and professor steve h hanke from johns hopkins university. he served on president reagan s council of economic advisers. we will bring you up to date in the case of the first american journalist to face espionage charges in russia since the soviet era. evan gershkovich has had an appeal against his pre trial detention rejected. and we will look at why encrypted messaging services like whatsapp are urging the uk government to make changes to the online safety bill. but first, our top story on the programme, the dominion versus fox trial. it s been variously described as explosive a bombshell trial, and today it got under way in the us. a company that makes voting machines dominion suing the conservative fox news network for defamation. and in the last few minutes, we have heard it has settled. you will remember that it was due to start yesterday. there were delays for 2h hours. the case had got under way, but we understand it has now settled. our correspondent michelle f
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, tax war. two respected experts wrote an op-ed that the obama campaign immediately seized on it. it was enough to prompt them to send this e-mail to their troops, subject line romney s role in tax shelter raises questions. the reason? the op-ed written by two experts who recently wrote another article critical of romney s personal tax strategies says since romney refuses to release his tax returns, his views on taxes are revealed by what did he while on the audit committee of marriott corporation. i ll explain what happened, but first let s just lay out the key accusation. the authors say, quote, a key troubling public manifestation of romney s apparent incense tivety different to tax obligations is his role in marriott international s abusive tax shelter acvity. so does the accusation of insensitivity, translation, lack of ethics, add up? romney was chief for a while of the audit committee from 1993 to 1998. in that
two respected experts wrote an op-ed that the obama campaign immediately seized on it. it was enough to prompt them to send this e-mail to their troops, subject line romney s role in tax shelter raises questions. the reason? the op-ed written by two experts who recently wrote another article critical of romney s personal tax strategies says since romney refuses to release his tax returns, his views on taxes are revealed by what did he while on the audit committee of marriott corporation. i ll explain what happened, but first let s just lay out the key accusation. the authors say, quote, a key troubling public manifestation of romney s apparent incense tivety different to tax obligations is his role in marriott international s abusive tax shelter activity. so does the accusation of insensitivity, translation, lack of ethics, add up? romney was chief for a while of the audit committee from 1993 to 1998. in that role, he would have been responsible for overseeing the company s t