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With more than a dozen of his closest allies. That is according to some news accounts. An it this come though thafternoon. The grand jury had heard from half of ten witnesses expected to testify in this case at this stage. Among those witnesses, former Georgia State representative bee wen. Present for the 2020 hearing where Rudy Giuliani pedalled false election claims an urged legislators to appoint a slate of fake trump electors. Two other witnesses who were expected to testify tomorrow have be...

So what are your thoughts today? >> yeah, absolutely. look, this has real consequences, right? these kinds of allegations are not simply rhetorical. theyre not political speech. they have really concrete consequences. people breaking into private homes in georgia is exactly the sort of outgrowth of the rhetoric that the president and others, his lawyers in particular, used in georgia. so shaye moss, ruby freeman, al schmidt in philadelphia, secretary raffensperger, jocelyn benson in michigan, th...

Was getting his lancashire market towns mixed up. bids like burnley market, world famous burnley market. and still regretful about having to hike taxes. im not happy about that, and im not comfortable about it, but it is the result of the country and the economy suffering an economic shock the likes of which we havent seen in 300 years, and our response to that. but taxes cant go up so much without concrete consequences. for example, on the number of people paying the higher rate of tax. it is g...

Years, and our response to that, to help get the country through it. but taxes cannot go up so much without concrete consequences, for example on the number of people paying the higher rate of tax. it will be one in nine of the population, or 5.9 million taxpayers, by 2025 which has doubled since 2010 and it will be an extra 1.3 million in this parliament. at the opposition say the governments help is needed for longer. for people on the lowest incomes in our country and on modest incomes, they ...

The chancellor. the away last month. big choices made by the chancellor.— the chancellor. the chancellor has been pretty _ the chancellor. the chancellor has been pretty generous _ the chancellor. the chancellor has been pretty generous to _ the chancellor. the chancellor has been pretty generous to very - the chancellor. the chancellor has been pretty generous to very low. been pretty generous to very low earners, the national living wage is going up, it was a genuinely big increase to univer...

Home. the government had asked for home confinement. there have to be consequences beyond sitting at home. its true. just a simple obvious truth that too many have lost sight of. january 6th was the most direct threat to american democracy since ft. sumpter during the civil war. it took a lot of people to make it happen. most of those people have just gone back into normal life with zero consequences, from the rioters on up. obviously the now-disgraced former president who led the rioters was im...

Manipulate so many of the key levers of political power in the country. >> the consequences, though, have been largely act. there has been no sanction. again, the 600 people have been arrested. the folks that actually went in there. the president was impeached, which is definitely not nothing, it was the most bipartisan impeachment in american history, which is also not nothing. but as far as i can tell, again, there really hasnt been sufficient to my mind accountability or sanction. its basical...

I gave them fire and brimstone. now, lets be clear. this is in large part the chesty braggadocio of obviously a pretty pathetic figure, but we all saw what happened last time in january. and then there are the republican politicians who voted with the mob. again, where are the consequences? there have to be consequences. those folks who voted with the mob, their betrayal of democracy was even more insidious than the rioters. while those attacking the capitol were violent and destructive, every m...

Happy about, americans kept in prison there, all sorts of issues. ukraine, all these kinds of things the americans have problems about. the russian president pushed back on a lot of these things, he was not having any of it when it was suggested he was responsible for cyber attacks. suggested he was responsible for cyberattacks. ukraine suggested he was responsible for cyber attacks. ukraine was his business. what happened inside russia in terms of the opposition again was his business, he tried...

But in terms of concrete consequences, here is the best i can tell. the government is funded again for 17 more days. so thats why i say were maybe shutting down again two weeks from thursday on february 8th. the chip program, which is almost literally the least controversial seriously consequential policy in washington, the chip program which nobody is against, which provides health insurance to 9 million kids and lots of pregnant women, that chip program did finally get re-upped. republicans ha...