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hamas does not want to talk about a pause, it wants a complete end to this war before it will release the hostages it is holding. here the conservatives have suspended one of their mps, mark menzies, from the parliamentary party, after claims in the times newspaper that he misused party funds. mr menzies, who represents fylde in lancashire, told the paper that he strongly disputed the allegations. here's our chief political correspondent — henry zeffman. according to the times newspaper back in december mark menzies, who has been the conservative mp for fylde, a constituency in lancashire, since 2010, back in december he rang up his 78—year—old former campaign manager at a quarter past three in the morning and he said what he called "bad people" had locked him in a flat. she was told that he needed £5,000 as a matter of, as he put it apparently, "life and death". it is claimed later that
here the conservatives have suspended one of their mps, mark menzies, from the parliamentary party after claims in the times newspaper that he misused party funds. mr menzies, who represents fylde in lancashire, told the paper that he strongly disputed the allegations. let's go live to westminster and our chief political correspondent, henry zeffman. who is he and what exactly is he alleged to have done? you who is he and what exactly is he alleged to have done?— who is he and what exactly is he alleged to have done? you are right to use the word _ alleged to have done? you are right to use the word alleged _ alleged to have done? you are right to use the word alleged because - to use the word alleged because these are just allegations at this stage and pretty serious and pretty peculiar allegations. according to the times newspaper back in december mark menzies, who has been the conservative mp for a constituency in lancashire since 2010, back in december he rang up his 78—year—old former campaign manager at a quarter past three in the morning and he said what he called bad people had locked him in a flat. he was told that he needed £5,000 as a matter of, as he put it, apparently, life and death. it is claimed later that morning his office manager, a
a flat. he told her he needed £5,000 as a matter of, as he put it apparently, life and death. it is claimed later that morning, his office manager, a different woman, paid mark menzies the money from her personal bank account and she got reimbursed for that from campaign funds. that is money that had been donated for the purposes of mark menzies' political campaigns. a very peculiar set of alleged events. 0ne peculiar set of alleged events. one of the interesting wrinkles to the story as it appears the conservative party knew of these claims before they came out in the times newspaper last night. let's listen to grant shapps, the defence secretary, talking about that. this shapps, the defence secretary, talking about that.— talking about that. as defence secretary i _ talking about that. as defence secretary i am _ talking about that. as defence secretary i am not _ talking about that. as defence secretary i am not privy - talking about that. as defence secretary i am not privy to - talking about that. as defence secretary i am not privy to thei secretary i am not privy to the information but i understand cc hq have been— information but i understand cc hq have been aware of it for awhile and have been aware of it for awhile and have been_ have been aware of it for awhile and have been investigating, and i think some _ have been investigating, and i think some new— have been investigating, and i think some new information has come to li-ht some new information has come to light subsequently, and as you say a set of— light subsequently, and as you say a set of allegations, i note the mp
it's shuttering communities. the people and they see, they just trust your shoulder, they could care less about what's going on. i care about this. i care about defending american communities and american families. and so yes. they have killed more americans than all the terrorist groups in this world combined over the last five years. when is enough enough? [applause] >> do you think you would have the intelligence to that? >> absolutely, yes. look, we have surveillance. we have drones. we have until. we have a whole bunch of stuff. this is something, it's a matter of. will we can do it if we want to do it. and i would, know i was the candidate that camp out to do it. now you have other candidates that are, saying they want to do this. some had opportunities to do this in the past. others had not even support or things like what it was in the past. so we have been a leader on this issue. we're gonna continue to it. but here's the thing, as republicans. how many years have we've been
justices -- the american people are upping attention to it, and they are galvanized around it -- critical issue that people are voting on and voting for. >> one last quick question to you, susan, on a different topic, being abortion. the overturning of roe v. wade. do you view that as nothing short of a disaster for republicans? because you saw it fire up that base, probably inspired the voters to cast ballots for democrats, and in some cases, states may vote for more liberal abortion policies than roe v. wade, we saw in ohio, they tend to try to make it more difficult to codify that into its state constitution, yeah, that failed. >> republicans should be really scared. as a matter of, fact i would go as far as to say abortion is the only thing standing in the way of mitch mcconnell becoming majority leader. the senate map is very advantageous to republicans. this issue, may change all of that. especially when we see ballot initiatives in states like arizona, for example.
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trial. >> i think the special counsel's greatest enhanced power as a result of today's order is that he just has much more independence to pursue charges against hunter biden. >> nice to meet you. >> so nice to meet you. >> reporter: and irs whistle-blower recently told cbs news the evidence supported more serious felony tax charges. >> it is a matter of, are we treating everyone the same? >> reporter: and in this case? >> no, i don't think so. >> reporter: responded to the special counsel announcement from hunter biden's attorney said we expect a fair resolution not infected by politics. republican congressman james comer chairs the house committee investigating the bidens. >> it is 100% political. i mean, how can you appoint someone who less than two weeks ago tried to negotiate a sweetheart plea deal. >> reporter: the white house had no comment, but legal expers told cbs news this could slow the investigation, now in its fifth year, even further, possibly pushing it into the middle of the 2024 presidential
from's, payments that remain to escorts, payments that are made to no-show employees. >> reporter: ziegler said he drafted this memo recommending justice department prosecutors charge hunter biden accordingly but said the trump-appointed u.s. attorney david weiss told him there was resistance to pursuing some of these charges by other officials at the justice department. >> it is a matter of, are we treating all taxpayers the same? >> reporter: and in this case? >> and in this case, no, i don't think so. >> repoter: today, democrats pushed backs on claims of preferential treatment. >> there is no evidence hunter biden has received any kind of official favoritism in this prosecution for being joe biden son. >> reporter: but ziegler described to cbs news a series of roadblocks that included his efforts to interview hunter biden's adult children about the legitimacy of his tax deductions. >> what did the assistant u.s. attorney tell you? >> that that is going to get us into hot water. >> reporter: ziegler also told us prosecutors would not sign off on pursuing leads that might
to be president. that's a big problem for both of them. and the irony is that in 2020, joe biden may have been the only democrat that could beat biden. but because of his age, just four years later, he may be the only democrat they can lose to trump. so, it's a real quandary for both candidates because voters don't like the the dogs -- neither one of them like the options, and they're looking for a different choice. >> you know, we will get to the age thing in a second. but mark, if you haters are your target audience, voters who hate everybody, you've taught campaigns before, how do you try to appeal to them? or just try to make them hate the other guy more? >> well, generally, it's a matter of, you know, try to demonize the other guy, because the fact is the problem for biden is that age is not something he can really do something about. a huge percent of americans have concerns about his mental
house is covered. so all it should be a matter of, pete, will, carley, rewind the tape and you will see exactly what happened. instead, like every other investigation that goes on with the bidens, it appears slow-walked, and the american people want answers because this is very serious. and you can bring up the fact that it could be hunter biden because at last check, he's the only one who's a former addict. he's not on staff, but he lives at that white house. will: as far as we know. maybe that's an irresponsible question, how many crackheads exactly do you have in the white house. [laughter] joe, hey, i want to can ask you this, karine jean-pierre, is she good or wad at her -- bad at her job? what is her job, to inform the american public or protect the administration? she's only answered 2% of questions when it comes to any scandal involving the bidens. 86 pertaining to classified documents, 4 pertaining to corruption allegations. of that, 2% answered concretely.