adam wagner is a barrister specialising in covid 19 legislation. he s looked at both events attended by borisjohnson in the downing street garden in may 2020. whilst the rules appear to apply to number 10 staff, what about the prime minister? because at the time, the rule was you re not allowed out of your home without a reasonable excuse. but since that garden is his garden. it doesn t apply. i don t think there s any prospect of him being. ..committing an offence under the covid regulations. the pm s birthday celebration a month later inside number 10 could be a different matter. here, by this time, any indoor gathering which wasn t for a specifically accepted purpose was illegal. it makes no difference if you were organising the gathering. the question was, in law, was whether you were participating in the gathering. so if he walked in, saw a birthday party, and said, i m not having
whilst the rules appear to apply to number 10 staff, what about the prime minister? because at the time, the rule was you re not allowed out of your home without a reasonable excuse. but since that garden is his garden. it doesn t apply. i don t think there s any prospect of him being. ..committing an offence under the covid regulations. the pm s birthday celebration a month later inside number 10 could be a different matter. here, by this time, any indoor gathering which wasn t for a specifically accepted purpose was illegal. it makes no difference if you were organising the gathering. the question was, in law, was whether you were participating in the gathering. so if he walked in, saw a birthday party, and said, i m not having this, and walked out.
himself. he recused himself in 1995, al, from a case where his son was a student at a college in the case involved that in that case. or justice stephen breyer excused himself on a case. there are federal and ethic rules that applies to every single federal judge and that includes you can t have an appearance of impropriety, that you have to be impartial. it doesn t apply, according to the supreme court, it doesn t apply to them. i think justice roberts, someone who i have respect for has to, one, cannot no longer be silent on this next week. and number two, we need to see ethics rules. chris murphy has a fwil that instructs the judicial conference to put together this for the supreme court. senator amy klobuchar, thanks for being on. ukrainians unable to escape
german police say they re looking into claims of a syndrome that s already affected more than 200 u.s. diplomats around the globe. at first became public back in 2016, after dozens of diplomats in cuba complain. the symptoms include nausea, dizziness, memory limpness lapses. berlin police interesting call it alone alleged sonic weapon attack on employees of the u.s. embassy. they say they re investigating since august. california is now the first state to require a gender neutral section in large department stores. it isn t necessarily outlaw the pink and blue products aimed at boys and girls were all used to seeing. they just have to have a reasonably sized section that doesn t target a specific gender. it doesn t apply, we should mention to, close. just toys and other childcare items. a delta hot spot now seeing a cool down. florida, one of the nation s hardest hit states, now seeing daily covid cases below 4000 for the first time since july.
there will be more pressure on the executive to comply and we ll have more information in a consolidated way. i think it will give us more authority to get some of that information that they just don t want to give us. makes you wonder what they re trying to hide. and do you worry that as this moves forward with donald trump, you know, i m sure he will not be pleased with this happening and may try to impede the investigations even further, are you concerned that he s got one william barr in place to potentially wreak havoc even though as you said, an impeachment inquiry is supposed to give congress more power? well, certainly, he s got some of his henchmen surrounding him in key positions, but we do still have the courts and i want to put some faith in the supreme court. and that executive privilege that he likes to claim is not an absolute privilege in the constitution. it s interpreted over time. it doesn t apply for criminal investigations. and i think some of his activities, w