told the f.b.i. had been watching him for days but then the f.b.i. was forced into action when the media published his name. he is 21 years old. joined the national guard in 2019. he held the highest level security clearance granted by the u.s. government and he now faces charges under the espionage act. dana: new york post headlines geeky leaks. why the military entrusted this information to a 21-year-old guardsman? the pentagon defending its protocol. it was a deliberate criminal act. violation of the guidelines. you receive training and you will receive an understanding of the rules and requirements that come along with those responsibilities and you are expected to abide by those rules, regulations and responsibility called military discipline. bill: reaction, john ratcliffe. peter doocy and we begin in boston with alexis mcadams. good morning from boston. we expect the suspected libellinger in court for the first time in a federal courthouse in boston and hea
watch. murdaugh spent hours, as trace pointed out, on the stand answering questions about his opioid addiction, his finances, stealing millions from clients, even being disbarred, but he denied he was desperate enough to kill. did you shoot a 300 black out into her head, causing her de death? i didn t shoot my wife or my son any time, ever. the disgrace south carolina lawyer on trial for allegedly killing 52-year-old maggie murdaugh in their 22-year-old son, paul, or paw-paw, as he kept coming in for some reason, back into a 21. murdaugh admitted to lying to cops about being at the estate kennels earlier in the evening on june 7th, the day the bodies were later found. i lied about being down th there. and i m so sorry that i did. most of all, i m sorry to mags and paw-paw. i would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. boy, it does not look good for him. he also said that he initially lied about being at the dog kennels because of his years lon
any safety risks because there was an urgency here. this balloon is not armed, it does not pose some physical threat to the united states, even from an intelligence perspective. the chinese have much more effective ways of picking up intelligence from the satellites and otherwise. the fact that the president said what he said about taking care of it. now we have the physical fact that the balloon is heading towards the atlantic. these airports in north and south carolina are being closed for the moment. it does seem to set the stage and present an opportunity to have this shot down. it is really not a reversal. i think they ve been preparing for this and contingency planning. once it is not overland, it changes the calculus. general, weigh in for me if you will, you heard the presidents words there, we are going to take care of this. from your estimation, what is taking care of this look like and what are the risks and calculations going into that decision? i think what
welcome to bbc news. let s return to events in florida. if in showing you pictures for the last while. the open because we are expecting in the next few moments if we are following the time schedule laid out by the former president to see donald trump leave the building and head to the airport and then begin the journey to new york. that is where of course all the focus is going to be with that indictment, those court proceedings, for the first time ever a former president has faced a criminal prosecution and those details of that criminal prosecution, they will be made public tomorrow. but we know of the indictment in terms of the actual charges and the detail, we will learn a lot more as that is laid out in court tomorrow. today we will see the former president make that move. there is still no actual clarity of perhaps what we will get tomorrow, the optics, whether we get a mug shot of the former president, whether cameras will be allowed in the courtroom for the list of c
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the us where one of the most highly anticipated defamation trials began and ended just as quickly. with the jury already selected media giant fox news settled with dominion voting systems, for $787 million. the issue at heart of the case was whether fox news was liable for airing the false claims that dominion s ballot counting machines were used to manipulate the 2020 election in favor ofjoe biden over then president donald trump. one of dominion s lawyers, justin nelson and ceo james poulos spoke after the settlement. the truth matters. lies have consequences. over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories, causing grievous harm to dominion in the country. grievous harm to dominion in the country- the country. admitted to tellinu the country. admitted to telli