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the biggest strike day yet, with up to 1.4 million people expected at demonstrations in paris and elsewhere. the government is aiming to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years. today marks the sixth day of strikes and protests since mid—january. part of the french government plan is also to raise the minimum pension to 1,200 euros a month, which is over 550 euros higher than the current minimum figure. but unions want more because of rising inflation. joining me now is gregory ...

the murder of zara aleena, just days after he was released from prison. the chief inspector of the service says it is �*chronically understaffed. it is impossible to say whether the murder could have been avoided but we did find severe deficits in practice at many stages of jordan mcsweeney�*s supervision. nhs representatives will appear before mps on the health and social care committee to discuss the situation in a&e departments across england. lets cross live to the house of com...

Reporters a little bit earlier. Why do it today . The idea that you why not . Rip the bandaid off here or what . Why not . I think matt has planned this all along. Didnt matter what we transpired. Youre calling his bluff . Yeah. Mccarthy or one of his allies can delay by asking the house to kill gaetzs resolution. But he has little chance of winning that vote without at least some support from democrats. And they have been clear this is the republicans mess to figure out. They wont save him. Tod...

Knows its not about who puts more points on the board. its just not. its about where the points are. secretary clinton lost in the electoral college so she loses the race. proving once again the presidential election is not a true democracy, it is not decided by majority vote. we know that. the founders didnt design it that way. and by the way, neither is the senate. each state gets two senators no matter how many people live in the state, democrat or republican. so when you actually just think ...

About it. the closest thing we have in our federal government to a democracy is the house of representatives. and then think about this. in recent years voting for your house of representative means voting in districts that actually look like this or this or this. we have republicans in large part to thank for many of the oddly-shaped gerrymandered districts popping up across the country after the 2010 census. to be clear, both parties do this, but the republicans have been doing it very effecti...

Large markets break up monopolies and bring prices down. >> you guys are talking about the aca like it is an epidemic in this country and you are suggesting that it is a majority problem when you know that the people who are affected by these subsidies -- by these raises at the end of the day in the individual market are very small fraction of the people looking for health care in this country. not that it doesnt have to be fixed. not that its not a problem. but you make it sound like its half t...

Could beat him by 50 points and they still wouldnt brief ielie. so you are never going to get that audience. there are potentially some supporters who will accept a landslide but will not accept a close election, and the rest of the country is used to accepting close elections, because thats what you usually have. so this is not a majority problem in the country, but for the, you know, what, 25, 30%, whatever of hard core trump supporters, they may never believe that he loses this election. >> l...

So you are never going to get that audience. there are potentially some supporters who will accept a landslide but will not accept a close election, and the rest of the country is used to accepting close elections, because thats what you usually have. so this is not a majority problem in the country, but for the, you know, what, 25, 30%, whatever of hard core trump supporters, they may never believe that he loses this election. >> lets listen to a woman whos not going to accept anything but a tr...