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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...

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 ...

>> 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 backgrou...

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. b...

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 th...