Should be no agreement that it should be at all im bored golf or berlin this is the day. The. Justice wants to grex it aha. The government has lost control of infants and is in complete disarray because there will be no enduring and successful brechts it without some compromise on both sides of the day if the Prime Minister cannot be clear that she can and will make renegotiate the deal then she must make way. Not even knowing the teacher may from the moment i took up the responsibility of being Prime Minister of this great country life knowing that my duty is to all of the results of that. And coming up later on not so young a grand crisis for its president Emanuel Mccrone breaks his silence on the yellow Vest Protests that have many in his country seeing red and if maybe i have given you the impression that i did not care that i had more urgent priorities and i think i must have hurt some of you by what i said. Well we begin the day inside the British Parliament where theresa may tod
twenty the transition phase may be extended by two years if there is no agreement at the end of the transition phase and imagine see regulation the so-called backstop will prevent the installment of a hard border between the republic of ireland and e.u. member and northern ireland which is part of the u.k. many theah the civil conflict called the troubles would be reignited by customs and border control posts the deal what ensure that more than three million e.u. citizens in the u.k. and one million britons in the e.u. could carry on with their lives as before following the transition face. and joining me here in the studio is john worth he is a political blogger who blogs a lot about bricks and he s a regular commentator on briggs and here on the day it s good to see you again john . this irish border dilemma i mean it s not going away and it seems to be just as install day as it was two years ago and it seems there is no common ground to be
so who s closer to has been closer up until recently to the president than steve bannon? one of the things that i thought was interesting from the previous discussions was the concept of executive privilege. i m not sure how that applies, particularly during the transition face, before the presidency actually started. and also, i m not really aware of executive privilege as a legal concept. so i don t quite understand how the white house and other other than just the issue of a blanket muzzle on bannon with his remarkable appearance at the house intelligence committee today, if he couldn t talk about anything, i wonder why it went so long. well, you have that. them not talking about it and then the president, has been downplaying a lot of it. he continues to push the
you have civilian leadership and secretary gates saying this. we didn t say we would switch off the lights. we would begin a transition face in which the afghan government is taking on more responsibility. we are not anding for victory in december and afghanistan stabilized 13 monthses from now. we ask by december that we have enough evidence to demonstrate the proof of concept and that the approach is showing progress and we are headed in the right direction. general petraeus wants more troops. remember, wasn t it joe biden or said this is a date certain and tank it take it to the bank. it sounds like there is room for flexibility on the date
appointment that president obama liked and approved of and was in his camp on. i wond who aer who that is? i don t know about that reporting, but you have clearly seen a change in posture of president-elect trump toward president obama since election day, since that first meeting between the two of them two days after election day when it looked clear to me, anyway, with the two of them sitting in the oval office, that president-elect trump had a new sobriety about his demeanor after having sat down and talked about some serious issues with president obama. it makes sense that if president obama is willing to provide advice, that at least during the transition face, president-elect trump will take it. but 45 days from now, donald trump will be no longer taking advice but making the decisions. david, back to you. a president of a divided america, trump didn t like that and said at the end of the interview that it was snarky. he said, i didn t divide them. they are divided now and i