Approve that because they are in such a dire financial situation, and we will go back when that vote comes in birmingham. As weve been discussing, it isntjust birmingham facing these financial issues. Lets remind ourselves of why we are seeing these cuts happening across the country. Tony travers is professor of Public Policy at the London School of economics. It is London School of economics. It is now 14 London School of economics. It is new 14 years London School of economics. It is now 14 years since London School of economics. It is now 14 years since an London School of economics. It 3 now 14 years since an attempt was made by National Government to bring down its deficit, and that involved piling cuts more on Local Government, and the home office and justice departments, than other parts of public spending, such as the National Health service and the state pension, which have been protected. Local government took deeper cuts than other parts of the Public Sector. Although in the
Are hoping for another victory. Claudine wong has more from at t who showed us great views from inside the park last night and now youre outside. Reporter thats right. Were outside. Were in mccovey cove. Theres four boats out there getting ready for the game. You can see the parking lot starting to fill up. Crews are busy. Preps insaid the ballpark preps inside the ballpark, well underway. Outside two men sat waiting for hours hoping to get a chance inside. We drove out here and camped out. Reporter and you are the only ones out here. Does that tell you that you are the smart ones or stupid. Or a combination of both. Reporter will they get them . We dont know they can buy them from stub hub. But the cheapest seats we could find at 475, they were not seats at all standingroom only. At go big and go home. This is the world series, afterall, 10,000 will get you these seats. If you watched any of game one, you are likely talking about those home runs. Its part of the game. The fact that we
Boris sanchez joins me from the white house where President Trump will remain until the new year. Boris, the president just tweeted on the whole shutdown. What did he say . Reporter thats right, martin, we were waiting for it, anticipating the tweets that come when he is here at the white house alone. As you know, the president deciding to spend the holiday here not with his family, the first lady melania is in palm beach for new years eve. The president tweeted a few moments ago about the shutdown. He writes, quote, i am in the white house waiting for the democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security. From what i hear, theyre spending so much time on president ial harassment that they have little time left for things like stopping crime and our military. Two quick points there. The incoming acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney spoke with reporters at the white house, he was asked if there was a plan for democrats to visit the white house, he said they were not invited. H
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