we talked to one who did agree and that mp was richard graham. >> there was an emotional feeling that we owed it to him to pursue whether there could be an appeal process. ros: richard graham is making reference to on patterson's life -- owen patterson's wife taking her life last year. >> focus on what they want to focus on, a particular case of an mp who suffered a serious personal tragedy and who is now resigned. ros: as you can see in those pictures, the prime minister was not an parliament there. as you can see from ese pictures, he did not attend the emergency debate and the house of commons due to a long-standing engagement, we were told. he did seek to explain what happened last week. >> what we do need to dos look also at the process. that is what we were trying to do last week. ros: that is what they were trying to do, but at the risk of repeating myself, they were also trying to prevent his immediate suspension. when the prime minister was asked if he should apologize, this was the answer. >> don't think there is much more to be said about that particular case, i really don'

and that mp was richard graham. it was an emotional feeling that we owed it to him to pursue the there could be an appeal process. richard graham is making reference to owen paterson's wife taking her life last year. the prime minister also turned to this today. maybe they want to focus on, the opposition want to focus on a case of a particular mp who suffered a serious personal tragedy and who has now resigned. as you saw from those pictures, the prime minister isn't in parliament there. and as you can see from these pictures, he didn't attend the emergency debate in the house of commons — due to long—standing engagement we're told. but he did seek to explain what happened last week. what we do need to do is look also at the process and that is what we were trying to do last week. that is what they were trying to do — but, at the risk of repeating myself, they were also trying to prevent owen paterson's immediate suspension. and when the prime minister was asked if he should apologise, this was the answer. i

graham. he's the conservative mp for gloucester. thank you for coming on today. it was difficult to find a tory mp who voted as you did to was difficult to find a tory mp who voted as you did to talk was difficult to find a tory mp who voted as you did to talk about was difficult to find a tory mp who voted as you did to talk about it was difficult to find a tory mp who voted as you did to talk about it on air. we asked 60 and they said they were not available, they declined all they did not respond, so thank you for talking to our audience. i understand you havejust you for talking to our audience. i understand you have just tested positive for covid so we are appreciative. were you used by your prime minister last week? , , , ~ ., ,, ., last week? possibly. although i know it is a bit hard — last week? possibly. although i know it is a bit hard to _ last week? possibly. although i know it is a bit hard to explain _ it is a bit hard to explain convincingly the truth of the amendment as i a

earlier i spoke to the conservative mp for gloucester, richard graham, who defended the government's move. in that amendment which we passed it made it very clear that there were two options. one was to see whether there could be a separate appeal, as is the case for many employment tribunals, or whether the report should come back to the house and be voted on, and we have taken the second route. i know it looks odd. odd? in my mind we have arrived at the right place. personally i think it has been a very sad business for owen and many people involved and i understand it does not look good but we are where we are and it will be voted on today. it looks odd, you said, it doesn't look good. let me read this e—mail. "never have i been so angry in all my 70 years. "blatant sleaze, this government is destroying democracy." there are many more like that. do you accept that? i do not because what has happened is democracy has succeeded. the amendment was ruled out once people decided not to participate in the select committee. we are having the vote, the result is clear because owen has r

, the former chair of the judiciary committee, richard blumenthal who is here with us today, senator john kennedy of louisiana, senator cory booker, senator josh hawley, senator cynthia lummis and senator mazie hirono who is here with us today as well as senator mark warner. america has a major monopoly power problem and nowhere is this more obvious than with tech. it is because in part it's 20% of our economy and while we love the new jobs, the new ideas, the new technology that has come out, we all know that you can't just do nothing on privacy, do nothing on competition, and that our competition laws haven't been updated in any serious way since the invention of the internet. i am here again joined with -- by senator grassley. i'm going to let him go ahead of me and then turn to senator blumenthal and senator hirono and i will finish up because they've been very patient. i so appreciate senator grassley's leadership in this area, one, to make sure our agencies have the f.t.c. and the department of justice, antitrust has the funding they need, to update merger fees as well as the w