stephanie baker joins our senior writer and truly expert on these affairs.tephanie baker, richard pilger is out of nova dame, a 28 year distinguished bureaucrat -- out of notre dame, a 20 year -- in aished your cap, case of years ago. why did this guy resign? barr's move is, unprecedented, and it flies in the face of established justice department rules, which say that investigations are supposed to be conducted by the state and the doj does not get involved until after elections have been certified and confirmed by the state. moreover, they are not supposed to openly announce these investigations. they do not want this to interfere with any election, ongoing election count, etc.. i can see why he resigned. it is, again, another move by barr that flies in the face of established justice department rules, and it is somewhat comforting that he is saying that they should not be investigating claims that are far-fetched, but it does, in the end, i think contribute to the narrative that there is some problem that undermines the integrity of the election results.

joining us: stephanie baker, an american, is senior writer with bloomberg.ey, american by birth, but long resident in the uk, is a columnist on the sunday telegraph. with me in the studio, the bbc‘s diplomatic correspondent, paul adams. there's a british joke from pre—pandemic days about london buses which could readily be applied to vaccines against coronavirus: you wait for ages without seeing one, then they all come at once. last week it was pfizer—biontech, this week moderna as well as astra—zeneca, the manufacturer of a vaccine being developed in oxford here in the uk. the bus in london is neither as frequent or as popular as it was, as england is still in lockdown. though the political discussion throughout the uk is over how to have a covid—safe christmas rather than a covid—friendly one, the global debate is whether santa's sleigh will deliver vaccine for all. stephanie, there are some interesting statistics on this. joe biden has said it will be available for all americans free of charge and the british i think about 335 million doses of seven diffe

joining us: stephanie baker, an american, is senior writer with bloomberg.raph. with me in the studio, the bbc‘s diplomatic correspondent, paul adams. there's a british joke buses which could readily be applied to vaccines against coronavirus: you wait for ages without seeing one, then they all come at once. last week it was pfizer—biontech, this week moderna as well as astra—zeneca, the manufacturer of a vaccine being developed in oxford here in the uk. the bus in london is neither as frequent or as popular as it was, as england is still in lockdown. though the political discussion throughout the uk is over how

joining us for perspective on what we are seeing our stephanie baker who's been following the trump administrationrom the beginning. thanks for joining us. world, it'sside pretty incredible what's happening in the u.s.. what will happen in the next couple of weeks? does the president finally concede? are we expecting more legal challenges to be involved? like trump will not concede or at least not in a way we have become accustomed to. heon't think that means won't actually leave office or leave the white house. i think you will continue to pursue these legal challenges. so far, every legal challenge he's mounted has lost in court because they don't have evidence. i've lost count of the number of legal challenges they've launched. i think it's a by my latest count. so i think legally i don't see it going anywhere. i think this is a strategy had a message you will be hammering for the next four years. i think the expectation is he may announce something that is short of a concession, but also at the same time announcing a potential run in 2024 and that he will be pushing this narrative that the ele

more from senior writer stephanie baker. always great to get your perspective on things. overall significance of william barr's latest move? unprecedented, and he admitted as much in his memo. fraudlarities and investigation are supposed to be conducted by the states and the doj does not get involved until after elections have been certified and confirmed by the states, which has not happened yet. they are not supposed to be conducting overt investigations. it is reassuring that barr asked prosecutors to not investigate what he called fanciful or far-fetched claims and only to pursue claims that if true would impact the outcome of the election, and so far none of those claims that have been advanced would do so. but by doing this, he is undermining the results of the election and adding to questions about election integrity, which is the opposite of what he says he's doing. so as a legal strategy, it doesn't seem to be working. it does seem to be in response demands's claims and that is justice department pursue the whole issue of voter fraud. stephanie, why are republica

joining us to discuss the latest ndc, our senior writer stephanie baker.ve you on the program as always. what is steven mnuchin trying to achieve with this? he is saying is legally mandated under the cares act, that the money expires and it should be returned. democrats have rejected that, saying essentially that it is yet another move by the outgoing trump to box biden in an limit his ability to maneuver. it is kind of incredible that it is happening at this point where there is such desperate need for stimulus package to deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. desperate need for money to be injected into the economy to help struggling businesses, unemployed, people who have lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic. and janet yellen is going to face an unprecedented crisis coming in. arguably as big as the 2008 financial crisis, possibly even the great depression. unlike obama when he came in and 2008, had a democrat-controlled congress, it looks like we will have divided government, so she will have to work incredibly togetherry

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