Taken a dramatic turn, with poachers slaughtering a rhino for its horn at a Wildlife Park in paris. A coroner has ruled that the singer George Michael died of Natural Causes, including heart and liver disease. Its 5. 00pm. A very good afternoon to you. Our top story is that the government is facing another defeat in the House Of Lords over its plans for britain to leave the european union. Peers are due to vote this evening on an amendment to the brexit bill, calling for parliament to be given A Meaningful Vote on any final deal. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young is at westminster. The lords and ladies have been debating this throughout the day. How was it looking as far as they are concerned and the government is concerned . Remember that have already inflicted a defeat on the government over the rights of the eu citizens and this has been debated already House Of Commons and their was heated debate but there was no damage, no defeat inflicted on the government. That is no
somewhat close or there was a possibility of there being vice president duckworth. we know look, we know the vice president and the president aren t exceptionally close, but i also wonder what that portends for the future. yeah, brianna, the chapter of the book that focuses on biden s selection of kamala harris really captures his indecision, his ambivalence about kamala harris, his family s resistance to choosing vice president harris, and as you alluded to, some others who came close to getting the job. tammy duckworth, a war hero, knocked it out of the park in the vetting issue, except one issue, she was born overseas to o one parent who was an american citizen and one who was not. biden s advisers say we think we can win a lawsuit for her eligibility but we don t think
pass? i heard it yesterday but i don t know the deals. bret: does the administration have a vetting issue? you would have to issue them. we need a new defense secretary. we are have a conflict with iran and going into budget negotiations with the congress. we need leadership at the department of defense. i like president trump s policy. bret: he was approved in your committee? yes, i think there say pathway border. let s use it. bret: you heard the story about joe biden talking about his time in the senate. if you want to give me a list of why i can t deal with you because i disagree with you, i could make a long list for everybody running for president on the democratic side. if that becomes the norm, we can t work with somebody because
as secretary of defense. we do not know i mean, there s a few things we don t know about this situation. we don t know where the fbi is in their process of investigating this. we don t know if they ve actually finished their investigation. given it to the white house and they ve been sitting on it. because of this or some other thing. but we do know that it became clear to patrick shanahan in recent days as just so many weeks had gone by without his nomination papers being officially transmitted to the congress that this story, these domestic violence episodes were eventually going to have to be confronted by him in public. now, it s to your point earlier about the vetting issue, it s pretty remarkable because for the past five months now or six months nearly patrick shanahan and those close to him, his family, people working with him in the pentagon, have been working to, you know, make sure this didn t come out in the press, to make sure that congress never asked about this
confronted by him in public. now, it s to your point earlier about the vetting issue, it s pretty remarkable because for the past five months now or six months nearly patrick shanahan and those close to him, his family, people working with him in the pentagon, have been working to, you know, make sure this didn t come out in the press, to make sure that congress never asked about this when it came to the confirmation hearing. so you have a situation, you know, where the very purpose of a confirmation hearing, of vetting nominees so that there isn t something, as you said, that could be used as blackmail, we are very close to patrick shanahan being put before congress for a confirmation hearing, possibly having this never come up. you know, if there hadn t been such a delay around the latest fbi investigation. but possibly a very long time before, you know, this was out there and he was trying to keep it from getting out there and who knows how that could have