so, i might be a conservative, but i realize that, as a conservative, i need the buy-in of moderates, i need the buy-in of people who might otherwise be suspicious of my ideals and my values, and that means speaking not just to the people in my narrow tribe but trying to get toward some kind of workable overlapping consensus." >> which is a fabulous idea, that our political reality has forbade that from happening, and that's a whole different set of policy solutions that need to be addressed. the other leg of the stool -- one of the other legs of the stool of the three-part stool of the conservative movement -- this national-security element. national-security conservatives really in the '50s and the latter part of the 20th century, were anti-communists. and it seems to me there are echoes of a desire amongst intellectual conservatives and the, i think, conservative populists to rally around a unifying national foreign-policy goal that can unite all of the factions. we see an authoritarian china, we see an authoritarian russia, but there's also this increased and really outsized focus

neither the conservatives nor the labor party are particularly convincing or united on what is clear at the moment is a lack of credible leadership for that to happen i'm not convinced that in the long term that is enough of a basis because you're going to have the left right division and all the rest the talk at westminster before the summer break was the possibility of having some all party government for a limited period of time of two years but once again there was nobody who was being named as the obviously did all of that sort of a movement and therefore because there isn't a strength of that sort i suspect it's not going to happen but let's just say for example let's say abolish johnson runs for the totally legal ship some point after the upcoming told a conference let's say that these labor m.p.'s are frightened of diesel action in their own constituents decide to jump ship wouldn't that be the exact circumstances because many conservatives are numbered at least i've said they wouldn't told johnson leadership of the party label m.p.'s may have nowhere to go isn't not the exac

party there's a whole bunch of conservatives no doubt dozens of them who will say this party is not for me at the same time you've got a disillusioned labor party which might then decide that the breakaway conservatives are close enough to their right wing views and labor to form some kind of a nucleus so yes you're right there needs to be a catalyst and that could work for both parties at once but of course this whole happened before if we go right back to the early one nine hundred eighty s. that parliamentary nucleus was formed some was thirty m.p.'s from the labor party one from the conservative party but added to a dozen or so liberal at that time gave a substantial parliamentary wedge back in the one thousand eight hundred eighty one is that the sort of thing that could happen again it could then have to be to driving factors then number one massive disillusionment amongst the poll. blick with the old two major parties labor and conservative we are sort of into party politics at the moment and secondly it has to be driven by very forceful characters that's what we had with the

well, it is a conservative minister, yes, ina well, it is a conservative minister, yes, in a conservativeots of things. we have the sugar tax, the ban on energy drinks, potentially, to children. all kinds of talks about restrictions on search engines and media use by adults. this is not a ban. this is a device. matt hancock, the health secretary, has asked the chief medical officer to look into the health implications. i think what he is trying to get out here is that excessive social media use by small children goes beyond it being a social issue and a parenting issue and into being an actual health issue. nonetheless, there will be some in the conservative party who feel that this is part of that trend towards government meddling too much, that it should get off people's backs? it is the nanny state, very much so. telling people, pa rents, state, very much so. telling people, parents, how to bring up their children. so are a lot of conservatives won't like it. i think it isa conservatives won't like it. i think it is a sensible thing common to recognise that there is a problem and that

the mail on sunday today was suggesting that conservatives, it had 10,000 voters ina conservatives, itatives, it had 10,000 voters ina polland conservatives, it had 10,000 voters in a poll and it showed that the conservatives would do worse under borrowers. and another poll today suggested that conservative voters overwhelmingly support the chequers deal, not his version of brexit. it seems like he really does not have ground. i am not sure it is true about chequers. it is a political poll. that sounds dodgy. about chequers. it is a political poll. that sounds dodgyi about chequers. it is a political poll. that sounds dodgy. i will tell the that next time i see them. one of the points that is being made is that boris is very much targeting and has the momentum with grassroots activists and he has got this rally that he is going to be attending on tuesday. i had a quick checkup of theresa may's twitter feed and she makes a very pointed message and pointed comment about enjoying being out with grassroots activists. who do you really think has the momentum there? is it boris or is it ther

there's an argument within the conservative world about what does it mean to be conservative. this is an argument i want to engage in. i'm not in that context. i am happy to publish people from a broad range of days. i'm even happy to publish people from the left same conservatism is about being. what i would say in relation to god as i find it more interesting these days to publish critical books so right wing attacks on liberals with kind of run not out. you can still publish those books and sell them, but there is no energy. what i'm interested in is, you know, internationalizing, sick. arguments on both sides. the arguments between the left and the neoliberals fascinating. one of the young writers who i signed up on the last, nathan robinson who is also the editor of a magazine of intellectuals called american affairs. he's a brilliant young author. i'm interested the millennial generation. this is what we should really be talking about. if i could hand the keys to the conservative intellectual movement, to the millennial generation today, i would do it because i've been v

a conservative. the reality is i think he always had that position. we don't score on that. it is not one of our issues. but i think what is really happening is he is free of politics right now. i don't think he has a plan for what he's doing next. i think he is very sincerely trying to make sure the process is fair. people have told me that he shared with them he believes judge kavanaugh, so i think in the end, he would like to vote for confirmation. but he is using his leverage to see that a fair process occurs. al: how much of a disaster is this for republicans if kavanaugh can't get through? in november? david: i think the first response is very demoralizing for republicans, the way the mccain vote against repeal of obamacare was demoralizing for several months. on the other hand, what we are arguing, and i'm picking up feedback from the field -- ok, this happened because the margin was so narrow. we have to go win some of these races in the trump states, missouri, indiana, montana, north dakota,

i'm not sure that there is as much support for him in the conservative party as he imagines.o, i'm not, but there are polls suggesting that... we were talking about social media data problems in the observer, they picked up on this tory‘s demand to curb social media in children. the digital secretary has lost his own app. this is quite a serious issue but children, especially young people, are spending too much time on social media. the idea of this is that the government will put out guidelines for what is a self —— safe or healthy amount. used in the same way as alcohol guidelines. would we all stick to. that does beg the question. for years, my parents didn't set guidelines or i ignored them and i always thought that i turned out fine but now we are talking about children as young as five or six who are on these very, very addictive social media platforms. and when i worked in a boarding school, we had to lock the kids' bones and i packed up at night otherwise they wouldn't sleep, and thatis otherwise they wouldn't sleep, and that is something, at night time, taking the de

why are you a conservative? >> well, as margaret thatcher used to say, the facts of life are conservative, and i think that's really part of who i am. i grew up in a conservative household, my parents were small business owners so it just was kind of part of who we were. they never sat us down and said this is the left believes, this is what the right believes, republicans, democrats, more of a conversation piece and wrote a letter to bill clinton when i was six years old about taxes and unfair he was taking our money and we didn't get to spend his money. he wrote back with a junior argument about paying fair shares, that's when it really started. i'm the daughter of american revolution, my grandpa fought in world war ii, lots of family members in the military, and it was part of growing up for me. i didn't realize until high school that the man wearing a cowboy hat on the poster in our garage was actually ronald reagan, so my parents just, it was how we were, i grew up on five acres of land in flagstaff, arizon

that they are biased against conservatives. there is a debate about whether there -- about whether this is intentional or not intentional. in some ways, companies operate in a black box. they wanted to bring folks into testify. response?what was the adamant that the company is not intentionally biased. that the i got -- that the ideology and no way relates to the platform. as theyacknowledge that process huge quantities of tweets and advertisements every day that some of the decisions they might make might have the using the platform. one of the examples that has come up recently is the idea that there was a search function on twitter that when you typed in members of congress' name, some of them didn't auto populate. to more dramatically affect by conservatives. and jack dorsey testified that they had been experiment in with using a new signal to determine how to break people in the function. it was based on the quality of the followers of the users. unintentionally discriminate against conservative voices. he testified that w

we will not let large corporations silence conservative voices. >> trevor: that's right, folks! donald trump am sick of being silenced! >> when was the last time you saw a tweet of mine? when was the last time you saw something about me on the internet, folks? it's been almost half an hour! why is that? is it because i have been up here for 30 minutes or because i'm being censored, folks? ( applause ) come on get the ( bleep ) out of here, man. ( laughter ) how is the guy who became president because of twitter claiming twitter is censoring him and out to get him? yeah, like they're out to get him elected. like superman bitching about earth. man, this planet is holding me back. so this planet made you, if you don't like it, go home and be an accountant. you can't because your home blew up! sorry. i get angry when super man does that to us. maybe the president feels like conservatives are being censored because his only source of information tells him. >> so the tech giants are obviously politically biased against conservatives, no one really disputes that. >> you cannot have the

committed conservatives i want to challenge you that the goal is not to elect conservative or the goal is to implement conservative politics. the electing of conservative candidates as part of the way that we do that. it is not the goal. the goal is to have policies that promote freedom and liberty. if we can find good candidates that support those goals great. one of the things that we look to do is to promote conservative ideas at the state and local level. you can make a difference doing a couple of things. first off is offense and defense. it's an old saying that politics is flexible except the game is 24 hours a day with offense and defense. we want to change and implement what the environment is and what are people talking about and what is motivating them. the third thing i want to do is to score with good policy changes. the process is one of the ways we've been able to do that. they have been involved with 40 ballot measures across the country. we learned from the five that we lost. we have been able to make a difference working with people and it's one of the best ways that w

and and conservative officeholders around america. finally, let's keep faith that he who is ever watched over this nation still governs in the affairs of men. and that as we hold fast to him, we will run, and not grow weary. we will walk, and not grow faint, and that he will yet bless america abundantly, more than we could ask or imagine in this one nation under god. indivisible. with liberty, and justice for all. >> [ applause ] >> if we hold fast to that hope, if we keep faith with one another, if we forge ahead with confidence in our people, and in our values, i know, 45 days from now, we will deliver another historic victory for america. we will reelect republican majorities in the house and senate, we will elect principal conservative leaders at every level, and with that renewed conservative support, with president trump in the white house, and with god's help, together, we will make america great again. thank you very much. god bless you. god bless the united states. >> [ applause ] ♪sun coming up over new york city, school bus

are experiencing a split conservative union. weak social democrats and eight coalition government -- a coalition government that is only suited to fixing the problems it caused itself. >> iron ridge seriousness in politics. have a global political situation that is chaotic and germany cannot afford to gamble. we are an anchor of stability for europe and i expect seriousness from the social democratic and conservative elementary groups. >> the chancellor said her coalition is getting back to work, lately crisis mode has become business as usual. brent: let's bring in our political correspondent on the story. good evening. the conservatives are doing their best to downplay the negative impact of what happened this week. what are they so afraid of? rupert: the main message was the surprise new leader of the conservative parliament. the main message he tried to bring his there is no problem between me and angela merkel. that is not really the point. obviously, most of the conservative mps seem to have a major problem with angela mer

it underlines the difficulties for the conservative party, grappling not just difficulties for the conservativetjust with brexit but with how to respond to a labour party which is offering a very different and the radical alternative and there are big arguments within the conservative party about how the conservatives should be addressing that. absolutely. final point on the app. the sense in which the party has been rattled by it. it took the conservatives longer to put out a statement in reaction to the problems than it took momentum or the labour party to wait in and criticise the conservatives. as far as brexit is concerned, it has been the dominating the and the prime minister facing the dominating the and the prime ministerfacing a very the dominating the and the prime minister facing a very tricky balance. still trying to publicly sell the chequers plan of the idea ofa sell the chequers plan of the idea of a close relationship with the eu. the problem is, you have got some within the conservative fold, articulated by borisjohnson yesterday, on the brexit era side of the argument seeing t

the problem is you have some within the conservative fold articulated by borisjohnson the conservativenson yesterday the conservative fold articulated by borisjohnson yesterday on the brexiteers side of the argument saying it's too close a relationship with the eu after brexit and others like the backbencher heidi allen joining a small but vociferous bunch of conservative mps saying that if no deal with the eu looks a likely prospect she would advocate another referendum. so whichever way she turns the prime minister faces a tricky argument about brexit. we we re tricky argument about brexit. we were just seeing tricky argument about brexit. we werejust seeing some tricky argument about brexit. we were just seeing some pictures of her arriving this evening, not saying anything on her way in. it's ha rd to overstate saying anything on her way in. it's hard to overstate the pressure that she is under and notjust that brexit whole process which is under fire on all sides, but even those who are still with her and still around her cabinet table already looking to the next phase and already

>> he's voted for every conservative bill that comes along.elates to reproductive rights, gun control, taxation, you name it. and 12 years in congress never authored single successful bill with. never that interested in lawmaking but in appealing to the emotions of the christian right. he became a favorite of the tea party. one of his first speeches on the house floor was about creationism, how the science of evolution is in fact not true and god created the earth in seven days. antiscience when it comes to climate change, one of these fellows who went around crying about voter fraud, even headed president's voter fraud committee, which found no voter fraud. >> in the 2016 election. >> and he tried to suppress black votes in indiana. he's fulfilled every partisan mission that he could without actually governing in any serious way. >> i read in the introduction something that you had determined, a man of unwavering faith but also ruthless cunning. how did mike pence get to this point? by all accounts not distinguished legislator or charismatic

my guest is former conservative leader, michael lord howard.h in brussels and at home, theresa may is in deep trouble. does she have a viable way out? lord howard, welcome to hardtalk. good to be with you. the brexit endgame has arrived and theresa may is trapped. would you agree? it is not a word i would use, no, but obviously there are difficulties, there were always were going to be difficulties, and they look more formidable than perhaps they are, but perhaps we will know in the next few months how things pan out. well, weeks in some ways rather than months, because all this is going to come very quickly now. would you say, you talk about difficulties — i think trying to be rather tactful — would you say her greater difficulties lie in our relationship with the eu 27 or with her own party? well, it is notjust her own party, let's get one thing straight from the start. you're quite right when you say in your introduction that there are differences of view within the conservative party on brexit. i say deep divisions, i don't suppose you woul

the conservative party on brexit.hin the conservative party on brexitlj differences of view within the conservative party on brexit. i say deep divisions, i don't suppose you would call it that, would you? and there are deep divisions in the labour party too, as we have seen this week in liverpool, so it is not just her party, it is parliament that will decide if she is able to bring a dealforward, whether they think it is acceptable or not. the first difficulty she has two face obviously is with the european union, because at the moment, there looks to be quite a big gap between what she has proposed and what they are prepared to accept. well, let's start with that, let's start with a relationship with the eu 27, based upon her so—called cheetahs planet. she presented at to the eu, saying he is my plan and in effect it is my plan or no deal. —— chequers plan. they of course in salzburg, in a rather stimulating experience for the prime minister, rejected a deal. would you say that she now, and you are former leader of

stephanie said we can have another conservative. he have done or said that would have satisfied you once the allegation is made? is itjust the case that once this allegation is made, it must be believed? i want, he should say, the fbi to look at this because he should say that because he wants to prove his innocence. why is he so resistant? eunice, a final thought from you about the role of the supreme court. it is an extremely important position for a long time and to a certain extent, it is a barometer of morality in the united states, it's a very long period of time and to have a supreme courtjustice that has this cloud hanging over him and a demeanour which frankly demeans the office that he is about to represent doesn't look good. i am not a candidate to the supreme courtjustice of the united states, this is the point. this debate will probably continue around this table but i'm afraid our time is up this week. plenty more to discuss at the same time next week. join us then if you can. bye— bye. hello. it is a fine end to the a

if you had before the vote on the america had urged the conservative m.p.'s to support her and like but to no avail the majority wanted to change the german chancellor acknowledge the outcome is a defeat. this is democracy and that means sometimes you lose a vote there is nothing to gloss over but i want the parliamentary group of c.d.u. and c.s.u. to be successful and therefore i will support i think house wary of a possible. all opposition parties declared cowardice defeat a clear sign that markets time is chance less coming to an end coalition partner the social democrats are calling for a return to serious work. mind ancestors chirurgeon seriousness and politics we have a global political situation that is rather chaotic and germany cannot afford to gamble on the contrary we are an anchor of stability also for europe and i expect this seriousness from both the social democratic as well as the conservative parliamentary group. but this will take some time yesterday's vote has shaken angle americans conservatives more than expected. are this bring in our p

during the last twenty years and the conservative bloc of anglo-american. is seeing the same happening to them right now and they all all three parties in the end react the same in the same way they panic and panic is not really good footing to build a stable government and briefly but we know that there is a crucial regional election in bavaria if the conservatives if they do poorly in that election will all go to medical survive. well to lose an election is never really helpful for political but it isn't in crisis mode especially as uncle americal is up for reelection himself as party leader of a party the c.d.u. just before christmas at their party convention in december and they're already rumors running around him bill in saying that. could if the elections in bavaria and hasn't turned out as bad as predicted that i could resign from a post as party leader to focus on her post as german chancellor but this again would be seen as a sign of the deteriorating power of the ones most powerful woman in the world writes our correspondent privy to vote on the

during the last twenty years and the conservative bloc of angela merkel. is seeing the same happening to them right now and they all all three parties in the end react to this in the same way they panic and panic it's not really good footing to build a stable government and briefly but we know that there is a crucial regional election in bavaria if the conservatives if they do poorly in that election will all go to medical survive. well to lose an election is never really helpful for political but it isn't in crisis mode especially as uncle our medical is up for reelection himself as a party leader of a party the c.d.u. just before christmas party convention in december and they're already rumors running around him bill in saying that. could if the elections in bavaria and hasn't turned out as bad as predicted that could resign from a post as party leader to focus on her post as german chancellor but this again would be seen as a sign of the deteriorating power of the ones most powerful woman in the world writes our correspondent privy to vote on the story

if you had before the vote anglo-american had urged the conservative m.p.'s to support her like her candidate was also backed by leaders of the conservative but very insistent party the c.s.u. but to no avail the majority wanted to change afterwards the newly elected leader stressed that he didn't see the result as a vote against anglo american but the german chancellor acknowledged the outcome is a defeat. this is democracy and that means sometimes you lose a vote there is nothing to gloss over but i want the parliamentary group of c.d.u. and c.s.u. to be successful and therefore i will support i think us wherever possible to catholics and on all opposition parties declared cowardice defeat a clear sign that merkel's time as chancellor is coming to an end does this shows that mrs merkel can no longer rely on the support of her own group so i recommend that mrs merkel will vote of confidence that you're following the we call on the government to finally come to terms and to be a government again and not a divided bunch. for the m.p.'s of anglo-american is co

i'm a christian, a conservative, and a republican in that order.at honor to return to this summit today. let me bring greetings from a friend of mine, and a leader who i promise you has been fighting every day for the values that , i bringica great greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. it really is great to be back with all of you. i just wanted to come by today. thank you for electing a president -- thank behalf of my family you for the extraordinary honor you have afforded me to serve as your vice president. it's hard to believe that it's been two years. if you look back at everything we've accomplished, i think there's only one way you can describe the last two years. , twoen two years of action years of promises made and promises cap. and we are just getting started. since election day, job creators. they have created 4 million good pacing -- good paying jobs. we've reached record low unemployment for african-american and hispanic americans. after eight years of paychecks, i know the number o

this various attack on objectivity by conservatives. partisans were not the only one attacking this idea. in 1971, tom wicker argued that journalism's biggest weakness is its reliance on and its acceptance of official sources. he called instead for journalists to take up what he calls journalistic muckraking. to dedicate ourselves to the search for the meaning of things. to turn ourselves loose to be the true storytellers of our time. novelists of the age. better than professional recorders of cumulative facts and authorized abuse. that was a very different view of what reporting should look like. that it should be something more than just the facts. that you should be novelists of the age. challenges from the left and the right and from journalists themselves, objective journalism again to change. by the 1970's, he still had the practice of objective journalism. it meant something different. it still meant neutrality. it also meant a preference for ideological balance rather than consensus or official views. that means that an object t

and conservatives win the fight. today, morality of americans, not just on the right, believe that journalism is bias. that is a huge change from the 1950's and 60's when it was assumed that mainstream journalists were unbiased. in the post-vietnam, post-watergate era, an era that is not seen as the golden age of journalism, thanks to the role of investigative reporters. the conservative message about how primary ideology was went out. by the 1970's, it was no longer possible to think of america politics as a round free of passion. nobody could live through the late 1960's and think america was a post ideology society. it was also no longer a place where experts and authority to be readily and wisely trusted. consensus did not describe american politics anymore. it really was about clashing ideology. you have a very big attack on objectivity by conservatives. they were not the only ones attacking this idea. in 1971, new york times reporter argues that journalism's biggest weakness is the reliance on and acceptance of

this is the first time in years we are going to have a conservative, a solid conservative majority onjustice. how can we expect anything other, if these tricks works, then to say the nextjustice will these tricks works, then to say the next justice will have allegations about him or her, about things that happened 30 years ago, can't say where all when, to torpedo their nomination as well, until the get some be more to the left. neil gorsuch was confirmed and there was none of this. but now, on your basis, we are going to see this work. there is no evidence that christine blasey ford is part of some bureaucratic conspiracy. the real problem with kavanaugh now with that in his testimony on thursday he ripped into that democratic party... how would you feel, if they were saying unto things about you? he was saying unto things about you? he was saying it was a hitjob. if he is concerned he has now shown a partisanship that is very unbecoming for a supreme court justice partisanship that is very unbecoming for a supreme courtjustice and it really questions his ability to rule impartially.

if you had before the vote on the america had urged the conservative m.p.'s to support her and like but to no avail the majority wanted to change the german chancellor acknowledged the outcome is a defeat for the us is. this is democracy and that me. sometimes you lose a vote there is nothing to gloss over but i want the parliamentary group of c.d.u. and c.s.u. to be successful and therefore i will support of those who are of a possible to help. all of position parties declared kodos defeat a clear sign that markets time is coming to an end coalition partner of the social democrats are calling for a return to serious work. mine also have to try urged seriousness in politics we have a global political situation that is rather chaotic germany cannot afford to gamble on the contrary we are an anchor of stability also for europe and i expect the seriousness from both the social democratic affairs well as the conservative parliamentary group. but this will take some time yesterday's vote has shaken anglo-american skin surface more than expected. all right let's b

conservatives don't like it when judges try to write laws. conservatives shouldn't like it legislators and agencies try to rewrite the constitution. i do not want to see congress or the president or the department of anything defining what a speech code should be or shouldn't be. but you can say or what you shouldn't. should define that is the first amendment and the 14th amendment and the private right of actions in the courts of the united states should define that. mr. rosenstein: first question from the audience follows up on that issue. how do you think and who do you think and the department of justice our federal government should be charged with engaging with colleges and universities to address concerns about free speech? sen. alexander: who should? i guess the attorney general or the deputy attorney general. [laughter] mr. rosenstein: i don't have enough to do. sen. alexander: i think it should be a two or three year process because everything in the university's works slowly. there's a building over here that bill bennett used to c

they are conservative, all. these men and women are strong, principled conservatives. just like our newest justice on the supreme court, justice neil gorsuch and just like president trump's latest nominee to the supreme court, judge brett kavanaugh. [cheers and applause] v.p. pence: judge kavanaugh is a man of integrity with impeccable credentials. and a proven judicial philosophy. on the court of appeals he wrote more than 300 opinions that reflect a strong record of limited government religious , liberty and our second amendment. he will interpret the constitution as written. his record and career deserves the respect of every member of the united states senate. the way some democrats have conducted themselves is a disgrace. and a disservice to the senate and the american people. that being said, the president and i are confident that republicans will manage this confirmation properly with the utmost respect from all concerned. i believe that judge kavanagh will soon be justice brett kavanaugh and take his seat on the supreme court of the united states of america. [c

and in the observer, we are not moving on from the conservative party, the observer reacts conservatives to the conference app. it was the way that you logged in. now they are facing a fine? the story is, when you logged in, you could basically log in as a cabinet minister or could basically log in as a cabinet ministerorany could basically log in as a cabinet minister or any other senior conservatives attending, and get all of their details. you could have philip hammond's phone number, michael gove's e—mail address... it was openly available and should not have been. what a farce. they are talking about complex, technical solutions to the irish border. now, they can't even manage their own co nfe re nce they can't even manage their own conference app! as you say, the information commissioner, it is their job information commissioner, it is theirjob to police things like that. people's data is supposed to be protected by any organisation that receives it. they obviously haven't. potentially, a £2 million fine, probably not as high as that, it will be likely to be a slap on the wrist. a

for now conservatives are backing masson he's accused of improperly passing on sensitive information to germany's far right populist party the f.t. and f.t. member told germany the data was contained in an unreleased government report. when we spoke with mr marson about the reports it wasn't available in printed form yet we talked about various numbers and figures such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islamist threats. s.p.d. chairwoman under their analysis met for crisis talks with merkel and conservatives on thursday but there was no breakthrough talks will continue next tuesday. political correspondent christopher springer welcome chris so that meeting is over does hans go martin still have a job. apparently he does still have a job the meeting as you say is over all three leaches none of the three leaders involved chancellor magical for the conservatives for the varian conservatives hosty who for the interior minister and the leader of the social democrats and tree analysis none of them have made any public statements what we're hearing from government sources is t

but that is the of the conservative media space. if people could just have a fair reporting we be fine. but now they have the road network and their bubble they will not leave. and then you don't get a better set of ideas or politics. and then to slam those ideas. >> hello. >> lindsey graham. [laughter] extensively one of john mccain's closest friends warning the party not to fall in line behind trump. and to carry water for trump and yesterday with mccain. and seems to have abandoned his principles and is he being compromised? >> and that is the saddest thing for me because he was somebody who was an ally and then take a more iconoclast view just a quick aside. i was just to go on yesterday when the news broke that trump had given in and lowered the flag. those eight hours yesterday by the time the story broke and reverses that decision, it may seem petty on his part but that was a man who sought to normalize his personality cult with patriotism and service and della d i'm really glad he lowered the flag because i was about to go o

we're experiencing a split conservative union week social democrats and a coalition government that's only capable of solving the problems that created itself. the social democrats america's junior coalition partners all too aware that a continuous crisis mode is hurting more than the government my nails have to sky urge seriousness and politics we have a global political situation that is rather chaotic germany cannot afford to gamble on the contrary we are an anchor of stability also for europe and i expect the seriousness from both the social democratic of as well as the conservative parliamentary group. it sounds less says her coalition is getting back to uk but lately crisis mode has become business as usual. our sports news now the one is link is a night wrapped up its midweek slate of matches with dortmund looking to jump from fourth to second place in the standings one hosted nuremberg and made a statement by winning easily. dortmund was in a festive mood and even coach lucianne farve was all smiles and was expecting to extend its perfect home record against newly promoted nur

the head of the various conservative c.s.u. party is facing increasing criticism from within his own party ranks this latest poll again suggests the coalition wrangling is a major problem and is playing into the hands of the far right. and for some analysis to the obvious chief political editor joins me from up on i'm interested us as we saw gains for the far right if he according to the latest making is the second strongest party in the country what does this mean for america well it means that the pressure from the right certainly growing and that is really . just an expression of the weakness of her own coalition government right now i'm going to map is used to pressure she's used to pressure from the right but with her interior minister horse playing up in her own government and not being afraid of once again forcing upon her a potential government crisis which was now really averted. sounds they're weakened and also very visibly weakened for her european partners as well she knows she needs to find something to tackle the

the conservative party conference starting this weekend.ll return to that. the headlines on bbc news... rescuers in indonesia say at least 384 people have been killed in the tsunami that struck the island of sulawesi. the business secretary warns that a no—deal brexit could jeopardise britain's status as a world leader in the car industry. a security breach in the conservative party conference app reveals contact details for senior mps and journalists. europe continued to dominate at the ryder cup. the extended their lead over the usa to 8—4. the afternoon foursomes are more finely balanced. jose mourinho's side were beaten 3—1 at west ham. the worst start to a league season for 20 years. join us at 5:30pm for more on all of those stories. the business secretary, greg clark has called a security breach affecting millions of users of facebook a very worrying development. mr clark told the bbc, the information commissioner would be taking steps with facebook to ensure lessons are learnt. the company says 50 million users worldwide were affect

those voters he would put conservatives on the benchlj promised those voters he would put conservativesxual misdemeanours because they feel it is secondary to the issue of abortion. —— an evangelical. feel it is secondary to the issue of abortion. -- an evangelical. and after the me too campaign, senators on both sides will be aware of how this will play with female voters. it isa this will play with female voters. it is a race against time, because if they do lose the senate, the democrats will have the majority to block brett kava naugh's democrats will have the majority to block brett kavanaugh's appointment. right at the heart of this, quite disturbing, is how one woman's trauma has become a political football. i think it is disgraceful she was ever put in that situation. i think anybody with any dignity would say, look, you should not have to do this. if brett kavanaugh had been consulted i think he would have said, i don't think it is fair that my personal ambition should trump your trauma. but of course, his actual reaction was very different. he came out and showed a similar lev