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Beleaguered, public broadcaster in the new era of social media the controversy, ed, led to loud questions over bbc's close ties with britain's conservative party. lineker and other bbc hosts criticized the opposition labor party on social media without punishment. >> interesting. >> anyway, we could go on and on i thought it was fascinating, ed, they had to actually limit coverage yesterday because they faced a boycott from lineker's peers, premier league players refused to talk to the bbc you had some games where they just showed the images and there were no announcers. >> yeah. gary lineker ...

This morning on this monday morning. joining us now, u.s. national editor at "the financial times," ed luce. good to have you with us. >> great to have you here. we want to talk about your column on china. very riveting. very riveting. first, let's talk about what happened to the bbc this past weekend. obviously, face d a lot of criticism after a public fight with one of its most popular sports hosts, gary lineker former soccer star turned broadcaster. a legend he tweeted criticism against england's conservative government's crackdown on immigration. lineker's tweet, seen here, calls the polic...

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Desantis is capable of bull horning racially on gender politics as trump is. >> ed, i'll first say something on behalf of meatball diversity. you know, there are many meatballs that are not from italy. that's not necessarily -- >> meatball is my cat. >> swedish meatball. meatball the cat. let's be clear, not an anti-italian slur. >> yes. >> but here's the other lesson of 2016, right, about the multi- -- it's true, there was a big, wide, multi-candidate field, and trump was able to mow them all down. it benefitted him to have the split vote of his opposition. the other thing that benefitted him...

For cancelled flights, even after being told to do so by the department of transportation. the southwest airlines pilots and flightunions say the meltdown was avoidable and they have wanted the airlines for years to update its systems. it reads as part, for more than a decade, leadership shortcomings in adapting, innovating and safe guarding our operations have led to repeated system disruptions, countless disappointed passengers and millions in lost profits. the transportation workers union blasted the company for paying shareholders, quote, huge dividends instead of investing in their passen...