this is a guy, jon meacham, that has spent his entire life creating this warped reality. that goes wherever his mind wants it to go. keeping people around him that allows him to avoid reality. keeping people around him that does exactly what he wants to do. he was so proud of having a button on his white house desk. he goes, "press the button," and somebody brings in diet coke. he loves the complete control and command, and he has his entire life. now, he's sitting down six, seven, eight hours a day, and -- >> at 78 years old. >> -- 78 years old, judge telling him what to do, being mocked, getting angry about that. yeah, this is quite -- >> new territory. >> -- new territory for donald
sitting down six, seven, eight hours a day, and -- >> at 78 years old. >> 78 years old, judge telling him what to do, falling asleep, being mocked, getting angry about that. yeah. it's -- this is quite -- quite a situation. >> new territory. >> it's new territory for donald trump. >> and arguably no american in history has so warped everyone else's reality as well, right? i mean, it's not simply his imaginative universe. he's imposed his imaginative universe, his grievances, his vision of enemies versus himself on everyone, and we're living in this -- this warped reality, and so one thing about the last couple of weeks and about these images that i think maybe this isn't a particularly popular
rockets that were seemingly fired at a nearby base. all of this happening in northeastern syria. u.s. official tells fox news the u.s. forces had to respond to at least five rockets that were fired from an iranian proxy group. notice knowing -- no u.s. servicemember's were hurt or injured in the race was not damage, this is the 170 worse attack on u.s. bases in the middle east since october 17th. elsewhere in the region the israeli government is criticizing potential u.s. sanctions on an idf group. 's actions were reportedly aimed at the ultra-orthodox battalion known as that so yehuda. the unit has been criticized for it's treatment of palestinians including after the death of a 78-year-old palestinian american man. from -- prime minister jimmy netanyahu called the possibility of sanctions the peak of authority and a moral low. >> voice of interpreter: i will fiercely defend the idf
jury case. >> what do you think it will mean for trump world to have him there for the next four weeks? >> he is running for president and we talked about this the other night but the campaign in the short and -- court are sharing custody of him. his weekends are free, maybe on wednesdays and he has been planning rallies. i noticed he has one in wildwood, new jersey on may 11th so they are preparing for the strange logistics of this but i have to imagine is also going to be very tired on days when he does not have court, and how much stamina does he really have? i don't know. >> again just to reset the fact here, the man is 77 years old. he will turn 78. there's been so much talk about joe biden's age but he is a 77- year-old man facing criminal
hello. it's adam in the studio. and it is chris in birmingham. and just so i don't get lonely in here, i'm joined by some friends of the podcast. ailbhe rea is associate editor at bloomberg. hello, ailbhe. hello, thank you for having me. and nick watt is political editor of newsnight. hello, nick. hello, adam. this means we've got bbc one and bbc two sewn up tonight. genius move. very clever move. right, the first story we're going to talk about is about the mp mark menzies, who represents a seat in the north—west of england and, until wednesday night, he was a conservative mp. he's now been stripped of the whip and is an independent and the claims were made in the times newspaper on wednesday night. the newspaper is alleging that, in the recent past, he made a phone call at 3:15am to his former campaign manager, who is 78 years old. and the allegation is that mark menzies said, "i am locked in a flat and i need £5,000
really at the moment there very difficult position where israel only want to talk about a pause in fighting, it doesn't want to talk about ending the war without dismantling hamas in gaza. hamas doesn't want to talk about a pause, it wants a complete end to this war before it will release the hostages it is holding. here, the conservatives have suspended one of its mps after claims in the times newspaper it he misused some fans. he claims in the times newspaper it he misused some fans.— misused some fans. he strongly disutes misused some fans. he strongly disnutes the _ misused some fans. he strongly disputes the allegations. - misused some fans. he strongly disputes the allegations. here l misused some fans. he strongly| disputes the allegations. here is our chief political correspondent with more. our chief political correspondent with more-— our chief political correspondent with more. ~ . . ., ., , with more. according to the times newsa er with more. according to the times newsnaper in _ with more. according to the times newspaper in december _ with more. according to the times newspaper in december mark - with more. according to the times - newspaper in december mark menzies, the conservative mp for fylde, the constituency in lancashire since 2010, back in december he rang up his 78—year—old former campaign manager at a quarter past three in the morning and he said what he called bad people had locked him in
hamas does not want to talk about a pause, it wants a complete end to this war before it will release the hostages it is holding. here the conservatives have suspended one of their mps, mark menzies, from the parliamentary party, after claims in the times newspaper that he misused party funds. mr menzies, who represents fylde in lancashire, told the paper that he strongly disputed the allegations. here's our chief political correspondent — henry zeffman. according to the times newspaper back in december mark menzies, who has been the conservative mp for fylde, a constituency in lancashire, since 2010, back in december he rang up his 78—year—old former campaign manager at a quarter past three in the morning and he said what he called "bad people" had locked him in a flat. she was told that he needed £5,000 as a matter of, as he put it apparently, "life and death". it is claimed later that
that he misused campaign funds. the claims, which the mp for fylde denies, include accusations he used the money to pay for private medical expenses. our chief political correspondent, henry zeffman, joins us now. very good morning to you. tell us a little more about these accusations. good morning. these arejust little more about these accusations. good morning. these are just at this stage allegations. but they are extremely peculiar and really quite serious allegations. in a story in the times, it says mark menzies, the people filed in lancashire, back in december, rang up his 78—year—old former campaign manager at quarter past three in the morning and he said that bad people had locked him in a flat. he said he needed £5,000 as a matter of life and death. it is claimed his office manager then paid the money from her personal bank
medical expenses and called a 78—year—old aide at 3,15am, asking for help because he'd been locked up by what he called "bad people" demanding money for his release. mr menzies told the paper he strongly disputes the allegations. labour says rishi sunak and the conservative party have serious questions to answer. let's speak to our polital correspondent, henry zeffman, in westminster. what is the times alleging? you are right to say alleging to these are just allegations at this stage but they are also pretty serious allegations and frankly pretty peculiar allegations. what the times is alleging that back in december mark menzies, the conservative mp for fylde in lancashire since 2010, found a former campaign manager, a 78—year—old former campaign manager at quarter past three in the morning and he said what he called bad
three weeks during this congress, mid session where there hasn't been a speaker. if we get, let's say even more days if they asked mike johnson, there's no plan put in place. this number will climb even higher. this congress has been historic for many reasons, and most of them are not really good. they showed the dysfunction, one of the reasons why they appointed speaker right away is because stuff can happen at all correctly. there was speaker so 21 days without a speaker means 21 days where the house is doing basically zero, which is what they've been doing this entire time. what did american people think about congress? how does spect overall approval? yeah, it's not just that they're not doing anything. >> it turns out that people are recognizing this. so this is disapproval of congress, right 78% now, we always say congress isn't doing a lot, but this 78% is way up from 66% last year, 66% in 2022, you go back to april 2021. it was 58%. this 78% is abnormally high. in fact, it's the highest since 2015. so yes, the american folks are paying attention and they're seeing that congress isn't doing anything. they see