they have been under way now for about 15 minutes. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team, it s goodnight. welcome back to bbc news and to downing street on a night where we ve seen resignations from two of borisjohnson s most senior ministers. we ll be talking through the big story here with our two guests and taking a brief look at how this story features on tomorrow s front pages. with me are benedicte paviot, who is the uk correspondent for france 2a, and ali miraj, columnist at the article. welcome to bbc news. i can remember we were sailing here a few weeks ago in downing street and isaac i sent you at the time, what you make of this, let me ask you the same question with a new development in borisjohnson s question with a new development in boris johnson s efforts question with a new development in borisjohnson s efforts to stay in power here in number
reports that attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before approving the warrant application. now, garland faces an even more daunting and consequential decision, that is whether to pursue criminal charges against the former president. now that decision is amplified as an fbi organization representative warns that growing calls for violence against law enforcement are, quote, real and imminent. the fbi investigating an unprecedented number of threats to bureau personnel and property in the wake of the court authorized search of mar-a-lago. also this morning, rudy giuliani firing back after prosecutors in georgia tell him that he is a target of the special grand jury there. we ll have more on that in a moment. let s begin this morning, here in washington, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz tracking all the latest developments. the justice department is making clear just how serious this investigation is. what do we know about where it sta
that we know of. take an amount from him that punishes him. take another amount that ensures that he never does this again. the real question is, will something like this verdict and up making people like alex jones and others, not do something like this again? $49 million award is coming, after sandy hook parents confronted alex jones on what his lies did to them. i can t describe the last night, or even the last nine and a half years that i and others have had to endure. because of the endangerment and the recklessness of alex jones. what was said about me, and sandy hook itself. it resonates from around the world. my life has been threatened. i fear for my life. i feel for my safety. joining me now, former fellow prosecutor, united states attorney, paul, from the database, who has been all over the story from the beginning. what is your response to this new, punitive damaging verdict that just came in? reporter: this is a smart award for the punitive damages. combi
could, in the end, be meaningless. according to reporting in politico reinhart carefully reviewed signing off and considers the affidavit to be reliable. judge reinhart also notes that donald trump s legal team has not at this point filed anything, anything at all in the legal battle over the affidavit that is despite their public demands that the affidavit be made public in all of their bluster and extreme rhetoric about a supposed lack of transparency from doj. rhetoric that, of course, has led to a surge in threats against doj and the fbi. team trump s total silence on the issue in court raises even more questions about what politico terms the throw everything against the wall response to the search itself. they write this. trump and his team have not yet settled on a single approach about what may come, in. trump has often used litigation to delay and has loathed to go on offense particularly when he s likely to lose. while it is unclear whether the former president or an