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Sector pay is set and then recommended to the government as an offer. so that whole process could be called into question as well. and if there is a hardening of the unions position, then it is happening on the governments side as well. the prime minister writing in the sun on sunday today saying that while not mentioning any ambulance staff or nurses, who said that rail workers and border force have been offered fair and affordable pay deals, and has also described union leaders as the grinch a...

Will do the best they can but they are not properly trained and cant do the job is to the standard that the ambulance service workers would do. so, the normal levels of service just wont be there. there is a bit of concern coming from military quarters too, the head of the armed forces saying in an interview with the daily telegraph today that the military will take its work in its stride, but they are not spare capacity. it he said that they will be relying on the armful is to do these is an ul...

In that really runs to the point. no political party. nor liberals and democrats should control information flow. our guarantee in america, our backstop is a uninformed populist. when you distort the information they are getting, you are distorting the outcome. we must guard against that. it is the last frontier. what the founders put in place that information had to be free. that is why they enshrined it in the constitution. at this undermines that constitutional protection. >> you had an inter...

Sex couples the right to marriage was bipartisan. that was 32 democrats and 52 republicans voted for drama. cut to today when we are -- the only people who voted against that were republicans. 37 of them. now it is bipartisan, but the fact is that the majority theyre publican caucus voted against this in the upper chamber. what do you think accounts for that and is that number surprise you? >> sadly it doesnt given the state of politics, but i think its important that this was by partisan and th...

Makes me think of a conversation i had with a republican whos working on this race who was talking about the fact that it has been so frustrating for so many republican operatives that they havent been able to get out the vote early, that they cant match what democrats are doing when it comes to absentee voting and when it comes to early voting. in all elections but especially this one, one of the reasons is because they were totally outmatched when it comes to money. >> this is the second cycle...

Subject to certain political pressures. i think that thats unavoidable and its particularly unavoidable when youre an elected official. i think its very hard to fly under the radar when you have a constituency upset about you. there are high-profile cases that have a greater weight than all of the things you were doing, that nobody even notices that you are doing in the office, so of course. but what we want is to minimize the political impact. there are various different -- and im sure you know...

Particularly unavoidable when youre an elected official. i think its very hard to fly below the radar, especially many of the constituency that voted for you, people are said about certain things all the time, there are high profile cases that have a greater weight than all the things we were doing. nobody even notices that youre doing in the office. so of course. but what we want is to minimize the political impact. and the various different, and i am sure you know this because of investigation...

We will not prosecute. is it likely that the u.s. will say never mind, if they have a federal hook? >> i think it is possible that that could happen. you are describing the possibility of a u.s. and prosecution as a backstop is a good way to describe it. extradition requests are unavoidably political, so we typically file x tradition requests. weve been successful in getting high-level criminals return to the united states for drug cartel leaders, striking him things, things like that. now the t...

Overseas if it was just a simple homicide. in fact, they wont prosecute in the united states if the foreign government has shown an inclination or a willingness to prosecute it locally which we can assume has happened here because theyve filed an extradition request. >> could the u.s. be a bit of a backstop? the way federal prosecutions usually act, the idea if a foreign government decides or they may fail in their prosecution for whatever reason. >> thats right. >> we have double jeopardy here,...

Counsel. so, smith a said he intends to get off to a fast start. thats what he did in his current position and involved in the war trials in the hague where he joined a couple years into that investigation. no cases had been indicted since he giant and became what they called the specialist prosecutor more. than 100 cases have been indicted that seems to be one of the things that attracted merrick garland to him. we will find out now whether he can do that again with this situation. >> joyce, la...