1997 he guided it to its greatest election achievement since the ‘20s, doubling the number of lib demsage, he'd already been contemplating the prospect of coalition government with labour. a joint cabinet committee was established and liberal democrats invited to talks at number ten. according to ashdown the plan to bring the lib dems into government foundered amid opposition from senior labour ministers and the thorny problem of electoral reform. in the liberal democrat leader, tony blair had a candid friend. your government, i believe, could become potentially an historic one, but only if it lets go a little, if it relaxes a little, if it tolerates descent a little, if it welcomes diversity a little and if it interferes a little less. charles kennedy is duly elected leader. paddy ashdown resigned the leadership in 1999, handing the baton onto charles kennedy and retiring from the house of commons two years later. he spent time in bosnia, at some personal risk, at the height of the war there. and in 2002 he became the high representative in bosnia and herzegovina. myjob is to create,

he was involved in the forefront of politics with the lib dems and into bosnia right up the lib demsd of mine was a diplomat in sarajevo when he was a diplomat in sarajevo when he was the leader of the mission there and he said he was extraordinary little by saying this last night, that he volunteered to go to the front line. bob stuart said that as well. he said even generals don't go to the front line but he was so brave and dynamic that he did think that less that politicians would be scared of. the mail on sunday saying they don't make them like paddy anymore, which is reflecting what you are saying. it is a shame he never really held a ministerial office. that's not a politician, very able and intelligent. incredibly able. and we knew the huge success he had by the lib dems in the 1997 election, taking them from near extinction to a growing political force in the from near extinction to a growing politicalforce in the uk, the mail on sunday said. he was round the tables, discussing a possible coalition with tony blair back then. it isa coalition with tony blair back then. it is

i read the dems are deeply divided on health care. between dems is like this. the difference between the dems and the republicans is like that. republicans are still attempting to repeal the affordable care act. democrats want to preserve the affordable care act. expand health to care coverage. are they different ideas how to do it? sure. for the differences are not that great. i would say the same thing about the campaign. let's be the deliberative party the senate is supposed to be. republican ideas, too. we are going to need the stakeholders. the american cancer society. we are going to need everybody looking at the big proposals and say, we like this and we do not like that. and then we can find a path forward. definite risk for the national democratic party in trump type voters who and thoseible to you midwestern states to have medicare for all be your brand. >> there is an opportunity. in westjoe manchin win virginia? donald trump won 43 points. he made the campaign about his opponent's effort to tank pre-existing conditions. a state that might be one of

the lib dems field.figure and the lib dems field. but he's been a major figure and some of your reports talked about his greatest legacy possibly being over bosnia. as your correspond was talking about, he's remained very interested in that, and was still concerned right until his death, u nfortu nately, right until his death, unfortunately, about the fragility of the settlement that was achieved and the progress made. when people have remembered him and paid tribute, they talked about him as being a politician of a different era, someone embodying certain qualities of honesty and integrity. absolutely, i interviewed him years ago. he was the education spokesman for the lib dems at the time. he came across as a very principled man, came across as a very principled marl, very came across as a very principled man, very charismatic. he talked a lot about education, he felt passionately that we should spend more. he linked it back, he was on the dole himself twice. most people don't know that he was unemploy

lou: both sides of the alfred radical dems and rhinos on either side of that aisle. the very people who have obstructed and are be skated throughout the two years of this presidents service in office. we take that up with republican political strategist ed rollins and all our guest here tonight. it was another rough day on wall street. the markets continued to slide. jerome powell may now realize this market has gone from being the true market to the powell market. we take up the fed's misguided efforts and their ignorance in avoiding and ignoring the presidents warning about what would happen. james freeman will join us and former congressman jason among our guest. our top story tonight president trump refuses to sign the senate stopgap effort to avoid government shutdown because the bill doesn't find the president border wall. fox news chief white house correspondent john roberts during this tonight and is more on the days extraordinary developments. reporter: good evening. earlier this week president trump received to back off his stringent demands that congress g

he led the lib dems for more than a decade — from 1988 until 1999 — and is credited with making the partyficant third force in british politics. vicky young has taken a look back at his life. this is how most people will remember paddy ashdown — the action man, the party leader with the least affection for westminster. long before he fired his first political salvos, he was a military man. a marine, he saw active service in borneo and malaya, as documented at the time. after a period as a diplomat, and some time on the dole, paddy ashdown got involved with the liberals, elected mp for yeovil in 1983. later, in 1988, after the painful merger with the sdp that formed the liberal democrats, he became leader. i say to the millions out there who are concerned about poverty and about unemployment, come and join us. the party was at rock bottom in the polls, and financially crippled. paddy ashdown built it up again, but at some cost to his home life. he admitted an affair with his former secretary, tricia howard. what paddy said stands. he's made a statement already, and i was perfectly well awa

he led the lib dems for more than a decade, from 1988 until 1999, and is credited with making the partyficant third force in british politics. vicky young has taken a look back at his life. this is how most people will remember paddy ashdown — the action man, the party leader with the least affection for westminster. long before he fired his first political salvos, he was a military man. a marine, he saw active service in borneo and malaya. after a period as a diplomat, and some time on the dole, paddy ashdown got involved with the liberals, elected mp for yeovil in 1983. later, in 1988, after the painful merger with the sdp that formed the liberal democrats, he became leader. i say to the millions out there who are concerned about poverty and about unemployment, come and join us. the party was at rock bottom in the polls, and financially crippled. paddy ashdown built it up again, but at some cost to his home life. he admitted an affair with his former secretary, tricia howard. what paddy said stands. he's made a statement already, and i was perfectly well aware of what he was going to

in 1997 he guided it to its greatest election achievement since the ‘20s, doubling the number of lib dembeen contemplating the prospect of coalition government with labour. a joint cabinet committee was established, with liberal democrats invited to talks at number ten. according to ashdown, the plan to bring the lib dems into government foundered on opposition from senior labour ministers and the thorny problem of electoral reform. charles kennedy is duly elected the leader... paddy ashdown resigned the leadership in 1999, handing the baton onto charles kennedy, and retiring from the house of commons two years later. he spent time in bosnia, at some personal risk, at the height of the war there. and in 2002, became the high representative in bosnia and herzegovina. myjob is to create, to help to create, the structures of a modern european democratic state, and then to repatriate the powers that the international community has held here back to the bosnians. but he wasn't done with westminster politics. in 2015, after the lib dems had spent five years in coalition with the conservatives,

a former royal marine, lord ashdown led the lib dems to their best election result in 70 years in 1997ier, the us senate ended talks to resolve an impasse over the budget without agreement.

i'll read you what the lib dem spokesperson says. that —— sadness that we announce the news that paddy ashdown has passed away following a short illness. he will be desperately missed as a dear friend and colleague and remembered as someone friend and colleague and remembered as someone who made a contribution to furthering the cause of liberalism, and it ends with saying their thoughts are with his family and all theirfriends their thoughts are with his family and all their friends at this difficult time and they ask that their privacy is respected. you heard vince cable speaking on bbc news the short time ago, reflecting with his thoughts as saying that this was sad and had come as something of a surprise. we knew paddy ashdown was ill, he was diagnosed with bladder cancer weeks ago but it seems he had taken a turn for the worse and deteriorating quite rapidly. he spoke about his illness when he was diagnosed, saying that as for the timing and his rock masses, he said we'll have to see what happens, i've faced many battles in my li

a former royal marine, lord ashdown led the lib dems to their best election result in 70 years in 1997he us senate ended talks to resolve an impasse over the budget without agreement. democrats are refusing to give in to president trump's demands for $5 billion to build a border wall with mexico.

it took no time for the leaders of the radical dems to insult the president in the oval office and again make clear they have no intention of securing the border, no matter the welfare of the nation. >> you have the white house and you have the summit and you have the house of representatives. you have - you should pass it. >> we do not have the vote, nancy. >> but no, in the house. president trump: excuse me, but i can't get it passed and house it will not pass in the senate. i don't want to waste - >> practice you can get it started that way. president trump: the house we could get passed easily but the problem is the senate because we need ten democrats to vote and they will not vote. >> that's not the point. the point is there - needs to be raised and were here to have a conversation so i don't think we should have this debate in front of the press. lou: should not have a rate in front of the cameras? the president is all about standing firm in being transparent. once again he will shut down the government and probably so if, if the dems do not help fund that wall. president trump: i

the difference between the dems and the republicans is like that. republicans are still attempting to repeal the affordable care act either by vote or administration sabotage. democrats want to preserve the affordable care act, we voted to protect it, democrats want to expand health care coverage. are the different ideas? sure. but the differences are not that great. i would say the same about the campaign as the committee. get ideas on the table. let's be the deliberative body the senate is supposed to be, republican ideas too. we need them all on the table and stakeholders, hospitals, the american cancer society, everybody looking at the proposals and saying we like this, we don't like that and then we can find a path forward to the next big step forward that will increase options and reduce costs. >> host: there is risk for the national democratic party in an age of trump-type voters, in big midwestern states, medicare for all. >> guest: there is danger but also opportunity. people knew him but also he made the campaign about his opponent's effor

before turning to politics, first with the liberal party in the 1970s, then becoming the first lib demr in 1988. he revealed in november that he was being treated for bladder cancer. our chief political correspondent vicki young looks back at his life, and there is some flash photography in her report. this is how most people will remember paddy ashdown — the action man, the party leader with the least affection for westminster. long before he fired his first political salvos, he was a military man. a marine, he saw active service in borneo and malaya, as documented at the time. newsreel: at this post, 20 yards from the border, 23—year—old marine lieutenant ashdown, from somerset, has local forces as well as marines under his command. he excelled as a member of the elite special boat squadron, spoke fluent mandarin chinese. he spent time, too, in his native northern ireland during the worst of the troubles. after a period as a diplomat, and some time on the dole, paddy ashdown got involved with the liberals, elected mp for yeovil in 1983. later, in 1988, after the painful merger with t

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apparently, the dems are out of touch with reality period. the believe, blue r -- but there are three midterm races to be called yet. think of that, still. december 5th. election officials claim their still counting ballots. north carolina's 9th district had been call for republican mark harris but was uncalled because of claims of voter fraud with mail-in absentee ballots. are you, do you find this complicated enough yet? well, in new york democrat nat mcmurray conceded his race against chris collins, but fox news has yet to call the race. there are fewer than 3,000 votes separating the two. in california the 21st district was called for republican congressman, but further ballot counting put the democrat, p. j. cox, in the lead. do you see the theme there? it looks like the earlier they vote and the latest they count, the better it is for democrats. [laughter] it should be mentioned as well seven other races in which republicans lead are across the country -- led across the country on election night somehow swung to the dems after further,

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no collusion, fox news, that's because there's no collusion so now the dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution, which it was not, but even if it was, it is only a civil case like obama's, but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. lawyer's liability if he made a

as usual i'm getting slammed by cuomo and dems in long-running civil lawsuit started by sleeze bag ag eric schneiderman who since resigned over horrific women abuse. when i wanted to close the foundation so has not to be in conflict with politics, shady eric was head of new yorkers for clinton and refused to even look at the corrupt clinton foundation. in any event he goes on and on and and the new ag, who is now being replaced by yet another ag who openly campaigned on a get trump agenda does little else but rant, rave, politic against me. we'll never be treated fairly by these people. total double standard of quote,

the dems. ok that mean all they did get up to the also predict that if some of the as it happens to be might. be might also plan. some of the dems as well i'm going to need to build it out. dean argentino from oxfam thank you very much for speaking with us yes thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in mexico the new governor of her senator husband have died in a helicopter crash marta erica alonso was a senior opposition figure she took office in the central mexican states earlier this month to go home and says it will investigate the incidents. cicely's mount etna of volcano has been erupting lava and ash after a new fracture opened up and the base of one of its craziest observers say that the fall kaino is displaying unusually high levels of seismic activity air traffic to nearby tanya airports was shut down for several hours yesterday due to the ash plume. hollywood star kevin spacey has been charged with indecency assaulting an eighteen year old man and tw

this is about dems not letting donald trump and republicans have a win.

retiring pennsylvania congressman ryan costello warning there is no pressure on dems than dems controlrd and then dems have more leverage. the notion a shutdown creates more pressure on dems is toddler logic. congressman costello joins us now. if it is toddler logic to think the dems will cave here, who do you blame for this government shutdown we're in? >> well, it's the president. he said it's his shutdown. the senate, a little bit of history here -- the senate passed a bill 100-0 funding the government, known as a clean cr. after the 100-0 vote, the bill came to the house. a couple talk show hosts were screaming and yelling saying we need to get more border money. the president all of a sudden changes his mind and doesn't find the 100-0 vote acceptable even though he initially did. a couple members of the freedom caucus gyn everybody up and by the end of the republican conference meeting we don't have enough votes to pass that clean cr. and so we had to put a bill on the floor that increased funding for the border wall and did what we needed to do on disaster relief funding of an ad

in 2015 after lib dems had spent five years in coalition with the conservatives, lord ashdown returnedn. and we are saying the conservatives are the largest party. famously, disputing the exit poll prediction of a dire result. if this exit poll is right, andrew, i will publicly eat my hat on your programme. this is a hat! you are so predictable, aren't you? i knew you'd do that. i wanted to get a bigger one! paddy ashdown‘s energy sometimes his colleagues and he was mocked his action man image, reinforced by a clipped military tones and narrowed eyes staring towards the horizon. but he inspired respect for his constant ideas and enthusiasm, and his efforts to build the liberal democrats into a force in national politics. lord paddy ashdown who has died at the age of 77. many former prime ministers have paid tribute to him. tony blair said ministers have paid tribute to him. tony blairsaid in ministers have paid tribute to him. tony blair said in a statement, i am deeply saddened and shocked... anotherformer prime another former prime ministerjohn major paid his respects by saying, in g

trish: there is an opportunity for the dems to do something quite meaningful.utting that security and also change our system so that the good people, the ones we want, that we need near this country can come without all the red tape. and the bad ones. >> the reverend said trump was being pumped by the left-wing media. but now this flintstone cave man showed us, if you want to shut down, let's shut it down. now they are pinning this on trump saying he caused the shutdown. at the end of the day trump catered to his base. he ran on the campaign promise. democrats are doing the same. instead of saying we are not going to give him what he wants, they are staging this political theater which hurts the federal workers. it hurts immigrants who are become held up in the system and not allowed to go over or be deported. it's a political game. we have a lot more of that coming up within the next year. trish: it's just so wrong. it's immoral to hold all of this up because of sheer politics because you don't want somebody else getting a check next to their name, amy. >> tha

the dems and the white house.ef white house correspondent john roberts joining us tonight with more on the president's strategy. >> reporter: david, good evening. it had been a high stakes game of brinksmanship that had gone on most of the day. that now has turned to negotiation. president trump had dug in his heels, insisting that he get some money for a border barrier, whether you call it a wall or a steel slat barricade, it doesn't really matter. but now the question is can he get an agreement with congress before the midnight deadline of a partial shutdown. as he did yesterday with house members, president trump huddled with senate republicans this morning trying to find some way to get money to build a barrier on the southern border. >> tremendous enthusiasm for border security. and i think i can speak for them very strongly when i say they want to see something happen on border security. >> reporter: the house last night passed a bill with some $5.7 billion for border security. president trump today claiming

i support the snp and lib dems here.careful about the timing. we need to take some action. we as a nation should now advise europe that we are going tojoin wto rules now advise europe that we are going to join wto rules and start now advise europe that we are going tojoin wto rules and start on now advise europe that we are going to join wto rules and start on march 30. that would be no deal effectively living with their tariffs? no deal. but you run a business. what would that do to your business? at the present moment the stock market is plunging, the pound is plunging, the 250 is plunging. there will be problems but we will ove rco m e there will be problems but we will overcome them. what business do you run? we make bus and coach driver seats. what we are hearing from forecast after forecast, the bulk of the research out there suggests that this is just the the research out there suggests that this isjust the beginning in the contraction of the economy. whilst this deal would be bad, no deal would be £100 billion le

radical dem nancy pelosi taking a wrecking ball to bipartisanship early.n her statement today she said quote within this nomination is the latest in the president's pattern of installing partisan hacks in the highest reaches of our government who will happily do his bidding. imagine, unanimously confirmed under president george h.w. bush, now being called a hack by the speaker-to-be. president trump announcing his long expected replacement for u.n. ambassador nikki haley. state department spokeswoman and former fox news host, heather nauert. president trump: she is very smart and very quick and i think she'll be respected by all. she'll be nominated as the ambassador to the united nations. lou: tomorrow he'll'' mom name it general mark milling to replace general dunford. it won't be effective until october of next year. trade tensions and interest rates being blamed for another sell-off on wall street. the dow jones industrials down almost 560 pints, wiping out the -- 560 points, wiping out the gains for the year. the s & p negative for the year as well. t

there are already 85 issues dems want to probe.trump's ties to russia where adam schiff plans to push the white house, and elijah cummings says he will root out corruption. but trump doesn't follow norms. what if the trump administration defies these democratic chairs? that's where subpoena power comes in, and democrats say they'll use that if need be. >> we will make sure that matt whitaker will appear before the committee. >> i've spoken to a senior democratic source on the ways and means committee who says breaking news, they do intend to request president trump's tax returns. >> i am going to issue subpoenas that go to the heart of our democracy and protecting that democracy. >> so in each of those examples, forcing whitaker to testify, demanding information from trump aides, the democrats will make demands and the trump administration can cooperate or refuse. to enforce a subpoena, these democratic chairs, they can't just act all on their own. they need the expected speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, to use her power on behal

the border wall funding continuing to be ignored by radical dems. calling out obstructionists who stand in the way of his commitment to ending the glow of drugs. -- glow of drugs to ending human traffics and his commitment from keeping violent gang members from entering the country. louisiana senator bill cassidy said that president's demands for border security need to be met. >> should not be hard to get

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a former royal marine, lord ashdown led the lib dems to their best election result in 70 years in 1997ver team has arrived in yemen to monitor a ceasefire in the port city of hudaydah. the retired dutch general, patrick cammaert, —— dutch general, patrick cammaert, arrived in the country just hours after the mission was unanimously approved by the united nations‘ security council. caroline rigby has more. for the first time in years, a glimmer of hope for peace in yemen. the un team deployed to oversee it arrived on saturday. headed by retired dutch general patrick cammaert, the group of observers are tasked with helping to implement and monitor hudaydah‘s ceasefire, a fragile truce which came into force on tuesday following talks in sweden between delegations from the yemeni government and houthi rebels, a precursor to more significant negotiations scheduled for the new year. translation: today we met general patrick, the head of the committee. we welcomed him and informed him of the president's instructions to cooperate for the success of this mission. he will meet with the other par