one of the few remaining swing congressional districts new york s 19th went democratic. at least far moment in time, he was a snapshot of america s political mood. a swing district won by obama and then trump and then biden voted to send democrat pat ryan to washington. ryan ran on abortion right. his republican opponent focussed on the economy and crime. and now a midterm election that is just 73 days away and once seemed a fore gone conclusion, a republican takeover of the house and the senate, is much more uncertain. as jonathan weissman pointed out the new york times this week, republicans need just five seats to win the house. and their candidates are in strong positions to win the bulk of nine districts that mr. trump would have won easily two years ago if the new maps had been in place. seven of those nine seats do not have a democratic incumbent to defend them. here is another way to look at it. the nonpartisan cook political report rates 10 democratic seats as lean
tovah friedman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a great pleasure to have you with me here in this synagogue. i am mindful that it is 77 years since you, as a six year old girl, were finally freed from auschwitz. why have you chosen to tell the world your story in the form of a memoir now? well, i ve been speaking for a very long time, since i was about a5, 50 years old, i ve been speaking about it. but i always wanted to write because writing is a different experience. and i can tell things that i cannot tell when i m speaking for 45 minutes to a group. this is like i can think about it and bring, bring out the essence of what really happened. i sort of looked around and i saw the world is. it s really a mess, i hate to say that. anti semitism and hatred, and left against right, and right itjust. refugees are wandering the world trying to find a home, everywhere from country to country. and i said, you know, this is a good time for. ..in my age also, because i am
that legal battle. also, trump s name coming up in these grand jury proceedings. if you ever catch your news on the phone or on the internet, you have probably seen more than one news alert from the washington post and new york times about the doj criminal appropriate i will break that down with a very special guest joining me in moments. but for the rest of those news reports, whether you heard about them or not, is this, the grand jury is pursuing questions about donald trump, which thus means, potentially, his alleged crimes. two top aides, the vice president pants, asked about the electoral fraud scheme, and now new today, news that a star witness from those hearings, cassidy hutchinson, cooperated with the federal criminal probe. and that appears to be intensifying. well, it is happening, donald trump is being investigated. today, federal prosecutors are asking questions and digging deeper. web would trump 2.0 look like, do you think we got the abuse of the power,
That simply wasnt made to last. Raac was a postwar solution, now causing a headache for 21st century britain. More than 100 schools in britain have been told they need to close. Labour has announced it will force the government to reveal a complete list of affected schools, and now calls for transparency on the scale of the problem and for fast solutions. Its been known for a while and what we have also known for a while is there is a squeeze on school funding, and my committee has highlighted that repeatedly, and my committee has highlighted that and when you dont invest in maintenance and improvements in schools you get these problems arising but with raac its a systemic failure of the actual material used to build them. Hospital buildings and Court Buildings among those impacted and internal documents obtained by The Sunday Times suggest hospitals could be at risk of catastrophic collapse. The concerns about this have been swirling around for so long. Trusts have been trying to cope
Studio some 60 odd years ago. Really, here . Fantastic. Well, weve got to dig those performances from the vault. I cant think what it was. It was something. Ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. Its a great pleasure to come. And good to see you. You, too. You were born in 1936. You grew up in the midlands. Tell me about your family. What did your parents do . My father was an electrical engineer. Took his apprenticeship in the mines. The whole family, my fathers family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields, and he worked at Alfred Herberts machine tool factory all his life. Ao odd years. Skilled worker, then . Yes, a skilled worker. Electrician. And he had a work ethic that was formidable. He worked seven days a week. And my mother had been a hairdresser, but like women of that time, it was a matter of pride for my father that she should not have to work. But. Lovely woman, very kind. What sort of cultural upbringing did you have at home . Well, it was a very normal, i guess