joining us today are: the iranian—born writer amir taheri, bronwen maddox — former international editortimes, now with the uk's institute for government — agnes poirier from the french magazine marianne, and the us journalist stryker mcguire, from bloomberg markets. warm welcome to all of you, and thank you for being with us. meet donald trump, the magic man. it's the pundits verdict on the us president which he most appreciates himself. he re—tweeted it approvingly, after tuesday's elections, the results of which will help shape the presidential election due in 2020. mr trump's republican party lost control of the house of representatives. a democrat—majority there will make it harder to introduce new legislation. the strengthened republican grip on the senate, though, makes it unlikely he'll be successfully impeached. it will also make the path to securing supreme court vacancies for conservatives a lot safer. bronwen, how magic were these results for donald trump? they were a relief, that was how they were portrayed, as very good news for him. it is not great news, in that the democr

a number of athletes gave taheri plays for the sport to be cleaned up while accusing russian competitors of stealing their medals. in the studio to discuss this latest twist. not only usada the u.s. anti-doping agency a bunch of other agencies as well you can describe them as rogue faction of the world anti-doping agency those were u.k. anti-doping agency as well as bunch of western states let's put it this way so they met for a very emotional meeting at the white house there were even tears by some of the athletes there who are complaining about the clean sports being disregarded by the world anti-doping agency chiefs. and also very very hard statements coming from the u.s. and i'd open agency but first and foremost let me say that the wada the actual world anti-doping agency claims that it was not even invited if water president athletes or others that were supportive of the decision had been invited they would have been able to bring perspective to the debate to explain why the decision to reinstate rosado was the right one for a clean sport so the u.s. anti-doping agency chief to. de

joining us today are: the iranian—born writer amir taheri, bronwen maddox — former international editore marianne,

joining us today are: the iranian—born writer amir taheri, bronwen maddox — former international editorfrom bloomberg markets. are welcome to all of you, and thank you for being with us. meet donald trump, the magic man. it's the pundits verdict on the us president which he most appreciates himself. he re—tweeted it approvingly, after tuesday's elections, the results of which will help shape the presidential election due in 2020. mr trump's republican party lost control of the house of representatives. a democrat—majority there will make it harder to introduce new legislation. the strengthened republican grip on the senate, though, makes it unlikely he'll be successfully impeached. it will also make the path to securing supreme court vacancies for conservatives a lot safer. bronwen, hal magic were these results for donald trump? they were a relief, that was how they were betrayed, as very good news for him. it is not great news, in that the congressmen have the house, and license or the ability to harass him and demand tax returns and so on. the question for me is whether the democrats