Congressman adam kinzinger, for example. Joining me now congresswoman stacey plaskett from the u. S. Virgin islands and congressman joaquin castro of texas. They also both served as house impeachment managers during the second impeachment trial of donald trump. So i am positive they have a lot to say. I m going to start with you congresswoman stacey plaskett because i think one thing that a lot of people are frustrated by is why does it have to be bipartisan? why do we care how many republicans are on this committee. There is no convincing these people of logic. So doesn t it make sense to just proceed with what they have? they have a quorum, and get the people s business done. What s your take? well, first, good morning to you and good morning to my colleague joaquin. It s so good to be with you both this morning. I think that we as you recall, we tried to create this into a bipartisan independent commission from the beginning, and i think what the speaker has chosen to do by naming a
Stun gun, beaten with a flag pole and suffer ed traumatic brain injury. He told cnn about the intense encounter he had with representative. That said it was a normal tourist visit. He said he didn t know who i was. I introduced myself. I said my name is officer michael fanne. And i fought to defend the capitol on january 6th. I explained some of the injuries i suffered as a result of that. He just stared at me, turned away. Jessica dean is on the story this morning. He is calling out republicans. They are lining. They are lying, those that say it didn t happen. It s shocking when he went to shake his hand. It is shocking. To hear him tell it, poppy. To say he put his hand out and waited to shake his hand. He later said after that encounter, the elevator opened and the congressman ran into it. Those were his words. He s trying to make sure, that house republicans, and other republicans who refuse to admit the facts about what happened here on january 6th, during the insurrection, he wan
now, for viewers around the globe, we have a special programme looking back at today s events in washington, dc. for viewers in the uk, before we take a look at the papers, we want to bring you this developing news from the north of england where more than 2,000 properties are being evacuated in manchester. heavy rainfall from storm christoph continues to batter parts of england. snow has fallen heavily in didsbury, with the river mersey at very high levels. a severe flood warning, meaning there is a danger to life, has been issued there, and in northenden manchester city council has confirmed those who need to stay with friends and family temporarily due to flooding will not be in breach of coronavirus lockdown rules. a covid safe emergency rest centre has also been set up. this is a developing situation and there are warnings it could get much worse through the night. we will continue to monitor that but now let us bring you up to date with the papers. hello and welcome t
further, you shared an account of your communications with president trump with a local news outlet in your district which recorded that you had a very heated conversation and that you urged the president to quote health get help to the capitol. and blito reported that you shared an even greater degree of detail with your colleagues in a widely-attended conference call on january 11th. on that call, according to the report, you stated that president trump had admitted, quote, some degree of responsibility for january 6th in his one-on-one conversations with you. the letter also cites mccarthy s floor speech in the days after the insurrection, acknowledging that trump bears responsibility for the attack and addresses mccarthy s own culpability in continuing to amplify the expresident s big lie in the wake of the insurrection. citing his visit to mar-a-lago on january 28th, days before impeachment, posing with donald trump for a photo. and that is where we start today with some
coming up in sport england are doing their best to defy australia, but can they bat out the final day and draw the fourth test in sydney? a look at what the weather has in the week a look at what the weather has in the week ahead. it s sunday ninth january. our main story: a senior government minister has given his support to reducing the coronavirus isolation period in england. speaking to the sunday times, the former vaccines minister now education secretary nadhim zahawi backed the idea of isolating for five days instead of seven. our political correspondent ben wright reports. at the moment, people who test positive for covid are required to quarantine for at least seven days of the process is a straining staffing levels in the public and private sectors. the united states recently shortened the self isolation window to five days stop earlier this month, the uk health security agency said doing the same here would be counter productive, but, it would keep the pol