self-defense, if they don t it homicide, if they like politician who lied it is irrelevant, if they don t he the should resign. ng it is a protest, if they don t it is a riot. different rules, based on political preference, this week we learned classified documents were found in their, so far, locations used by joe biden after he was the vice president. classified documents found by his personal lawyers, not the fbi, who put them there? were the documents together originally then separated, if so by whom? did the former vice president use the documents while he was a privates i a. citizen. don t worry the media tells us that the garage was locked. i m sure is not a legal defense. it wasn t when classified documents were found at mar-a-lago, media begins to tell you how very different those two cases are. new york magazine telling us there are significant differences. new york times telling us, the circumstances of the two case appear to be strikingly different. and new yor
two cases, if they like the person it is self-defense, if they don t it is homicide, if they like the people gathering it is a protest, if they don t it is a riot. different rules, based on political preference, this week we learned classified documents were found in their, so far, locations used by joe biden after he was the vice president. classified documents found by his personal lawyers, not the fbi, who put them there? were the documents together originally then separated, if so by whom? did the former vice president use the documents while he was a privates i a. citizen. don t worry the media tells us that the garage was locked. i m sure is not a legal defense. it wasn t when classified documents were found at mar-a-lago, media begins to tell you how very different those two cases are. new york magazine telling us there are significant differences. new york times telling us, the circumstances of the two case appear to be strikingly different. and new york times tel
welcome to the programme. amid the turmoil in uk markets this week, the chancellor met the us banks today and was told in no uncertain terms that his budget which he has planned for november is way too far away . the government needs to communicate much sooner, said the banks, on what the solution will be to the problem the city believes they created. it has been another chaotic day on the markets. this morning, the bank of england performed a screeching u turn, putting the brakes on its plan to sell government bonds and instead launching a new scheme to buy them. think of it as a form of digital money printing. the bank is creating funds to to buy bonds which the government issues to borrow money. and this is why. since the mini budget, the cost of government borrowing long term has shot up. it was spiralling above 5%. that s a 20 year high. we have seen rises in the last two days that would normally take years. the bank of england is buying up the debt, in essence creating
historical film this year about the civil rights martyr emmett till, and that s airing for the first time tonight, so i m excited to share it with you we begin with what we ve learned about the republican party it is reeling struggling with the maga republican problems it created after a midterm fizzle. the red wave if at most has become a red trickle. definitely not a republican wave, that s for darn sure. republicans score they were going to sweep, a red suetsunam, and we believed them, but they did not. even tucker carlson accepting the reality of election results. that has basketball the mood as the year ends. donald trump announce he have running again. there s a power struggle in the house. there s the rnc s autopsy. and then there s all of the blame on what even the republican party s leader in the senate called low quality candidates part of the problem i don t think there s any question in my mind that hurt republicans all over is donald trump. some w
tonight with the context, ron christie former adviser to george w bush and ayesha hazarika journalist and former labour adviser. welcome to the programme. it s the first day of the new us congress and it s already one full of drama. the new us congress and it s after the swearing in of the new members, the new house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle, choosing a new speaker of the house. we ve already had rounds of votes. the latest kevin mccarthy received. short of the 218 majority. this is the scene live in the house now another round of voting is under way. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected, so this could go on for hours or perhaps even days until someone is chosen. we ll go live to our correspondent will grant on capitol hill for us in a moment. but first, let s rewind back to the days and weeks before the midterm elections. all the polls pointed to a resounding republican victory in the house, a red wave that would have meant today w