well wishes before potentially settling for the some classic soviet films which without fail on john reid the fust but although i am slightly sad to wait for security reasons when i was walking through i could tell that the atmosphere the anticipation was building that spirits were high and people were already beginning to reach for those champagne bottles but come midnight all eyes on that tower and then. as that fireworks display explodes across the night sky and it looks like i have the best seat in the house tongue ring sparks with some fireworks sounds like a recipe for success looking forward to the one will speak to you again shortly. and the things. just some of the highlights of 2019 still ahead we continue our review of the past year of certainly was an action packed 12 months more after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. wow 2020. welcome back the new year just a few minutes away now so let's quickly take a look back at the kiva shapes the past 12

have been able i mean mandate from this election to get it done and we will honor that mandate by john reid the 31st. the headlines the news continues here after inside so i will say a bit later. paris johnson has won the u.k.'s bricks and general election having roundly defeated the opposition labor party you have to go back to the 1980 s. to get a conservative majority this big the labor party leader jeremy colvin has now said he will step down so what does all that mean for the brics it and can boris johnson prime minister deliver on his promise to get rex's done this is inside story. hello and welcome to the special inside story coming to you today from westminster here in central london boris johnson knew he had to win and win big and win big he did the labor party led by jeremy corbyn only had to get enough seats to form some sort of loose coalition with the scottish nationalist party up in edinburgh they didn't even get close to managing that so jeremy called in has now said he will.

brennan meets privately in september with harry reid, john brennan, the cia director. iii want to know what role if ay the fbi an cia played trying to get out the dossier, market the story that trump was under investigation for colluding with the russians. maria: it looks like john durham wants to know the same thing. john durham has now requested we understand from the "new york times," that john durham has asked for john brennan's phone records, emails, they know what exactly he was telling cia staff about the dossier? was that perjury there, did he commit perjury in that may hearing? >> we'll let john durham decide that. odd for me to the cia director it tell publicly under oath the public, that the dossier had no participate in the corpus of the intelligence being gathered, when it was essential reason they got fisa warrant against fisa page. there is disconnect. somebody is ignorant what happened. they're trying to shade what happened. i think they never believed there would abhor wits investigation. i think these people believed they would get away with it. along

one of the things that we know it appears that in august 2016, john brennan may have brief harry reidn the dossier. he said different things, and didn't say it much later, but it appears in 2016 he may have talked to harry reid about it. there is a lot of problems with comey 's brennan's testimony and what will appear in his testimony as well. >> this cannot drag into the summer of next year. have a great, great holiday. great to see you. mary merry christmas and all that jazz. did you forget that there's democrat debate going on tonight? will be one of the first to show you one of the most ridiculous assertions before mercedes schlapp and richard goodstein debate. stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. . but this, this is the future. the future of communicating of hearing and connecting with life. and this, is eargo. no appointments no waiting no hassles. and they are practically invisible in your ear. now you see it. now you don't. if you have hearing loss now is the time to do something about it. because denying you have hearing loss, well that's the old way >>

one of the things that we know it appears that in august 2016, john brennan may have brief harry reidthe dossier. he said different things, and didn't say it much later, but it appears in 2016 he may have talked toos harry reid about it. there is a lot of problems with brennan's testimony and what will appear in his testimony as well. >> this cannot drag into the summer of next year. we better learn something before that. lee, have a great, great holiday. great to see you. merry christmas and all that jazz. did you forget that there's democrat debate going on tonight? we'll be one of the first to show you one of the most ridiculousat assertions. mercedes schlapp and richard goldstein debate. >> laura: that's right. [ indistinct chatter ] [ electrical buzzing ] [ dramatic music playing ] [ squeaking ] [ screaming ] elliott? [ gasps ] elliott. you came back! my son. my, my family. lot's changed since you were here. it's called the internet. whoa! -whoa! holiday movies. ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas ♪ ♪ family. home. woo! [ gasps ] woo-hoo! woo! i'll be right here. ♪ >> laura: that

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. >> joy reid, at this point roughly around this time in 2004 john kerry was polling at 4% in the primary polls. and he came from way back in the pack up to winning iowa, winning new hampshire, and it was all over, he was the nominee. this is one of those years where it is very hard to predict where things are going to look after iowa and new hampshire. >> yeah, and i think you might have been the person who pointed this out to me not too long ago the way john kerry was able to come back, i was working for an outside organization trying to help the democrats at that time, and we sort of were watching this whole thing go on. he was able to come back because he had a lot of money. he was able to spend his way back into contention in iowa when people thought he had no shot. he could give himself a loan because he was really rich. what we see now is a lot of rich people throwing money at this race that's not necessarily helping them but skewing kind of the results. so it's very hard to predict the way this is going to go, and there's also a disconnect between what happens in iowa and what hap

antonio ferrer, former press secretary to mitch mcconnell, john cot, former adviser to joe manchin, adam, deputy chief of staff to democrat harry reid, corey booker getting ready to join us live in a moment and then the house speaker and kevin mccarthy as well. buckle in. i need to get to you on some of this. senator mcconnell made clear he is not happy with the process. senator schumer is not happy with him and they're supposed to meet. the house speaker is withholding his articles for now. >> politics, isn't it shocking. we heard her ran no said she was impartial until she was going to vote to convict. >> she wants the president to mount a defense. >> if she does not vote to convict then i'm -- i think we know she will vote to convict. there's so much politics going on. nancy pelosi cannot demand anything from the senate in terms of process. she can try. this is a losing political hand for her. i mean there is -- >> doesn't mitch mcconnell not want a senate trial? doesn't it work in his favor? >> he's not going to be dictated by her. she doesn't get to make those dooigtss. kind of funny, house republicans made a lot of process arg

john durham is seeking to obtain, john brennan created a task force that was used as the basis for the trump-russia investigation. he provided information to harry reidications. >> and james clapper too, i would suspect. what's being indicated here is efforts to disclose certain information at critical times in order to pressure the fbi to take this investigation and move it into a criminal investigation. that's the concern. if that was done with an effort that was politically motivated or directed by other higher ups. that's what they will sort out as a result of this investigation once they have the communications. that's the way to get to the bottom of what happens. >> the inspector general who has limited power, authority and jurisdiction said he thought the launching of the investigation in late 2016 was properly predicated. durham and bar made it clear they don't agree with that. what does that tell you? >> we should be pleased michael horowitz did what he was chattered to do which is revaluate the conduct of those within the department of justice and deal with the evidence before him without ability to subpoena testimony and certain documents

and you'll remember, john, in 2009 after being a republican for three decade, he became a democrat. was not embraced by the democratic leadership harry reidld not restore his seniority. he went on to lose a 2010 democratic primary. my point is, it's not always easy to make a change like this especially in election season. and sometimes the voters of your new party are not as accepting as you would think they would be. >> we'll be watching to see how that all turns out. i also want to get your take on this. we've been talking to much about the president's place in history when it comes to impeachment. but you've noted that the president's legacy on another front was really cemented this week in what conservative judges have done. what we've seen. >> the most awesome responsibility of a president in my opinion beyond being commander in chief is those are lifetime appointments. i maintain that through that function, a president has more impact on our lives than arguably anything else except at a time of war. and the milestone is last wednesday, the same day we were paying attention to michael horowitz's testimony, the senate was ratifying pr