Howard weve all seen this movie before way too many times, its washington Melodrama Beloved by the media, suspenseful story, a ticking clock. Its a selfinflicted crises with a Government Shutdown hanging in the balance, and journalists start issuing dire warnings of all the people whod be hurt if the feds cant pay their bills. Talk about a waste of time, an endless parade of dysfunction. Its real americans who will be paying the price while the elect representatives who are suppose to be working for you, they arent doing that. A Government Shutdown that will leave roughly 7 million women and children without s. M. A. P. Benefits which means they could go hungry. Active duty Military Members will go without pay. Howard the warnings come true and the focus shifts to how long the politicians will keep squabbling before coming to their senses, or theres a last minute if deal. Thats what happened last night. And usually that means a stopgap funding measure, in this case about six weeks, tha
is good for democracy. can i ask the secretary of state how we can ensure we do not lose out on that front? democracy, critically local democracy, is at the heart of a lot of what the bbc does. that is why it will be an important element of conversations we have moving forward and an important contribution. as i have said a number of times, the discussions, the debates which will have in this place, the evidence that we will take moving forward, it hasn t begun. we are six, seven years away. that is the consultation we will have here, the evidence we will gather here, the debates and discussions we will have. those discussions we will have. those discussions will start shortly. we are talking about the new funding model that will start in 2028. my ri . ht model that will start in 2028. ni right honourable model that will start in 2028. m: right honourable friend model that will start in 2028. m; right honourable friend will be aware that last year at the number of tv licenses purchased
protections undergirding the first amendment. a guy that s trying to take away tv licenses for networks that oppose him. oh guy who is calling the press enemy of the people. a guy we report this morning who yesterday was attacking the independent judiciary. a guy who was saying our judicial system, which actually is brian and anybody else that studied this will know, it s our judicial system that separates us from just about every other country on the planet. the fierce independence of our judiciary system. but donald trump attacks all of these democratic institutions every day. so i ask again today like i asked two or three days ago, how do you split that baby? you can t. how do you say, well, we shouldn t be so hostile toward donald trump because we got
again on social media. after that tax rally in pennsylvania, as he s making his way to the white house, he s tweeting again, talking about what he was talking about earlier, about fake news, as he often does, but she s escalating that, going after the idea of network licenses, broadcast licenses, which, of course, are the purview of the public air waves. this is what he said in a tweet. let s lack at this, with anderson. he says this. network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and if appropriate, revoked. not fair to public. anderson, this has echoes of the nixon administration, when similar things were tried in the nixon white house, with some local licenses of tv stations owned by the washington post at the time, that was breaking all of those stories. of course, this is difficult to do. the president is largely just venting frustration. his aides said earlier. but, again, extraordinary for a president to go after network tv licenses.
president and had a women s car card. she supposed to stand up and say it as eloquently as he put it. she didn t, she still hasn t. sandra: we will leave it there. president trump stepping up his battle with the media. why he is threatening to yank tv licenses for what he calls lies. plus, fire chiefs saying it will get worse before it gets better. the wildfires shaping up to be the worst in california s history as more evacuations are ordered. evacuations are still going on. we have 300 law enforcement officers working right now in this county and they are from all over the state. a lot of resources allowing them to do that.