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Thats a summary of the news, newsday is coming up at midnight. Now on bbc news its time for newsnight. Theresa mays been in switzerland. Most of westminsters on holiday. But tonight the governments brexit position, finally, starts to take shape. In something that looks a lot like the Customs Union, but with britain able to negotiate Free Trade Agreements with the rest of the world. We ask whether the proposed transitional arrangement is possible or even desirable. And finally, two days after the...

Of the vote. >> takes it a step closer to donald trump who, of course, was tweeting attacks at mike pence while he was running for his life. michael schmidt, thank you for being with us. greatly appreciate it. david, lets talk about the time frame. the pace has quickened. things are moving with the doj. you suggested they may have less than a year to get this done. >> theres a political clock on this. the republicans are in a good position to win back the house this year and the new congress wil...

A steady stream. this is endless. we need to remember donald trump is being impeached. we can decide who its good for. its not good for donald trump. hes going to wake up every day for the next three, four, five months being impeached. at the end of the day, he may have the same job, but its bad. its a degree of bad. theres nothing good. >> let me ask you. there was this 0 for 3 video. is there any reckoning happening in the white house, him intervening by the way he did, call it witness intimid...

Campaign against yovanovitch, accusing her of partisan and bad behavior that she denied under oath. the false stories against her ultimately led to president trump dismissing her in may despite multiple high-level officials in the state department trying to defend her. >> in the face of this smear campaign, did colleagues at the state department try to get a statement of support for you from secretary pompeo? >> yes. >> were they successful? >> no. >> did you come to learn that they couldnt issu...

They couldnt issue such a statement because they feared it would be undercut by the president? >> yes? >> in a remarkable moment under already extraordinary circumstances the president began tweeting attacks against yovanovitch as she was testifying. house intelligence chairman adam schiff asked yovanovitch to react. >> and now the president in real time is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witnesses coming forward and expose wrongdoing it. >> its very intimidating? >> it...

Post by the time of that fateful phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine. but she can set the context. she can speak to ambassador yovanovitchs concerns about being pushed out. she can talk about the way the trump administration approached ukraine, approached this deal for monetary aid that was, of course, what democrats believe was scuttled -- to further his investigation into the bidens. she can provide all that back story and all that context from her spot on the natio...

In the fox news poll he beats the president by nine points. part of joe bidens case going through the primaries, iowa, new hampshire, nevada, all very close. biden has the lead in south carolina. you want to get democratic primary voters to lift their heads and think about that. the question is can he? >> trump isnt just tweeting attacks on him and republicans are attacking on tv, the trump campaign purges $4 million on ads. so theyre going after him on tv, too. meanwhile he has to fend off the ...

Dayton visit, certainly, and a little bit the el paso visit, was because it is absurd for the president of the united states to be tweeting attacks at his opponents while hes visiting with victims of two mass shootings, one of which was perpetrated by a gunman who was inspired by the presidents own anti-immigrant rhetoric. and so, you know, certainly, while his aides may have regretted that el paso visit, its hard to imagine that they would have been surprised by it, considering that the gunman ...

Astounding to me that he was tweeting attacks on everybody, from the mayor of london, to bette midler. >> joe biden still has almost two dozen democrats to beat in the primary but he is focusing on president trump who is also in iowa tonight. its a state where farmers have been feeling the effects of certain new agricultural tariffs and the president brought air force one to an event touting a new e.p.a. rule change designed to help iowa farmers. allows the summertime sale of ethanol e-156789 th...

Has come to reacting in realtime this year. >> the d-day ceremonies. there was astounding to me that he was tweeting attacks on everybody, from the mayor of london to bette midler. >> biden hasnt been to iowa in about a month. influential democrats have noticed. the former lieutenant governor patty judge is quoted by politico saying he needs to come out and do retail politics with us. he comes here with higher name i.d. that isnt going to totally carry the day. i dont think he can take anything ...