suspend its entire police force and puts two officials on leave following the school shooting that left 19 children dead. how the families are reacting. and anger and confusion in florida as many left homeless by hurricane ian are stuck waiting in line for hours to get the help they need. we re going to take you there this morning. new day starts right now. amara, we made it. the weekend, saturday, october 8th. we re so grateful that you re with us. before we start, a heartfelt welcome is in order. i hope our viewers will join me in welcoming and congratulating amara walker, the new new day permanent host. i m so excited. truly, there s no one else i would rather be doing this than you especially during these dark and early morning hours, but you and me together, we ve got this. world, watch out. happy to be here. thank you so much, boris. of course. we re following breaking news out of crimea where there s been a breaking escalation in russia s war on ukraine
Its thursday 1st june. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. This time next week, the polls will have opened across the uk for the general election. Last night, key figures from the seven main parties went head to head on the bbcs election debate. So lets bring you up to date with the latest from the Campaign Trail. This morning, the Prime Minister is attempting to move the agenda back to brexit pledging to use the Promise Of Brexit to build a stronger, fairer and even more prosperous country and calling for voters to unite behind her leadership. Meanwhile, labour is returning to its rail policy promising to save money for Rail Commuters by changing the way fare increases are calculated. The party says the move would save an average rail season Ticket Holder £319 a year by 2022. Last night key figures from the seven main parties went head to head on the bbc. Theresa may was criticised for her failure to appear at that debate. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is i
with monday being a holiday. joey jackson, appreciate you being an early riser for us. the jury deliberated very briefly yesterday, the full day. they had some requests. they wanted a dry erase sle, markers, and a copy of the jury instructions. is there anything to read there? yeah, boris. good morning to you. what is to read is they have a lot of work to do. remember, just to make everything clear about this, liability, that is the responsibility with regard to his false statements about sandy hook being a hoke, about crisis actors being the family members who were victims, that has already been determined. he s already found liable, boris, as it relates to that. the jurors job right now is toy a says the damages involved. what does that mean? that means the jury is not focused on his liability.
let me ask you this. a couple of weeks ago ed gill gillesp gillespie, who dpaf a tough race a couple of years ago, mark warner. in a republican year. he s a serious political leader, figure in the party. he said he wouldn t answer a public question. what do you think of robert e. lee. now he s embracing the stat use. he s saying it is an issue. what has changed in this party, this election dynamic where a guy that was afraid of an issue, so cultural, now sits on the other side. i think it s a sign of political weakness. he has recognized he has not succeeded in unifying his base. he had a very contentious party and he almost lost. toy a real right winger. he has amnesia. he won t let him in the state. in northern virginia. i don t know who he is and who you re talking about. he wants the stat use down. here s a kid from southern
to be going on. you want to be able work with them. but, like i said, nothing in the past has worked very well so, hopefully, something else can, because we got a bad situation there. you see, i think the american people like i. whether or not it s effective like lindsey graham believes it is. i think they have very authentic talk. do you think that s a part of trump s appeal? i do, i think people like that in a campaign he certainly hit a nerve with the way he spoke. whether that s effective, time will tell, certainly, with north korea. what do you make of. then i want to get to the conscience of conservatives specifics, but there is a boom in michigan for kid rock to run for the united states senate. the numbers are awfully good. he s probably the opposite of the kind of academic conservative that you are, the think tank conservative you are. what would you sa toy a kid rock candidacy? well, i hope we are able to pick up michigan.