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jonathan bush called it the shameful report. john weaver put the opposite point of view.n politics are plenty of attention was given to ukip over last weekend. its leader henry bolton has been under pressure since news broke of his relationship with an ex—model and the racist messages she had sent. alex forsyth reported on the story for the news that one on monday. despite growing pressure, he says he is not going anywhere. henry bolton is insisting he wants to keep leading ukip, even though the pa rty‘s leading ukip, even though the party's ruling body says he should quit and now a string of senior members have resigned because he will not go. sheila grant was watching that and wondered, why on earth is ukip the lead story on the news that one reporting live from westminster? this party has no mps and following the referendum no longer has any relevance in this country as can be seen by the haemorrhaging of their support and co nsta ntly leaving haemorrhaging of their support and constantly leaving leaders. by by the end of the week much of the media's focus had switched

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etheridge agreed with those sentiments and also took exception to the tone of the coverage: meanwhile, jonathan bushependence party, over last weekend and the start of this week. its leader, henry bolton, has been under pressure since news broke of his relationship with ex—model jo marney and the racist messages she had sent. alex forsyth reported on the story for the news at one, on monday. i am not making any comment. despite growing pressure, he says he's not going anywhere. henry bolton's insisting he wants to keep leading ukip, even though the party's ruling body says he should quit and now a string of senior members have resigned because he will not go. sheila grant was watching and wandered: —— wondered. and dave noble agreed: by the end of the week, much of the media's focus had switched to switzerland, where many of the world's business leaders and heads of state were meeting at the world economic forum, in davos. the bbc were there in force, but will wake felt that the coverage concentrated too much on the global elite and not enough on the economic realities of people's lives: on thursday

reporter, at the table associated press white house reporter jonathan lam mere, elise jordan nbc analyst and former aid in the former george w. bush white house. also here, steve schmidt, republican strategist and msnbc contributor. let me start with you and let me ask you a simple question. why did dianne feinstein release the transcript? >> well, we haven't heard her explain it nicole, but one can only assume that it had a lot to do with that criminal referral against christopher steel on friday that was made yuan nauni ly on friday. accusing christopher steele of potentially misleading the fbi. >> you write most of the stories from which i learn these facts, but donald trump's allies in the media and some of them in congress are engaged in the smear campaign against the fbi, describing it as in tatters. what i deduce from reading the kra transcripts of glen simpson's testimony before the senate judiciary committee, is that christopher steele went to a meeting with an fbi contact in rome, i don't want to characterize it too much, but it had the impression that the fbi was unfazed by what he was telling them so he left with this

joining natasha and me at the table, jonathan that leer, white house reporter for the associated press. former aide of the george w. bush white house, and a time magazine columnist. i have to start with you, you had my favorite tweet of the day. obstruction during justice. what were you referring to? >> if bannon's testifying in his lawyer is on the phone consulting with the white house while he's testifying about what bannon is or is not allowed to say, i'm not exactly saying that it's legal obstruction, but it's certainly an unusual event in the history of congressional testimony. as in nothing like this has ever happened before to one's knowledge, and what we heard yesterday was that the behavior was so unusual that in the course of the testimony as bannon was testifying, the committee argued that it needed to subpoena him on-site. in other words, they were going to compel him to testify, essentially, as a hostile rather than a cooperating witness. so, and that's republicans as well as democrats. that's tray gowdy, the congressman from south carolina -- >> devin nunez. >> was getting angry at bannon for being obstruc