Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
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because you can see the horizon, but we never expected it was the boat to capsize. to give you an idea of timescale, the boat swayed one way and swayed the other, and then it was gone. we were sat fortunately on the side of the sofa when the boat tipped to starboard. we were tossed off the sofa onto the windows, so as you can appreciate, the floor is now a wall, and you re looking up, and you can see people above you stood on windows, crashing, you can hear the hisses of tanks falling, you re looking down, what is coming up through the windows like jets of water coming at you. the furniture is just wet, you water coming at you. the furniture isjust wet, you have no chance water coming at you. the furniture is just wet, you have no chance of claiming it, it is like a laminate floor. and you re looking up and you
done more damage to the bbc, certainly in my lifetime and i m 56 years old. i“m certainly in my lifetime and i m 56 years old. i m not sure he is leaving behind a great legacy. he is leaving behind a great legacy. he is leaving behind a very bad legacy. the bbc will move on. richard sharpe will be nothing more than a footnote. he has done some damage in the short time he has been imposed, but this not, i believe, cause lasting damage to the bbc. if something good comes out of it, for example he is not a political appointment or hisses if it is if his replacement is a political appointment but the long term effect of the scandal around richard sharpe or do some good in the long term. thank you very much forjoining us here on the bbc. this is the day that the bbc chairman has resigned. we have heard from a lot of bbc
long the us will be committed. the biden administration has thrown a lot of weight behind its interest in this region. but then what happens after the next presidential election? i think all governments in this region are mindful of that. jonathan heard reporting. president emmanuel macron has signed his controversial pension reform into law. the reforms, which raise the minimum retirement age to 64, cleared their final legal hurdle when the constitutional council france s highest legal authority ruled in favour of the changes. joe inwood reports from paris. that building is where one of the most significant decisions in french political history was made. there, a body of french grandees decided that the controversial pension reforms of president emmanuel macron meaning that french people would work until 64, not 62 were in line with the constitution. now, i was in the crowds just down the road when that news of the announcement came through and there was a chorus of boos and hisse
and there was a chorus of boos and hisses. there was a real anger there. and that is when the trouble started earlier this evening. i can still smell on my clothes, the burning of the the bins and of the flares that were going off. now, the protesters, their plan was to try and get here, but they haven t been able to because of a very, very heavy police presence. there were baton charges. there were hundreds, thousands of gendarmes, of french police trying to keep them away from this area. but that doesn t mean it s been a peaceful night here in paris. there have been fires. i ve just been watching videos of live fires taking place, being set off around the city as the protesters express their anger about these reforms. but i think at the moment, that s all they re able to do to express anger rather than change them, because tonight s decision means that the reforms probably will go through and french people in the future will have to work to an older age. the us secretary of state ant