good morning. it s thursday october 20th. our main story. the prime minister s position is looking increasingly vulnerable today after some of her own mps called for her to resign. it followed a chaotic day for the government with the resignation of the home secretary, accusations of bullying, and confusion over whether the chief whip had resigned. our political correspondent ione wells reports. reporter: is this a coalition of chaos, mr schapps? - another day, another new cabinet minister. grant shapps, sacked just six weeks ago by liz truss, returns as her new home secretary. look, obviously it s been a turbulent time for the government, but i think the most important thing is to make sure that people in this country know that they ve got security and that s why it s a great honour to be appointed as home secretary. he stepped up after suella braverman stepped down, resigning over two data breaches. but have a look at her resignation letter. she wrote to the prime minister
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that last difference is a big deal for lawmakers like people from high tax states. right now i am boarding appear. on fox news sunday and the president says he wants a tax reform bill on his desk by christmas and the house, the pomade adequately with republican support.in order to send something to the president and the house and senate they need to agree on one bill. democrats are not fans of the senate for the house filled and clearly republicans are not all of the same page just yet. ellison barber in washington, thinking. alabama senate candidate roy moore has been digging in his skills among sexual misconduct allegations. now a growing number of fellow republicans are cognitive to drop out of the race in alabama.
own press conference, i think the two sides are going to be very far apart. there was only one item on what appears to be biden s agenda, when you look at what they think they can get done versus what they are going to push, there was really only one item there that they might have nra support in, and that is forcing states, governments, to participate more in the mental health check, in those mental health there s too many states. it s a voluntary thing. they don t always put all of this information into this federal database on mental health. and that was the one surprising thing i took away from lapierre s interview on meet the press, was that there would be nra support for that which, of course, is not exactly the most states-rights-oriented position to take when you re forcing states, this mandate on mental health. you could see maybe there s common ground there, but on anything else, mika, this is going to be this is mostly for show. for both sides. jon meacham.