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officers are being scrutinised. welcome to newsnight for your weeknightly interviews and insight. let me introduce you to our political panel for this evening claire ainsley, former head of policy for sir keir starmer, and henry hill, who is the acting editor of the tory website conservative home, plus dal babu, a former chief superintendent in the metropolitan police, and nick is here as always. nick, the betting scandal has widened today and here at newsnight we have new revelations to bring to our audience this evening. i have been looking at this. well, i have been looking into this and have learnt of a series or developments covering the conservative party, and the labour party. in my investigation i have found out that. up to 15 conservative party candidates and officials are being scrutinised for alleged betting on the timing of the election. also craig williams is expected to be interviewed this week by gambling commission officials. and the labour party mad ....
but there is a force greater. a force at work here much greater than those who would try to destroy me and destroy this campaign and this journey to the white house. and that force is called, the voice of the people. that s why we re doing as well as we are in this campaign thus far. y all were supposed to applaud. here s another development. one of his accusers may go public. her attorney says that she can only break her silence if the confidentiality agreement is lifted. that decision will be up to cain s former employer. i have not had any direct contact with the national restaurant association. in the interviews i ve given, i suggested that would be the right thing to do so that she can tell her side of the story since mr. cain is telling his side of the story. if they agree to that, then i will confer with my client again and see what she want to do. ultimately, it s up to her. we re covering all the developments. brian todd has the latest on the story at han ....
you re looking at live pictures right now in the house floor, where just moments from now a vote is scheduled on republican house speaker john boehner s plan to avoid unprecedented default. but the bill which needs 216 votes to pass is facing fierce new backlash inside the party. if it does pass, it immediately goes to the senate for a vote where harry reid essentially says it s dead on arrival. meanwhile, ceos at the biggest banks have their own warnings. fix this now or there will be grave, in their words, consequences for all of us. kate bolduan is standing by live on capitol hill with the latest. that vote getting ready pretty soon, right? reporter: pretty soon. house republican leaders have been working hard all day loin to secure the votes they need to pass. house speaker john boehner s debt ceiling bill. a a sign of how close this vote might actually be. boehner has been holding one-on-one meetings in this lobbying effort, trying to at the very same time, dem ....
detectives, as i said, who formed i think the major part of operation motor i would like to know what you did with him. sorry? i would like to know what you did with him. in the main, my use of private investigators while i was editor of news of the world was purely legitimate and in pursuit in the main, as you know, for the addresses and whereabouts of convicted pedophiles, than is my majority use, if not almost exclusively use of private investigators myself. i respect that the news of the world also used private investigators for other stories. are you aware that steve whitmore actually directed i wasn t aware until two weeks ago. you are now? yes, i am. why did you order a mobile conversion from steve whitmore? as i said, it was 11 years ago. i have answered this question many times but just to repeat, a mobile conversion which is finding an address from a mobile phone, that is what a mobile conversion is, and can be got through legitimat ....