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no, that was up to seven. i think that was seven. it might be my souvlaki talking, but yes. so it s a big debate with all of the parties who are fielding candidates in the election being represented. and as a result of that, what you have is of course, the sort of battle royale going on between labour and the tories, but you have an opportunity to hear from a much broader rainbow of political opinion. yeah, it means on the one hand it s less focused than when it was starmer versus sunak on tuesday, and it sjust two people going head to head on a range of issues. it becomes a bit more sprawling, but equally it feels more like britain because you re hearing about wales and hearing about scotland. sure. and it s a reflection also of the fact that there are lots of different kinds of political races in lots of different kinds of constituencies. there are races that are between the snp and the tories in some parts of more rural scotland they tend to be. there are of course t ....
we speak. and in wales they ve lost overall control of bridgend and merthyr tydfil, two councils in their south wales heartland. although they have held on to the capital city, cardiff. also newport and swansea. and it has been a bad night for ukip overnight they lost every seat they were defending. and the party has been wiped out on councils like lincolnshire, hampshire and essex. their vote share is down dramatically, most of it going straight to the conservatives. coming up, we ll be live in glasgow. the snp are trying to take the city council from labour. the scottish counting has onlyjust started, so those results are all to come. labour have had decades of controlling glasgow city council. we ll be covering the results from scotland as they come in. to say the least, there is plenty to talk about! here in the studio we re joined by our political editor laura kuenssberg. the home office minister brandon lewis for the conservatives. the shadow foreign secretary l ....
intervention in the election to tilted towards trump made him out of the notches. that enraged trump. the interesting and controversial thing is the involvement ofjeff sessions. he excused himself from the russia investigation because he was a key figure in the trump campaign and his involvement in the firing of comey has raised a lot of questions and criticism from congress. he got flack for saying he had met the russian ambassador but had not mentioned it. exactly. lastly, trump dug his dug himself into a bigger codger mercy with a veiled threat to james comey that he might not leak because they might be tapes. that has set up a whole round of speculation about what kind of taping system he has, good the comparisons with nixon get any more stark? you have top democrats in congress calling on him to release whatever tapes he may have. i think that this is getting very troubling andi that this is getting very troubling and i think, his credibility is under question. ....
this week: a sacking in washington, a timely election leak in the uk, and donald trump s visits to the middle east and the vatican. debating all of that are stephanie baker, from the international news agency bloomberg news, janet daley, political columnist with britain s sunday telegraph newspaper, jonathan sacredoti from i 24 news, an israeli international news channel and mustapha karkouti from the dubai based newspaper, gulf news. donald trump sacked plenty of would be business moguls on the reality tv series the apprentice , barking you re fired to theirface. james comey received his dismissal as director of the fbi in a note. getting rid of tv contestants doesn t have many consequences; sacking the head of the country s key crime fighting agency when he s investigating those around you, well that s proving harder to forget. what was he thinking? he did not handle this well. he is not good at firing people. the messaging was incredibly messy. he tried it out and ....
this week: a sacking in washington, a timely election leak in the uk, and donald trump s visits to the middle east and the vatican. debating all of that are stephanie baker, from the international news agency bloomberg news, janet daley, political columnist with britain s sunday telegraph newspaper, jonathan sacredoti from i 24 news, an israeli international news channel and mustapha karkouti from the dubai based newspaper, gulf news. donald trump sacked plenty of would be business moguls on the reality tv series the apprentice , barking you re fired to theirface. james comey received his dismissal as director of the fbi in a note. getting rid of tv contestants doesn t have many consequences; sacking the head of the country s key crime fighting agency when he s investigating those around you, well that s proving harder to forget. what was he thinking? he did not handle this well. he is not good at firing people. the messaging was incredibly messy. he tried it out and ....