Now on bbc news its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, i am stephen sackur. The Trump Presidency has seen us politics become ever more polarised and partisan. But in the words of one commentator, you aint seen nothing yet. The democrats decision to begin impeachment proceedings based on emerging details of President Trumps dealings with the president of ukraine has intensified the Political Warfare in washington. My guest is anthony scaramucci, former trump cheerleader, briefly his Communications Director and now an arch critic. Is impeachment a trap for the president s opponents . Anthony scaramucci in new york city, welcome to hardtalk. It is great to be back with you. Democratic leadership, after a lot of agonising, has decided to launch impeachment proceedings, impeachment investigations into resident donald trump. Do you believe they have made the right decision . I dont really think it was necessarily a right or wrong decision. I sort of feel it was the only decis
In england the number of patients waiting for more than a year has gone from 1,600 just before the pandemic to 192,000 now. It is an extraordinarily complicated picture. Given the terrible effects this has had in the uk and around the world, how is the uk system bearing up, the Health System and the people who are accountable for it, the government . If you go into hospitals as i have been privileged to do you see the extraordinary dedication from nhs staff working in really difficult conditions as they are in hospitals and all Health Care Systems but with intensive care patients the strain and stress on staff they went through it all last march and april then in the autumn and now and it is really admirable scene what is going on there and the nhs, we should all be proud of them for what it has been doing. The uk is at a very important phase in this pandemic because we have got to the stage were Senior Health officials are saying the peak in terms of new cases may have passed and some
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Facebook much more than their holiday pics. The controversial highly political post she is promoting and how it could impact the high court. Welcome to the lead, im dana bash in for jake tapper. And we begin this friday afternoon with the politics lead. A new year, a new Congress Fast approaching, President Trump issues another shutdown threat. This time, the warning is that he may seal off the entire southern border with mexico and insisting the federal government will not reopen until he gets his billions in wall funding. Day seven of the partial shutdown and neither side is giving ground. White house press secretary, sarah sanders, telling cnn the president has been in the office for the past several hours and making calls all morning. But it seems much more of his attention has been on his twitter feed. Cnns jessica dean joins me now from the white house. Jessica, we learned today the president will stay in washington through new years instead of going to his Maralago Club in flori