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chairman schiff introducing formally new sweeping legislation to deal with exactly this. my reason for being here is as simple as the title: protecting our democracy act. it shouldn t matter who the president of the united states is. we should want that president not to be able to abuse that office to enrich themselves. we should want them to maintain independence from the justice department, not use it as their own private law firm, not use it to go after their adversaries. the plan here is not partisan as emphasized. the legislation would have rules to limit how presidents use or, again, potentially abuse pardon power. deal with the deadlines that might prevent otherwise prosecution of rogue presidents. that s obviously a look at the legal presidency of trump. and to enforce the ban on presidents who aren t allowed to enrich themselves. also ideas to better protect doj independence. this is all part of congress broader efforts at accountability, deal with what ....
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, decertify the election. that is the demand coming from none other than the former president, donald trump, and it comes in a new letter to georgia s secretary of state, brad raffensperger. the secretary is outfront exclusively tonight to respond for the first time to trump s new attempt to overturn the results of the election nearly 11 months after the election. so trump claims in his letter that there is a new report of invalid ballots and says, quote, i would respectfully request that your department check this and, if true, along with many other claims of voter fraud and voter irregularities, start the process of decertifying the election or whatever the correct legal remedy is and announce the true winner. that letter was sent three days ago. the election results and been certified and audits again and again and the true winner is still joe biden. trump did not win 321 days ago in georgia, and there has been zero evi ....
mostly haitian illegal immigrants crammed under a bridge in south texas last week. and they are still there right now. things are so bad it s not just republicans sounding the alarm as obama s dhs secretary jeh johnson, well, he is also crying uncle. we have to get control of our borders. 200,000 a month is a lot of people. dhs just released the numbers for august, it s 200,000. august is typically a month where it s very low. and those kinds of numbers and the images you just showed your audience saps the ability. it overwhelms the ability of ths, the border patrol, ice,. pete: overwhelmed. unable to ignore the crisis any longer the white house sent current homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas down to texas with a shall we say weak message for these illegal immigrants. we are very concerned the haitians who are taking this irregular migration path are receiving false information that the border is open or the temporary protected status is available. i w ....
for dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london. i m martine croxall. this week, we look at britain s new cabinet. we ask, has the uk government announced enough measures to protect people from covid, flu and a national health service crisis over the winter? and we look at two under reported events. north korea s launch of cruise missiles which can hitjapan, certainly alarming news. and possibly good news, iran is letting back in the un nuclear inspectors. our guests henry chu, of the los angeles times, who has spent many years reporting from china and the far east. the indian commentator and journalist ashis rae, who takes a particular interest in the uk, on which he reports back home to india and the near east. and joining us in the studio still suitably distanced, we know the drill, don t we? celia hatton, the bbc s asia pacific editor. welcome to you all. and our own dear leader, our editor nick guthrie, has really rammed the programme to the gunnels thi ....
it has been more than a year and a half into a pandemic that has killed over 4.5 million people and returned all of our lives upside down. the world scientists are still hunting for answers. this startsed in wuhan at th market. the first hypothesis is it came from a bat. with 75% of all emerging diseases caused by a jump from animals into humans, there were warning signs. every few years there is a new spillover event with a new disease that humans have no i m t immunity to. it s a probability this originated from animals as well but the possibility also remains that the virus leaked from a lab. the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease is the same name as the lab. it s a laboratory at the heart of the city where the outbreak occurred that s undertaking some risky work. laboratory accidents happen much more often than we know. the biological window to learn what happened thanks window might be closing., happe window might be closing. t ....