caroline, elie honig and elana, i want to start with you. i think when you look at what is happening on capitol hill, the balancing act that the house speaker kevin mccarthy has, the fact they may go down this path and it seems inevitable at this point. politically, what does that mean for a slim majority for house republicans? it s tough. i think that right now mccarthy knows that he doesn t have the votes needed to formally launch this. they may not need that, to vote on it in order to move forward with an impeachment inquiry. i think they will. i have been covering these house investigations very closely for months now. it s what the chairmen have been building forward. and everyone, particularly those on the far right section of the party and house have been expecting. mccarthy knows he needs to move forward with this. it s interesting speaking about,
is that going to happen? i don t know. reporter: anyone stands out to you at this point? i am learning about all of them. i have been really interested in desantis, haley. interested in her. reporter: so i think that shows the opportunity here for many of the candidates on stage. really who are introducing themselves to voters, who are making their case. of course, the balancing act here is how much the former president dominates the conversation from the questioners. but voters we talk to are interested in hearing from the candidates who are going to be here. david, are we going to get substantive questions and answers on issues tonight? or is it beigoing to be all tru in. reporter: oh, no. the fox moderators indicated they are certainly going to ask about donald trump. donald trump going to be a character on this stage despite his being absent from the stage. but no doubt we are going to
it is not impeachment. it allows congress and investigators, by giving congress the full power to get the information they need. it is the way people should go about investigating. so let me put yourselves in our place, doesn t matter if you re in the majority or not. reporter: it does matter who is in the majority because republicans have had the power of the gavel, thusly they had subpoena power, they had the ability to go through the investigations that they wanted to do as they see fit. that doesn t mean people have to go with the subpoenas. we saw some of these very congressmen ignore subpoenas from the january 6th committee when they got theirs. nevertheless, the fact that this is something mccarthy is talking about, of course, would mark an escalation, but it also marks, again, a reminder of the balancing act that he s trying to do within his conference, the idea that some on the ultra right fringe of the republican conference and the house right now want to push forward on
would be a serious problem, but she doesn t have a date for the operation. she uses her drum set to keep his spirits up, but the waiting is getting harder. hugh pym, bbc news. there have been warnings of soaring public debt in the uk as the cost of borrowing surges and the population ages. it gives you an idea of the balancing act facing the government. 0ur economics editor faisal islam is here to explain thanks, sophie. the backdrop to this set of decisions was revealed this morning by the office for budget responsibility, the government s official forecasters for tax and spending policy. and the projections were pretty grim. here is the current situation the national debt now is the same size as all the output in the economy in one year, or 100% of gdp the result of pandemic and energy crisis. these are levels not seen
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