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correspondent and deputy news editor at the la times. polly toynbee is a veteran columnist on the left of centre guardian newspaper. and simonjack, the bbc s business editor, is here in the studio. good to see you, simon, and good to have you bothjoining us from parts around the uk while we maintain all our social distancing forjust that little bit longer, as a result of what s happening at the moment. let s begin in downing street, who have been having a week they d rather forget. three things may explain why. a newspaper published a photo of a christmas party last year held in the basement of borisjohson s party headquarters, at a time when all such activities were against the law. the uk s leading civil servant, the cabinet secretary, was investigating gatherings inside downing street, one of them in the prime minister s own flat at least he was. it turns out his office organised what it called a christmas party, too. on tuesday, the imposition of covid vaccine c ....
now on bbc news it s time for dateline. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the best known columnists on uk newspapers, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline: london. this week, record breaking daily increases in covid infection hit the uk. pleas, not lockdown, are the order of the day, though the public are already voting with their feet. borisjohnson s pleas are ignored by 100 of his own mps, and by voters in a previously loyal part of england. is he now leader of the party and the country only in name? henry chu is long serving foreign correspondent and deputy news editor at the la times. polly toynbee is a veteran columnist on the left of centre guardian newspaper. and simonjack, the bbc s business editor, is here in the studio. good to see you, simon, and good to have you bothjoining us from parts around the uk while we maintain all our social distancing fo ....
sweeping social spending bill. many in the party are blaming joe manchin for the holdup, but he isn t budging. so why do they think this will pass? t in the new year? i want to get straight to cnn s nick watt for the very latest on the surge of covid cases and hospitalizations. reporter: covid-19 cases and hospitalizations climbed around 40% this past month. deaths, says the cdc, forecast to rise in the month ahead. the delta variant still rampant. omicron on the rise. it s here now, and it s spreading, and it s going to increase. for unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death if you re unvaccinated for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they ll soon overwhelm. very soon, it s going to be the dominant variant. we ve seen that in south africa. we re seeiinhe uk, a i m absolutely certain that s what we re going to be seeing here relatively soon. reporter: for the vaccines, this variant is now the most complete escapee say res ....
also today, a federal appeals court in d.c. has taken on the case, meaning trump s effort to block the committee from seeing any and all records in the national archives that they back to what was going on in the white house on january 6th. federal judges have now slowed everything down, they have scheduled arguments in the case for november 30th which means it will be weeks now before the committee might see trump s records, and they won t be turned over tomorrow as the committee and so many other democrats at. hoped i actually don t think it s a huge step back, i think that obviously champs folks will spin this as a wind because there s a lack of winds on any of their legal side. this is not unexpected i think we expected, frankly, there would be a stay issue by the appeals court. we also see a very accelerated timeline to hear this case. it is not going to slow down, our investigation, and i expect that keeping the supreme court potentially aside, will have these doc ....
white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire is with us for the morning. he was up way too early. we ll start with the report from friday, republicans investigating the 2.1 million ballots cast last year in arizona confirmed the accuracy of the official results that joe biden won maricopa county. cyber ninjas concluded that biden had won 360 more votes than the county awarded him in the official count. however, former president trump continued to make his baseless claims of last year s vote, issuing a flurry of statements. what is becoming a litmus test for many members of his own party. he continues spreading the big lie over the weekend especially on saturday at a rally in perry, georgia. we won on arizona forensic audit yesterday on a level you would not believe. it s clear in arizona that they must decertify the election. it was a corruption. it s my opinion by the way that georgia is far worst. and hopefully the arizona attorney general good man ....