to the country today, this as johnson has been rocked by a new wave of resignations. joining us now from london, nada bashir. good morning, we ve been following these developments the past few hours. what do we know so far about the reports that johnson will step down? reporter: good morning, christine. just gone 10:00 a.m. here in london and clearly a lot has happened. boris johnson now expected to stand down from his post as prime minister. we are expecting him according to downing street to make a statement in the coming hours. we re also waiting for that lectern to come out here to address the press, give that statement announcing his resignation. we understand that he spoke with the chairman of the 1922 committee, that is the committee of back bench members of parliament here in the conservative party who would oversee the process of both the prime minister resigning and of course that potential vote of confidence. but it hasn t reached that stage. the prime minister n
great to have you here. was it in your opinion the economy ultimately or did boris johnson just lie himself out of office? your thoughts. partly policy. he was elected as a conservative but governed as a liberal. the state increased taxes went up. the net zero agenda was putting out the price of energy. we weren t self-sufficient. and there s policy considerations here. ultimately in the united kingdom tell untruths. you cannot tell lies and get away with it. it started over the parties governing at number 10 downing street when the rest of us were living under draconian lock down. we continue visit our moms, for example. over the sex scandal involving a senior conservative politician and in the end, people just said he s lied to us. that is not good enough. we ve had enough. we saw support just disappear over the course of the last two or three days. trace: to those that say it wasn t as much the scandals or the lying or the appointment of his chief deputy whip, chris pi
but them s the breaks. neil: all that in 24 hours. with that, boris johnson is out. the british prime minister giving up the fight as so many in his government gave up on him. his covid parties didn t help and his appointments certainly hurt. did boris get the boot because britain s economy couldn t get back on its feet? just like this herd was moving there, could the same thing happen here? fox on top of what happened now with greg palkot in london on the scramble to replace a prime minister. the wall street journal s gerry baker and general keith kellogg on why vladimir putin is celebrating a western leader heading out just as he keeps digging in. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. let s go to greg palkot in london with the latest on the search for the next prime minister. greg? absolutely, neil. as the sunsets here on the thames, the house of parliament behind us, it s the end of an era just about. british prime minister boris johnson stepping down as party leader
pat cipollone will sit down for a deposition with the january 6th committee tomorrow. will he help connect the dots? and the georgia prosecutor makes it clear if her investigation uncovers crimes committed by former president trump, he will be held accountable. we ll have her exclusive interview with nbc news. plus, two former fbi directors spurned by trump get swept up in highly invasive and rare tax audits that are supposed to be random. targeted? the odds on that daily double pretty extraordinary, really, for that s a coincidence. yeah, it was a special audit that very few americans got. but somehow, somehow, right after donald trump was upset with james comey and mccabe, both of them hit the daily double, the odds, pretty extraordinary. we ll be talking to michael schmidt who broke that story, willie. that s a tough exacta, even for the two of us. i think the odds are something like 1 in 20,000, to be audited that way. purely by coincidence, the two of the
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