Socialist package twice as big as the last one. Reporter: and pot politics. Top democrats want to legalize marijuana but the president isn t on board yet. This bill is urgent. This bill is long past due. Lives are being destroyed every single day. Inside politics, stories sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics sunday. I m abby phillip. It is worse than we thought. That is the final year of the trump presidency written by some of the top journalists in the country. The scariest part so far, general mark milley, the president s top military rizzer, worried that the outgoing president would stage a coup to stay in power. That is according to the washington post reporters carol lenig and phil rucker who write that milley described to aides that he kept having a stomach churning feeling that the 20th century fascism in germany were playing out in 21st century america. They may try, but they re not going to f ing succeed he said. President trump denied it more or less,
but i think that many people might be scared that if they invite too many radical young people, then that might make them look bad. last week saw the highest levels of coronavirus infections ever reported across uk. one in 55 people had the virus. women in england will now only have to pay once a year for prescription of hormone replacement therapy for the menopause. and archaeologists discover a set of what they call astounding roman statues on the route of the h52 rail link. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. two can play at that game that s the warning today to france from the british government as the row over post brexit fishing rights continues to escalate. the french ambassador to london has been summoned to the foreign office this afternoon. the french are angry about what they claim is a lack of licences for their boats to fish in uk waters. france has threatened to block british boats from its ports if the issue over fishing licences is not resolved by tu
the hospital and its surrounds have been left in ruins following the two week operation. buildings have been reduced to rubble and the few remaining are little more than shells. these pictures obtained by news agency reuters show what is left inside the complex. israel has previously said it was carrying out precise operations against hamas and islamichhad fighters, and had killed two hundred of them. reuters reports that hundreds of people returned to the area around the hospital after the troop withdrawal. they said they found a sea of rubble. one medic saying that destruction is far and wide in the shifa compound. a spokesman for gaza s civil emergency service told the news agency that bulldozers were used to dig up the grounds of the complex and exhume bodies. meanwhile, hundreds of israeli protesters have spent the night in tents outside parliament injerusalem to press their demand for prime minister benjamin netanyahu to step down, and seeking a deal to have the hosta
poppy is off this week. sara sidner is with us after a brief tour in florida to cover the hurricane yesterday. we are going to be covering that again today. neighborhoods have been changed forever by hurricane idalia. it is now a tropical storm off the carolina shores. but officials are already assessing the damage in florida and georgia. we will be talking with fema administrator about the latest on the ground in a moment. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell freezes up in front of reporters again. it is the second time in disturbing scene played out this summer. new reporting now about what mcconnell s been doing behind the scenes. and the department of health and human services is recommending that the d.e.a. significantly ease restrictions on marijuana. it is currently a schedule 1 drug the same as lsd and heroin. it wouldn t legalize marijuana federally, could it be a step in that direction? we will explore. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we ar
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