Counter. So a busy two hours to come. So put something cold and fizzy in the fridge or fire up the kettle or because were doing things differently tonight, put something and fizzy in the something cold and fizzy in the kettle a night of kettle and lets make a night of it. The headlines with it. First, the headlines with rory smith. Rory smith. Thank you very much. Leo storm, anthony saw 78mph. Winds hit some parts of the uk today, blocking 100 miles of railway between exeter and penzance. About half a months worth of rain fell in some areas, with a number of people having been evacuated from their homes in nonh evacuated from their homes in North Yorkshire due to flooding. The south west had severe road and rail disruption. Well a yellow weather warning remains in place until 10 00 tonight for the south east of england and east anglia. Weather journalist east anglia. Weather journalist nathan rao explains us the conditions, the wind speeds of this storm. Storm anthony are expected to be around 75 mile per hour gusts on the coasts and 55 mile per hour inland. Its not the strongest storm that weve seen , but because of the time of yean , but because of the time of year, the leaves, the trees are all in full leaf and its houday all in full leaf and its holiday season. The schools are holiday season. The schools are off. Where going to be off. And where its going to be hitting the impact of this hitting and the impact of this storm today is likely to storm hitting today is likely to be same be greater than had the same sort of happened later in sort of thing happened later in the year. The year. Two French Police officers have been injured in clashes with migrants near calais around 60 people threw rocks and other missiles as officers tried to stop people smugglers launching a small boat. Well gb news can reveal that 15,100 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats since the start of the year. Thats down more than 2500 on the same period last yeah 2500 on the same period last year. Pakistan is former Prime Minister imran khans party is calling for peaceful protests after a Court Sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts. Will this evening several of his supporters were arrested by police during a protest that mr khan was convicted of misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to buy and sell items in state possessions. He is always denied any wrongdoing. Prosecutors in any wrongdoing. Prosecutors in the us have asked a judge to limit what donald trump can say publicly about a criminal case against him. They warn that mr trump may be taken to use evidence to target witnesses after he posted a message to social media that said, if you go after me, im coming after you. The former us president you. The former us president says hes being targeted for political reasons. Members of political reasons. Members of the rock band the kinks are paying the rock band the kinks are paying tribute to their former keyboardist john gosling, who has died at the age of 75. Yeah you really got me now you got me. So i cant sleep at night. So i cant sleep at night. Brothers ray and dave davies formed the band in the 1960s, before gosling joined in the 70s the kinks scored three number one singles in the uk , including one singles in the uk, including the iconic track, which you can hear now. You really got me. Hear now. You really got me. This is gb news across uk on tv in your car and Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news now though , saying play gb news now though, its back to. Its back to. Leo well come to mark dolan tonight with me. Leo kyrees. In my big opinion, donald trump in court again. But will these relent less indictments do anything other than help him become president again . In the big president again . In the big story . 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Today we have of legendary radio dj and broadcaster mike reid , and broadcaster mike reid, broadcaster and former adviser to Boris Johnson, lord kulveer rangen to Boris Johnson, lord Kulveer Ranger. And congratulations to him on recently getting that promotion to the house of lords and former Home Office Adviser and former Home Office Adviser and political commentator claire pearsall. And tonight ill be pearsall. And tonight ill be asking the pundits , how do we asking the pundits, how do we tackle people smuggling gangs brazenly offering to help criminals escape back across the channel from the uk and is it time to bring back the ban on kids in pubs and with more adhd sufferers turning to marijuana to manage their symptoms , is it to manage their symptoms, is it time to legalise cannabis use . Plus, youre in emails. Even the spicy ones send them in to gb views gbnews. Com. This show has a golden rule. We dont do boring. Not on my watch. I just wont have it. Anyway. Lets get to work. And we start with my big opinion. Donald trump was big opinion. Donald trump was indicted this week and what feels like the 5,000,000th attempt by the establishment to bnng attempt by the establishment to bring him down is trump actually guilty or is an autocratic establishment attempting to imprison a political dissident . As weve seen with Alexei Navalny and Nelson Mandela . Of navalny and Nelson Mandela . Of course, im not saying trump is like Nelson Mandela. Nelson mandela openly advocated for terrorism. He didnt just send terrorism. He didnt just send a couple of vaguely worded tweets, the list of accusations against trump is as high as hunter biden at 4 am. After a night on the crack pipe accepting overseas money, collusion with russia, Sexual Misconduct , defamation, Sexual Misconduct, defamation, falsifying business records, paying falsifying business records, paying Stormy Daniels tax fraud, obstruct of justice, mishandling classified Files Associated with White Supremacy and election interference , and fomenting a interference, and fomenting a violent insurrection in. Im surprised they havent also charged him with non payment of his tv licence and running in the corridor. Is it fair . While the corridor. Is it fair . While i dont think that trump should run for president , it feels like he is being penalised for things that democrat leaders get away with. Biden had classified with. Biden had classified documents in his garage. Hillary used a secret server for classified emails. Bill clinton paid off a woman for Sexual Harassment, giving paula jones 850,000. Although true to his reputation as a deal maker, trump paid a much better looking woman. Stormy daniels only 130,000. Maybe bill clinton should have read the art of the deal before taking his trousers off and trump is accused of not accepting the election results. Well, i seem to remember in 2016, hillary didnt accept trumps victory. And in fact , trumps victory. And in fact, everyone on the left spent the next four years proudly protests that trump wasnt their president. Biden described trump president. Biden described trump as an illegitimate president , and in 2020, hillary even told biden not to concede the election under any circumstance. Liz and lets face it, every president clings on to the curtains and has to be taken out of the white house like al pacino at the end of scarface, although only a white although only a Biden White House would that plate of house would have that plate of cocaine for hunter , the january cocaine for hunter, the january 6th capitol riots hang over everything as trumps nastiest moment. Were told that they moment. Were told that they were a serious attempt at a violent insurrection. But come violent insurrection. But come on, ive been on stag dos more violent than that. There were little old ladies waving flags and men in fancy dress. Its the only violent insurrection action in history that politely stayed inside the velvet guide ropes. Theidea inside the velvet guide ropes. The idea that this rag tag bunch of fruitcakes armed with flags and horned helmets where a serious threat to the most militarily powerful nation on earth pull the other one. Insurrections need tanks, apache helicopters, cruise missiles , helicopters, cruise missiles, all the stuff that the American Government happens to have in fact, if you do want to commit an insurrection, then you generally need the Us Government on your side. Then you can on your side. Then you can topple any government you want. Topple any government you want. From guatemala to iraq , its from guatemala to iraq, its obvious that theres a two tier criminal Justice System in america, and with trump about to be tried by a judge installed by obama, it doesnt look like thats going to change. Interestingly, the charges trump were indicted for this week dont include inciting the riot. They relate to his attempts to overturn the election results. Now, i dont defend trump for this. He clung on far too long and embarrassed himself. But 2020 was a unique election with a lot of postal voting and electronic voting. And weve seen in russia how this can allow vote rigging. And there was that suspicious jump in bidens results after an early lead by trump. So while i dont believe that the election was stolen in this way, i can definitely understand trump making the most of the doubts. And look, i dont agree with trump that the democrats used electoral fraud to steal the election , and i dont want trump election, and i dont want trump as president in his first term. He start a single war. He didnt start a single war. And got shares in weapons and ive got shares in weapons manufacturers the sake of my manufacturers for the sake of my retirement plan. The usa needs to invade another country every three years. But in 2020, the democrats colluded with the Government Agencies and the Media Establishment and big tech to bury the hunter biden laptop story evidence of joe bidens son smoking crack with prostitutes, which could have swayed the election despite being true , it was classed as being true, it was classed as disinformation and tweets about it and stories about it were silenced, including in the new york post, one of the oldest newspapers in america. When we newspapers in america. When we talk about elections being stolen and democracy being subverted, this is what were talking about. The American People see it too, and theyll be the real jury for trump and biden. Biden. You made it. I made it. Im ehhen you made it. I made it. Im either. All right. You did. Okay. So so what do you think . Do you agree . Do you disagree . Gb views gbnews. Com. Ill get to your emails after the break. Reacting to my big opinion tonight are my brilliant pundits tonight , we brilliant pundits tonight, we have legendary radio deejay and broadcaster mike reid , a broadcaster mike reid, a broadcaster mike reid, a broadcaster and former adviser to Boris Johnson, lord Kulveer Ranger and former Home Office Adviser and political commentator. Claire pearsall coming up next in the big story cost. Oh, have a chat. Cost. Oh, have a chat. If they dont write it down, i dont do it. I mean, what do you make of the Trump Indictment . I mean, the Trump Indictment . I mean, starting with you, lord culver . Well look it, as you quite rightly said , theres a long rightly said, theres a long list of issues that building up, but this particular one does focus on the issue of the pressure. Pressure. He was appears to have been placing on various states, various officials. And theres been lots of interviews with his own people who felt quite uncomfortable about what was going on. Yeah so although, as a populist figure, he is obviously being attacked in this instance. Yes. There seems to be more of a case than there was before in a case than there was before in a lot of these things that we see coming through. And unfortunately, it looks like theres a whole build of momentum as well. But what it does mean, as hes saying, hes going to come back stronger. So what i really fear for is the American People getting caught in the crossfire of trump versus, you know, anyone whos coming up against him. Yeah. Coming up against him. Yeah. And it feels like the democrats could actually be doing it deliberately because, i mean, joe biden knows that the only person he can beat is trump. Trump you know, might have might get his own base energised, but he gets the democrat s energised even more so. I mean, claire, do you think so. I mean, claire, do you think do you think the democrats are actually playing this deliberately to ensure that trump Republican Trump is the republican candidate that they go up against . I think youre right. I think the democrats will see as their trump card , see trump as their trump card, if like, because hes going if you like, because hes going to do them so many favours with everybody looking at whats going on. Could be in prison . Going on. Could he be in prison . Whats you know, how many documents hed had and then Everything Else that the biden family going through gets family are going through gets pushed carpet. It pushed under the carpet. So it goes away. It goes quiet. And you bury it under the trump news. Now, of course, donald trump helps that enormously by going out there twitter , going out there on twitter, putting things there, saying putting things out there, saying hes come hes going to come and get people. Thats also going people. Well, thats also going to the American Public to wind up the American Public andifs to wind up the American Public and its going to take over social media its going to social media and its going to take the Election Campaign take over the Election Campaign as a whole has already been taken as evidence as well. After he made it. Just hours after he made it. Its working against himself. Knows that. He knows its he knows that. He knows its going that result. Going to have that result. He knows going to get knows that hes going to get more and more traction more headlines and more traction for campaign. And you can for his campaign. And you can see the sort of wheels behind it. Campaign just it. The Republican Campaign just going, keep going, going, brilliant. Keep going, keep keep writing, keep going, keep writing, because youre going to be out there youre going to be there and youre going to be leading the narrative. Make i mean, what do and i make i mean, what do you make all this . Have you you make of all this . Have you were of trump back in were you a fan of trump back in back in 2016 . Not necessarily a fan. Im always bemused the fact that always bemused by the fact that biden trump two best biden and trump are the two best american frontmen that the whole country can come up with when there so many there there are so many people there that and they are that are sharp and they are front after all. I mean , front men, after all. I mean, im impressed that im im seriously impressed that he can commit all these indiscretions whilst running and being president. Its extraordinary multitasking. Yes that he can do all these things at the same i mean, more at the same time. I mean, more charges than the light brigade really is. It kind of reminds really is. It kind of reminds me, going back 300 years to jonathan and lemuel Jonathan Swift and Lemuel Gulliver gulliver in gulliver of gulliver in lilliput, where theyre pegging him down. Theyve this great him down. Theyve got this great trump figure and the lilliputians are trying to peg him down. That feel to me. Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean yeah, no, absolutely. I mean and also, i mean, do you think would you rather see ron desantis as the republican candidate . Because , i mean, i feel like because, i mean, i feel like at the moment, you know, people are kind of desperate to get even on the democrat side. Joe biden popular. Is biden isnt popular. America is not theyre being not sure if theyre being governed by by biden or governed by by joe biden or being haunted by him. So you know, he doesnt look well, biden. Biden doesnt look a well man. He doesnt look well. And hes losing. I mean, you get you get the feeling hes losing his his faculties. You his mental faculties. And, you know, he is 80 years old. Know, he is he is 80 years old. I wouldnt want my dads 80. I wouldnt want run to the wouldnt want him run to the shops to get me under the microscope. They with social microscope. More they wi