know, struggling to come to an answer. i honestly have no idea. i figured this was such a cut and dry straightforward case. my testimony shouldn t even really matter. the evidence is rock solid. and you know, i have dozens and dozens of text messages, i found out that he had also text and had correspondence with people from the lit airy agency and from the publisher, telling them lies. there was a bank account i didn t know about. and he spent that money on other things. now his whole argument is good faith, and he was entitled to it. well, if you were entitled to it, then why did you lie about it, why didn t you say, hey, i got this money, or why didn t you send a bill to me? it just i m absutely flabbergasted that this is happening right now. i figured the jury would be out for 20 minutes and come back, you know, guilty. the evidence, like i said,
go to my website at smerconish.com. and vote on this week s survey question. will mike pence testify before the january 6th committee? yes or no? is trump right when he identifies his opponent s concern about the law. joining me matthew sellaman, he s a fellow at harvard center for law. taught at harvard law. and just published a provocative paper covered at the washington post called a realistic risk assessment of the presidential election of 2024. okay, matthew, can a vice president reject the electoral college? absolutely not. that was never the case. that wasn t the case in 2020. and it won t be the case in 2024. vice president pence was absolutely correct in rejecting that power. and vice president harris doesn t have it going forward. would you call that a textualist or originalist
you remember in batley and spen, because it was a labour mp that was being replaced, you had a left wing candidate standing and a medley of right wing candidates. that wasn t the case here. there were messages on there about borisjohnson. are you going to be taking some of these messages to borisjohnson when you are in westminster next week? i am so proud and privileged to be their mp, and my focus as the newest mp in parliament is going to be delivering on local priorities. well, anna firth heads to westminster on monday, but there will be no letter of no confidence from her in the prime minister. she backs borisjohnson and says she s going to be focusing on making the most of southend s city status. the energy regulator, 0fgem, says it s considering reviewing the energy price cap every three months to try to cope with the volatility in the market. the cap is currently assessed every six months,
backbenchers. it s quite a big roblem backbenchers. it s quite a big problem if backbenchers. it s quite a big problem if you backbenchers. it s quite a big problem if you have - backbenchers. it s quite a big problem if you have letters . backbenchers. it s quite a big i problem if you have letters from a seven year old, and i don t know if you saw this, forgive me if you didn t, we run it earlier, a picture of a s ebony rod had sent to the prime minister, which he responded to, thank you for keeping to the rules, saying her mummy and daddy had cancelled her party a picture of a letter 87 year old had sent to the prime minister. if she should be able to understand that, so should everybody else? able to understand that, so should everybody else? absolutely and that is at the heart everybody else? absolutely and that is at the heart of everybody else? absolutely and that is at the heart of what everybody else? absolutely and that is at the heart of what makes - everybody
revelation packs more of an emotional punch with a public rather than having real influence on politics in this and do something about a birthday party, the fact is we all had birthdays during the pandemic so everyone can compare at what they were doing and their judgment with what they hear the prime minister did what they think hisjudgment was put prime minister did what they think his judgment was put at what is interesting this one is that the government is coming out fighting against this. we have gone from the fate of them denying the parties was happening, which wasn t true, to acknowledging public anger, to then stonewalling and saint wait for sue gray and we now have ministers on the airwaves and sending a tweet challenging the claims, interpreting for themselves what they think went on and this one it was transport secretary grant shapps. this morning. what we have seen in the story overnight, that number 10 is very clear, it wasn t the case, there weren t 30 people there.