good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the rmt union has suspended strike action planned from tomorrow, after the train operating companies promised to table a pay offer. the union has said it will now enter into a period of negotiations with network rail and the operators, meaning the walkouts planned for tomorrow, and november 7th and 9th are off. let s get more on this from our transport correspondent katy austin. i think that this was unexpected. yes, this is a significant moment, i think. this is the first time in a quite long running dispute that the rmt have called off, or suspended plant strike action for the purpose of facilitating more talks. now the rmt says eight has now had a commitment from the train companies, there will be an offer made because there will be an offer made because there has not been an offer made so far. they also say that network rail has now committed to talks without conditions attached. speaking to people in the rail industry, they say the
the pr ramifications of symbolic image of the motorcade. that is the darker interpretation of what was going on when mike pence refused to leave. right? he wasn t just concerned about how the image of the vice president thing with look to the world, no, he was actually also concerned about maintaining control of the government. of the american constitutional order that his role on january 6th was to preside over the peaceful transfer of power and if the riotous mob, propelled by donald trump, though where he had that duty, he may not have been able to return to finish the job of overseeing the peaceful transfer of power. now, that would ve allowed the coup to actually take place. and that interpretation, the far darker one, the more dangerous one, the while we came close one, that interpretation looks more and more likely as new facts come to light, particularly about the secret service on january 6th. so, on friday, new testimony released by the committee released that a secret serv
estimation, who is actually key to repelling the coup. that is very different from of the pr ramifications of symbolic image of the motorcade. that is the darker interpretation of what was going on when mike pence refused to leave. right? he wasn t just concerned about how the image of the vice president thing with look to the world, no, he was actually also concerned about maintaining control of the government. of the american constitutional order that his role on january 6th was to preside over the peaceful transfer of power and if the riotous mom, propelled by donald trump, though where he had that duty, he may not have been able to return to finish the job of overseeing the peaceful transfer of power. now, that would ve allowed the coup to actually take place. and that interpretation, the far darker one, the more dangerous one, the while we came close one, that
and do his job and defend his department. robert traynham, what s your feeling of how safe jeff sessions is at this point. i look at the commentary from the president about andrew mccabe and what he said about bob mueller. this started many months ago when you had the president going after jeff sessions wondering why he wasn t doing x, y or z. how safe do you think he is in the context of this administration? here s two unfortunate truths. he s skating on thin ice, but everybody in the trump white house is skating on thin ice. here s the ramifications of that. jeff sessions can easily be replaced, but who would he be replaced by so there s a ripple effect here. we have lindsey graham, john mccain, mitch mcconnell, several republicans going on record saying that jeff sessions should stay in the justice department. so the president has a little bit of a conundrum here. we haven t even talked about russia in terms of the pr ramifications if he was to fire sessions. so i think in his h
he started to sweat. they just want him to stop. they have begged him in person to stop. i know people from his administration have too. and he won t. she was asked at that press conference is there any vetting of his tweets going on before they are being sent out because there was some discussion about that possibly happening. her answer essentially was, well, i m not aware of any vetting and moved along and deflected that question. it wasn t that long ago we heard a lot of his spokes people say his tweets speak for themselves. really saying those are the bottom line. and i think they are. i think dana was correct. this is who he is. there s a bible verse that says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. that means whatever you really believe eventually you re going to say. the new version is out of the abundance of the heart or his heart, the hand tweets. that is who had he is. that s what he believes. it has all sorts of ramifications. your legal pr ramifications, b