner, laura clark, has announced that teams are offering assistance. Up to 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time live images from the volcano showed a group of visitors inside the crater before the picture suddenly went dark. Up to 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time 23 have been rescued. Fears of further eruptions means Emergency Services aren
Crisis. Is it fair to say that its reasonable to call the green party a protest vote . Its reasonable to call the green party the most powerful but you can cast in the selection. When you look at the policies of the other parties right now, they are not putting forward any near the amount of investment. We know the climate emergency, if we dont tackle it, its going to cost us dont tackle it, its going to cost us trillions as well as threatening the very environment we all rely on to exist so right now, voting for the green party says we need a change of course and we can live larger, fuller, better lives. We can slash the cost of living and have that wonderful public transport infrastructure we really deserve, schools and hospitals that are fit for purpose. You want to spend 1 trillion to get the net zero emissions of Greenhouse Gases by 2030 in order to stabilise temperatures. Most of that you would borrow. Why do you potentially want to cripple the economy, aiming for 2030 when the h