the next election to tony blair. pretty much. i remember standing outside the cabinet room with andrew robb, who was from a liberal.the liberal party of australia, and he d done some polling, and he was going to go in to see john and tell him what the political situation was. and i pressed him. i wanted to know before he went in. and he used the word that douglas murray, you called it mucked . he said, you re mucked . that was it. it was over. you wrote recently that that can be liberating to admit defeat. well, i had this conversation with a man called jim pinkerton, who d worked for george bush, the elder george bush. and had also worked with a lot of democrats on sort of government reform. and i was working for a think tank. i got him to come over here, and he looked at the political situation and came back, sort of reported back to me and he said, are you going to lose the election? and i said, yes. and he said, and what will you do if you lose the election?
moment. the weekend not looking too bad. some sunshine, feeling pleasantly warm, but we have some scattered showers in the forecast. in fact, some scattered showers in the forecast. infact, it some scattered showers in the forecast. in fact, it will end “p forecast. in fact, it will end up fairly cloudy in northern ireland and western scotland, eventually late on saturday. the clouds have been clearing overnight. into the early hours of saturday morning. it is largely clear across the uk. some missed and mucked around coasts in the south west. just a few showers in the western isles and may be central scotland. other than that, mostly sunny from the word go. temperatures 9 11. saturday morning, largely bright and sunny across england and wales.
the way up through there and you have 25,000 acres of nothing but wetlands, completely wet except for the main entrance which is on the power lines, which is dry. s so, help us understand. for people who have never been there and don t understand what type of terrain is like. when you ve had flooding in an area like that, how much water are you talking about? what does it do to the trails? what does it mean that it s hard to move around? well, it s actually the real name back in that area is called the big slew. and there s flags out there anywhere from a quarter mile in diameter to some that are a mile in diameter. we call it seven ponds some of us that know the area like that. the whole area is just backed up underwater. you go out there and there s places that s ankle deep with the palmettos still under water, places that are knee deep, up to waist deep and it s mucked,
type of terrain is like. when you ve had flooding in an area like that, how much water are you talking about? what does it do to the trails? what does it mean that it s hard to move around? well, it s actually the real name back in that area is called the big slew. and there s flags out there anywhere from a quarter mile in diameter to some that are a mile in diameter. we call it seven ponds some of us that know the area like that. the whole area is just backed up underwater. you go out there and there s places that s ankle deep with the palmettos still under water, places that are knee deep, up to waist deep and it s mucked, completely mucked. i ve rode horses in there looking for cattle when i ve had them get out and you ll be going in there and i ll be walking along and my horses fall slap to their chest into the muck and hard to get out. you sink. so, it would be very hard to move, let alone to get very far. and then you have the observation issue.
behaved. he thinks that s bravery. and that s how this president views the world. that s how he s led. and that s certainly why he s decided to tie himself to mr. gallagher, who s going to become a very valuable piece on the campaign trail from what reporting has told us, as well. he s been at mar-a-lago and he s going to be someone active on the campaign trail as well. phil rucker, that s the piece of this. it s not just the conduct of overruling and overriding. what has, for decades, been a system i m sure while not perfect, works. i mean, the military justice system is is is sort of handled within. it s sort of respects and honors those codes among fellow soldiers. the president reached in, mucked it up, threw it in the garbage. and now, he s taking someone whose peers thought he should be punished and putting him under his arm and trotting him out as campaign prop. nicolle, it does fit a pattern of president trump s behavior in other realms, which is that he likes to be the