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police vans, there is a big tent in the garden and there it has also been some activity out in the back garden. this is obviously an ongoing police investigation, but i can give you some background context and this goes back to 2021 when police scotland launched an investigation into snp finances. the party had raised more than £600,000 and that was between 2017 and 2020 and the party had pledged to spend that on a new independence campaign, there was a referendum back in 2014, nicola sturgeon, the snp, wanted to hold another referendum, nicola sturgeon had said she wanted one in october this year. so questions were asked about whether that money had been used appropriately. the snp accounts showed that it had just under
was carried out. that was chris page with that update. some breaking news concerning junior doctors and their strike action. they confirmed on monday that the vote was yes, we now have the dates. essentially this will be a 72 hour strike, what we are hearing is the strike dates for junior doctors in england will be at 7am from monday, march 13, ending at 7am from monday, march 13, ending at 7am on the 16th of march when they return to work. the bma are arguing for a pay rise to make up for 15 years of inflation. that is the latest we have on that. catherine burns will be with us to give us more background context to that
people that make more than 10 million a year. so 20,000 families that make over $10 million a year, there are only 66 closed audits. a fraction of 1%, in the house in 2020 for their income group. >> that is a really fascinating background context as we look at this. jill, i was thinking about you today because we, richard nixon had a fair amount of financial sketchiness in his own world. and, another thing that happened is that a whole bunch of different reforms came after nixon, famously, to deal with the aftermath of the watergate, and on and on and on. i do wonder how much just a mandatory law for instance, presidents have to release their tax returns as a simple, and obvious starting point, but how much you expect there to be more reforms around what we have seen from donald trump and what continues to come out? >> i think that there should be a number of reforms as there
there were only 66 closed audits. a fraction of 1% in 2020 for that income group. >> that is a really fascinating background context as we look at this. jill, i was thinking about you today because, you know, richard nixon had a fair amount of financial sketchiness in his own world. and another thing that happened is that a whole bunch of different reforms came after nixon, famously, to deal with the aftermath of watergate, starting in '74 and on and on and on. i do wonder how much just a mandatory law, for instance, presidents have to release their tax returns is a simple and obvious starting point, but how much you expect there to be more reforms around what we have seen from donald trump and what continues to come out? >> i think that there should be a number of reforms as there was after watergate. and in fact, just seeing a
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>> you lead me to my next question which is isn't the kind of thing that could materially change the value of twitter being one of its biggest users and the guy who wants to buy it suggesting online it's got big problems and he may not want to buy it? is anyone discussing the prospect of musk potentially interfering in his own deal in some way? >> well, it may be that he is attempting to, in fact, establish that there is some sort of material change to the value of twitter, something that perhaps twitter did not disclose beforehand when he looked at acquisitions but if you look at the background context of all of this, right, i mean, twitter's stock value is down a huge amount below the $54.20 a share that he originally offered. meanwhile, you know, musk's value of his tesla stock, which is the collateral he's using for borrowing all this money that he is supposedly going to use to buy twitter, that stock is down. so this does feel like some sort of effort to renegotiate the value of it. the problem, of course, for
politics should not mat tore the prosecution. law professor daniel wrote about this when he wrote being connected to a to a controversial shouldn't get you out of jail. his latest column on the prosecution of the trump board is title ld "trump one law for hungry pizza thieves, another for me" and he joins me now. david, let's start with this idea of the background context. you know, i think the argument that trump and his like are trying to make it like this is ridiculous, no one ever gets nailed for this. i've covered people getting nailed for less than this. what say you? >> we don't prosecute very many tax crimes in this country. 440 cases were actually accepted for prosecution by the justice department last year.
if that request is made. but chuck, it brings me to a point, the background context. you can pull out a law book about elementary criminal procedure, and that is important here. but the political social institutional realties of what we're able to go over is enormous. it hasn't happened before. nixon was -- ford's pardon. if you're sitting in the office, or cy vance or anyone making that case, rebecca, you know, you're about to bring -- if you can bring an indictment, the biggest criminal case in the history of the country n some respects. >> yeah, i mean, first of all, we should be careful. because it play not be trump himself who they are seeking an indictment for. we don't know if it's the
you've just said we shouldn't release any sensitive information. is this going to be enough to counter the narrative or are we already too far down the rabbit hole to where people look and say i can't trust anything anyone is saying in congress right now. >> i don't know if it is enough to correct the record, given how the waters are polluted, to mix that up. something strange has happened. distrust is no longer a kind of one of the background context for political engagement. distrust is become political currency. and so you have parties leveraging distrust for their own political ends. so the republicans, the deep state republicans are leveraging distrust over deep state, the conspiracy theories to achieve -- donald trump is doing it, in order to provide cover for himself. democrats leveraging distrust of what republicans are doing. in order to make political gains. and so what happens to the policy when distrust is the currency of the day. so this is just one of the
case they should disbelieve comey when he comes before them as a witness. very simple piece of evidence from flynn could take some of the public statements that trump has made and turn them into compelling evidence of obstruction of justice. >> and you're explaining the background context of that as key part of the legal analysis any prosecutor would do. >> intent is the key. if you can fill in intent, you can make what might seem to be fairly minor public statements turn into something that will support a count in an indictment. >> got it. senator whitehouse, always learn from you, thanks for being here. >> great to be here. >> "wall street journal" and "daily beast." i start with you shelby. scooby doo moments where you shake your head. >> amazing thing about all of this, might be impossible to