condemn. the proud boys stand back and stand by. the proud boys celebrated that shout-out from then president trump during a debate in 2020. months later, members of that group would be heavily involved in the violence on january 6th. and now they are facing serious prison time for their actions. much more on yesterday s guilty verdicts in just a moment. meanwhile, in new york jurors in donald trump s civil rape trial heard more of his video deposition yesterday while taking through some of that testimony, and also ahead, more ethics issues for supreme court justice clarence thomas. this doesn t sound it s not good. it keeps on coming, and i m not sure what the consequence is here but it looks really bad. there is new reporting that clarence thomas wife was paid nearly $80,000 by a nonprofit that had a case before the high court. and her payments to her would come with instructions from leonard leo not to tell anybody she s getting the money. seems pr
Circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. And to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger and kim strassel do you think Merrick Garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come . Well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. I mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of Kevin Mccarthy House Speakership Roll Forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the United States after one has already been appointed a special council to investigate the form
jenkins. hi, griff. that surge coming in nine days. guess what? it s already here. that s why border officials are applauding the fact another 1,500 troops will come down here and assist and transport in an administrative role. when you have these surges, logistics are a big part of getting it under control. let s take you to the sky drone, this is brownsville, ground zero for the surge right now. what you re looking at is cam n monument. the blue and white tent. along the road here, the buses pull down and they get the migrants which are coming in droves. more than 2,100 migrants were in this camp right where i m standing. usually they have 200 or 300. we ve been on the river. let s show you migrants, 90% are venezuelan with the split screen. you can see the texas dps officers, the next national guard, border patrol trying to deal with. the other said, there s women and children getting on his crafts crossing dangerous currents. they re coming in unprecedented numbers here
million. hello and welcome a long, this is world business report, i m ben thompson. starting in the us where one of the most closely watched media trials in decades has been delayed. ajudge in delaware announced late on sunday that the $1.6 billion defamation trial by dominion voting systems against fox news and its parent company would start on tuesday instead. that has now been confirmed. the lawsuit alleges that the broadcast of the reputation of dominion by repeatedly airing lies about its vote counting machines and election fraud in the 2020 us presidential election. let s cross live to wilmington where michelle fleury is in delaware where the trial was due to start. we say was due to start, lots of people keeping a very close eye on this but they will have to wait possibly a bit longer. this is very high stakes media trial, people are calling this one of the biggest media trials in decades. judge erick davis just convened the court right now to explain the delay. he sai