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
room where some of the nation s top-secret missions like the raid on bin laden take place. house republicans opening up their own investigation, calling the events shameful, but national security advisor jake sullivan says there is no need to worry. the situation room is not in use, has not been in use for months, because it s currently under construction. the only people going in and coming out of the sit room in this period are workers getting ready to go. things got super tense in the briefing room. the white house asked point-blank if the cocaine belonged to the biden family. that question did not go over well with press secretary karine jean-pierre. can you see whether or not the cocaine belonged to the biden family or not? avoiding the question, that is not true. we ve answered this question, litigated this question for the last two days exhaustively. the biden family was not here. they were not here. they were at camp david. they were not here friday. they were
now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. a conversation with, rather than a news like interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped the layers. my guest this week made the cover of time magazine when they profiled the first muslim leader of a western democracy. he is at the headline put it, the new face of scotland. the youngest leader this country has had in course of a century of having a devolved scottish government. but this, admits humza yousaf, here in glasgow, has been a difficult year for him. difficult for his party, too, don t buy a police investigation, criticised for failing to deliver, and divided about when independence might actually be possible. humza yousaf, first minister, thanks forjoining me. my pleasure. it has been quite a year! you re telling me! how much do you feel you have aged in that time? i think people can probably look at pictures of before i became first
now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. a conversation with, rather than a news like interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. my guest this week made the cover of time magazine when they profiled the first muslim leader of a western democracy. he is, as the headline put it, the new face of scotland. the youngest leader this country has had in a quarter of a century of having a devolved scottish government. but this, admits humza yousaf, here in glasgow, has been a difficult yearfor him. difficult for his party, too, dogged by a police investigation, criticised for failing to deliver, and divided about when independence might actually be possible. humza yousaf, first minister, thanks forjoining me. my pleasure. it has been quite a year! you re telling me! how much do you feel you have aged in that time? i think people can probably look at pictures of before i became first m
ps. thankfully all were rescued successfully. and trump s motorcade has left trump tower here in new york city for the courthouse where he will be in the courtroom for e. jean carroll s defamation case. cnn news central picks up now. any moment now, donald trump will be back in a federal court as the woman who has won a sexual abuse civil suit against him is about to take the stand. new hampshire, oh, new hampshire, a state where dreams run threw free and candidates run scared. the new moves ron desantis and nikki haley are pulling to try to extend their campaigns. and an ohio woman is demanding an investigation because she said a mistaken police raid injured her little boy. i m kate bolduan with john berman. this is cnn news central. very soon e. jean carroll will face the man she says unleashed his followers on her after she said he sexually assaulted her. carroll will be testifying today as donald trump is sitting in the courtroom and also donald trump then w