border. lockdown restrictions in wales will begin to be eased from tomorrow with outdoor socialising and golf and tennis able to resume. in scotland, four adults from two households are now allowed to meet outdoors, including in private gardens. what do you make of coronavirus restrictions starting to be lifted in scotland and wales? do you think now is the right time? what will you be doing first? get in touch on twitter at annita underscore mcveigh or with the hashtag bbcyourquestions. in his first primetime address since becoming president, joe biden urges all americans to get vaccinated and targets the 4th ofjuly as independence day from covid i9. if we do this together, byjuly the 4th, there s a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighbourhood and have a cookout and a barbecue and celebrate independence day. a global study shows more twins are being born than ever before with one in every 42 children bo
on doing deals that bring peace and stability to our country. but i just want to press you, congressman. what your saying about donald trump and russia? well, what s i m saying is we know from the appointment of the secretary of state, or the nomination of the secretary of state, that it s all because of the success he has had doing business in russia. i have not heard anything about this appointee that in any way talk about his effectiveness as a citizen of the united states, as someone who will represent this country s interests or of the americans interest but someone who has done a lot of good for a corporation. if we re not careful, especially after the citizens united decision which brought
senator thune, thanks for coming in. nice to be with you. do you accept the assessment of the intelligence community that it was russia and the highest levels of the russian government, putin, who were directly responsible? i think what they said today, that s what they believe. they ll file an official public report on monday. there are a couple of other hearings today on capitol hill in the foreign relations committee, where i think we ll get a better and better understanding of all of this. but i think there s no question that russia was involved. so you but you accept that? because the president-elect, at least so far, he s going to be briefed tomorrow on this new report in new york by clapper and the other leaders of the intelligence community. so far, he hasn t accepted it. he said it could be china, some guy on his bed? i think he ll get the briefing tomorrow from the intelligence community. i hope after he has that, you know, he ll be able to articulate probably in
up witho ooan alternative that better, more affordable, provides better access and more competition for people. the criticism of the republicans, including trump have received is you ve railed against the affordable care act for six or seven years. finally, there s going to be a republican president, a republican majority in the house, republican majority in the senate. why aren t you ready on day one with legislation to not only repeal but come up with a plan that will replace it? we have because we ve got literally a menu of options. members in the house and senate have introduced comprehensive bills, more targeted bills. i think you ll see in a systematic way us in a step by step way start early on to introduce legislation to start implementing our ideas. but it s going to take a period of time. you can t expect this to happen overnight. some of these ideas that have been worked on for several years, we have to sort of unify behind. there s a rubio bill, bill cassidy has a bi
while senior intelligence officials and many lawmakers agree russia was behind the election hacking it puts them at odds with the next u.s. commander in chief. president-elect trump has continually rejected that conclusion and now sources say he s vowing potentially to overhaul the u.s. intelligence community. let s talk about that and more with our justice correspondent evan perez and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. they are here with me. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is outside trump tower in new york city. what more can you tell us about potential changes in the intelligence community that the trump team is looking at? wolf, i think at this point, these are just ideas they re still knocking around. i don t think there s anything firm yet. they want to get their people into office at the dni and cia before they determine the way forward. but one thing they are talking about is trying to find a way to rein in some of the power of the dni. it s an