So, the us president ial election is getting ever nearer its getting more and more exciting. And the polls are really very tight. So, what does that tell us and how should we be reading them . We have got one of americas best known pollsters, who is famous for his predictions, joining us on this episode to tell us what we should be looking out for over the next few weeks, and how not to read the polls wrong. Welcome to americast. Americast. Americast from bbc news. Hello, its marianna, aka miss information, in the worldwide headquarters of americast, in london. And sarah, here in our studio in washington dc, in the united states of america, of course. Now, here in the states, we are perilously close to this election. I mean, it is about eight weeks away, its going to be an incredible stretch, and it feels like everything is kind of changing again, because weve just passed the Bank Holiday Weekend they call Labor Day here in america, and that is always a signifier in an Election Year th
In his first major interview since becoming Prime Minister of the Uk Keir starmer has told the bbc the government is going to have to be unpopular. Speaking on sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he said the only way to change the country was to do difficult things now even though he Knows they are unpopular. Our political correspondent Georgia Robertsjoins us. The decision to end Winter Fuel parents is among the earliest of those difficult decisions this government has taken. Mps will vote on this next week and we Know several are planning to make their unhappiness Known but this morning Keir Starmer defended those plans on Winter Fuel. Lets hear him talking about that. About that. This is really tou h, about that. This is really tough. I about that. This is really tough. I do about that. This is really tough, i do get about that. This is really tough, i do get to about that. This is really tough, i do get to staff. | about that. This is really| tough, i do get to staff. I Know tough, i do g
the latest. good evening. reporter: good evening a big hurdle cleared with the debt ceiling the house overwhelmingly approvingdeal brokered by president biden and house speaker mccarthy. here is the breakdown 149 gop ea at 155 democratic yea. more democrat support of the deal than the majority even though the gop runs the house. you said democrats got nothing so how do you define nothing? i think they voted for it because they wanted to take up for their president. reporter: the right wing of the gop is seething at mccarthy. representative ken buck wants the house to consider a vote of no confidence against the speaker. we were told the first night there is nothing in this for democrats.and more democrats voted for this bill than republicans. democrats have joined with mccarthy to pass bills so there is a big reassessment of the coalition for bauer out of the house. screaming the bill travels across the rotunda to the senate tomorrow where conservatives could try to
calls staggering business fraud over a decade. we ll have the response from team trump in just moments. we re also watching blowback in russia to vladimir putin s plan to mobilize more troops to fight in ukraine. more than 1300 people were detained in rare protests. the desperate measures taken by some russians facing a potential draft. also a significant update in the january 6th investigation. a source telling nbc news it is agreed it has reached an agreement to interview conservative activist ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. what that could mean for the panel s next hearing next week. we start with the latest on the multiple investigations into donald trump. joining me now is vaughn hillyard from trump tower in new york, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, charles coleman, the former new york prosecutor and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and senior member of the mueller probe. charles and andrew fortunate
tomorrow. i love sean.w. luck with that. we ll be watching. believe me, they ve got a lot of pull. all right. go get them. sean,, thanks a lot. great show.y all right. as sean gave away. i am.ng and brian kilmeade. i i am indeed brian to meet in for laura ingraham, specialal edition of the ingraham angle comes your way right now. a lot going. will she or won t she? that is the question as it relates to potential taiwan, the taiwan trip by speaker pelosi nowal at this hour, allal signs point to the speaker making the visit. that would happen in just a matter of a few hours or about 12 hours behind us .yo and if anythingu happens, we ll tell you right away. go now, according to the ahead of us , i should say, according too the wall street journal, itt isn t a matter of whether she goes to taiwan, but rather whether rather she spendsen the night in taipei or not. the chineseds have issued threat throughout the speaker s deliberations. as you probably know, saying yesterday tha