former attorney general bill barr, was seen exiting the january six committees conference room. this would have been at least the second time that barr has met with the committee. back in january, chairperson thompson confirmed that barr had spoken with the panel and has cooperated with its investigation. it remains to be seen if barr or any other high-ranking trump official will testify in front of the american people as part of the committee s public hearings. the justice department, by the way, isn t just working on g involving the twice impeached ex presidents former aide, they are working to prosecute his insurrection supporters, to. yesterday another member of the far-right extremist group proud boys pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding. joshua pruitt is facing up to five years in jail, for taking part in the mob that ransacked the capital, and endangered the safety of members of congress. in court documents, he admitted that he near
The first leg of their journey back to the us. Its part of a Prisoner Swap Deal painstakingly mediated by qatar. In return, five iranians in usjails will be released and iran will gain access to 6 billion in oil revenues. 0ur chief interntional correspondent, lyse doucet is in doha where the released american prisoners are expected to [and shortly. Yes, and this news they have left tehran, left reigning essbase confirms these five prisoners, regarded as wrongfully detained by the us are now three left iranians airspace. They are expected to arrive in the next half an hour behind us at a former International Airport in doha. They will be landing just as the sun begins to set and the heat is easing. That moment will mark the end of a deeply painful personal ordeal which has only been secured through a highly complex and deeply controversial deal, agreed between the United States and iran. There is no diplomatic relations between iran and the us, so there were nine rounds of talks between
the production company podot. also with us is lewis goodall from the news agents podcast and tony pastor, the man behind goalhanger, which is the podcast production company he set up with gary lineker and makes all sorts of hit podcasts, including the rest is history, the rest is politics. there s something very intimate about listening to a podcast i mean, in many ways, a bit like radio where people have their headphones on, they re cooking, they re commuting, they re walking the dog and they get very, very close to the people in theirears. they develop a relationship with the people they re listening to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this and it s just one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to
have their headphones on, they re cooking, they re commuting, they re walking the dog and they get very, very close to the people in their ears. they develop a relationship with the people they re listening to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers which attracts younger, well educated listeners . given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to, and i wanted to open up to everyone f
a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them. and we have to sort of remind our talent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers, which attracts younger, well educated listeners. given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to and i wanted to open up to everyone first. lewis, you re here. you ve covered many an election over your very young life. you make me sound so old. yeah, not that old. but you ve managed to get in on a few elections. but could you have ever seen that podcasting would be so central to this one? well, i def