A Black woman has never been a governor, and only two have been senators. Despite progress at lower levels of government, and one boundary-breaking vice president, familiar barriers are slow to fall.
tonight, bringing us the context are stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics, and former ukjustice secretary and chief secretary to the treasury david gauke. welcome to the programme. for several days now western leaders have been providing political cover for the german chancellor, while privately venting frustration at his reluctance to send the leopard tanks to ukraine. according to german newspapers his refusal to approve the deliveries on friday, at a meeting of nato defence ministers, led to sharp words between him and the us secretary of defence lloyd austin. olaf schulz s office deny that, saying neither the tone nor content of the reports were true. but certainly there was frustration, and you could hear it when the bbc spoke, earliertoday, to the polish prime minister, who has decided to go it alone.
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. another discovery of secret papers in the united states classified documents have been recovered from the home of former vice president mike pence. the documents were handed over to the fbi last week. the department ofjustice is already investigating president biden and his predecessor donald trump for their handling of classified documents. california police arrest a suspected gunman, after another mass shooting at two locations in the coastal city of half moon bay. and jamie lee curtis has never had an oscar nomination, but at 64 years young, she hasjust been named in the best supporting actress category, for the role she played as a tax inspector. tonight with the context, stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics,
i do think people get angry and the only way i do think people get angry and the only way to i do think people get angry and the only way to know how - i do think people get angry and the only way to know how to - the only way to know how to say anything is getting a gun. a man. it is all male. why is there, as you said, an epidemic of people doing this? but also i don t want to lose sight of the fact that there are 25,000 suicides with a gun on an annual basis. that is something else we need to look at very carefully and while these mass shootings are terrible, i want us to also be able to cover the fact that there are depths on daily basis. he said there are more mass shootings then days in the year. i think all of us need to be talking about this on a daily basis, notjust when the most horrific acts occur. basis, notjust when the most horrific acts occur.- horrific acts occur. can i bring stefanie in horrific acts occur. can i bring stefanie in on horrific acts occu
special counsel is necessary. and let s bring special counsel is necessary. and let s bring in special counsel is necessary. and let s bring in stefanie on this. politically speaking, stefanie, you look at kevin mccarthy, what he has been saying, the speaker of the house, he has been on the attack, but this makes it difficult to attackjoe biden without processing mike pence. the situation look very similar, don t they ?it ? it looks extremely 7 it looks extremely similar. you ? it looks extremely similar. you have two teams ? it looks extremely similar. you have two teams property - ? it looks extremely similar. you have two teams property with i ? it looks extremely similar. you| have two teams property with the fbi. have two teams property with the fbi they have two teams property with the fbi. they have turned over the documents they had, there was no delay, documents they had, there was no delay, they documents they had, there was no delay, they don t seem to be obstructi