they then moved on to outside new broadcasting house.as well this evening. 24 people remain in hospital, 12 of them are critically ill. for hospital staff, it was an incredibly busy time, treating the victims of burns and smoke inhalation. our health editor hugh pym has been talking to two members of nhs staff who treated victims through wednesday night. siren king's college hospital, one of london's major trauma centres, its staff on the front line of the nhs response to the traumatic and horrific aftermath of the westminster and london bridge attacks, and this week, grenfell tower. dr tom best arrived in the early hours of wednesday. the urgent task was to clear the airways of victims of smoke inhalation and then the particles in their lungs. we found lots of soot lining the lungs. some of that was quite hot when it got into the lungs, and so there were some burns underneath. we washed out as much of that soot as we possibly could to remove it. the emotion at the end of a punishing week is raw. it's... sorry. on a professional level, i

house. it was broadcast, in real-time, was-span, and when the bill introduced in the house, it went to three committees that debated its pros and cons extensively. republicans and democrats offered scores of amendments and many of them were accepted. as house majority whip at the time, and when the bill was debated on the floor, i called it the civil rights act of the 21st century. i gave it the moniker because the aca outlaws many forms of discrimination in health care. it almost discrimination against women were often charge more for health care coverage than me in. -- men. it allowed dissemination against people with pre-existing conditions. the aca repeal bill to house toublicans passed and sent the senate would rip away health care from 23 million americans, and raise costs and rollback protections for millions more. now commence and republicans are working as your own their own trumpcare bill and will not tell you what it is. -- buty won't tell you they want to believe it is more moderate. there's nothing moderate about undermining detections for people with pre-existing conditions by

. >> nicole wallace just under a half hour from now, with deadline white house, both broadcasts on a friday afternoon in june will be loaded to the gills with fresh political news. thank you both. richard painter is with us, former ethics lawyer for the bush 43 white house, a man we have been leaning on a lot lately. for mr. kasowitz's client, the president of the united states, we can't believe that the president made himself available, certainly volunteering to testify under oath and not only that, to testify under oath that the former director of the fbi is lying. >> we'll see what he actually has to say. he was mumbling some of the words there, con fusing the under oath part of this with the allegiance, we'll see what he has to say when he's actually under oath. it's going to be interesting because there's no reason that director comey would have to lie about this, and he kept contemporaneous notes. i have to say that the latest developments which is to report to the director comey to the department of justice for so-called leaking, this is witness intimidating for the president w

i am going to broadcasting house. we have got a dayjob to do, david. to broadcasting house.ics is exciting and one of the complaints often, particularly among young people is they find it warring. this election showed that young people can be energised i politics, that's really whatjeremy corbyn managed to do, he managed to get people involved and intrigued by it, seeing a different way of doing politics, not just the same a different way of doing politics, notjust the same old way and i said earlier, the fascinating thing is we have reverted effectively to a 2—party system, binary choice between the tory party and the labour party, the other parties have fallen aside and for the first time since 1970 we have a vote for 13 and a half million tory, 12 nearly 13 million labour so the bulk of voters and we obviously still have to find out who those voters were, what a young did, the old dead, people in the towns and cities did, universities, all of that stuff... what we have done is moved towards 2—party politics and the result to play for because theresa may must be under extr

those are the white house rules that cnn, fox news, msnbc, c-span, all of the broadcast networks, abc, nbc, cbs, we all have to live with those white house rules. let's hope they change the rules. let me get a quick reaction from senator blumenthal. what's your reaction to this decision by the white house that we can't show the american public this briefing live? >> i never thought, wolf, in america that i would see broadcast news excluded from a white house briefing. i'm in total disbelief and shock, not just as a public official but as a citizen. frankly, there's a pattern of secrecy and concealment here in this white house, secret conversatio conversations, conversations with diplomats and bankers. frankly, the health care plan which was shrouded in secrecy. we now know why -- they were probably ashamed and embarrassed about it. with this pattern is so -- but this pattern of secrecy is so antithetical to american values. i want to say that as a citizen and as a public official, that when the history of this area is written, the free press and independent judiciary will go down as o

and james comey's dramatic senate testimony, we'll host a roundtable discussion later in the broadcast. the house of representatives voted along party lines thursday to overturn obama-era rules aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. the house repeal of the dodd-frank act faces an uphill climb in the senate, where republicans hold a slim 52-seat majority. in yemen, medical groups warned thursday an outbreak of cholera has infected more than 100,000 people. the world health organization says the water-borne illness has claimed the lives of nearly 800 people, and oxfam estimates cholera is claiming one life every hour in yemen. the who says the number of cases could reach 300,000. the epidemic comes amid a u.s.-backed saudi-led bombing campaign and naval blockade that's left the country's sanitation, water, and health infrastructure in shambles. the u.n. warns some 19 million of yemen's 28 million people need some form of aid, with many of them at risk of famine. meanwhile, the associated press is reporting three children and their grandmother were killed today after the saudi-le

unfortunately, the white house has decided that we can't broadcast that briefing from the white housebriefing room live. they won't even let us use the audio. we will discuss that and more. meantime, let me bring in our panel. our cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, laura coates is with us. our senior political analyst, mark preston. our cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. and our chief political analyst, gloria borger. gloria, is it semantics because it's very confusing, sekulow says the president is not under investigation but the president himself tweeted on friday that he is under investigation. >> let's try and put the semantics aside for one moment, the difference between an inquiry and an investigation. what we do know and evan peres has done a lot of reporting on this. we do know law enforcement sources are telling cnn the special counsel is gathering information right now. maybe that's the best way to do it. he's trying to consider whether there is enough evidence to launch some kind of investigation, potentially into the issue of obstruction. so he is at t

and around here, that means it is time for nicolle wallace and her broadcast, "deadline white house." nicolle, you thought it was going to be maybe an easy skate on a friday afternoon, early june. not so. >> i thought we earned it after our eight-hour marathon yesterday. i thought we earned a sleepy friday, but apparently we didn't. another friday and another bombshell development in this k ongoing extravaganza for those in our business. >> good luck with that. the next hour is yours. >> thank you. so if it's friday and it's june, it's another bombshell as we were just saying in the ongoing smack down between this president and his now ousted fbi director in one of the most memorable exchanges in a rose garden press secretary in recent history. john carl pressed the president on the question of whether he would testify before special counsel bob mueller. here it is. >> we get back to james comey's testimony, you suggested he didn't tell the truth in everything he said. he did say under oath that you told him to let the flynn -- you said you hoped the flynn investigation, you could --

house reporter for politico. and we welcome to the broadcast, shannon petty piece, white house correspondent for bloomberg. welcome to you all. in fact rick i'm going to start with you. in the world of politics and law, there is one thing good about having a special counsel looking into your business, saying nothing of on day 141 of your administration. that one good thing is a free pass you get as long as there's a special counsel to say, i can't take that question. any questions along these lines should be referred to the special counsel. there's an investigation going on. the president didn't use that free pass today, and seemed glad to engage on the topic. >> you know, he does it in that kind of new york law way. i mean ever since he was sued in 1973 under the fair housing act, and then roy cohn his attorney, his owedious attorney counter-sued the government for $100 million -- what he doesn't do is stay quiet. what he does is attack attack attack and wait to be questioned, avoid being questioned, and sometimes under oath he actually has to tell the utd troo. there was a great story in the "washington

to the community secretary to get a bigger picture as to what the housing department plans to do about this move. helpful if broadcasters to be a bit patriotic" the leader of the house of commons, andrea leadsom has said it would be helpful if broadcasters "were willing to be a bit patriotic" with regards to brexit. she made the comment while being questioned by newsnight‘s emily maitliss about the uk's position in talks with the eu. we had various different eu politicians, the elected boss of sessions saying it was a good start. of course it is very early days. sessions saying it was a good start. of course it is very early daysm has been a year... it would be helpful... it would be helpful if broadcasters would be patriotic. the country made a decision... are you accusing me of being unpatriotic third and questioning how negotiations are going? we all need to pull together as a country. we made a decision one year ago today the european union. the remarks have been described as a sinister threat to free media and said she should apologise. more than 100 people are missing after a landslide in south—western china. abou

house briefing room. none of the cable or broadcast networks have access to live pictures of the actual briefing once it beginssupposed to begin at any moment with press secretary sean spi spicer. and once again, so far, unless the white house reverses itself, the white house is not allowing live cameras. the american public won't be able to see it or hear it live, only after the briefing is concluded, according to white house rules. will the networks, cable and broadcasts be able to air the audio-only of the briefing. no video. won't be able to see the questions and answers. we'll hear them, but only after the briefing is concluded. i bring in our senior media and politics reporter dylan byers. the past two weeks we've seen what two live news briefinging at the white house with the press secretaries. what's the new strategy for the rouse about? >> avoid being seen on camera taking questions they don't want to answer, in fact, can't answer, oftentimes because they don't have the go-ahead from the president of the united states himself. it's a lot easier to do that off camera, and not be under the scrutiny of t

the broadcaster says it's a bid to "silence freedom of expression". the white house mueller, the head of the inquiry into possible collusion between the trump election campaign and russia. mr trump's spokesman sean spicer said the president had the authority to dismiss mr mueller, but had no intention of doing so. he was speaking after mr trump questioned mr mueller‘s impartiality in a television interview. he is very good friends, which is bothersome. but we will have their say. we'll out dc in look, there has been no obstruction. there has been no collusion. there has been leaking byjames no collusion. there has been leaking by james comey. there no collusion. there has been leaking byjames comey. there has been no collusion, no obstruction, and virtually everybody agrees that. that's get more of —— on this from laura bicker. he has said that he is not going to fire bob mueller, who is leading up the investigation on collision between the trump campaign in russia. it looks like he is not going to be fired. but he is certainly throwing up some doubt as to how indepe

she will be broadcasting live all weekend long from inside this house. inside the monitoring room in her house in los angeles. there are 41 cameras all over the house to capture every move she makes. here's the cool thing. i had a chance to talk to katy. why expose your entire world to the world. >> sometimes people don't see me as human. if you realize i'm human you realize you can do everything i've done. just an hour after releasing katie's new album her rival taylor made a bold >> let's start with the surprise move by taylor swift as they feud escalates. just one hour after katy perry kicked off her live screening stunt, taylor swift made a bold, calculated move. swift rereleased her entire catalog to spotify and other streaming services. >> this is a huge deal. she's the biggest pop star out, and was the last holdout from streaming. it does make you scratch your head. >> katy's album went to number one on itunes this morning. it includes a song widely seen as a swipe at taylor. ♪ switch switch switch how did this start? taylor seemed to be talking a

. >> the white house has turned it into a form of theater where it's way for them to communicate to their supporters, we constantly insult the press and the cable networks broadcastupporters. it's an active political theater for them. >> as a reporter who spends some time in the beltway but also a lot of time out in the different parts of america. i wouldn't say rule. i'll say baltimore and urban america too. i think it doesn't serve the purpose of the press to make this where we fight and where our big battle is. when i interviewed people who don't have running water who voted for donald trump because they thought their lives would be better, when people don't have jobs. it served this idea that we are this elitist place it needs to be exactly the say it was or we're going to have this argument at 1:00 every day. it lets the white house say they are always arguing about this. they don't care about what's going on in your life. >> you have an obligation because you never know what they might say, i'd put, go out there, have the camera. we shouldn't send our corresponds deko corresponkocorrespon correspondents. >> it's suppose to be the the place where you learn s

house bill to repeal and replace obamacare before it eventually passed that chamber. today, senate republicans are feeling that same pressure. let's talk about this tonight. joining our broadcast democratic policeter coronell belcher with a number of of house and senate democrats. we're happy to have as well david frum speechwriter for george w. bush appear a senior editor at atlantic rgs. this is a deeply single conversation because it leaves out the people who are the customers and bosses in american politics, the constituents, the people who need and want health care and are nervous about it. but, if you're the democrats do you continue to just watch this and stay away as not to own it? >> well, i mean here the problem. it is a broken process, right... you know there probably are enough democrats if republican -- with mitch mcconnell and enough other republicans would come to the table and make compromising to in fact tweak obamacare and make obamacare work better which by the way was once upon a time a republican idea. but the problem is politicly they would pay a heavy price. particularly in the gerry mannedered district what is best for the american people ultimately bec

we woemg catty kay to the broadcast the first time tonight ppt chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" peter baker. white house correspondent tor i iesh hereby of an with us round out our very own subcommittee of white house press. white house bureau chief for are the "washington post" phillip rucker. peter i'm beginning with you because you were the last to file of this group. you filed a story tonight that says among other things what appears to be the president's simering anger, a lot of it goes back to attorney general jeff sessions. please explain how that is. >> well if you look at today's twitter storm, there are lots of things you can take out. one of the things you can take is the president's seeming dissatisfaction with his own justice department. he acts as if the justice department is some other branch of government not under his control he says the justice department shouldn't have done this should to this. what that reflects is sort of this -- this resentment, this sort of unhappiness he has with jeff sessions, the attorney general who had been wup of his

we welcome caddy kay to our broadcast for the first time tonight. chief white house correspondent upon the "new york times," peter baker. white house correspondent for reuters. and to round out our sib subcommittee of white house press corps, white house bureau chief for the "washington post," philip rucker. welcome to you all. peter i'm going to begin with you, you were the last to file of this group. you filed a story tonight that says, among other things, what appears to be the president's simmering anger a lot of it goes back to attorney general jeff session. please explain how that is. >> well, if you look at today's twitter storm, there are lots of things you can take out of it. one of the things is the president's seeming dissatisfaction with his own justice department. it acts as if it is another branch of government not under his control, the justice department shouldn't have done this, should do this. what that reflects is this resentment, this unhappiness he has with jeff session, the attorney general, who had been one of his earliest supporters. that goes

house. later in the interview, ivanka trump said she would give her father a for the job he has done as president so far. that is our broadcastwe start a new week. thank you for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> the president's son-in-law has tonight hired one the of country's most prominent criminal defense lawyers. this prominent criminal defense lawyer will be representing jared kushner personally in the trump/russia investigation. his name is abbe lowell. he is one of the few criminal defense lawyers in america who i think counts as household name. he is most famous for having been the democrats' top lawyer during the impeachment proceedings against bill clinton. he also represented the fabulously corrupt convicted republican super lobbyist, jack abram off.

the broadcaster says it's a bid to silence freedom of expression. the white houseays the tension between qatar and other gulf nations is a family issue which should be resolved locally. in about ten minutes we'll have this week's edition of newswatch. but now on bbc news, click. la la la los angeles. a city of many sights. there's the movies. the beaches. the high life. and in between each of them... ..a whole lot of this. with hardly any rail alternative, the traffic here drives the locals to distraction. it's led some of the bigger thinkers to suggest radical alternatives. electric car and space travel guru elon musk has even started digging a tunnel. he envisions an asimovian network of car and passenger carrying tubes underneath cities in the future. how boring. meanwhile, back in the almost real world of marina del rey, a more modest way to reduce traffic. two electric cars that belong to a whole apartment block. envoy operates a closed car share system. the vehicles can be booked out by residents only and used for up to three hours at a time. now this is not

broadcaster, rachel shabi. parliament has been hit by a cyber—security attack. houserities say they are investigating unauthorised attempts to access mps and peers' email accounts. mps were told about the attack on friday night. the international trade secretary liam fox said people needed to make sure they used strong passwords. we know that there are regular attacks by hackers attempting to get passwords. we have seen reports in the last few days of even cabinet ministers' passwords being for sale online. we know that our public services are attacked so it is not at all surprising that there should be an attempt to hack into parliamentary e—mails so it is a warning to everybody, whether they are in parliament or elsewhere, that they need to do everything possible to maintain their own cyber security, including having complex and therefore safer codewords. professor alan woodward is a cyber security specialist at the university of surrey, and hejoins us from wiltshire via webcam. thank you forjoining us this evening. just how easy would it have been to spot that the

we'll talk to a house republican later on in the broadcast who was instrumental in passing the republicanversion in the house. we'll get his take on the senate version. unlike the senate, conservatives for former presidential candidate bernie sanders is coming at the bill from the left and from the ground in some politically key states. he'll be headlining a bus tour this weekend making stops in pennsylvania, ohio, west virginia, challenging the proposed legislation and urging senators from those states to save the affordable care act. senator sanders joins us right now from burlington, vermont. thank you for being here. >> good to be with you. >> you call this the most harmful piece of legislation you've seen in your statement. that's an extraordinary statement. >> you're right. it's an extraordinary statement because this is an extraordinary piece of legislation. if you throw 23 million people off of health insurance, if you cut medicaid by over 800 bill$8 billion, there is no question but that thousands of americans will die. if you are sick, if you have a chronic illness and you can't

right, time for our important question of the day, it's a simple one: should the white house end these ridiculous broadcastsfrom you. i think they show. go to facebook .com/sean hannity. let us know what you think. that is all the time we have left. we hope you set your dvr so you never miss an episode of hannity. i'm off for a few days. kimberly guilfoyle will be joining u you tomorrow. god bless america. in case you are returning from new zealand and misty. here's what he wrote. i heard poorly rated @morning_joe speaks badly of me " (don't watch anymore). then how come low i.q. crazy mika, along with psycho joe, came.. ...to mar-a-lago 3 nights in a row around new year's eve, and insisted on joining me. she was bleeding badly from a face-lift.

we do not had enough time in this broadcast to give you everything in the house.trump is going to start to unwind what they did and get the senate along. that's where you have the pressure now. i want to say one other thing going back to the bare monsanto barrett monsanto deal. the biggest mergers last year. a lot of people think that this deal is in jeopardy and particularly because the timetable for filing with the eu they need that approval. it is in jeopardy. they want to do it by the end of june. guess what, and of june is a couple weeks away. no analysts think they're going to get this. and if it doesn't hit and you have the whole summer off. because europe goes dark in the summer basically and then had to question yourself as a steel going to get done. monsanto still remains far below the offer price. i could be wrong. and pretty sure it was. it is still below that. that's 117. it probably won't happen. u.s. approval they don't have eu approval. and not filing means that they smell something. they are traditionally really meticulously tight on that. closing

the first white house briefing after it was revealed is also closed off from live broadcast so the public cannot hear the white house's take on it. and some protesters outside senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's office were dragged away by capitol police. some of them in their wheelchairs. many of them say were there to say what would happen to them if medicaid is slashed, and indeed the senate version makes deep cuts to medicaid which provides health care for about one in five americans, many of them the poor and disabled. as it's written, the bill also repeals the individual mandates and gets rid of taxes on the wealthy and ensures that funded obamacare. what the senate plan would deliver is more generous tax credits for people to pay for individual coverage compared to the house plan, and it keeps the popular policy allowing children to stay on their parent's plans until they are 26 years old. senator mitch mcconnell hopes that democrats will join republicans in passing that bill. >> they can choose to keep standing by as their failing law continues to collapse and hurt more ameri

broadcast in the past. in washington, we're joined by our white house correspondent and our political corporate for "the washingtonanco, what happened today, what in your mind was the lead story and what are the ramifications. >> it's pretty interesting, i will say that one thing as you pointed out, this is something that has been of interest to a lot of people, but he really didn't cancel the deal, what he did today was fulfill a campaign promise. he mentioned that, he said that repeatedly, during the speech today. let's not forget that during the primaries, candidate trump during that time repeatedly said that he was for engagement with cuba, he just talked about maybe striking a better deal. it wasn't until the general election, that he started taking this kind of hard line approach, and it was then that he talked about reversing the deal, and now he's somewhat fulfilling that obligation that he pointed out he was going to do. you still have a lot of the measures that obama had put in place, even critics like ben rhodes, the architect of this thing is kind of breathing a sigh of relief saying this isn't as bad

house. you'd imagine a seasoned broadcaster and former political official would record them. if he didn't, that's a little odd to me. and if he did tell all these people, then, i'm wondering also why he sat on it for so long. >> i ask the same question to nbc. why -- this seems like a disturbing thing that was happening in april. why didn't you tell your audience as it happens happening? and there's no comment from nbc or from scarborough, but you know, he says he has these texts. we'll see if they're provided. the president says he got a call from scarborough and said, no, i'm not going to help you but no doubt there is a cozy relationship between trump and the national enquirer, so if you're at the grocery store and you see the trump headline in the supermarket tabloid, you might wonder, there is something going on there. >> we'll talk about that in a second with the new yorker piece on david pecker. >> don't forget the also cozy relationship that once existed between "morning joe" and president trump. that's sort of gotten lost in this. they cultivated a relationship with

house divided. >>> we don't often advertise homes for sale on this broadcast, but michelle miller found a fixer-upper that really is one of a kind. >> have a look at my stone house. there's the border post right there. >> reporter: brian demoulin inherited this home 30 years ago and is reluctantly putting it on the market. >> this is a stairway that leads to the canadian apartments. >> reporter: okay. and over here? >> u.s. >> reporter: you heard him right. this house is literally in two nations at once. bee plain, vermont and stamstead, quebec, canada. the table on the floor in this upstairs room indicates approximately where the border is. selling a home that actually straddles two countries is proving to be a bit of a challenge. >> my ideal buyer is someone with dual citizenship. >> reporter: realtor rosemary lalime. >> it makes it more difficult because i have to make sure they have the right customs papers to own the property. >> reporter: the historiom was built in the early 1800s as a place to ease commerce between both countries. the nine-bedroom, five-bath estate is listed as $109,000 and ne

broadcast. the unwillingness of white house press secretary sean spicer to answer simple yes or no questions aboutig and small, all of which the president has either spoken or tweeted about already. instead, spicer says he hasn't asked the president. he hints or outright promises to ask, then never seems to. keeping 'em honest, we're actually keeping a list of the questions. are there tapes of the president's conversations with james comey? do people contribute to global warming? does the president believe russia melded in the election? did president obama wiretap president-elect trump? did voter fraud give hillary clinton the popular vote victory? what's weird, on all these questions, the president has already weighed in, either hinting at or flat-out stating an answer. yet when sean spicer is asked for a yes or no, he says he doesn't know and hasn't asked. hence that list which we just showed you, which we'll be showing wherever one of those questions is asked or answered, or the way it's been for months now when it's asked and not answered. earlier this evening, i spoke about it with "washingto

house. later in the interview, ivanka trump said she would give her father a for the job he has done as president so far. that is our broadcastw week. thank you for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> mr. president, can we ask you about the cbo report? >> thank you very much, everybody. i appreciate it. thank you. >> there are 22 million more uninsured. >> does the republican bill have enough heart? >> are you -- >> silence from the president on health care. new report finds the senate gop bill would leave 22 million more americans uninsured over the next ten years. now at least four republicans don't even want it to come up for a vote. >> plus, a big legal win for the president. the supreme court has given the go ahead to begin enforcing parts of the trump administration's travel ban. >>> an ominous warning from the white house. the administration accuses the syrian government of

house. the concerts are being broadcast weekend cameras set on the state, behind the stage and in the audiencel the fans need are the dvr headset and the smartphone to download the app. >>> virtual reality is providing us an opportunity to experience the same thrills you experience live at the events and that is something we try to capitalize on. >> right now the summer concert series is free for those that want to join the live shows. there will be concert's. >>> president trump is meeting with the head of the international olympic committee talk about the possible summer games coming back to los angeles, competing with paris to host the 2024 or 2028 summer olympics. one city would get one in the other we get the other year. paris would prefer to go first and president trump is expressing support for the la olympic bid and it was posted in 1932 in 1989 -- hosted in 1932 and in 1989 olympic games. >>> the warriors could do some wheeling and dealing and purchase a picket they see one falling in the draft. the big man is expected to be drafted today, ivan rabb expected to go through the first ro

i'm a house [ bleep ] >> controversy erupted on social media following friday's live broadcast of realtimeh bill mauer. hbo hasn't announced plans to take action against maher who's been with the network for 15 years. it stirred up examples of past statements and jokes that critic say have gone too far. >> bill mar's interview began with praise for sasses new book and his home state of nebraska. >> we'd love to have you work in the fields with us. >> work in the fields? [ laughter ] >> senator. i'm a house [ bleep ] >> it's a joke. >> martin sass continued the interview without mentioning the comment. among those expressing outrage south carolina senator tim scott. >> honestly, it was an ou folks use the language in such a flippant way. >> he later tweeted he wish he'd replied. why would you think it's okay to use that word. >> maher said the word was offensive, and i regret saying it and i'm very sorry. but he has a long history of controversial comments on everything from the islamic faith. >> the only religion that acts like the mofia that will [ bleep ] kill you if you say the wrong th

the broadcaster says it's a bid to "silence freedom of expression". the white houseays the tension between qatar and other gulf nations is a family issue which should be resolved locally. police have charged darren osborne with terrorism—related murder —— the government's deal with a french energy company to build a new nuclear power station in somerset has been criticised as "risky and expensive" by the public spending watchdog. the national audit office says ministers have locked consumers into paying for hinkley point through a subsidy on electricity bills that's risen from £6 billion to £30 billion. the government says the plant will provide clean electricity for six million homes. our science editor david shukman reports. each scoop of this digger lifts 30 tonnes of earth. look down at the driver of the truck below for a sense of scale. this is where one of two nuclear reactors will stand at hinkley point. 1,600 people work here now. soon, it will be 5,000. it's an immense and controversial project, and even now, the national audit office has weighed in, attacki

aneeda kumar, white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspaper, and we welcome to the broadcast, kimberly atkins, chief washington from "the boston herald," a lawyer by training, we assume she is in recovery from that. welcome to all of you, michael, home field advantage. we'll start with you. back up to the top of our broadcast a little bit of a nondenial/denial from trump even considering firing robert mueller. how would it work? i know he has the ability, the power to do so, but it would normally go to the attorney general but for the fact he recused himself on all things russia. >> it would go to rod rosenstein, the guy who played the central role in the firing of comey would now have to make the decision about whether to get rid of mueller. now, some folks say rosenstein would stand up and would resign and would leave himself. but this is the guy who didn't do that for comey. he was willing to go along with the firing of comey, so he's already down this path. it would obviously create a huge crisis at the justice department. but we thought that firing comey would create a huge crisis

testify in congress thursday, an event expected to be covered live by most broadcasting cable news networ networks. the white house now says the president will not assert executive privilege over his testimony and the head of the senate intel committee had this to say about what's in the director's e-mails. >> did you ask to see the comey memos? >> he knows what's in the memos. >> i think eventually -- i think washington stays locked up forever. >> meanwhile, senator burr confirms they have received some of the documents for which they issued a subpoena looking into michael flynn and his companies. deadline is close of business today. what remains to be seen is how the administration itself will react. the associated press was first to report that efforts to create a war room to handle all things russia has stalled. quote, the process has been bogged down by a lack of decision-making in the west wing over to you to proceed as well as reluctance from some of those the white house hoped to recruit about serving a president who keeps getting in his own way. the onus is expected to fall outside the white house and bel

what i would communicate to the white house and the world tlud this broadcast. look at me, mr. president. stop it. stop with the tweets. if you would only stop, we could get out here and defend you for it. >> he's not the first one to do that. you see, marco rubio isn't a sar g surrogate for the president but you have seen surrogates get on tv. the mixed messaging is the rule, not the exception for this white house. they are not great at pushing one message. we have seen it on a range of issues. this one is particularly important. it's causinging a lot of heart burn on the hill. in the senate, they are trying to put together a health care bill. yes, right now it is behind closed doors. they want to talk about what they are going for the country whether than whether or not the president is going to fire the special council. can you imagine if that happens what would happen on the hill? you would have a lot of senators running and not wanting to talk to anybody about it. they don't want to have to stand-up for something that would be wildly unpopular. so, you know, we don't know

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the broadcaster says it's a bid to silence freedom of expression. the white housea family issue which should be resolved locally. in about ten minutes we'll have this week's edition of newswatch. but now on bbc news, click.

the broadcaster says it's a bid to "silence freedom of expression". the white houseays the tension between qatar and other gulf nations is a family issue which should be resolved locally. europe's most senior official has criticised the uk's offer to eu nationals after brexit, claiming it could "worsen the situation" for them. european council president donald tusk said the plan was "below expectations" — and german chancellor angela merkel said there had been "no breakthrough". now on bbc news...click. this week, driving arizona. teaching tanzania. and clowning in california. los angeles. a city of many sites. there's the movies. the beaches. the high life. and in between each of them, a lot of this. with hardly any rail alternative, the traffic he drives the locals to destruction. it's led some of the big thinkers to suggest radical alternatives. elon musk has started digging a tunnel he envisages a network of car and passenger carrying tubes underneath cities in the future. how boring. meanwhile, back in the almost real world, a more modest way to reduce traffic.

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the broadcaster says it's a bid to "silence freedom of expression". the white housemily issue which should be resolved locally. europe's most senior official has criticised the uk's offer to eu nationals after brexit, claiming it could "worsen the situation" for them. european council president donald tusk said the plan was "below expectations," and german chancellor angela merkel said there had been "no brea kthrough". one of cricket's most recognised voices for over half a century is retiring after a5 years in the commentary box.

. >> she's broadcasting 24/7, sort of a "big brother" style house, for 96 straight hours. >> there she is sleeping. >> amazing to think how well you can sleep if you think there are millions of people watching you. >> what's on her

the broadcaster says it's a bid to "silence freedom of expression". the white houseays the tension between qatar and other gulf nations is a family issue which should be resolved locally. europe's most senior official has criticised the uk's offer to eu nationals after brexit, claiming it could "worsen the situation" for them. european council president donald tusk said the plan was "below expectations" — and german chancellor angela merkel said there had been "no breakthrough". now on bbc news. the week in parliament. plymouth hello and welcome to the programme. in the week that the queen came to westminster for the state opening of parliament and set out the plans of the government for the next two years, starting with brexit. my government will seek to maintaina deep brexit. my government will seek to maintain a deep and special partnership with the european allies and to forge new trading relationships across the globe. theresa may sets out what action the government is taking following the grand felt how fire that reveals other high—rise blocks could be at risk.