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All day long so we have no due process we can't have it a day and yet until we win today it's over there's been a 20 percent increase in the number of people being sanctioned by police and the Mental Health Act in England and Wales over the past 2 years government figures show more than 28000 people were detained under section 136 last year that's around 5000 more than 2017 John up there is a national chair for the Police Federation of England and Wales my colleagues will never step away from helping somebody in their time of need but the police service are very often not the right organization to deal with them society really needs to decide what it wants and whichever government comes into power in December we need them to step up and treat this as the the crisis of. 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Sound small speaker along the way the smells of rain across the south west but elsewhere will be cloudy in most places will stay dry with a run of brisk wind blows overnight of 2 degrees. We should very let down by the b.b.c. Because I'm excited about that picky plan to spare her and she thought she was going to be back well you see Nigeria stacked huge picture is a ploy to get managers well called the b.b.c. Call things what they are if I've got a tin can this got by being true to life which when I finished I typed expect a full and cold page discs to b.b.c. I Player wasted on some. Family right in the u.k. On digital online and Roger Sharpe were up all night President Trump went out in front of reporters on Wednesday to read from a statement prepared with his favorite implement the felt tip pen I want nothing I want nothing I want no quid pro quo at road this is. The final word from the president of the United States the president quoted from a phone conversation reported by the ambassador to the e.u. Gordon Sandland to the impeachment inquiry or quoting on a modicum of different conversations the ambassador offered a contrasting summary of these events was there a quid pro quo Mr Solomon said as I testified previously with regard to the requested White House Call and White House meeting the answer is yes. Saunders stepping back from public duties for the forseeable future follows a growing backlash over what he knows says was his ill judged association with a convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his interview with News Night on Saturday in a statement released on Wednesday afternoon the Duke of York expressed what he said was his unequivocal regret at his links with Epstein He added that he did sympathized with Epstein's victims and with everyone who's been affected and more in some form of closure as he put it it's become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstances relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein have become a major disruption to my family's work and the valuable were going on in the many organizations and charities that I I'm proud to support our correspondent Danniella Relf was a Buckingham Palace Charlie we haven't had a statement of this kind in terms of a senior member of the most of the royal family in recent years it is really significant that a number of ways particularly in its tone how it is how it has addressed individually really all of the criticisms that came out of that b.b.c. Interview at the weekend he's talked about willing to cooperate now with the f.b.i. He has talked about feeling sympathy for the victims he's addressed how this is impacting his day today were all of those areas in which he was criticized he has now felt the pressure understood why he was criticized and really responded to those questions but what he has done here is step back from his public life in many ways so those day to day duties that we would see him do with his charities of their organizations with which he was he is stepping back from having any public connection with them for now because all of those organizations of course have a world patron or world connection connection because they hope it's going to do them some good it's going to bring perhaps in more money or better networking about a connex and that really is what is happening with Prince Andrew at the moment. The Daily Mail reports this morning that the queen summoned the Duke of York to Buckingham Palace and told him to step down the Queen's former press officer Dickie Arbiter says the jukes announcement should have come our way or the I'm surprised that it has come so late his position was untenable when it came to the sort of after the interview he went into that interview believing it was crisis management the created a crisis instead of not it would and there was no what other direction he could go the f.b.i. Is investigating whether a criminal enterprise responsible for the death of the convicted sex trafficker and friend of the Jews Jeffrey have seen in a New York jail in August the f.b.i. Continues to investigate Epstein's possible connections in a child sex trafficking network in his statement the jukes says he is willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations if required Gloria already is a u.s. Based lawyer for some of Epstein's alleged victims I'm very glad that Prince Andrew has indicated that he will be willing to speak to law enforcement but I don't know what he means when he says you know essentially that if it is required I don't know if he's requiring a subpoena or what now my clients who are victims of Jeffery Epstein did speak to law enforcement and they did not require a subpoena or anything else I've been speaking to Professor Kate Williams who's a royal historian and I asked her to look back a bit and see if we've ever witnessed such a high profile retreat from Royal public duty. Well we've had voile scandals in the past we've had scandalous Voyles we might imagine the brothers of George the 4th one of whom really up the sale of Army commissions his mistress when's went in the witness box and where are all his love letters making Mullard things Doc we've had all kinds of scandals but really there has been nothing like this nothing in which it is so damaging and nothing in which it has so come so close really to the question of how of the author it is having to speak to or about this very very serious matter so it is unprecedented that Prince Andrew is stepping back and also what some presidents did is he stepping back for an established amount of time I mean it could be possible that this is it is him back in public for good and retiring you know so much earlier than his father has done we simply don't know but but but there are as you mentioned his father his father comes right because his father of course for for all various reasons than the I mean he's 98 years old yes we see we're all stepping back because they retire we've seen worst of him back to health reasons but Prince Andrew is not old and he's not got poor health he's perfect health and he's to him but because simply his presence is too damaging now to the war family after this interview that with new such and such a night simply I think there were households being in damage control mode ever since and really this announcement today it had to be issued because otherwise there was going to be an avalanche of more organizations more charities cutting their links we know that they were talking about it more organizations cutting their legs more bad press more pictures of Anjou having party is sweating going to like clubs the story wasn't going to way way there are questions about his finances . Lessons about his role as a business ambassador the story was not going away and we even saw it coming up in the leaders debate it was on i.t.v. Last night one of the questions is the whole family fit the purpose and simply when you have a fact that Prince Andrew is coming up as an election issue then it is obvious that it's time to really try and stop it in the only way of stopping it was saying that Prince Andras decking from public life so no more announcements from charities because he's no longer going to be a charity patron and they are hoping of course it is going to quieten things down and what we saw is him saying he will cooperate with your thought isn't that I think is key people been calling for that and that is really what he must do now when you when you think about his involvement with different things he's widely connect this and he and widely committed to a host of different courses can you give us a sense of what Prince Andrew has been doing. Well we Prince Andrew got a lot of causes from the English National Ballet to Outward Bound lots of charities we know that he's very proud of the palace where entrepreneurs go to discuss their ideas sponsible lots of businesses and simply he sees themselves as a hard working world but all those parts in ages all those pitch at the palace everything like that or has to end now because they are now being overshadowed by this overshadowed by the scandal by Epstein overshadowed particularly by what is the most disastrous go interview in history I mean there's nothing to equal it there's many more hours of a gaffes many was that the wrong thing but there is nothing to equal this interview in which for the combination of bad alibis refusal to regret his friendship with that scene and a complete lack of sympathy with the victims with those holy trinity of disastrous attitudes Prince Prince Andrew just threw himself into the fire and really it's very damaging for him incredibly damaging for him I can't see how it is to stay the office anymore but also damaging to the word of all family as well well indeed at a time you know when some of us at least are gripped by the queasy fiction of the crowd in the new episodes. As agree never really faced a challenge like this in the family she's had after all a death of Diana I mean there was a monstrous challenge for wasn't Well yes there's the death of Diana to Alice however those in which the divorces of her children including the burning of of Windsor cars than the public reaction to that and the queen has battled with public opinion in the past and you know the big drop I think you're exactly right in suggesting it was the death of Diana and yet the Queen went on television addressed the nation and turned it around. And I do think that Andrew was thinking of that he thought of the Queen he thought of President as interview he thought of Prince Harry when he made the direct address to his press statement he thought of all these things and thought all do the same but the difference is is that then all of them well what we were discussing possible crimes not of them were discussing consulting with a criminal and so this is why when Prince Andrew does it it simply is simply it was a massive shock went all over the world and to many people who thought it was possibly you know he possibly mean people maybe because he will hold it will be misconstrued Also did you know many of the details I'm afraid that everyone knows now about Prince Andrew it's been all over the newspapers and I don't think that the queen has faced anything like this within her family anything equivalent to this the death of Diana was a tragic horror the divorce of her children were terrible but the none of you know these things were not engaged with the f.b.i. When you look at the the public relations side of this I mean everybody's agreed of course there's a public relations debacle but what how did the palace lose control of its own public relations because used to be a very tight ship and it was a very tight ship but I think the fact is is that if a voile wants to override the palace advice then he or she will and that's exactly what we see with Andrea he was determined to do the interview we understand his secretary was behind him but they've been various attempts to blame it on Sarah Ferguson his ex-wife I mean you know it was his decision to do the interview and also his decision to say what he did had he come on the air and said to Miss mate list oh I wish I'd never met Epstein it was he was a he was a terribly bad person shocking I wish I'd known that get a matzoh would have never met any of them my heart goes out to the victims I hope they get recompense and closure and I'm just so shocked. If he'd said that then I think there would be a chance to come back for it but he said the completely the opposite he talked about how he never noticed the girls in Epstein's house because they were the Might it was just like Buckingham Palace starved mean there's just no comparison between trafficked women in Buckingham Palace footman that's just ridiculous and you know again with these strange things about pizzas and all the rest of it so he will be condemned himself and I think that's. The the Voyles they they allowed him to do this because he was so insistent he Well what we saw on Sunday night was a man who believes he's innocent and that's why he went on there you don't you don't you know he in these white shows news knows about news because they know that Newsnight is a is a tough program Miss Mavis is a forensic interview and they thought that well if we can it can be it with her then it's fine but of course you know she picked him up caught him out in so many different ways and he often just she just asked him a question is that of course is mean it's really him self into the fire so the palace I think the as you they've always had is not saying a thing never saying a thing and unfortunately Prince Andrew felt that the way to clear suspicion was go out and say things and he said all the possible wrong things. That was Professor k. Williams And just to reiterate part of statement he says that Jeffrey had seen suicide left many unanswered questions particularly for his victims and he said he deeply sympathizes with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure. Well for many watchers this wasn't just another of President Trump's allies falling by the wayside and saying the pressure on Ukraine to minds and inquire into Joe Biden son was what the president wanted they saw the president's appointed ambassador to Brussels as the linchpin of the scheme and Gordon saw in the Blige to amass a song lent who'd previously said he had no recollection of any such instructions Ted said in the plainest possible words that it was Mr Trump himself who want to pressure brought on Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rival for the presidency Joe Biden and he told the inquiry that he was following the president saw a dose when he pressed Ukraine to investigate Prisma a gas farm employing the son of Mr Biden Hunter Well Ambassador Sunland said there was absolutely a quid pro quo in that he and the other diplomats were forced to work with President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani as I testified previously Mr Giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Selenski Mr Giuliani demanded that Ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d.n.c. Server and. Mr Giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the United States and we knew these investigations were important to the president. Busser saw and also implied implicated several senior White House officials including the secretary of state might pay 0 and the Acting White House chief of staff moving everyone was in the loop it was no secret. I told President Selenski in advance that assurance is to run a fully transparent investigation and turn over every stone were necessary in his call with President Trump almost a Trump continues to deny that is done anything wrong and Secretary of State pump a 0 and White House chief of staff McVay any all issued statements to the effect that they distance themselves from. As did the vice president Mr Pence speaking to reporters on a visit to an awful fact in Austin Texas president trying once again condemn the impeachment hearings and attack both the Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff who he calls shifty ship Let me tell you it's a hoax it's a disgrace and it's an embarrassment to our country. Dancing Polonsky has done a terrible job as speaker this Democrat is because it's done so little. And she's totally incompetent and shifty she had to stand somebody else lie. All day long so we have no due process we can't have anything and yet not only did we win today it's over not only did we win today it's over there's an interesting take on the events let's join Amber Philip sort of porter at the Washington Post Hello Amber Hi there can you explain this because a very interesting construction isn't it that's shared by the president and his allies and supporters what does he mean when he says not only that we when it's over. He is trying to undermine the entire impeachment inquiry by essentially saying there's no there there I want an election I'm going to win another in November and Democrats are just making stuff up to get me out of office by other ways in the ballot box the problem with that is it comes as you talked about on a day where his own appointee and a donor to is not greasing Commenee testified Yeah I there was a quid pro quo for Ukraine that didn't agree with it I tried to execute it and I thought I was doing it at the president's request that's a that's a huge donor by the way a $1000000.00 wasn't it yeah $1000000.00 My colleagues at The Washington Post have reported he's always had dreams gardens on London being an ambassador one way to do that America is to get rich and donate a lot of money and hope to get a pointed and he hit his wagon to trump despite not necessarily agreeing with everything the president says or doesn't it worked out for him. How reliable a witness his garden son look because there's a question isn't there about his memory. That's exactly right he went before Congress in October 1 of the 1st witnesses and said a wh