and all eyes on the georgia primaries, it s a big night for the gop and for donald trump. what will it tell about his power to shape the republican party? tonight with the context former eu foreign policy adviser nathalie tocci, and bryan lanza, a former trump communications director. hello, welcome to the programme. we don t yet have sue grey s full report into the parties held in downing street during lockdown, but we do have new and damning evidence of what went on. for the first time, insiders who attended these gatherings have told the bbc that parties were routine. they say staff sat on each other s laps at a leaving do in november 2020, the same party at which the prime minister is seen raising a glass, and that security guards were laughed at when they tried to stop one party from taking place. laura keunssberg has spoken to three people who worked in whitehall, for the bbc s panorama programme, one of whom had attended one of these parties. their voices are spoke
and develop and therefore avoid the need for a mandatory lockdown? its almost a mirror image of the conversation we were having earlier, coming into the weekend of the 13th of march, the government had not reacted quickly enough because the disease was further advanced than the government believed and we believe. there was no appetite to take it any further. of course, in theory it would have been possible to deliver the stay at home message is an advisory rather than mandatory message but there was some evidence emerging, again some other anecdotal, that having advised people to stay away from crowded indoor spaces like pubs and so on that they wouldn t. i don t know whether it was a focus group, i seem to remember one of the number ten team saying is what we re hearing that if you meant us to stay away from the pubs you would close the pubs. so it seemed necessary to impose mandatory lockdown given how quickly the disease was moving in order to minimise that risk. lard orde
wrong with encouraging korea to cool things down. dana: jesse, take it away. jesse: i don t think little rocket man needs a makeover. why mess with perfection? the high fade, the tan jacket. i think trump aims to entertain but he is also aiming to ridicule, just like he did during the election. he humiliated little rocket man. for the media to question trump s mental stability, they worshiped obama like a cult leader for eight years. they are the ones who are mentally unstable. they need to accept trump s style parties on this for almost two years. stop trying to diagnose him. this is the reaction when you had president obama, you get the opposite. he was thoughtful and professorial and he lead from behind. he never confronted evil.
and i watched in jersey city, new jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. thousand of people? the problem with donald trump s claim is that it simply is not true. and to date he hasn t provided any evidence to back it up. in an attempt to back it up trump tweeted out a 2001 article from the washington post. quote, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attack and holding tailgate style parties on rooftops where they watched the devastation on the other side of the river. the washington post went back and re-examined their own reporting and concluded a number of people is not the same as thousands. and allegedly means there s no actual proof. we had pockets of celebration. reporter: former new york city mayor rudy giuliani