He is the great survivor of the years of tory turmoil. Appointed by borisjohnson, promoted by Liz Truss and kept on by Rishi Sunak. Hes now in the final four candidates to become the next leader of the Conservative Party. All of them will make their case before conservative activists and members at the tory conference in a couple of weeks time. James cleverly, welcome to political thinking. Cheers, nick. This the first time weve spoken since that Election Day . How does it feel to go from having one of those Great Offices Of State and all that comes with it, the red boxes and the chauffeured cars and the security and all the rest . Suddenly its gone. So its not that paraphernalia that you miss. Its the being able to do stuff. And particularly in the portfolios ive held, foreign Secretary And Home secretary, theyre both very much in the news at the moment. The situation with ukraine, the decisions around the uks posture, how we further support the ukrainians in their self defence. Weve
Back to back titles in the six nations as irleand prove their Northern Hemisphere dominance once more. Four goals from the 83rd minute onwards the first fa cup Quarter Final has a blistering climax and a win for coventry. Joining them Manchester City, two deflections but smooth progress nonetheless against newcastle. And a good first day not great on day two. How do rory mcilroy s chances look during his third round at the players championship . Hello again. Ireland have secured back to back six nations titles, Beating Scotland In Dublin by 17 points to 13. A victory that gives them an unassailble lead in the championship with just france against england to come tonight. Our correspondent andy swiss was there to see it at the aviva stadium. It was close at the end, but ireland are over the line. As you can probably hear the party is very much in full swing. Ireland are once again the sensations for that goodness me, they had to work for it. In the last half hour we had a moment of all
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we should point out nbc news has not yet verified that reporting half what we do have this afternoon is new reaction from a spokesperson for mark meadows. joining me now, luke broad january broadwater, matt miller, and joyce vance. luke, who exactly could be picking up these legal fees for at least it seems a dozen witnesses testifying before the january 6th committee? well, there are two funds that are funding witnesses lawyers. one is the save america pac which is run directly connected to donald trump. the other is the cpac first amendment fund which its director says consults with donald trump and donald trump s allies directly to decide which witnesses it will cover. so these are they offer both free legal advice to the witnesses and then also will pay for their attorneys fees if needed. this came to a head this week when cassidy hutchinson said she had to switch attorneys because she felt only with a new attorney could she be more forthright and testify publicly a
A roundtable ensemble discusses and debates the days news. Work. One of the reasons is because the messaging by the democrats and the unions was really good. They had one of these ads that showed workers get paid an average of 8 an hour compared to this is what ceos get. It was effective messaging. Some of the things we talk about up here in new york, big picture we are not releasing whats happening on the ground and some of these places. Jesse that is right. Also talking about branding. Ben jealous, very upset. Hes running for governor in maryland. Former naacp director. He was asked about being branded a socialist for his republican opponent, and this is how he responded. Not to put too fine a point on it, but do you identify with the term socialist . Are you [bleep] kidding . Jesse while. Greg i think i would vote for him just for that response. It was so natural. I would say to your point,
ivy league educated, but his policies on immigration are so neanderthal that i dont know how