Hello, good, welcome to bbc news. The bbc has learnt that chancellor, sajid javid, voiced his anger to borisjohnson over the abrupt sacking of one of his special advisers. Whitehall sources say sonia khan was questioned about government leaks by borisjohnsons senior adviser, Dominic Cummings. She was then dismissed from downing street, despite no evidence that she was behind the leak of sensitive material. Asked about the sacking on bbc radio 4s today programme, mrjavid said he would not talk about individuals and insisted that he had a fantastic relationship with mrjohnson. Lets get more on this from our political reporterjohn 0wen. Ina in a sense the fate of one individual who after all exists purely according to their political masters and mistresses might not seem important. Why is this row front page in the newspapers and headline the news because it goes to the heart of government. It speaks i suppose to that crucial relationship between number ten and ii, which has been so fraug
Incident at some point in her life and you are sympathetic to that and but your reputation is on the line, and i hope people understand the gravity of the charges made against you and what a fair process looks like. Senator klobuchar. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Judge, were talking here about decency, and you understand we have this constitutional duty to advise and consent. And for me when this evidence came forward, i decided that i needed to look at this and i needed to find out about it and i needed to ask you questions about it, as well as others that were involved. So, again, im not going to take quite the same approach as my colleagues here and talk about don mcgahn or any of this. Why dont you just ask the president , mrs. Dr. Ford cant to this. We clearly havent been able to do this, but just ask the president to reopen the fbi investigation. I think the committee is youre doing the investigation. Im here to answer your questions and i should say one thing, senator klobuchar, whi
Had an incident at some point in her life and you are sympathetic to that, but your reputation is on the line, and i hope people understand the gravity of the charges made against you and what a fair process looks like. For klobuchar. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Judge, were talking here about decency, and you understand we have this constitutional duty to advise and consent. And for me when this evidence came forward, i decided that i needed to look at this and i needed to find out about it and i needed to ask you questions about it as well as others that were involved. So, again, im not going to take quite the same approach as my colleagues here and talk about don mcgahn or any of this. Why dont you just ask the president. Dr. Ford cant do this. We clearly havent been able to do this, but just ask the president to reopen the fbi investigation. I think the committee youre doing the investigation. Im here to answer your questions, and i should say one thing, senator klobuchar which is i ap
Her life and you are sympathetic to that. But your reputation is on the line. And i hope people understand the gravity of the charges made against you and what a fair process look like. Senator klobuchar. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Judge, we are talking here about decency and you understand we have this constitutional duty to advise and consent. For me, when this evidence came forward, i decided that i needed to look at this and i needed to find out about it and i needed to ask you questions about it as well as others that were involved. So again, im not going to take quite the same approach as my colleagues here and talk about Donald Mcgahn or any of this. Why dont you just ask the president , dr. Ford cant do this. We clearly havent been able to do it. Ask the president to reopen the investigation. I think the committee, you are doing the investigation. Im here to answer questions. I should say something, senator klobuchar. I appreciate our meeting together. I appreciate how you handle
This week even though the fbi is still in the middle of their investigation into the multiple allegations of Sexual Assault against kavanaugh. All of which he denies. Some Senate Republicans have a pretty high bar for the results of that investigation. Find concrete corroboration of decades old allegations. Anything short of direct evidence means kavanaugh makes it to the court. Just ask senator joni ernst of iowa. Well, what we want to see is, is there evidence or corroboration the fbi is eight to find through this supplemental investigation that would corroborate dr. Fords accusations, and if not, i will continue to support judge kavanaugh based on the information that i have at this time. But what about all the other kavanaugh narratives that are circling this afternoon . Should they be concerned during this nomination process about those . President trump addressed questions about kavanaughs honesty just last hour. I dont think you should lie to congress. There have been a lot of p