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regard. because of what he gave to me. he gave me my england debut. he set me on the road and i will never forget that. and in the next hour, wave hello to a new green energy project for the uk. the world s first tidal lagoon creating energy from the sea is likely to go ahead in swansea bay. and we speak to the writer of lala land, the man who s brought the art of the musical back to hollywood. good evening and welcome to bbc news. two senior figures taking on key roles in donald trump s new administration have given strong endorsements of the us intelligence community just hours after the president elect suggested security officials may have leaked unproven allegations about him. mike pompeo, the man nominated to become the next head of the cia and general mattis, donald trump s choice for us defence secretary have been setting out their view to senators at their confirmation hearings. both men also took a more hawkish view on russia than the next commander in chief, ....
about the memo and the impact it could have on the president elect? join me at 11.15. good evening, and welcome to bbc news. freezing weather is causing disruption across much of the uk, with snow showers and strong winds across scotland, northern ireland, parts of wales, and the north of england. in southern britain heavy rain turned to snow causing icy roads. coastal flood warnings have been issued, and residents are being moved out of a village in essex. 0ur correspondent, duncan kennedy, has the latest. scotland, where the gorgeous meets the treacherous. and the place where the snow laid its deepest and widest blanket. powerful winds piled up the drifts, creating scenery beyond postcard perfect. but it was enough to do this to the m71; near glasgow. drivers spent hours crawling to their destinations. in northern ireland, the traffic moved, but on roads that gritters struggled to keep covered. it was the same in cumbria, where gritters had to make multiple trips to k ....
files, assemble the files, download the files, before the cia systems have identified a penetration, is very unlikely. my view is that this is an insider and what they have done is they have been entrusted, they have collected the information together and loaded it onto a flash drive and they could remove that whenever they wished. that is my view, if it did come from there, thatis view, if it did come from there, that is how they would have got it out. so, and inside jobjust like every snowdon? exactly. we have to trust our workers and if we then start to put in so many checks that the workers can be viewed in everything they do, then we fall foul of the human rights. we can only put in a certain amount of security checks and a certain amount of vetting. the cia would have certainly vetted anyone, this was probably a contractor. this is the cia centre for cyber intelligence where this information seems to have come from. so, in these thousands of pages of documents, ar ....
say, other than obamacare is the law of the land and will remain the law of the land. tom: it s the law of the land, or lol for short. on sunday, president trump blamed the freedom caucus and two conservative groups for the sale of the health care bill. steve bannon is reportedly encouraging trump to reply coma list of republicans that refuse to support the health care bill. while repeal and replace had a major setback last week, at least from republican isn t ready to give up. we shall never surrender! [laughter] tom: that was the famous church hill impression of a few i liked blended into the carpet. tom: lets go onto to the next story. he said it on the campaign trail, european nations need to start paying their nato bills and stop letting the u.s. pick up the tab. president trump took the opportunity from his meeting with angela merkel to hand her a fake bill for $375 million. this according to the times of london, the white house denies the story, as did the g ....
the bill over the finish line. david k. johnson it s an worse than you think: what the trump administration is doing to america. jennifer, i ll start with you. has the jones victory altered the calculations happening right now in regard to the tax about il? absolutely. they have no margin for error if this drags into january, they ll go to 51/49. secondly, i think there is a realization that what are they doing sticking with this president? he is not going to help them. if he can t help someone in alabama, he s not going to help them in other more competitive states. i think also a lot of these polls that are out recently, there s a whole batch of them this week showing just how unpopular this bill is. people have figured out it s a gift to the rich, it s a gift to corporations. who would have thunk. so i think at this point there are more reasons to vote against it than there are for it. and i would keep a very choice eye on susan collins, who is under tremendous pressure ....