the mid—term elections are normally a judgement on the performance of the white houe and congress buts shifting to the supreme court, and its causing republicans a problem. and there's still a week to go in the conservative leadership contest. yes, still a week to go. and yet the polls tell us it is no longer a contest. tonight with the context, victoria coates, former advisor to the us energy secretary and long term trump

nose questions at the white houe ..o looking to turn president biden's winning streak into midterm momentum halts in inflation. gas prices below four dollars a gallon got a big legislative when they have a pretty good laundry list of bread and butter issues in terms of i a package that they can sell to voters. it'sn now what qualifiesau as pretty good tora them? well, isn't inflation supposed to actually helpse the legislation supposed to help the average person? en isn't that the test here?te not whether biden gets climate and tax legislation just passedp on a purely partisan vote ? that's not really the measure, is it? and what if biden's signatureba legislation is based in l large part on lies likeie the le that the eighty seven thousand irs agents won't targetag peopl irs agents won't targetag peopl thousand dollars a year? well,rs the irs will collect well,rs the irs will collect auditing low and middle income americans under the white house backed inflation reduction that the cbohe informed congressional republicans that under the act audits of taxpayers making under four hundred thou

the white houe doctor about any of this. why? ab wely don't know. probably other reasons, but we are able to hear from joe biden, who's in isolation. how's he doing? well, during today during a roue discussion with business leaders, joe biden announced le that he is not actually the president which already knew . instead, biden said he's thees vice presidentid joe biden about the possibility of my visit by one of those karine jean-pierre electric vehicles that you want to come out. i'm not going to be able toon do it because i can't drive ave vehicle while i'm vice president, can't drive ae vehicle while he's vice president, which he d currently is . if you can't drive a vehicle because state delaware has revoked his license inho the interest of public safety for whatever turns out, the guy who got the most votes for president ever eight hundred and forty seven million or wason a billion votes, more votes than anyone ever more votes than there are people on planet earth doesn't realize that he's still the president. joe biden's comments are great ne

should ever doo is go to the white houe and say we are going to be doing a big thing today that might take media attention, you want s us to t hold off? the fact that i was glad to see the biden white house was ticked off at that, that's how it should be. no communication regarding prosecutorial function ofrd d.o. so i'm encouraged we are making progress on that but we need policy change as well. >> i want to get to some of the your questions. don't freak out, i'm just going to use your firstst name so if u don't want to use your name,an just put that in the question but i do it because i don't want to say random user said this. to start, you're going to get us started. could be ag to continue with us to establish legal limits on how brought the president responsible it is our, perhaps to lose, is that a legal strategy that makes sense? >> an interesting question and one i've heard quite a bit. i don't think so. you have a duty as a prosecutor if you pursue a case, same with any lawyer, pursue it vigorously and it's unethical of a prosecutor to say i want to bring this case up so i ca

and of course, amazon.com breaking history,ma a white houe memoir.now, the amazing thing your part of history. most people will never really, truly understand what life is really like in that house and what goes on behinder the scenes. there's no doubt about it that any objective observation of the trump presidency was a consequenceve for presidency. and we see after 18 months what can happen when you abandon the policies that your father innd instituted in this country. whatat was it about him? what did you see about him that made him that different? so first of all, sean, it's great to be with you. ith was a great honor to serve. and president trump took the responsibility very seriously to fight forep the american people and keep his promises. you were speaking earlier about all the different accomplishments he was able to have economicallyy . those weren't an accident. it's been awfulnt to watch the inflation that's happened to rising gas prices, but all u that happened under the guise of all the investing and attacks. and i read extensively in t

the mid—term elections are normally a judgement on the performance of the white houe and congress buts time the focus is shifting to the supreme court, and its causing republicans a problem. and there's still a week to go in the conservative leadership contest. yes, still a week to go. and yet the polls tell us it is no longer a contest. tonight with the context, victoria coates, former advisor to the us energy secretary and long term trump staffer and tom peck political sketch writer at the independent. hello welcome to the programme. the european commission will set out next week emergency measures to reform the structure of the european electricity market. the exact makeup of that intervention is still to be decided. but a growing number of eu member states are calling for electricity prices to be decoupled from the price of gas which has soared as a result of russia's war in ukraine. the commission president, ursula von der leyen, said prices which havejumped ten—fold in the last year have exposed the limitations of how the market is currently managed. it is no more fit for purpos