seriousness of the issues we all now facing demands effective leadership from the prime minister who can be trusted. the tory cost of living crisis and the war crimes being inflicted on the ukrainian people need our full focus. inflicted on the ukrainian people need ourfull focus. in a time inflicted on the ukrainian people need our full focus. in a time of crisis the very least of the public deserves is a prime minister they can trust to tell the truth and for this prime minister that trust is broken and it can never be fixed. the truth is that a majority of people across these islands will never trust a single word he says again so the questions today are not so much for a prime minister desperately clinging on to power. the real question is for tory backbenchers. will they finally grow a spine and remove this person from office? 0ras a spine and remove this person from office? or as the tory strategy to go on about standing behind a prime minister with the public can t. with the tru
misinformation. i m not trying to promote misinformation. i m not trying to be controversial. podcast host joe rogan has pushed back to gantz allegations today. though he s promised to do better, spotify is going to put when you do for a host that tells tens of millions of years are weak that they don t need to be vaccinated during a pandemic. michelle goldberg is a columnist for the new york times, sam-seater joins me now. sam, a plucky independent man i come to for entertaining conversation. but cannot trust a word that you say. what do you think about this situation? i should say. full disclosure, i tried to get on rogan s show years and years ago. because a, to go on his show was to really help out your own show. at the time to, i felt like he had a lot of right-wingers, a lot of libertarians on.
when on the world stage, he is looking quite like a leader. and that s a problem frankly with our politics the world over. people are losing trust in institutions because of that old phrase rules for the and not for me. and i am really troubled about that when it comes to public health because how else to be about that when it comes to public health because how else to he get people to understand the severity of measures that are important to protect all of us when we live in a society and have a societal packed and if our leaders are not trickling down the leadership that we need, so many of us around the world in an era of fast moving information, then we are certainly putting our societies and loss and this makes his way across the pond. be more disappointing. g, his way across the pond. be more disappointing- disappointing. a really good point there because disappointing. a really good point there because there disappointing. a really good point there because there is disapp
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with pleasantries, president with pleasa ntries, president biden with pleasantries, president biden has been criticised by republicans in the congress for being too nice to put into today. i don t really think that it s a case of somehowjoe biden getting the temperature wrong on the conversation. but i also agree with the implication in your question, you cannot trust president putin, we ve got to be very vigilant and we ve got to have very clear responses that we could invoke in the event he uses force against ukraine or i should say it uses again against ukraine in that manner even more blatant than what he has done in the last seven years. to me, that was the right balance, being clear in advance, we know what you re up to, we will not come and bring world war iii to europe over this, ukrainian is not a nato ally but there will be a major consequences. the only thing i would have recommended is more specificity of the sanctions might be, up a level from where we already are. and als