fraser. good morning, welcome to brussels. boats are still being counted here at the european parliament. it very much feels like the morning after that i before, is a bleary eyes. i can see journalists asleep at the desks, surrounded by the detritus of half eaten food, bottles of water and quite a lot of coffee. no question what a story of the night was, the shift across the continent to the right. the hard right performing well in austria, the netherlands, germany. not so well in poland and slovakia. and, of course, the headline news overnight is the fact that president macron has called that snap election in france, where the national rally took 32% of the vote, compared to his party s 14%. that is a record performance for the national rally. it left the president, in his view, with no option but to dissolve parliament and call a snap election. translation: the rise - of nationalists and demagogues is a dangerfor our nation, but also for europe. i say this even though we h
stories of the night, who sits on the senate judiciary committee where you had some fireworks today. it was an effort by the chairman, senator dianne feinstein said it is going to peel things back like minimum standards for detention centers at the border, democrats fought this and here is what senator leahy had to say. these rules are no longer in effect, the same republicans who voted for them 6 months ago say that, tear them up. why are we so eager to discard our norms and principles? apparently the answer is for