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National wants to question Parliament's Speaker over costly legal dispute Katie Scotcher © RNZ / Dom Thomas The National Party will attempt to question Parliament's Speaker over a costly legal dispute before a select committee. RNZ was told last night the Labour Party would block any attempt by the opposition to make Trevor Mallard appear. This morning Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told  Morning Report over the years opposition parties had claimed no-confidence in the Speaker and "unfortunately, it tips into the political from time to time". "I have confidence in the Speak...

"This is unacceptable behaviour from the Speaker of the House. This sheer size of this pay-out illustrates how serious the matter is," Collins said on Friday. "It is the Speaker's job to set the standard of behaviour for everyone at Parliament but he has been reckless with his words, resulting in taxpayers footing a bill of more than $330,000 to clean up this mess. "There has been no formal apology to Parliament for this, despite the National Party encouraging the Speaker to do so on the final sitting day this year. "Because Mr Mallard has not lived up to the high standards of behaviour that ...

National loses confidence in Speaker over $333k bill to settle legal battle over 'rape' comments Newshub 11/12/2020 Zane Small © Image - Getty; Video - Parliament TV House Speaker Trevor Mallard came under fire from National and ACT after he apologised for accusing a former staffer of committing "rape". Judith Collins says National has lost confidence in Speaker Trevor Mallard over revelations that $333,000 in taxpayer money was spent to settle his legal battle over "rape" comments.  Mallard apologised earlier this week for accusing a former parliamentary staffer last ye...

Some other way. i think other democrats are sitting back on, who can actually beat this guy. that's what gets you to looking at biden as kind of an older, wiser member of the democratic party, kind of that lane, and all of the activism on the left is going to be important. one last thing is that pelosi is going to get a lot of attention as opposed to a shadow leader of the democratic party in a large field, and that's going to be a dynamic to watch. >> thank you all very much. so comedian/actor kevin hart breaking his silence one month after bowing out of hosting the oscars. what the comedia...

Of people who michael fwlin could have called to talk about there's russian sanctions and also the u.n. resolution. there are two different conversations. and it could be two different people that he spoke with, two different senior transition officials. but remember, mike pence was running the transition at the time. initially it was chris christie, but he was pushed out. kushner was essentially the shadow leader of the transition. but there is also reince priebus who went in as chief of staff and was fired not even a year into his tenure there. steve bacnnon as well. jeff sessions. it could ...