in the center of london where people are carrying thousands of posters against a lot of them refer to that and say is a liar no more fake news from from and this is just one of those cases so no more fake news from trump alex what was then your over or take with this meeting between tourism me and donald trump well look at couldn t have started off worse than it has for two reason maybe but i think that downing street and the u.k. in general have played to his ego he s been presented with pageantry everywhere he s gone from plenum palace to check is later fifteen with the queen he couldn t have asked for more and he loves that so in tesco and for a private weekend nobody s quite sure who he s meeting so this is not yet over i think downing street over the white house keeping an eye on that story closely alex forrest whiting and studious and bob no reason in the heart of london following those anti trump protests thank you both very much for your reporting. let me
she s political editor joins me from our parliamentary studious for more on this story i m michelle how much of a showdown is this within the conservative bloc and does it threaten. well it certainly threatens angela merkel s leadership it is the strongest challenge that we have seen so far certainly from within her own c.d.u. c.s.u. party and if you re talking about quite right now at this moment literally the jury is out on how big a challenge this will be the c.s.u. and see to you our system parties met separately today the c.s.u. that s the party of interior minister who launched this challenge is meeting as we speak and the big question will be whether he is willing to find some kind of common ground some kind of compromise that gives angela merkel more time more time being up those two weeks until the european union summit to then forge
lessons. that teacher says he wasn t the most studious of students, but i suspect he will walk into the room and be potentially be able to have an english conversation with president trump, to impress president trump. that s the kind of thing we need to worry about. you re putting back on personalities. i want to get back to the substance and what s been lost on the united states. all the reporting here stateside is we ve already moved toward the communique that pyongyang would like us to release. there is report we have already given up and agreed not to raise human rights abuses. this is a country where, you know, above the line, you know, above the dmz people are a fraction of the size of the people below because they re malnourished. you ve read george bush made us read aquariums of pyongyang. this is a horrific dictator, he s taking selfies on the streets of singapore. he was sort of unremarkable at
they are in a position to grow the majority just because of what the map looks like. let me tell you, if they had a supreme court vacancy, if you don t think you could get the republican base out firm midterms to replace justice kennedy, they would march. they would march for sure. mike: if it becomes an epic blue wave, then obviously that would be a nightmare getting a supreme court justice through, right for president trump? if republicans are in the minority than what he would have to give away to try to get somebody confirmed and the kind of nominee that he would have to pick, which of course we used to do a lot in the united states, presidents would have to pick, but under the nuclear option, all the republicans have to do is hold onto 51 and the president can take his pick pretty much as long as it s in the realm of scholarship, studious and is, studious and is in respect of someone like neil gorsuch. mike: on the democratic side of things, here s house senate leader nancy
strong as a parliamentary studious thank you let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wild a public memorial service is on green south africa for the late. monday and the apartheid activists some form of life of nelson mandela boss to me last week after a long illness she was eighty one. police in indonesia say eighty two people have died after drinking illicit country liquor containing methanol and ninety six percent alcohol seven suspects have been arrested with another two said to be on the run deaths from such consumption are reported frequently this latest one is among the highest in recent here as thousands of phones and businesses are without electricity in new zealand s biggest city after a storm cause extensive damage in oakland authorities say the vast majority of these outages have been caused by trees for laying on to power lines. you re