Taken root abroad and at home. We have to prove to the world and to our own people that democracy can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs of our people. We have to root out corruption that siphons off our strength, guard against those who would stoke Hatred And Division for political gain as Phony Populism. Well, to that note we have reporting tonight as well as remarkable congressional testimony on the domestic version of what the president warned against. He had another example of how thoroughly the former president tried To Coopt and recruit the Justice Department to help him overturn the election that he lost. First, the summit seen as Kaitlan Collins traveling with the president joins us from geneva. What are we hearing about the format of the summit . I think, anderson, it will be pretty tightly scripted and if you talk to the White House of Theyve Kind of been running through the actual format of it. But the details werent figured out until
They not agree on how much to spend, they could not agree on how to spend it and the White House doesnt feel like they came up with a sufficient way to pay for this bill without using those 2017 tax cuts. That is what republicans said was a Red Line for them, to undue any of the tax cut, but in the readout that were getting from senator Kapitos Office who until now has been the top republican negotiators, she says while i appreciate president Bidens Willingness to devote so much time and effort to these negotiations he ultimately chose not to accept the very robust and targeted Infrastructure Package and end their discussions and arguing that they could not agree on the way that the White House wanted to pay for the infrastructure proposal. Jake, these talks are now dead in the water after going along for several weeks. Progressive democrats have become increasingly frustrated with how these talks have been going saying its time for the White House to move on, but what else complicates
hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme which brings together uk commentators, bbc specialists and foreign correspondents who file their stories for audiences at home, dateline london. this weekend, as christians celebrate easter and renewal, we re devoting the programme to one theme after the pandemic can we renew our world? and is reconciliation possible when people in much of it seem so angry? to try to answer that are catherine pepinster, the first woman to edit the tablet, the international catholic newspaper. michael goldberg, veteran foreign correspondent for us public radio. his podcast frdh is inspired by the ambition ofjournalism as the first rough draft of history. and in the studio, the bbc broadcaster and china specialist, vincent nee. welcome to all of you, it is good to have you with us this easter weekend. pope francis, who delivers his easter message for a second year from inside the basilica rather than to the thousands of catholics who gather most
sunday s developments and radicalization in america. donald trump east acquittal by 43 senators on saturday means the trend lines that were obvious all around the election, the autocratic campaign, the rank and file gops refusal to call a lie a lie, all those trend lines are on the march unabated. that is one of the take aways from the trial. many americans rightly perceiving that trump would not be held accountable, many didn t even bother to tune into the trial at all. and right afterward, the vilification of the seven gop senators who voted to convict, that began right away. fox news sent out a phone alert, a push alert to phones describing the republicans who turned their backs on trump. curiously fox later deleted a tweet about that. on america news on its website. so the vilification of the dissenters is well underway. again, that s another trend line from the election that continues unabated. in some ways, this story is just the prelude to the next four years, to the b