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i suppose, what do you think? you understand it s a fiction, it s a drama, so you might think they might be taking some liberties, but you do assume it is very mu. .very. .. it s sticking to the truth. and when we were talking about it last week and we were planning that section of the programme, of course we invited netflix to take part, and it chose not to put a guest into the programme. so the only time we ve actually heard from someone at netflix talking about this was to a parliamentary committee, which is where we get to the latest developments of the story. exactly right. because, as you say, the only time netflix has commented since the furore around this programme was when a netflix executive from the uk, benjamin king, gave evidence to the culture, media and sport committee and he talked about the show in this way. he said it was obviously a true story of the horrific abuse that the writer and protagonist richard gadd suffered at the hands of a convicted stalk ....
of stalking that he underwent and says he underwent in real life. and a lot of the controversy revolves around what happens right at the start of the first episode, where we re told by netflix, by the producer of this programme, this is a true story. exactly. because it is unusual. you know, we re used to seeing these kind of programmes where it might say, this is inspired by true events, or, this is based on a true story. it s very rare to see, this is a true story. and as a viewer, when you watch this as a true story, i suppose, what do you think? you understand it s a fiction, it s a drama, so you might think they might be taking some liberties, but you do assume it is very mu. .very. .. it s sticking to the truth. and when we were talking about it last week and we were planning that section of the programme, of course we invited netflix to take part, and it chose not to put a guest into the programme. so the only time we ve actually heard from someone at net ....
trace: good evening and i am trace gallagher and this is america s late news. fox news at night. the political world heating up. top guy on capitol hill testifying accused of destroying evidence and relating to the origins of covid using things like smoking gun and making e-mails disappear. even democrats took issue. i think he will be haunted by your testimony today and it is unfortunate that it s all on the record. trace: question now is whether dr found she fits in and speaking of testimony. hunter brian hunter biden light three times to professional investigators which is a crime. trace: house republicans have indisputable information that he lied repeatedly but begin at the republican party reuniting behind donald trump even nikki haley is saying she won t vote but what about endorsing or running with him? live in dc with more on the political what-ifs. reporter: so many good questions and i will lay it out this way that that was then and this is now ....
welcome to continuing coverage of israel at war. a short time ago, we received this new video showing israeli tanks and military personnel near the border with gaza. the idf said today, it is increasing airstrikes on gaza and its top commander told forces quote, we will enter the gaza strip. last hour, the international spokesman for the idf told me the general spirit is one of combat readiness and resolve for what needs to be done. obviously, no mention of timing for any kind of ground operation. that is similar to what cnn saw with its own eyes today, dozens of tanks, personnel carriers and bold dozers, what you would expect to see in any possible ground invasion. we should point out come our teams are lots of other locations just like this one. all in all, cnn saw hundreds of armored tanks and vehicles. when president biden was asked today if he was incurring encouraging israelis to delay it invasion, healy said quote, and talking to israelis. palestinian officials ....
tem patrick mchenry which we have been talking about for a couple of days now is now dead, according to multiple gop lawmakers who have spoken to nbc news, like kevin mccarthy and steve scalise, the option did not have enough votes. today in their so-called family meeting, the room got so emotional, matt gaetz confirmed that mccarthy started yelling at him, and punchbowl news reports another lawmaker nearly lunged at him. passions are a little inflamed. i think he s working through the stages of grief. did congressman boss lunge at you at well? i think he was pretty animated. i don t know if i would describe it as a lunge. i said that i thought having speaker light was a bad idea. i think republicans ought to stay in our conference until we elect a speaker. we have a lot of great folks, i m supporting jim jordan. that will be how it goes. joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and punchbowl news cofounder and political contributor, ja ....