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now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. a conversation with, rather than a news like interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped the layers. my guest this week made the cover of time magazine when they profiled the first muslim leader of a western democracy. he is at the headline put it, the new face of scotland. the youngest leader this country has had in course of a century of having a devol...

but hes here now and theyre trying to figure out a way forward. so a full day of meetings begins now with the leader of iraq and were hoping to have some details from inside their at some point later on today ashleigh. okay, peter , you see who is traveling with the president on his mideast trip. peter , thank you so much. will be coming back to you once we get more details. but later on this morning, president biden will also speak to the leaders of egypt and the united arab emirates ...

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Work thats been done by other presidents among 10%. nc the trump administration had already set the stage for these negotiationsta, the countries that are designed and obviouslyy he didnt get a second term. and so t those negotiations were already put in. in fact, the same thing that he does when it comes too the vaccine, he takes credit for, he didnt help get its done. if biden was in office, it would be the same bureaucratic system. but butf theres a lot of stuff to deal with right here at thi...

The president pressuring the senate to get its act together and bill the bill to his desk as quickly as possible. we have a lot to discuss right now with ambassador susan rice, white house domestic policy adviser. were certainly grateful that youre here. thank you so much for joining us, ambassador. >> great to be with you, don. >> so lets talk about president biden. he says we have to act. we face an inflection point, but congress missed his deadline to pass policing reform. is there a risk tha...

The president pressuring the senate to get its act together and bill the bill to his desk as quickly as possible. we have a lot to discuss right now with ambassador susan rice, white house domestic policy adviser. thank you so much for joining us, ambassador. >> great to be with you, don. >> president biden says we have to act. we face an inflection point, but congress missed his deadline to pass policing reform. is there a risk that were going to end up without action being taken? >> theres alw...

Prerogative to have a conversation about anybody. there was no action being. incident here. he has said very publicly, is he not going to fire robert mueller. i dont think he should fire robert mueller, so, whether these conversations took place or not are almost irrelevant, for senator blumenthal to say he has clear evidence of this is a candid lie and he should be held accountable for it because its not true. griff: all right, corey. thank you very much for weighing in. we have got to leave it...

Political enemies. >> striking when you put it like that. do you agree this action being could be semiplated, something thats a no go zone? >> one single thing i was most struck by was attorney general sessions said by definition, the president could not improperly interfere in an investigation. that was a categorical statement of his view of what the law is as you pointed out, he was on his way to being impeached. it has to be true that the chief law enforcement officer can use that law other. ...

On john mccain. >> that arises out of a culture where, you know those kinds of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and get circulated nonstop, through the internet talk radio, news outletts. >> reporter: the president pated the gop action being in a race to the bottom saleming senator cochran for describing john kerrys role in the iran deal as pontius pilot pontius pontius pilate. >> weve a sitting senator call john kerry pontius pilate. and also one running for president to sugge...

Conditions arent close to coming in. you got stunked with the snow with all of the action being in philadelphia and baltimore and washington d.c. area. those spots will break all time yearly records for snow today. in new york were on par for where we should be, a foot in december and well probably get another foot today. central park behind me, always pretty during a snowstorm. when it comes to getting around town, columbus circle, a little bit slushy. temperatures were in the 40s, so that help...