it s obvious now that grant shapps is locked into a cycle where he s got to appease two really right wing candidates for prime minister in the tory party election. and if he wants to protect that position, he s got to show then that he s some kind of steely, right wing militant, which is what the whole party is becoming. so we need to unlock that. i think there s a political dimension to it now, which is unfortunate because this is an industrial relations matter aboutjobs, conditions, pay and pensions. there is a deal to be done. i spoke to a senior negotiator from network rail this morning on this picket line. he came along and said hello. we ve got a decent relationship with them. we could build a solution if we were allowed to. but, at the minute, the politics of the conservative party leadership election, i fear, is stopping this dispute being resolved. it s worth saying that network rail did previously make a pay offer of 4% this year plus another 4% next year contingent on some r
it is all still going on. we haven t got an offer that we can consider as a reasonable offer. we haven t got an acceptable package. and that s because the train companies and network rail have been blocked from making those offers by grant shapps. it s obvious now that grant shapps is locked into a cycle where he s got to appease two really right wing candidates for prime minister in the tory party election. and if he wants to protect that position, he s got to show then that he s some kind of steely, right wing militant, which is what the whole party is becoming. so we need to unlock that. i think there s a political dimension to it now, which is unfortunate because this is an industrial relations matter about jobs, conditions, pay and pensions. there is a deal to be done. i spoke to a senior negotiator from network rail this morning on this picket line. he came along and said hello. we ve got a decent relationship with them. we could build a solution if we were allowed to. but, at th
said you will be wimp where you are a win but wimp was the word. mr. jake about how would you describe the demeanor of the week call with the president following that call? will you get back into the room, i would say that he was with steely, determined, rim. so katie, that gave us some insight into what was going on behind the scenes in the lead up to january 6th, right? clearly donald trump was looking to pressure the vice president into thinking that he had to indeed the constitutional authority to overturn the election, which he did not. is trump s behavior criminal? is there any way that trump pleads ignorance? well, he could attempt to plead ignorance, but like you heard from the you d, there is really not the facts or the law that s gonna support. that i mean the real issue here though, alex, is we haven t heard from mike pence. we need to hear from the person. if you re not gonna hear from dollars on himself, you ve got to hear from mike pence. you have to hear exactly
describe the demeanor of the vice president, following the call, following that call with the president? when he came back into the room, and said that he was steely, determined, grim. steely, determined, grim. after the president screamed at him in front of the big gathering of random white house staffers, and his daughters, and his son s, and his son s girlfriend, and everybody else, he screamed that the vice president was a wimp. and also, a word that starts with p. and it s used in an affectionate way to talk about cats. that was the morning of january 6th. congressman aguilar then explains the committee has evidence that when president trump received a draft to the speech was due to get the january 6th rally, later on that day, the draft that he received contains no reference to mike pence at all. but the president himself changed that and wrote in multiple references to pence.
for being impolite but do you remember what she said her father called him? the p-word. that s an adviser to ivanka trump, saying she recalled hearing president trump called his vice president the p-word on the morning of january 6th, before president trump headed to the ellipse to lead the rally. followed, of course, by the attack on the capitol. former counsel to mike pence, greg jacob testified, pence stepped out of the room to take the call with no staff. jacob was asked about the vice president s demeanor once the call was over. he described pence as, quote, steely, determined, and grim. chuck rosenberg, you ve been watching these hearings with your legal mind. we did get the interesting note yesterday that the justice department has requested the transcripts of all depositions given and taken by this committee. what does that tell you about what may happen here once doj gets its hands on this case? it is not a surprising request, willie. there s a couple reasons why the d