the son of a republican irish family and the duke of wellington on the same side of an argument. that s a genius move. utterly brilliant. well done. and that was the alliance that produced some change in the regulation of the water companies and maybe led up to this moment that we had the other day in which the water companies issue this apology and promised to spend ten billion. now, i spoke to you on the today programme that morning. thinking you d be very political. and you blew it up. maybe this is what that thing about being a punk campaigner. you basically said you didn t really believe a word of it. they should give the 10 billion back to ordinary people. well, as we now know, it s less than in fact, it s a week ago today that they made that apology. and as it turns out, it didn t even take a week before united utilities, severn trent water, two of the biggest sewage dumpers in the country, have now announced in the last 48 hours they are going to pay
this is a conversation you can now have because people have moved on. on this podcast i ve spoken to most of the leaders of politics in northern ireland in recent years. and all of them deeply, deeply scarred. yes. either, actually. yep. .blown up shot or their relatives were. it forms a part of who they were. i think people listening to you don t know your story may nevertheless be surprised because they remember the undertones as a non political band, a band who who really didn t sing about how you sang about girls life and happiness. absolutely. and i m not trying to overdramatize this. if you went into the centre of support, you didn t have to go into the centre of town frequently. i couldn t even walk out my front door without within minutes finding myself spread eagled on my fingertips with my legs being kicked back, being searched and questioned and everything else. but by the way, that was not some injustice being perpetrated on me as an individual. if you a male teenager livin
officer, they don t really have a proper cause to search somebody, just because they re carrying a gun. it really lowers the bar or raises the bar really for what s acceptable. we saw in cleveland, texas, we had a whole neighborhood of people who fired off guns, and this didn t raise the alarm of police officers. in fact, it took them an extra long time to get there during last week s mass killing because they were so used to these calls. it becomes where it obscures criminality, this permissive gun culture can obscure the people among us who shouldn t have guns and the behavior that can veer off really easily into criminality. all right, jennifer, thanks so much for your time. we appreciate it. coming up, texas congressman henry cuellar will join me live to talk about these two tragic incidents in texas as well as what border cities are doing to
later this hour, for now, let s go to rosy flores. it s a little grainy, a little difficult to make out, but my goodness, what it tells you is these migrants were the folks who were waiting here on the side of the street there, really didn t have any chance whatsoever to get out of the way, it happened that fast. reporter: it was so fast. and i talked to the director of the shelter. he says that he was able to capture a different angle from his shelter, and he says what he witnessed happened at about 8:30 central time this morning. he said that it captured about 20 to 25 migrants who had just minxed breakfast at the shelter and had crossed the street and were sitting on a curb waiting for a bus. then the video shows a 2007 range rover at a very high rate of speed ran the red light and hit the curb about 30 feet from where the migrants were and the vehicle got out of control. this director said some of the
anything like that, right? when you saw nancy pelosi struggling to get the 218 after the 2018 election the 218 votes she needed to become speaker everybody in that democratic caucus either loved her or respected her or feared her, some combination of those. even the people who really, really didn t want her to be speaker again, they respected her or they were terrified of her. and i don t think that s a statement you can make about republicans and kevin mccarthy. the things you describe i think you call in washington, d.c., details. not a really big deal. i want to bring in mike, host of the mike broomhead show on ktar. how are you this friday evening? you are in phoenix. we re hoping your weather is better than here in d.c. although a lot of questions happening right now. and i just want to get your immediate reaction on the fact that senator sinema is now a well, she s an independent. how is that playing back home? well, you know, one of the