hi everyone, it s 4:00 in new york as we come on the air, we are following breaking news. at this hour, one of the disgraced twice impeached ex-president s closest advisers, allen weisselberg is on route to the notorious rikers island. if he hasn t arrived already. he s been sentenced to five months behind bars for executing a tax scheme. he had been facing up to 15 years in prison but struck a deal with prosecutors pleading guilty to 15 felony counts including tax fraud, conspiracy and grand larceny, and agreeing to testify against the trump org, though notably not against the big boss, donald hymn or any of his family. weisselberg who is 75 years old has been with the trump org for 50 years. technically he was the chief financial officer, but cfo doesn t capture how central he is to the trump org and the shady transactions or how complicit he was in the dirty dealings of the ex-president. nobody knows that better than michael cohen who had and has and has shared the receipt
Detected from space. Satellites can measure these changes, down to even a few millimetres, and if anythings detected, its a sign that the volcano might be about to explode. Our experience on etna showed the danger that volcanoes can pose. Forecasting major eruptions there and elsewhere could be a game changer. By the end of this year, scientists should have all 1,500 of the worlds volcanoes under their watch. Rebecca morelle, bbc news. Newsnight is coming up on bbc two, heres emily maitlis. Tonight we talk to Ruth Davidson and nick clegg, here in the studio, and we ask whether Party Loyalty or brexit will dictate how Voters Decide in june. Join me now on bbc two. Here, on bbc one, its time for the news where you are. Hello, welcome to sports day. Coming up hello, welcome to sports day. Coming up on the programme tonight, Sam Warburton will lead a lions squad that will try and topple the mighty all blacks. He is one of 41 players picked for the new zealand tour this summer. Picked for t
Detected from space. Satellites can measure these changes, down to even a few millimetres, and if anythings detected, its a sign that the volcano might be about to explode. Our experience on etna showed the danger that volcanoes can pose. Forecasting major eruptions there and elsewhere could be a game changer. By the end of this year, scientists should have all 1,500 of the worlds volcanoes under their watch. Rebecca morelle, bbc news. Newsnight is coming up on bbc two, heres emily maitlis. Tonight we talk to Ruth Davidson and nick clegg, here in the studio, and we ask whether Party Loyalty or brexit will dictate how Voters Decide in june. Join me now on bbc two. Here, on bbc one, its time for the news where you are. Hello, welcome to sports day. Coming up hello, welcome to sports day. Coming up on the programme tonight, Sam Warburton will lead a lions squad that will try and topple the mighty all blacks. He is one of 41 players picked for the new zealand tour this summer. Picked for t
I dont know, i think there is something in that. Im sure the people in labour hq are looking at john majors soapbox talk, i think it isa john majors soapbox talk, i think it is a backlash against the slickness. The trouble is there comes a point when in Dearing Dottie Nature becomes an image of incompetence. Tuesday night we were waiting for him and all his mps to attend a meeting of the plp, very important, do talk about the election, and he was an hour late because he was stuck on a train coming back from a constituency. You might say it shows hes a man of the people. Know, being late is tardy, whether you are left, right, whatever. On the front page of the telegraph we have theresa may in a similar sort of setting. She has gone to her constituency and she is surrounded by the party faithful. The criticism of her could be that this is her comfort zone and that she, for instance, doesnt want to be on she, for instance, doesnt want to beona she, for instance, doesnt want to be onatv sh
scrutiny. you have to wonder where the federal government was. why the prosecution in manhattan that started with michael cohen didn t go anywhere else, and why would the manhattan d.a. appears to have wrapped up these tax charge, haven t seemed to have elicited any interest from the irs. you know, the federal government doesn t usually prosecute behind a state case, but here the federal interest, the federal task crimes aren t vindicated by a state prosecution. you have to wonder whether there s a federal prosecution or whether the irs has simply decided it s not worth going after for whatever reason. that s so interesting, especially in light of the reporting about the irs spending a lot of time and money and human resources conducting what s known as an autopsy without the benefit of debt. that kind of audit. jim comey and andrew mccabe, 18 months apart. no time to look for their enforcement division to look