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certainly he had the boos there. earlier this year police fined johnson for attending his birthday party in 2020 when fe fellow brittains were stuck at home under lockdown. cnn s bianca is there and staff writer for the atlantic is in london. bianca, i m going to start with you. first just lay out the process for us and the likelihood that boris johnson can survive this. reporter: victor, so it s started with letters from 54 of boris johnson s own mps to a committee that expressed they had no confidence in the prime minister. 15% had to be met, it could well have exceeded that number. this evening, right now, his own mps are voting whether or not they want boris johnson to remain on as prime minister or oust him. it requires a simple majority to stay on. even if he only needs 180 of his mps to vote for him to remain prime minister and live in the building behind me, he ll actually need more, decisively more, if he wants to continue with my semblance of political pow ....
Of the 217 votes he will need. There is so much bad blood, and tension in the Republican Caucus this could go on for a while. And until it is resolved then congress is partly paralysed. To say this is an implosion of the Republican Party is almost an understatement. They should be serving as a useful foil of the white house. Checking the white house where they need to, instead they are rudderless. They are leaving the house unable to pass legislation such as humanitarian aide, releasing budgetary amounts to support conflict overseas. Jim jordan is the frontrunner for speaker, he is seen as a very far right trump aligned, not very substantive member of congress so to think he is the best they can put up at a time Whenjoe Biden himself is fairly vulnerable but compared to the republicans he looks like a superstar. The ....
Is senator bob menendez a National Security threat . And where are the nations Top Democrats on whether remaining in his position should even be tolerated . Two central questions as menendez remains defiant in the face of a damning indictment. Im abby phillips, among the charges democrat is accused of using his power to get Sensitive Information of the plots overseas. Information that eventually made its way to a Foreign Government. And while he is temporarily stepping down from being chairman of the senate warm relations committee, he is still privy to classified information. Now, the governor of his state suggested those allegations alone make him compromised. And one of menendezs democratic colleagues went even farther. Does it sound like espionage f ....
Is bob an end as a National Security threat . And where are the democrats on whether remaining in his position should even be tolerated . Two essential questions tonight, as menendez remains defiant in the face of a damning indictment. Good evening, everyone, im abby philip. And among the charges that the democrat is accused of using his power to get Sensitive Information about american diplomats oversee. Information that eventually made its way to a Foreign Government. And while he is temporarily stepping down from being the chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, he is still privy to classified information. Now, the governor of his state suggested those allegations alone make him compromised. And one of menendezs democratic colleagues wen ....