Welcome back to the weekend, folks. Were here, and House Speaker mike johnson is proving he is actually really good at one thing. Kicking that can down the road. Congress now has another week to avoid a partial government shutdown. But none of this is normal, and we cannot say that enough. If congress was actually functioning like it should, this would have been a done deal back in september. So, joining us have to discuss this and all other things happening with the governments Transportation Secretary pete buttigieg. Secretary buttigieg, welcome to the program. You are still in washington, d. C. Your colleagues on capitol hill, most of them, have gone home. Theres a chance that were gonna be here this weekend, figuring out if they can continue to fund the government. They kick the can down the road. They bought themselves about a week. Can you just give us a sense form your Vantage Point of what is at stake with the government operating in this way, with Congressional Republicans con
oscar pistorius, the former paralympic sprinterjailed for murdering his girlfriend, has been denied an early release from a prison in south africa. the parole board said he hadn t completed his minimum detention period. at 10pm, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, click. plenty on the menu this week. yeah, paul s with the robots that help blind people to pack and stack. and ai helps jamie oliver cook up some spanish. spanish dubbing. meanwhile, would you let lara cook you dinner? oh, the stench! that is absolutely overwhelming! it s leftovers again. i think i ll go for takeout. it seems that the whole world has been talking about artificial intelligence recently. it s chatgpt this and ai art that. you can have conversations with it, you can be creative with it and the recent release of gpt ll seems to be displaying levels of understanding of questions and images that are astounding the experts. this is the uk s national centre for
is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more tha we have. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. then president trump georgia secretary of state - in order to overturn the election result in that state. the phone call remains shocking, no matter how many times you hear it. but the call was over an hour-long. and there are other parts of that call that prosecutors may now be taking a closer look at for instance, there is thi part so, it did people voted and i think the number is clos to 5000 people and they went to obituaries. they went to all sorts o methods to come up with an accurate number. and a minimum is close to abou 5000 voters. that was president trum insisting, again, to the georgia secretary of state that thousands of dead peopl voted in georgia during th 2020 election. today, the washington post reports that one day befor that infamous phone call, report commissioned by donal trump s own campaign had found that nowhere near 5000 dea
uncovered in multiple federa and state investigations had it s the most damning piece of evidence against donald trum and his ongoing legal battles, remains this phone call. so, look, all i want to d is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more tha we have. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. then president trump, pressuring georgia secretary o state, to find him 11,000 vote in order to overturn the election result in that state. the phone call remains shocking, no matter how many times you hear it. but the call was over an hour-long. and there are other parts of that call that prosecutors may now be taking a closer look at for instance, there is thi part so, dead people voted and i think the number is clos to 5000 people and they went to obituaries. they went to all sorts o methods to come up with an accurate number. and a minimum is close to abou 5000 voters. that was president trum insisting, again, to the georgia secretary of state that t
let s get more on that unexpected interview the bbc conducted with elon musk. it came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. in the interview, the billionaire agreed to change this to publicy funded. he also defended the site s policing of hate speech and the mass sackings of staff and described taking over the social media firm as painful. i m joined now by social media commentator and ceo of communication company, battenhall, drew benvie. hello, good to see you. what were your main takeaways from this rather lengthy interview? it your main takeaways from this rather lengthy interview? lengthy interview? it was an interesting lengthy interview? it was an interesting one, lengthy interview? it was an interesting one, that s - lengthy interview? it was an interesting one, that s for l lengthy interview? it was an - interesting one, that s for sure. thank you for having me on. it was quite eye ope