hospital beds in england were almost full last week, with the usual winter pressures, still to come. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may is here in brussels for a crucial summit of eu leaders after surviving yesterday s confidence vote of conservative mps. the prime minister has come here looking for concessions that will help sell her brexit deal in particular, she wants a promise that the plan to prevent checks at the irish border, known as the backstop, will only be temporary. it s a key issue for her tory critics who forced last night s ballot. the eu leaders gathering here right now have made it clear they won t renegotiate the deal itself, but the bbc has seen the draft conclusions of this summit which suggest they will try to offer new assurances about the backstop as our correspondent adam fleming reports. safe in herjob, for now, theresa may has sped to brussels to secure tweaks to the brexit deal. first stop, a meeting with the irish prime minister
have neil degrasse tyson. just this week we saw another devastating storm with hurricane michael. our thoughts are with all the survivors whose homes were devastated. we still have a lot to learn about this particular storm. it s become more and more clear that global warming and climate disruption are linked to these storms becoming more unpredictable. mother nature doesn t care what political party you re a part of. this is something that impacts every single one of us. speaking of political parties, by the way, can we please stop this ridiculous debate about which political party can claim absolute moral high ground in america? because i m sick of it. i am sick of the conservative right now pretending to be outraged over comments made by hillary clinton and eric poulter this week after conveniently ignoring for three years rhetoric by donald trump. they say judge him on his policies, not what he says but what he does. but they take eric holder literally as a democrat to ig
back to houston where he ll lie in state and he ll be laid to rest at his presidential library in dallas. i ll be joined by the threat president bush s late chief of staff, john sununu, the son of billy graham, franklin graham, and george strait who had his own personal relationship with president bush. joining me on the form, former advisor for the 92 campaign, charlie black. charlie it s my pleasure on this sad day. judge jeanine: throughout the hour we ll talk about the president and his amazing accomplishments and his legacy. tell us something about him that no one knows. well, he was some people know this, but he was an incredible man. a man of personal courage and political courage. he believes in public service for the sake of service, not just for political ego gratification. but the thing i would say is he was uncommonly kind and courteous. i worked with him for about five years, you know, closely, almost daily. and of all the people i have worked with in po