and today s judges put a hold on their own ruling to give his lawyers time to file an appeal. it comes as the select committee heard from four important witnesses today. that would be john eastman, author of the memo used to try and convince mike pence to toss out the election results. that would be former trump cyber security czar chris krebs, who publicly disputed the big lie, famously said at the time that our presidential election had been free and fair. former pentagon official, kash patel, also ali alexander who organized stop the steal rallies after the 2020 election. he happened to meet with the committee today for eight hours. it was really just important to me as a man of faith and a man of peace to have come here and say, stop the steal held 500 rallies in all 50 states in the union, and not one turned violent. alexander also denies his group had anything to do with the violence at the capitol. the committee vice chair, liz cheney, said today the committee s ap
heard around the world. you got david weiss as special counsel in the probe of special biden s son, hunter. upon considering his request, i have concluded that it is in the public s interest to appoint him as special counsel. this confirms my commitment to provide mr. weiss awesome the resources he requests. it reaffirms that mr. weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently. based only on the facts and the law. let s break it down. david weiss is the same prosecutor who cooked up the original sweetheart deal that hunter kind of blew up, a judge kind of blew it up as we take a closer look. they realized it is ridiculous and it does not involve of his bus business dealings. so, as for the big guys involvement in the new hunter s special counsel. the doj is declining to comment on whether president biden is under investigation. for now, we ll have to take joe as his words that he never
my baby and 12-year-old who actually liked having the home. my husband, it s great to be back the beat with ari starts right now. welcome back, we missed you. i missed you too, my friend. i have two thoughts. one of them, it s weird. when you are gone, no news, no developments. you picked a good time. i m not sure if you know that. no. really? i did not watch a second. i did not watch a frame of news . mike was on one night and i didn t know what they were talking about, i ve turned it off. it s like turning on work. i had this anxiety that i would have no idea what was happening, and i came in and we are talking about russia, disinformation, talking about trump threatening juries, here we go again. we are back. that s the other thing i was going to ask you. within whatever you feel like sharing, because people have their own lives, but how are you feeling? do you have any great pieces, insight, feelings about stepping away, have you been? it was magical. i
will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid 19 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraine s big counteroffensive. it s another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every day seems to bring new complexities and new horrors. but how are people in moscow reacting to the way the war is going? the bbc s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg has lived and worked in the country for 30 years. things have not been going well for russia. you know, there were those explosions over the kremlin the beginning of may. there have been drone attacks on russian regions bordering
hello and welcome to the bbc s headquarters here in central london for another edition of unspun world. this week, what s it like for a journalist to be treated like an enemy in moscow? as relations deteriorate between russia and the uk and russia and the west, and just when you think they can t get any worse, they get worse. you know, that makes it difficult. the civil war in myanmar, something the outside world seems completely unaware of. it really is a david and goliath war here, when you re seeing drones versus russianjets. so if they do win, it will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid i9 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now- who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny- the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility- that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could