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Nicola sturgeon talked about, if the supreme court were to say no, would be to treat the next general election as a de facto referendum on independence, a single issue general election here in scotland. now interesting timings for that because the next general election doesnt have to be held untiljanuary 2025. so if the supreme court were to say no, we are potentially talking about a two and a half year time period here in scotland where independence would dominate. now it is the dividing fault ...

Alps, what is happening in ukraine is neverfarfrom minds even though lots of other things are on a very busy agenda over the next couple of days. president zelensky did say the war was about to enter a difficult phase and difficult is an understatement for what happened in india in the early hours of this morning. above me in the alps, the leaders of the seven big industrialised nations are gathering. there is what is called a bilateral meeting between the host in the us presidentjoe biden going...

Way that made it look like the justice department siding with trump on this. i will mention that, in that clip that we just played moments ago, from richard donoghue, where he is talking about he -- he wouldnt serve one minute under that guy. he would resign immediately under that guy. he mentions that he had just disparaged to the competence of that guy to trump in this conversation. that is an understatement. [laughs] that he had disparaged jeff clark. it turns out it wasnt just the disparagem...

Disparaged to the competence of that guy to trump in this conversation. that is an understatement. [laughs] that he had disparaged jeff clark. it turns out it wasnt just the disparagement of jeff clarke -- wasnt just from that one witness, richard donoghue, it was from several people today. and that was another one of the major points actually of the hearing and weve got that coming up for you after the break. stay with us, more of our primetime recap of todays january 6th hearing is ahead. >> i...

And the mission was to go talk to mike pence. >> yes, and to get the eastman plan, to look like it was emerging from the justice department. because they had inserted their guy at the very last second there, to sock puppet it in a way that made it look like the justice department siding with trump on this. i will mention that, in that clip that we just played moments ago, from richard donoghue, where he is talking about he -- he wouldnt serve one minute under that guy. he would resign immediatel...

Graveyard and that comment clearly had an impact on the president. the leadership will be gone. jeff clark will be leading a graveyard. >> we heard testimony that pat cipollone mentioned of the letter said when the president asked him about the letter, i dont want to touch the letter. anybody that touches the letter is dead. i dont want to ever see that letter again. john heilemann, to say high drama, there was high drama yesterday would be an extraordinary understatement. this thing played like...

Companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump, this is a time of war, global peril, ukraine, these are not normal times. bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the costs you are paying for the product. do it now. do it today. >> president biden not getting support for his proposed gas tax holiday as the price of gas has spiked nationwide. approval ratings have plummeted. >> dana: you have the gift for understatement and we appreciate it here. thank you...

Did not do. >> lets listen to what rusty bowers described as rudy giulianis theories of the case. >> at some point did one of them make a comment that they didnt have evidence, but they had a lot of theories? >> that was mr. giuliani. >> and what exactly did he, say and how did that come up? >> my recollection he said, we got a lot of the, race we still have the evidence. and i dont know if that was a gaffe, or maybe he didnt think through what he said. but both myself and others in my group, th...

Donald trump has already got him on his enemies list. i mean, thats done. that ship has sailed. donald trump said something negative about ivanka trump the other day when the testimony came out that she believed bill barr. >> doesnt take much. >> checked out. >> she was checked out. its not the kind of thing i would say about my daughter. >> you can say the same thing about mike pence. >> right, exactly. >> or don mcgahn before that. >> it would be an understatement to say that trump threw pence...

Republicans, et cetera. liz cheney said this today. we know that he was internal at the white house trying to push back on a lot of this stuff. donald trump has already got him on his enemies list, you know what i mean? thats done. that ship has sailed. donald trump said something negative about ivanka trump the other day when the testimony came out that she believed bill barr. she was out of the loop. >> she was checked out. >> im just saying its not the kind of thing i would say about my daugh...