Voting in some seats. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Tax officials have raided west ham and Newcastle United football clubs as part of an investigation into suspected fraud. Strong criticism for Surrey Police for returning a collection of shotguns to a man who went on to kill his partner and her daughter. A show of unity in south korea as the us Military Holdsjoint exercises with local forces as the us senate prepares for Security Briefing on north korea. And a warning that britains immaculate green lawns could become a thing of the past because of climate change. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that the Prime Minister has refused to guarantee that the so called triple lock on pensions will continue if the conservatives are re elected at the General Election. At the final session of Prime Ministers questions before polling day theresa may said that Pensioner Incomes would continue to rise, but she was accused of abandoning a commitment previously made by the conservatives. La
Those costs. let s talk about what s coming very soon, this first trial of kenneth chesebro who initially the request from the d.a. was for march of 2024. kenneth chesebro s attorney said i want a speedy trial, which forced the hand of the d.a. to schedule, what, by the end of november? well, the beginning of november. the second term. but, you know, we were discussing before, the expectation likely was that there was no way d.a. willis and her team is going to be ready to proceed. expected to be a bluff. a bluff. and when that bluff is called, that s problematic. i was a prosecutor as well and criminal defense attorney now, very often with these felony indictments, the time is your friend. what can happen is many intervening factors, a witness doesn t become available anymore or a change in that testimony or some intervening factor we can t even contemplate, so time is often your friend. there is no advantage, especially with this magnitude of evidence that testimony and what is
if we look at this in terms of what democrats are trying to achieve here, they re trying to set a of rule. for democrats to get their way, they would need assuming all democrats sort of stay together on this, they would need four republicans to break with mcconnell if it came to a floor vote, four republicans to vote with them. obviously, i think they would look at murkowski today and say hey, potentially maybe that could be one of the four. you know the republican party well. the other republican senators there, whether it s romney, collins, gardner, tillis, could you see a scenario where four republican votes emerge on the rules of a trial? i suppose you could see that. i think the big challenge is what intervening factors between now and when a vote on the rules
The other republican senators there, whether it s romney, collins, gardner, tillis, could you see a scenario where four republican votes emerge on the rules of a trial? i suppose you could see that. i think the big challenge is what intervening factors between now and when a vote on the rules of the trial happen that would impact the thinking of the four members of the senate. you mentioned potentially others like rob portman, who might be in that next traunch of republican senators who would want to have a fair trial. what s going to change their minds between now and the actual vote? it s not clear to me that either nancy pelosi or chuck schumer has something up their sleeves that s going to change anyone s minds. you have the reality that pelosi is holding the articles of impeachment from the senate with no real sort of end game in terms of what may happen because mcconnell has been very clear. obviously, we can all talk about
You know the republican party well. the other republican senators there, whether it s romney, collins, gardner, tillis, could you see a scenario where four republican votes emerge on the rules of a trial? i suppose you could see that. i think the big challenge is what intervening factors between now and when a vote on the rules of the trial happen that would impact the thinking of the four members of the senate. you mentioned potentially others like rob portman, who might be in that next traunch of republican senators who would want to have a fair trial. what s going to change their minds between now and the actual vote? it s not clear to me that either nancy pelosi or chuck schumer has something up their sleeves that s going to change anyone s minds. you have the reality that pelosi is holding the articles of impeachment from the senate with no real sort of end game in terms of what may happen because mcconnell has been very clear.