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Of being in denial about the scale of the uks economic crisis. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports from manchester. can people start leaving, please. no one wanted to give up a place in the queue. they werent listening because they wanted to hear. standing room ran out for the chancellor, who let go of the purse strings during the pandemic. emerging today to remind the crowd his instinct isnt to tax or spend. just borrowing more money and stacking up bills forfuture generations to pa...

Covid emergency has put new. soaring debt. coming out of the - covid emergency has put new strains on the economy everywhere. the changes of brexit have brought pressure too.— pressure too. we are facing challenges _ pressure too. we are facing challenges to _ pressure too. we are facing challenges to supply - pressure too. we are facing | challenges to supply chains, pressure too. we are facing - challenges to supply chains, not just here but right around the world. but tackling the cost of l...

Research at the defense for democracy. you spent a great deal of time in your career look at our relationship with saudi arabia. thats what stood out about this report today, not so much the policy about the drones but where we are putth bases. what do you think this says about our relationship with the saudis and how reliable they are as partners in our war on terror. >> its a great question and i have to say that the u.s. saudi relationship is probably among the more dysfunctional relationship...

The united states will get some rare public scrutiny when the presidents pick to be cia director, john brennan appears at his senate confirmation hearing. this comes as we digest a memo which the united states government outlined its legal rationale for using drone strikes against americans. fox news has confirmed the authenticity of that report and the policy authorizes the killing of american citizens overseas in drone strikes if they are leaders of al qaeda or an associated terror group. form...

Of these sequester cuts. its tens of millions of dollars that will hit dod. rather than making them automatic meat cleaver cuts as so many worry about they would give the pentagon some discretion and latitude to target the spending cuts themselves. whether they will reduce the number of spending cuts that hit the pentagon and the dod that remains to be seen. what we do understand is in a few hours the republicans in both the house and senate will say lets give the pentagon some jurisdiction over...

It is the government agency leading the investigation into boeings dreamliner troubles. now the ntsb is updating its probe, one that forced the grounding of what has been called the future of aviation. are we any closer to knowing when the dreamliner will be flying again? plus predator drones not only taking out suspected foreign terrorists but americans too. now a new report says a government secret memo outlines when americans can be targeted by those drones. ambassador john bolton weighs in...

Community organizer approach as opposed to the executive approach. quite frankly, governors understand, theyve been in the position where they are sort of the figure head, they have the bully pulpit and they under no matter how many people you can sway with that you have to sort of be going in ha certain direction and get things done and that is not what this guy does, hes not good at it. so he just takes potshots and sort of plays the sort of -- appears to play the sort of political high road, ...

Sequestration is about spending cuts, so lets look at spending. why are we looking attackss?. jon: well, meantime the congressional budget office is telling us in that new report that borrowing is going to hit 77% of our gdp by the end of this decade, in seven years, unless somebody does something. is anybody in washington, is the president disturbed by that? are the senate democrats he is meeting with? >> yeah, i think everybody is wear of it. now the question, you used an interesting word, dis...

Classified report into the cia program. those familiar with the reports findings tell fox news concludes the agency lied about the programs effectiveness, a charge denied by those who ran the program. a leading human rights group believes brennan must explain whether he agrees with the reports findings. >> i havent seen the study so it is difficult to talk about it because it is over 6,000 mains long but it is classified. senator wyden, a member of the committee who has seen the study, says it a...