good evening. we start tonight with the escalating legal battle between rishi sunak s government and the independent public inquiry, into the handling of the covid pandemic. government officials in the cabinet office missed a deadline, earlier today, to hand over all of boris johnson s private messages and papers, to the inquiry. what s more, the government is now launching a legal challenge, arguing that some of the material is not relevant to the inquiry s work. the chair of the inquiry, baroness hallett, a formerjudge at the court of appeal, says it s for the inquiry to decide what is or is not relevant. and she s hinted that the inquiry could launch its own legal action against the government. labour has accused the government of undermining the work of the inquiry, as our political correspondent alex forsyth reports. the covid pandemic had a huge and lasting impact. now a public inquiry is examining what happened, the decisions taken in government that affected so many l
live now to westminister and our political correpondent ione wells. a different response from boris johnson to the government in terms of the demands of the inquiry. that s right, and they have had different responses over the last week or so on this issue. the cabinet officejust week or so on this issue. the cabinet office just yesterday launched a judicial review, essentially a legal challenge, to the covid inquiry saying they don t feel it is right for them to hand over what they have described as unambiguously irrelevant material, for example, those containing conversations about personal or private matters of ministers or advisers or officials, so they have sought legal action against the covid inquiry. the covid inquiry has repeatedly said they think it is up to them to decide what materials relevant as part of their inquiry. the intervention by borisjohnson todayis the intervention by borisjohnson today is effectively him saying that he is willing to hand over the unre
rachel campos-duffy, and this is a special edition of the engber mingle, new york city tonight. breaking news tonight, major win for donald trump. the supreme court smacking down counsel jack smith and declining to issue an expedited on whether or not the former president has immunity in his 2020 election interference case. boxes. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is here with all the details chad. rachel, good evening. this is a blow to special counsel jackson as he asked the supreme court to excel consideration of whether the former president was immune from prosecution for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election. but the court denied smith s request. this down smith s prosecution of mr. trump. it could mean there s no clarity on smith s probe until well into 2024. the federal trial was scheduled to start march 4th. this could mean the trial comes amid the political conventions or down the homestretch of the presidential. team trump may
hanging over america s head, but because of the good work of president biden as well as democrats and the house and democrats and the house and democrats in the senate, we are not defaulting. democrats said from the start and we must take default of the table. for a long time republicans, many republicans in the house resisted, house republicans ready to take default hostage in order to pop as a radical heritage to gender that never could have passed with the american people. so tonight s outcome is very welcome news for our economy and for american families. i sank my colleagues for the good work tonight. i commend president biden and his team for producing a sensible compromise under the most difficult circumstances. so many of the destructive provisions in the republican bill are gone. senate majority leader chuck schumer there, welcoming the outcome of the vote and praising the work of democrats. our north america correspondent jessica parker has been following this. t
more sunshine around today, especially for eastern areas. before full weekend forecast is coming up here and breakfast. it s friday 2nd june. our main story. the former this morning presenter phillip schofield says he has lost everything , after admitting to lying about an affair with a young colleague. in his first interview since resigning from itv, mr schofield says he desperately regrets the relationship, but insists it was consensual and he strenuously denies claims that he groomed the man. he s been speaking to our media editor amol rajan. come on in. good to see you. thank you. phillip schofield granted this interview because he wanted to say sorry, he wanted to show contrition, and he wanted to correct some of what he sees as the false narratives in the public domain over the past week. are you feeling 0k to do this? you re feeling strong enough to do this interview? yeah, i have to. schofield described the enormous toll that recent days have taken on him. and it is