The i word looms. Mccarthy faces pressure to go harder on biden on afghanistan. They write that as hard as Kevin Mccarthy has hammer to the white house over the u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan, he is under rising pressure to go further. The House Minority Leader Peter Lee pushed back on rankandfile republicans who want to make a highstakes call for impeaching biden over his handling of afghanistan, a balance that would come due should the gop take back the chamber next november. The House Freedom Caucus will hold a News Conference on afghanistan. The Minority Leader himself held a Briefing Yesterday with reporters on the withdrawal from afghanistan. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] today i got a Phone Call from the secretary of defense saying the military is clearly out of afghanistan. Completely out of afghanistan. There are still hundreds of americans left in afghanistan. Before coming down here, i got a text from an american woman who had been beaten. She is back to her apar
Congressman Eric Swalwell confirmed that the records were seized. Heres where the reporting is more disturbing. Prosecutors were hunting for the sources of Media News reports of contacts with russia. The Da The and other evidence did not tie the committee to the leaks. Investigators debated whether they had hit a Dead End. Some discussed closing the inquiry. They took this unprecedented investigative the ep when Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of asking the Fbi Director James Comey to let Mike Flynn go. Mike flynn took the unprecedented step as the sitting national Security Adviser to lie to the fbi about the conversations with russian ambassador kissly yak. Trump lying about conversations with Vladimir Putin. The sidelines of a global summit. Unprecedented conduct all around contacts between trump figures and russia. All of it as Robert Mueller investigating the ties to russia. So doj at this time crosses this red line. They subpoena apple for the Phone Records and they find
He has been hiding behind the former president s insufficient and vague statements regarding privileges he purported to invoke. We reject his position entirely. He adds, the select committee will use every tool in its disposal to get the information it seeks. And witnesses who try to stonewall the select committee will not succeed. It is worth noting that expentagon official and trump adviser cash patel, former Chief Of Staff mark meadows and his deputy dan scavino were also set to appear today and tomorrow. Their testimony has been delayed by the committee. But committees action against bannon today backing up assurances from its members in recent days that they are going to go the distance in pursuing exact will you how donald trump came to gather the insurrectionists in washington, d. C. , Dispatch The Insurrectionists to the capitol, then lavish them with praise and declare his love for them in a way that guaranteed the conduct of that day would become our nations new normal. It fo
he scores early, as manchester united put three past nottingham forest, in the away leg of their league cup semi final. and we catch up with radio one extra s dj ace to find out why he s campaigning for more black and asian heritage organ donors. good morning. there is a touch of frost in western areas first thing. for many it will be a dry day with sunny spells, a little bit of cloud, and some showers in the east. details later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday, 26th january. ukraine s president zelensky has described the decision to send dozens of powerful nato battle tanks to the country, as an important step on the path to victory. commitments from germany, the us and the uk, follow weeks of diplomatic deadlock about the supply of heavy weaponry. president zelensky said the free world was united as never before, but that it was essential for the equipment to arrive quickly. our correspondent robin brant reports. for months, he s campaigned for these, in publ