chris page, bbc news.dered the schoolgirl alesha macphail has had his sentence reduced by three years on appeal. aaron campbell was 16 when he was sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years injail for killing the six—year—old on the isle of bute last year. today, judges ruled the sentence should be reduced to 2a years. the world must invest nearly £1.5 trillion over the next decade to make the planet more resilient to climate change, according to a new study. the report by leaders in politics, business and science has found that the money is needed for areas including agriculture, water supplies and infrastructure. the global commission on adaptation says the pay—off would be worth more than £5.5 trillion. our science and environment correspondent victoria gill is here with me now. a huge figure but how did they come up a huge figure but how did they come up with that? that is what is different about this report, it is an economic cost benefit analysis. the global commission made up of these really influ

chris page, bbc news, belfast. the headlines on bbc news... opposition leaders in parliament agree to stop borisjohnson having a snap election until brexit is delayed beyond the end of october. peers have approved legislation aimed at blocking a possible no—deal brexit. robert mugabe — the man who delivered independence for zimbabwe but went on to become its dictator — has died at the age of 95. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's coming up on bbc news, a good partnership between captainjoe britt and rory burns, but will it be another england? britt and rory burns, but will it be another england 7 they britt and rory burns, but will it be another england? they have dug in at the portraits the ashes, after australia declared on a97 for eight yesterday. we also look forward to the men's semifinals at the yes open and serena williams is through to the final. we hearfrom and serena williams is through to the final. we hear from anthony's joshua ahead of his rematch and michael owen speaks to me about that twitter spat wit

chris page, bbc news, belfast. the headlines on bbc news...the end of october. peers have approved legislation aimed at blocking a possible no—deal brexit. robert mugabe — the man who delivered independence for zimbabwe but went on to become its dictator — has died at the age of 95. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's coming up on bbc news, a good partnership between captainjoe britt and rory burns, but will it be another england? britt and rory burns, but will it be another england ? they britt and rory burns, but will it be another england? they have dug in at the portraits the ashes, after australia declared on

chris page, bbc news, derry. and wales has been named. nicole jacobs has worked for domestic abuse charities for 20 years. her appointment is part of the government's planned domestic abuse bill — which has been held up because of the suspension of parliament. facebook is appointing an independent panel which will make decisions about what content can be allowed on the network. the a0 members, from around the world, will be given the power to over—rule facebook‘s own policies, but experts have questioned the board's independence as it will be fully financed by facebook. the site has been criticised for not doing enough to address hate speech and abuse. boris johnson has condemned attacks on saudi arabia's major oil facilities, in a phone call with the country's crown prince. mrjohnson urged saudi leaders to work with their allies to agree a collective response to the attacks. the us is blaming iran but it has denied carrying them out. andy moore reports. sirens blare. the air attacks on saudi oil facilities on sa

chris page, bbc news.7 over concerns that the spy was at risk of being accidentally exposed. the kremlin has confirmed that a man, named as oleg smolenkov, did work in the russian presidential administration. but they said he did not have direct contact with president putin and was sacked some years ago. nigel west is the author of cold war spy master and specialises in issues of esponiage, spies and intelligence. hejoins me now from ramsgate. good afternoon. if you have written this plot, you would have another best seller on your hands. this is true and a remarkable story, and the political implications today are actually very widespread and significant. the remarkable part of this is the decision had to be taking to get him out. why do you think that was? there are many reasons why an agent is extradited. the cia and other intelligence agencies of the kind rely on human sources so part of the deal and the trust between the case officer and their agent is in the event of them following under suspicion, t

this report from our ireland correspondent chris page.tical alliances. 12 years ago, ian paisley and martin mcguinness went in to government together as the first and deputy first ministers of northern ireland. but the new bbc series — spotlight on the troubles: secret history — shows how remarkable theirjourneys were. in the early 1970s martin mcguinness was an ira commander in londonderry. the programme makers uncovered this footage of republicans assembling and priming a car bomb. there is a huge charge there. a very dangerous alarm clock timer. that could blow them all to hell. who do you recognise? who do i recognise? well, there's martin. who is the person you are referring to as martin? martin mcguinness. are you certain that's him? i'm certain that he's filmed at the end there walking across the back of the car, yeah. nobody walks like him with a stoop in his back. half—an—hour later, this happened in the city centre. the number plate in the wreckage is that of the vehicle that was loaded with explosives. the man martin mcguinness

chris page, bbc news, derry. month, saying he wanted a queen's speech to outline his new policies. but critics say mrjohnson was instead trying to stop scrutiny from mps in the run—up to brexit on 31st october. 0ur political correspondent helen catt is in westminster. what can we expect from today? this is all to do with boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament or prorogued parliament. the decision has already been challenged in the court but has led to two conflicting rulings. 0ne challenged in the court but has led to two conflicting rulings. one from scotland's highest court which said it was unlawful because it wasn't motivated by the improper purpose of stymieing parliament, according to thejudge. the other in england said it was not a matter for the courts. the supreme court is doing is hearing appeals against both those rulings. it is sitting for only the second time in its history with 11 judges to hear this. on the one hand you have 70 parliamentarians, led by joanna cherry, they brought that scott

chris page, bbc news.utton in south west london after being called out in the early hours of the morning. the fire quickly spread to all four floors of the building in the early hours. the cause of the fire is not known and no injuries have been reported as yet. woke up to the sound of crackling. went to my back door and opened the curtains, saw the flames and got myself and my family up. that was about 1:30am myself and my family up. that was about1:30ami myself and my family up. that was about 1:30am i suppose. myself and my family up. that was about1:30am i suppose. i myself and my family up. that was about 1:30am i suppose. i am thankful we got everybody out, we are all safe. whatever is in there we'll get back somehow, some way but as long as we are i suppose. the biggest strike action in the history of british airways started this morning, causing disruption for tens of thousands of passengers. the airline has told customers not to turn up to airports, as pilots begin a two—day walkout over pay and c

our ireland correspondent, chris page, reports. at this point, what more has been said?d most active of the dissident republican groups. the device had a degree of sophistication, found in the boot of a car on the creggan estate, the part of derry where live in the key was shot dead. it had a command wire attached to it, so it perhaps would have been meant to target a police patrol passing through the creggan estate. the bomber would have sent a pulse down the command wire and detonated the device, which did contain a significant quantity of commercial explosives. they are clear that if this device had been used as intended, it was likely the police officers would have been killed, but it also would have been likely to have caused devastation to the community. police are concerned because that was the eighth attempt that we know of to attack police offices this year. we have had a bomb outside the courthouse in derry injanuary, bomb outside the courthouse in derry in january, the bomb outside the courthouse in derry injanuary, the murder of library key in derry in april

our ireland correspondent chris page is in belfast. violence? how much concern is there about this outbreak of violence ?|j how much concern is there about this outbreak of violence? i think the concern is focused on what the police found in that security operation in the creggan area of derry. it is known to be an area where dissident republicans who opposed the peace process had a foothold. police mounted the search operation there after they found a mortar bomb in strabane a few miles away and over the course of the search operation in the creggan area, where police came under attack from petrol bombs, they found what they are described as an improvised explosive device, a bomb in other words. they think this bomb, which was ina words. they think this bomb, which was in a parked car, was planned to be used to attack police patrols in the area, according to senior officers and electrical pulse would have been sent down a command white when a police patrol passed by and the bomb would have detonated. no doubt it is another attempt by

police investigation into alleged torture by the security forces 0ur correspondent in belfast, chris pagetroubled past in northern ireland but also it has generated wide attention because of the nature of the case. this is about 1k men who have become known, over time, as the hooded men. they were subjected to interrogation techniques by the army and police. amnesty have been following the case of these men and supporting then basically ever since then, so they have documented what happened to them. they were put in hoods, put in stress positions, white noise was played, they were deprived of food and water and physically assaulted. so for the last nine years, the surviving hooded men have been taking the case through the courts to force a police investigation into these allegations of torture. they want the initial stage of that battle, they won that initial stage and this morning the northern ireland court of appeal has once again ruled in favour of the hooded men. northern ireland's most seniorjudge said that if the treatment meted out to these men happen today, it would be classified

our correspondent chris page brought us up to date.r the good friday peace agreement, which back in 1998 was seen as largely ending the troubles. thejudge has ruled against that challenge basically on the basis that a lot of the evidence wasn‘t factual. he said the characterisation of the case was that it was inherently and are mistakenly political, virtually all the evidence, he said, belong to the world of politics, and he explained the function of the courts must respect certain boundaries. in other words he felt the issues being discussed in this court case where more a matterfor discussed in this court case where more a matter for politicians than judges, so he has dismissed the challenge, however the northern ireland court of appeal has already been sitting just after that ruling has been delivered. we should know in the next few minutes if an appeal to thatjudgment in the next few minutes if an appeal to that judgment will go in the next few minutes if an appeal to thatjudgment will go ahead, and certainly lawyers for the claima

this report from our ireland correspondent, chris page.cguinness went in to government together as the first and deputy first ministers of northern ireland. but the new bbc series — spotlight on the troubles: secret history — shows how remarkable theirjourneys were. in the early 1970s martin mcguinness was an ira commander in londonderry. the programme makers uncovered this footage of republicans assembling and priming a car bomb. there is a huge charge there. a very dangerous alarm clock timer. that could blow them all to hell. who do you recognise? who do i recognise? well, there's martin. who is the person you are referring to as martin? martin mcguinness. are you certain that's him? i'm certain that he's filmed at the end there walking across the back of the car, yeah. nobody walks like him with a stoop in his back. half—an—hour later, this happened in the city centre. the number plate in the wreckage is that of the vehicle that was loaded with explosives. the man martin mcguinness would share power with decades later was a protestant

and can we turn to page 47, tab 73? chris, calm down. not yet, not yet. a little bit later. was thinking of you, adam, because i was wondering if you have been watching the supreme court this week. maybe you have downloaded some of it to watch. actually, if you run out of things to talk about at dino's stag do, you can talk about the supreme court. but they had binders much bigger than your binders, but in fancy language they are called bundle so it is not even that clear. so first off, earlier in the week, me and adam were both in luxembourg. there was podium gate, which of you e—mailed me very directly and very correctly to say it should have been lexan gate, because it was technically a lectern and not a podium because it was technically a lectern and nota podium —— because it was technically a lectern and not a podium —— lectern. anyway, so and not a podium —— lectern. anyway, so it was a sillyjournalistic nickname. but as we chatted about at the beginning of the week, and if you didn't listen to the podcast, there was a real moment, bettel and borisjohnson had there was

would disrupt fuel supply in london and the south—east." 0ur political correspondent chris mason has more. here are the pagessh government tonight. and i think what's really striking about it is that, yes, they set out those pretty grim situations that they are not predicting, but that they are imagining as a worst—case scenario. but i think the most striking thing of all is that this is a situation that the uk government could volunteer for its citizens to be in injust a matter of a few weeks‘ time. now, governments around the world do this kind of worst—case scenario planning for all sorts of things. often for natural disasters or terrorist attacks and that kind of thing, but in those instances the government might be criticised for a not particularly adequate response, but they'll always be able to say, "look, we're dealing with a situation we bring about ourselves." in this situation, the government would be in a scenario where its opponents would be able to say, "you chose this option over something that, economically at least, would be benign, as politically awkward as it might be as the uk is in this

and can we turn to page a7, tab 73? chris, calm down. not yet, not yet. a little bit later.adam, because i was wondering if you have been watching the supreme court this week. maybe you have downloaded some of it to watch. actually, if you run out of things to talk about at dino's stag do, you can talk about the supreme court. but they had binders much bigger than your binders. but in fancy language, they‘ re called bundles, so it's not even that clear. so first off, earlier in the week, me and adam were both in luxembourg. there was podiumgate, which some of you e—mailed me very directly and very correctly to say it should have been lecterngate, because it was technically a lectern and not a podium. anyway, so it was a silly journalistic nickname. but, as we chatted about at the beginning of the week, and if you didn't listen to the podcast, there was a real moment. xavier bettel and borisjohnson had had talks, protesters screaming at the gates. borisjohnson chose not to take part in the press conference, and xavier bettel took part anyway, even gesturing to the empty lecte

it's 574 pages and that's before you get to the noteses appendix and acknowledgments. but chris has written a 574 bethpage, page turner. as formle journalist i'm awed, ago inspired, by how deeply researched this book is. by the degree of detail that he has packed into it. despite his limited access to company executives, including koch industries master mind, charles koch. and yet it's so accessibly written. it's fascinating, dramatic in places and at the very top of the journalistic checklist, it's fair. maybe more than some people would like. "new york times" said in its review, quote, it ranks among the best books ever written about an american corporation. kochland was relead to weeks ago today, and immediately cracked the "times" top ten list of nonfiction best sellers. chris was born and raid near kansas city, grew up in brookside area, went to college at mu and got hooked on journalism there. he worked his first job after graduation at the columbia daily tribune. a business reporter there. and he has been one ever since. went on to the arkansas democrat gazette and the "a

chris p. i've obtained key pages of a forthcoming book by these two new york times reporters, it's called thecation of brett kavanaugh. the book says that seven people were told years ago about allegations by deborah ramirez that brett kavanaugh, this was three and a half decades ago, exposed himself to her at a yale drunk, you know, drunken dorm party. he has always denied that. anyone of these -- none of these seven people are said to be eyewitnesses. the big news here is the accusation in this book that kavanaugh exposed himself at a second drunken dorm party at yale and that a woman was, at the party had to touch his genitals. but the sourcing, to put it mildly, is indirect. the reporters rely on a former classmate named max stier who wouldn't talk to them. the reporters say they spoke to two unnamed officials who spoke to stier, but the source did not directly talk to appropriators. according to the book again, the woman, the woman who kavanaugh allegedly supposedly exposed himself to, they identify her by name, quote, refused to discuss the incident, though several of her friends said s

our political correspondent chris mason explains what the yellowhammer document is. here are the pagesd by the british government tonight. and i think what's really striking about it is that, yes, they set out those pretty grim situations that they are not predicting, but that they are imagining as a worst—case scenario. but i think the most striking thing of all is that this is a situation that the uk government could volunteer for its citizens to be in injust a matter of a few weeks‘ time. now, governments around the world do this kind of worst—case scenario planning for all sorts of things. often for natural disasters or terrorist attacks and that kind of thing, but in those instances the government might be criticised for a not particularly adequate response, but they'll always be able to say, "look, we're dealing with a situation we bring about ourselves." in this situation, the government would be in a scenario where its opponents would be able to say, "you chose this option over something that, economically at least, would be benign, as politically awkward as it might be as the

chris stirewalt, politics editor at fox news. susan pageat usa today, and katie pavlich, news editor at townhall.com. they're kind of two pieces to this, the president pushing back hard today, susan, on this phone call. >> that's right. there is a move now, the president suggested maybe he will release the transcript of the phone call. i think there's some good reasons why he shouldn't do that. >> bret: being that foreign leaders -- >> foreign leaders expect to have a confidential conversation with the president. he has less of a defense without sending to congress for congressional oversight, the whistle-blower's complaint. at the law says that if it's credible and urgent, which the inspector general for the intelligence community has said, it needs to go to the congress and if that doesn't happen on thursday when the acting director of national intelligence is scheduled to testify before congress, we are going to have a real conflict. >> bret: and this is starting the impeachment talk again. here's the president and adam schiff. >> how se

susan page, washington bureau chief of "usa today," and mollie hemingway. chris.resident was a little cautious today and wanting not to get ahead of where the facts were. >> chris: and this is a bold and administration. i think that as he has gone on come at the beginning, i think the foreign policy piece of it was maybe the most challenging for trump. i think as he has gone on, he has gotten a team around him that reflects his last interventionalists since abilities. i think that he is doing he's doing. >> iran is one of the most dangerous state sponsors of terrorism. this may be the thing that calls for military action against iran, if that's what the intelligence supports. >> bret: susan. >> so interesting that senator coons was willing to say that. i did see a change in view on the president's part. i think initially his tweets and comments were pretty aggressive. locked and loaded was a pretty aggressive turn. while this afternoon, he seemed to be taking one step back. i think you saw the saudis also trying to take one step back. before, we were hurtling towa

also so intrigued, chris, with the idea this whistle-blower as it comes off the page to me is a person who is channelling for others who are inside the white house and more vulnerable, channelling for them concerns that they have. it's almost like i'll take the hit and all of you all, you know, duck and cover. >> this is not just one sort of real righteous person who was like you guys are getting it all wrong, this was someone who people were confiding it because they were horrified by the actions that they had seen. eli stokels and carol, thank you both. >>> next, a head spinning aspect of this entire story, the number of lawyers who we now know were complicit in the cover-up for the president of united states mooch who they are and what they did after this. (baby crying) ♪ (blender whirring) ♪ (baby laughing) ♪ pampers is here to help every parent love the changes a baby brings. ♪ they use stamps.com all the services of the post office only cheaper get a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. i had no idea that my gran

former ted cruz pollster chris wilson and "wall street journal" editorial page writer jillian melchioredion, let me go to you. the reason i think the shth mars going down is not because they think the president could lose a trial in the senate with a republican senate but because they are worried nothing's going to get done of substance in the congress. sometimes that's good for the markets. sometimes the market views that as a positive. but when you have the usmca and other deals that could affect the economy, that's a problem. >> yeah. i don't know if that's really the case, because nothing has been done for quite some time. we have been sitting in this situation -- david: it looked like we were going somewhere with the usmca. "the washington post" actually editorialized we should go forward with it. it looked like nancy pelosi was doing some head counting, thought she might have enough democrats who were in favor of it to go with it. >> the other thing is the usmca is not a big deal to the market. the market got its tax break from trump. that's what it wanted. it's been getting dereg

page and read the comments. they talk about how she just had this incredible laugh. that's how people remember chris.t's the person that they'll never forget. what a wonderful, wonderful sweet person she was. >> that's all on this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. ine. i'm craig melvin thank you for watching melvin. and i'm natalie morales. and this is "dateline." >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> i didn't see it coming. it was shocking. >> i had a bad feeling. >> she did say he had a gun and i'm afraid he might use it. >> a story of sand, sunsets, and fatal attraction. she had so much to give. >> she would make everybody feel special. >> successful at everything except love. and then she found him. >> she said she felt so good in his arms. >> he was handsome, sophisticated, and crazy about her. there was talk of marriage and then suddenly there was talk of trouble. >> she was frightened enough not

tomorrow of course and on friday ali velshi and chris hayes will moderate our climate forum which will stream live on msnbc. perhaps they c grown up can taka page that does it for "andrea mitchell reports," remember to follow the show online and on twitter, at mitchell reports here is ali and stephanie for "velshi & ruhle. >> we'll take that clip and show it to our kids today that's kind of impressive. >> amazing >> no one in my house wants to do homework or take a shower or clear the dishes from the dinner table. i am going to play that for them >> good going, mom >> andrea, have yourself a great afternoon. >> hello everyone, it is wednesday september 18th, coming up on "velshi & ruhle," brand new 2020 polling from nbc news and the wall street journal, who's up and who's down after the latest debate. senator rohm was behind th

they are chris buskirk, editor the conservative journal andb web site "american greatness."'s he's in phoenix. and colleen neln, she's the editorial page editor for thean "kansas cite starpaper ande she joins us from kansas city,ss missouri. hello toboth of you.we we thank you for being here on this wednesday. i want to start by talking about hurricane dorian. i know that so much of theat attention has been on theut southeastern u.s. coast, but, with theeverity of onehu hurricane after another, they're getting bigger,hey're droppingre more rain, they're creating more devastation, i wonder, chris buskirk, there is more anversation now about climatech change, the connectionetween climate change and what'spp happening to humans on thean planet. is it your sensethat this isre more of a voting issue for americans than it was? >> i think that divides a littli bit ong partyand ideologicalfi affiliations, so it certainlyis is, i think, for democrats, iin think it may be a bit more for wrepublicans. t i can say,s. though, with regard tog republicans is that r the -- how do i want to say this, there is sort offr a frustration about the discussio

pages. charlotte smith, bbc news. and you can see charlotte's full report on countryfile on bbc one tonight at 6.15pm now it's time for a look at the weather with chrisood warnings in force across england and wales. with more heavy rain and the forecast the next couple of days the situation could get worse before it gets better. the area of low pressure responsible for the wet weather will bring strong winds across east anglia and southeast england before it clears away taking the rain with it. the skies clear, it will turn out to be a chilly naive and near towns and cities temperatures get down to single figures. we could have mist and fog patches around and also showers which should continue to affect northern scotland. that will be there first thing monday as well. the rest of us otherwise having a fine start to the day but it will not stay like that. the next area of low pressure moves in. that will bring in another bout of heavy rain across england and wales and with another 70 mm across england and wales and with another70 mm rain across england and wales and with another 70 mm rain forecasts in the high ground, that could lead to further local

chris, what about all those allegations of who had the server access? was it russians? was it ukraine? look, you don't want to look at this in a vacuum, don't. look at the four pagesme you think that's worthy of impeachment. >> here's what i want to know. i want to know was rudy -- i have questions about rudy giuliani's involvement. with all due respect, i invited him back on the show. there's no reason for this to be personal. i think he's been inconsistent on things. was he there alone? was he there for the state department? did the president know? did he not know? that matters. >> can i ask you a question? >> was the state department involved? why was the a.g. involved? >> hold it. first of all, has there been any evidence of anything involving the a.g.? no. was rudy giuliani -- >> well, other than the president offering him up as hired help to the president of ukraine. >> hold it. you had rudy giuliani on your show. >> i did. >> was it last week? >> yes. >> okay. so rudy -- this has been an issue that rudy has been concerned with. he's been very clear about this for a long time. >> he's been concerned about it for a long time. he hasn't been that clear, but he

brian: joining us now is utah congressman chris stewart who was first to see it, one of the first to see this nine pagen we all saw it yesterday at 9:00 in the morning. congressman, what -- i appreciate you standing up for the director of national intelligence whether you are republican or democrat. he seems to be the perfect american and should not be talked to like that. but having said that to the substance of what took place what did you learn yesterday in the nine pages that you didn't get out of the phone call that was five pages? >> well, nothing there is nothing in the nine pages that isn't substanley inside the transcript that we have. now, there is some other things like reporting from the "new york times." reporting from political my gosh, we have had that for months. there is nothing new there at all. the entire essence of this complaint focuses on one phone call and one phone call only. there simply isn't anything new and other than that. >> congressman, the democrats were criticizing joseph maguire because they felt like he waited too long to release this information to them. that's why t

happening now, chris sanchez is talking to travelers and she will have the latest in a report at midday. authorities in central california are investigating a crash of a bus. on our facebook page francisco's air bnb, you will have a chance, they announced plans to go public next year. the first details will be on our home page. weather update in an hour. >>> your trips to tahoe. >> your travel hot spots across california. >> and students looking to solve our climate in cliesz. >> the walkouts near you tomorrow. >>> today on "california live" we'll show you what is in the stars goody bags at the emmys. >> and a zip line safari. this morning on nbc bay area. >>> live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza, this is the "3rd hour of today." >>> and good morning, everyone, welcome to the "3rd hour of today," i'm dylan here with craig and willie is joining us this morning. how you doing? >> i'm here for al roker and al roker, all due respect? >> thank you? >> here to support al. >> where is al? sheinelle is on assignment but al as we know is in the hospital. he had his successful hip replacement surgery yesterday, and he is live, of course, to tell us about it because you just can't mi

page and the drummer. >> didn't have it on the right speakers >> yeah. it was on my walkman which is another unbelievable advance. >> chrisank you. >> my pleasure. >> great to see you. >>> coming up real estate legend sam zell will join us. he'll share his thoughts on interest rates, wework and a lot more wee mi bk.'rcongac >>> squawk picks is sponsored by wisdomtree the modern alpha pioneer >>> breaking news out of hong kong carrie lam withdraws the extradition bill after months. >>> to china to real estate guest host and billionaire investor sam zell is here. his reaction to news out of hong kong and much here is come. >>> walmart announced a major change to the gun and ammunition sales. other retailers considering the same we're going to discuss the move as the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now. >> live from the beating heart of business, new york, this is "squawk box. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. with us is sam zell and great to have you here today. >> a pleasure. >> thank you for joining us. >> watching

complaint because to chris's point the four corners of the transcript of the phone call effectively indict the president by his own word. in iran-contra, if you recall, the president wrote one page plain text. >> jonathan lemire. >> we are going through it another obviously, but it is certainly a significant moment for the administration. the white house, you know, we have seen hef-it -- it is a fig we claimed to welcome the idea he have impeachment. we will see how it plays out time and time again. it was speaker pelosi committing towards impeachment at the beginning of the week pushed them to release the transcript, if you will, of the phone call yesterday and cooperating to get this out as well. this is a time they feel they have to make this play. it is not something they wanted to do but they are here. it speaks to the urgency of the moment and it speaks to where, you know, how serious this is. they feel it comes on the heels of the mueller probe but something they have less ability to control. we have been talk bing this, the idea that as much as the strategy is to cloud and smoke and really guilliani to dispute. this is a credible person laying out the facts. >> here is t