he has pledged to improve pupil s speaking skills and said he wants half a million more children to reach their early learning targets by 2030. the speech on labour s education policy was interrupted by green protestors. our political editor chris mason reports. the smiles are big, the dreams are bigger at this primary school in rochester in kent. how does society match boundless aspiration with providing the opportunities to ensure they come true? what would you like to be when you grow up? i would like to be a rugby player. i would like to be a graphic designer and make movies. tell me what you would like to be when you grow up. a scientist. what do you like playing with the car? it s not playing, it s working. good point! in gillingham, keir starmer said he wanted to tear down barriers to home. down barriers to hope. more children must reach early learning targets, he said, snobbery must go. alongside his albeit broad vision for the economy, the health service, energy an
you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, more on the breaking news just in the last hour, an unexpected move from special counsel jack smith. he wants the supreme court to immediately take up whether donald trump is immune from criminal prosecution. what it means for a criminal trial starting before the election. plus, israel s prime minister says it s the beginning of the end of hamas. the escalating push into southern gaza as aid groups warn of apocalyptic scenes on the ground. six killed, dozens injured as more scenes of destruction emerge. and alex jones, the conspiracy theorist who claimed sandy hook was a hoax and made money off of it returns to x and gets a warm welcome from elon musk. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that breaking news on that fascinating legal move by special counsel jack smith. msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin is with me. i know you ve had time now to start going through
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social mobility is important, but his only solution seems to be teaching children to speak well which, as i said, is already in the curriculum for some numbers from the social committees commission, in 2020 they said roughly one quarter of disadvantaged students get passes in matt s and jesse s, where otherwise that number have, that good gap isn t good enough is it? the gap isn t good enough. what the government has tried to do during academy news academy schools and others is to close that gap for disadvantaged children because anybody who cares about education, that should be the number one focus, trying to close that gap, and that s what the government is focus on. this phrase, a class ceiling, that s a people will recognise that across the uk right now and they would perhaps be frustrated that all the time the conservatives have been in power, it has been a long time, it
secret tape recordings. an 18-minute important conversation is. [ inaudible ] consisting of a single tone on the tape. that conversation took place just three days after the watergate break in last year and it involved the president, hr and john ericman. that recording was critical because it was supposed to capture president nixon easterliest reaction to the news of the watergate break in but disappeared into thin air. conveniently for nixon, it was e erase by his secretary who said she did so by accident with a foot pedal. it was a coverup to his down fall. fast forward to today and we re learning now of a new gap in another white house record, this time pertaining to the presidency of donald j. trump only this gap isn t just 18.5 minutes, it s more than seven hours.