a nationwide security crisis. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading british commentators with journalists from overseas who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences in their home countries from the dateline: london. this week liz the disruptor, emmanuel the moderniser, vlad the invader. the first has a comfortable majority but has already had to wave the white flag. the second vowed to reform, and the voters promptly deprived him of his majority. the third can ignore his parliament, but perhaps not the people, who are voting with their feet. leadership who wants it? in the studio to discuss that triumvirate, a dateline triumvirate. jeffrey kofman, who s anchored news programmes in both his native canada and the united states, and reported from the frontline. marc roche, a belgian born economist who writes for the french news magazine le point. polly toynbee, weekly columnist with the guardian for almost
the overall state of the country. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is a critical week in the insurrection investigation as the january 6th select committee prepares to hold another potentially explosive hearing in prime time. at the same time, trump ally steve bannon is now standing trial for defying the panel s subpoena to testify. court just wrapped up for the day. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has all of the new developments. tonight, steve bannon s criminal trial for contempt of congress finally beginning with jury selection after his lawyers tried repeatedly to delay and bannon made a last-minute offer to testify before the january 6th committee. prosecutors saying his late offer will not make up for the near year he s refused to comply with the committee s subpoena. the trial will likely last just a few days. bannon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of c
And saudi arabia has always been the exception. but actually, they are not. you have to treat them with the long spoon that you always should have done. i think the idea you could pretend they re friends, you might have to negotiate on certain things, but not friends or allies. but monsters with a lot of oili seem to have more influence. we have to get off oil. this is the reason why we have to go green because it will free us from dependence on dictators from putin to mbs. one common enemy saudi arabia and the west and certainly in the us has is iran, or the regime in iran. we ve been talking about leadership, the protest over the death of mahsa amini. kind ofan kind of an the emperor has no clothes situation. extraordinary footage
If so, it would have been funded. they waited until the verge of democrats taking over in the house. and i think the president got into this on false information, from what you just said, using the wall as a pneumonic to remember to talk about immigration. and it really is an emperor has no clothes situation. and we need the court jesters to remind him that this is real people, real lives, real national security, and to come together and have a serious negotiation about how we strengthen our borders. all right, congresswoman katherine clark, thank you for your time tonight. still to come, kamala harris launched her campaign in oakland to rave reviews. and then there was howard schultz. we ll see what s happening with our new 2020 contenders ahead. plus tonight s thing 1, thing 2 starts next.
Two years when there has been a republican majority in the house and the senate and a republican in the white house, this emergency for the wall did not exist. if so, it would have been funded. they waited until the verge of democrats taking over in the house. and i think the president got into this on false information, from what you just said, using the wall as a pneumonic to remember to talk about immigration. and it really is an emperor has no clothes situation. and we need the court jesters to remind him that this is real people, real lives, real national security, and to come together and have a serious negotiation about how we strengthen our borders. all right, congresswoman katherine clark, thank you for your time tonight. still to come, kamala harris launched her campaign in oakland to rave reviews. and then there was howard schultz. we ll see what s happening with our new 2020 contenders ahead.