here to weigh in richard st. paul. on the one hand this makes sense sense.n the other hand i asked does this jeopardize the rule of law in the application of it? in four years when the d.a. be hard pressed to jail the 82-year-old president, former president then? >> so judge merchan could have done a number of things he could find it trump he could assent a sense of probation or jail time. all that would frustrate the process. cpretty much a present ofthe unn or having to serve jail time after they leave? this is white why trumps attornt in the interests of justice this should be dismissed. for me just to dismiss your case but one of which is a supreme court decision in which there were people that actually testified in trumps administration about the presidential things he did his official acts that were used in testimony. judge merchan can hang his hat on that to their self evident of information given to the jury as evidence could use a supreme court case to dismiss the case. this will help of course alan bragg because he can say i am up for election. i d

paul in l.a. jeff, thanks. president biden awarded the presidential medal of freedom today to cecile richards during a private ceremonyt and former president of planned parenthood. president biden said in a post in part with absolute courage she fearlessly leads us forward to be the america we say we are. a nation of freedom. again, the ceremony was closed to any press coverage. up next, a democratic election official, apologizes for some controversial comments about the pennsylvania recount. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 28 in spokane where a deadly bomb cyclone is pounding the specific northwest. one person was killed. two others injured by falling trees in washington state. heavy rains and high winds expected to continue through friday. and this is a live look at tampa. one of the big stories there tonight from fox 13, our affiliate, the tampa bay rays halt plans to build the new ballpark because the county did not finalize bonds last month. county commissioners were set to make a decision tuesday, but delayed that vote until december. the team wants to o

senator rand paul, mind you, is d a medical doctor, said kenned would detox the department after the fauci era. richard haas, let's take a lemoment and talk about how ouconsequential this pick is if indeed, it comes to be. i cmean, he would oversee -- there was talk he might be like a white house health czar with a nebulous role. that doesn't require confirmation. this does. it's a huge post.s. we know he's talked about everything from scaling vaccines to taking fluoride out of the drinking water. lot of dangerous stuff. at the end of the day any president would want to be served by competent people, the best of the best, to head these important agencies, be hard pressed to argue that's what trump's going for here with a number of these picks including kennedy. >> beginning with kennedy and gaetz is a close second choice to become secretary of defense is a third. there's questions of judgment and managerial competence. these are big jobs. large numbers of agencies, large numbers of people, massive budgets. the eoidea that someone like kennedy could have this job. ulhe's supposed to save lives. if he ac

paul richards, the former labour adviser and columnist. good evening to both of you.re very welcome tonight. hi there. as our each and every single one of you, what's on your mind tonight? i do hope you're sitting down, ladies and gents, because we need to talk figures. and when you hear some of these numbers and figures that we need to talk about, trust me, you will wish that you are indeed sitting down. lots to get into and you can join the conversation all the usual ways you can email me, which is gb views @gbnews. com go to the website gbnews.com/yoursay or tweet or x me. are you ready ? tweet or x me. are you ready? then here we go everybody. today it has all been about migration figures. we knew that this day was coming. we saw yesterday, didn't we? kemi badenoch she tried to get ahead of things essentially tough talking, saying to everybody the figures will have come down and it's all because of things that she reckons that the tory party did and deserved some kind of acknowledgement for, although she did also acknowledge that they had made mistakes and got thi

well, we're joined now by former labour special adviser paul richards. good morning paul. good morning. good morning. right . where does this leave right. where does this leave this special relationship? there is a huge amount of baggage, which we either expect donald trump to ignore or forgive . trump to ignore or forgive. >> well, to be honest, i think he'll ignore it because so many people have said so many derogatory things about him over the years. if he if he took it to all heart and snubbed everybody who said something negative, he wouldn't be talking to anybody at all, not least , of to anybody at all, not least, of course, his own vice president elected yesterday as well, who said some horrific things about his president in recent times. so i do think that it's embarrassing for labour, but it's not a sort of, you know, deal breaker because the special relationship transcends it. and of course, our relationship is going to be based on common themes like defence and economic security and so on, so that those things will be the meat of the relationship between us and

. >> let's talk to former labour special adviser and columnist paul richards, who is a friend of thispaul, it's only in september. angela rayner said that and now we have confirmation from number 10 yesterday that local authorities can raise their council tax up to 5%. and in my experience, paulif to 5%. and in my experience, paul, if they can, they will. and of course, inflation is only 1.7%. so that's more than double the rate of inflation. >> sure andrew. but if you look at the things that local authorities actually deliver to local communities, whether it's local communities, whether it's local parks or schools or in some cases fixing the roads and the bins and all these things, people know that these local services are a very important. but b crumbling and stretched and i think most people would rather pay a little bit more on their council tax than live in a decent community where things work and nothing's broken, then have this sort of artificial dampener on the council tax that the previous government installed. so, you know, nobody installed. so, you know, nobody in the world

and on siddhartha rees—mogg , and on siddhartha rees—mogg, former labour party advisor paul richards former adviser to bofis richards and former adviser to boris johnson. remember him? lord kulveer, ranger. of . lord kulveer, ranger. of. two hours of big opinion. big debate and big entertainment. does britain need a general election? we'll debate that after the news headunes we'll debate that after the news headlines with katie bowen . headlines with katie bowen. >> mark. thank you. a very good evening. it'sjust >> mark. thank you. a very good evening. it's just gone 9:00. these are your latest headlines from the gb newsroom. the prime minister has said that he has spoken to welsh first minister eluned morgan about flooding in wales, as four people have now died as a result of the weather brought to the uk by storm babet. leonard morgan has said that it has been a really difficult weekend, describing the impact as absolutely devastating. the storm has brought more than 80% of november's average monthly rainfall in less than 48 hours, to some areas, with more than 100 flood alerts in p

. >> and so let's speak to former labour special adviser and economist paul richards, who joins us now all right. let's talk about the budget. like i said, i credit rachel for the stamina. she reminded me of tweaky out of buck rogers. mickey, mickey, mickey, mickey. okay, buck, do you remember that? but this is the thing. the contents of the budget were aimed to avoid a liz truss scenario. and i predicted a car crash in slow motion rather than a quick head on. which is what? rachel, which is what liz truss was. this is not good, is it? >> well, i completely reject the any suggestion at all. it's anything like liz truss's budget. i mean, that said, well, the interest rates spiralling and the markets crashing and she was out of her job a few weeks later. so you can't slow motion in slow motion. i'm saying it's like it's like i think there are noises off. people like the national farmers union and so on complaining. but, you know, most of us are now going to get faster nhs treatment, 3 million workers are getting a pay rise. low paid workers get from the 1.5 billion national minimum wage.