sarah vine, columnist with the daily mail, and ruth smeeth, former labour mp in stoke on trent. and on a busy night, we also have. amanda renteria, former adviser to hillary clinton. welcome to context. occasionally, there are two stories that collide and compete for our attention, and this is one of those nights, although strangely, there are obvious parallels between them. on this side, these are truly dark times for the prime minister, borisjohnson. today, one of the new intake of northern mps defected to the labour party, while one of his former brexit allies stabbed him in the front and called on him to resign. in washington things are not quite as serious forjoe biden, in washington, things are not quite as serious forjoe biden, but like the conservatives, the democrats are asking what their leader can do to stop the rot. in the senate the president s agenda is stalled, inflation is soaring, in the senate, the president s agenda is stalled, covid i9 still a problem, and
he has been meeting with president zelensky, the president of ukraine, where he is going to be briefing him on the outcome of negotiations that were held in various places last week with russian officials. what will be discussed on friday in geneva when secretary of state blinken sits down with sergey lavrov. the idea that he has come to brief the ukrainians is something that the ukrainian officials, ukrainians said they re grateful for. translator: i would like to thank you and president biden and the u.s. administration for the support, for the military aid, for the help that was already given by the u.s. we hope that in the future this support will continue. it is up to ukrainians and no one else to decide their own future, and the future of this country. so the president asked me to underscore once again our commitment to ukraine integrity, sovereignty, to its independence. and i know that is a message you have heard not just from us but from so many partners througho
assets and misrepresented those values to financial institutions. that includes banks, insurance providers and the irs. in one case james says the organization inflated the size of donald trump s own apartment in trump tower. it claimed the home was 30,000 square feet when previous documentation that donald trump signed put it at 11,000 square feet. the difference allowed the trump organization to overvalue the apartment by $200 million according to former cfo allen weisselberg who himself is under indictment for tax fraud. james says this inflation along with others allowed for a rosier picture of donald trump s finances which could have equalled more favorable loans. the trump administration s response says in part, the only one misleading the public is letitia james. now, at the same time in washington, a revelation. the national archives is about to hand over some of donald trump s white house records to the january 6th panel. it is just four pages, but donald trump is st
i ve seen other members of this party advance the argument including representative gosar himself, the illusion this is just a joke. that what we say and what we do does not matter so long as we claim a lack of meaning. i am here to rise to say that it does. our work here matters. our example matters. there is meaning in our service, and as leaders in this country when we incite violence with depictions against our colleagues that trickles down into violence in this country. congresswoman casio-cortez came before the house voted to sensor congressman gosar and strip him. liz cheney and adam kinzinger did not vote for it. expelling a member from congress, in fact, according to the new york times fewer than two dozen members have been sen censored since the early 19th century. after republican after republican took to the floor to justify it and to use their time instead of addressing the video at all, to scream about brown people at the border and afghanistan and inflati
essentially, this indictment forces steve bannon for his refusal to comply. but it doesn t necessarily ensure his compliance with the committee, we talked about this last night. do you think that steve bannon will comply and cooperate with the committee or are we still going to be in an entanglement of legal maneuvering for the next few months? you know, tiffany, i suspect steve bannon has no interest in providing information to the house committee, which could incriminate his protector donald trump. here s what will happen moving forward in the criminal contempt case. the prosecutors may very well engage in negotiations with steve bannon. for example, they could say, listen, we will extend you a plea offer. we will cap our request regarding your sentence. i will make up a figure at 90 days in prison if you agree to appear and testify truthfully and fully before the house select committee. so i will say this presents an opportunity for steve bannon to cooperate. do we think