account is closed for 11 minutes by a member of staff on their last day. hello, a very good morning to you. it s friday the 3rd of november. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the storm over allegations of sexual harassment labour has suspended an mp. he has yet to comment on the claims. his promotion to the shadow cabinet last year after the complaint was first made and he was reprimanded by the party has been criticised. labour s leaderjeremy corbyn refused to comment when approach this morning. good morning mr corbyn. goodbye. did you know about mr hopkins‘s behaviour? are you aware of the allegations against him, mr corbyn before you promoted into the shadow cabinet? were you aware of the allegations against mr hopkins, sir? goodbye. meanwhile the former defence secretary michael fallon says he categorically denies the claim he made inappropriate comments to andrea leadsom. she herself is yet to respond. well, we have been speaking to our correspondence in westminster very s
booktv college series. this month we are at pepperdine university. wade grams have stomach booktv to talk about his book in which he looks at the nations gardens at the people who design them. this is about half an hour. now on the tv we want to introduce you to wade graham who is the author of american eden. guest: i do a series of things. i design gardens and imho the list. host: how did you get interested or acted. i got a chance early in life who taught me how to do it. she was quite a powerful designer. so in the defining gardens and writing about the environmental history i realized i was quite ignorant about what i was doing. i knew how to do it and i could do english garden with a modern house that is strictly i didn t know why people needed these things and it came to me quite strongly that only by ignorance but it was an interesting question. my husband has commissioned and has lots of sharp things and they said about and what you please design me in english
guest: the biggest take away you would want people to take away from their book. the core of a couple of things a really resonated with me that were scenes that carried over from when i had written my book on privacy. and it really struck me again. eat your tie back to the founding father, the constitution, to personal rights what would be one or two things you would want somebody listening today or when they read your book, what would you want them to take away from this conversation? guest: i want people to be aware that when you read this book the zero case studies drawn from recent media events. these are not conspiracy types made up of events to where i am alleging that we are on this police state track and it is just a crazy ten foil hat argument. you know, these are things that you can flip on the evening news and look through the newspaper and see happening every day. federal, state, and local government encroaching all aspects of human activity. the biggest take
on the wrong side of the law and noted so. but i think that everybody who worked at the nixon white house knew the difference between right and wrong, and they you have a great meter in our gut tests of things. everything i thought was wrong when i pulled out the law books, was wrong. so to me the lesson is, when it feels wrong, it probably is wrong. double-check, we have an also rather interesting situation jive in your 30s only and you re a lawyer in the white house, bang the door downed, raise your hand and say maybe you re going to go out and take an extraordinary amount of courage for somebody to actually do that. guest: i blew up one break-in, which was the brookings. they never thanked mr. for saving their build that i go were going to fire-bomb. host: i doubt if they will. guest: i think you re right. anyway, that s one lesson. we all have good sense host: your gut, is this right or wrong? guest: exactly. and, for lawyers, that what as a result of wa
about our underlying institutions, which is useful, so never let a good crisis go to waste. it s also the case that california, by virtue of the size of its economy, by far the largest economy in the united states. it s on 0 global par, seventh or eight, up there with brases sill terms of its regulatory decisions, taking on air pollution, cleaning up tail pipes, cleaning up water. the stayed had a clean water act before the federal one, a clean air act before the federal one, coastal act before any other states. and it s been able to drive through those kinds of decisions. it s been able to sort of entrain the rest of the country because markets look to california because it s so large, most populous state. so california makes a decision, for example, to take lead out of gasoline. automakers are going to take it out across country and make it a decision to require catalytic converters. the whole country will turn if california makes a decision as the state did under arnold