prime minister liz truss today setting the women s and men s indoor speed record for duration of a prime minister, only 44 days in office, that is not even her abrupt resignation earlier today throws our closest ally even further into chaos. now that our friends across the pond weren t able to find any humor in this instability, the economist magazine pointedly wondered which would last longer, liz truss s prime ministership or a perishable ahead of iceberg lettuce, a youtube live stream puts this theory to the test six days ago. well, lettuce, liz, is still standing. when folks start invoking solid items when discussing how long it will last at her job, at some point it becomes a feta complaint. but let us move on. how could six weeks ago so horribly wrong? liz truss s is fall from power exhilarated after she introduced trussonomics, a plan for massive tax cuts aimed at the wealthiest britons so that they could create jobs, she said. essentially, trickle down economics. th
in the end it s veeck yags or oversight to harass the biden administration like hunter biden s laptop, for example. there s no equivalence. we were attacked. it s not the same thing as republicans are about to do. california democratic congressman adam shift calls out the republicans for false equivalency of investigations. it comes as the biden team is optimistic about the incendiary pernss serving the committee. the united states government hit i its debt limit as congress failed to act. we ll go through the treasury s extraordinary measures to make sure the country can pay its bills. also ahead ukraine s allies meet to map out what s next as far as military aid for the war-torn country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, january 20th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. the treasury department now is forced to take extraordinary measures so the government can continue paying its bills. in a letter to congressional leadership yester
he s also told the uk media that he never intended to hurt his family by writing a memoir. now on bbc news, the media show. welcome to the media show. in a minute, we re going to talk about the christmas period and what it taught us about advertising, both about what ads are working and where companies are wanting to spend their money. we ll also talk to stephen lambert from studio lambert, which made the runaway hit for the bbc, the traitors. but before we do all of that, let s talk about channel 4 privatisation, because it looks like it could be off. global s podcast the news agents broke this story. it s got hold of a letter from the culture secretary, michelle donelan, sent to the prime minister, which appears to advise against privatisation, saying there are better ways to ensure channel 4 s sustainability. let s bring in chris curtis, editor in chief of broadcast magazine. hiya, chris. good to have you back on the media show. so is this the end of the matter? i think it
i think it s the end of the potential privatisation and the start of a whole series of new questions around the future of ca. it draws a line under the second attempt over the last six years to privatise the broadcaster. and it s interesting that, essentially, a change of government, a change of culture secretary, has brought a very different view in just a few months time. yes, and the former culture secretary, nadine dorries, who held the job under borisjohnson, has already tweeted her displeasure at what s happening. do we understand why there s been a change in tack from the conservatives? look, it depends on what you believe the thrust for all this was over a year ago. channel 4. i think you could make a good case that channel 4 got caught up in a sort of culture wars moment, that it gave borisjohnson, nadine dorries, an opportunity to make a sort of political, cultural point about being seen to be sort of tough on liberal london elites, etc. and if you read the leaked
committee huddled today to hammer out final details of the donald trump subpoena, and why it has yet to be issued. plus, the justice department says its january 6th investigation is running out of money. what officials are asking congress and whether congress will give it to them. i m katy tur in for hallie jackson. we re going to start in pennsylvania, with mbs news white house correspondent mike memoli in philadelphia, and nbc news correspondent dasha burns, and punch bowl co-founder and msnbc contributor jake sherman as well. so mike, the president is in pennsylvania, and he stood in front of a bridge that collapsed a little bit earlier this year, he happened to be there for the aftermath of that collapse, and he s using it to make a specific pitch. what is it? well, what the president was really trying to do in order to try to help boost democrats in these midterm elections is talk about promises made and promises they delivered on. this is a president who really beli