Now on Bbc News. Highlights of Monday In Parliament, presented by david cornock. Hello again, and welcome to Monday In Parliament. Support for englands Euros Football heroes after theyre the targets of abuse. While theyre the best of us, they have endured vile racism from the worst of us. The Home Secretary warns Social Media Companies. And they can no longer ignore some of the appalling, vile, racist, violent and hateful content that appear on their platforms. Infections are rising, but the Health Secretary confirms most of englands Covid Restrictions will be lifted next week. Now, to those who say, why take this step now . , i say, if not now, when . Also in this programme a minister sounds the alarm in the House Of Lords. It is quite terrifying for these things to come up behind you. You cant hear them and you cant see them until theyre upon you, and they really go quite fast. But first, the Home Secretary has condemned the Racist Abuse on Social Media against members of the england
Media has on free speech. It was an interview with the Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post live, editor of the technology letter. My guest is senator josh hawley, senator from missouri. Welcome to the Washington Post. Hi cat. Im looking at your proposal to break up tech companies in your new book and we want to start with the events of January 6th. Senator, you were the first senator to object to the certification of Joe Bidens electoral college victory. You write in your book, quote, my sin was to raise an objection to one state going the electoral Certification Process. Senator, what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on January 6th . Well, listen, i did what i said i was going to do on January 6th, which was to voice my constituents concerns about Election Integrity and this is something the way that the democrats have done in the last three president ial election, every time a republican president has been elected since the year 2000, democrat
To raise an objection to one state during the electoral college Certification Process. Senator, what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on January 6th . To voice my constituents concerns about integrity and this is something for the process i used to do that the democrats have used in the three of the last president ial elections every time a president has been elected since the year 2000 they subjected to different states over the president ial elections and the law provides for that as a statute and a rule to the House And Senate provides during the electoral Certification Process for objections and debates if there is enough representative at least for every States Debate which is what i did and joined by a number of my colleagues. I objected specifically and senators filed an objection to the state of arizona so we had a debate on both of those and my view is we needed a debate on election integrity. I think it was appropriate to have it and democrats
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with many key manifesto plans either axed or delayed after the election result the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, says the government s in chaos. a threadbare legislative programme from a government that s lost its majority and run out of ideas all together. prince charles accompanied his mother to the state opening, as the duke of edinburgh was unwell. the duke was admitted to hospital last night as a precautionary measure. he s said to be in good spirits. one person is trapped after a crane collapses in crewe. two others have been released and taken to hospital. the first funerals for victims of the grenfell tower fire disaster have taken place, as theresa may apologies for the official response, saying it wasn t good enough. good evening. a host of proposed new laws designed to prepare the uk for a smooth and orderly departure from the eu have been announced in the queen s speech. it was a legislative programme that was dominated by brexit. so let s look at what s in th