my saturday morning weekly program is approaching its tenth year here on cnn. thank you for that. i can this a great privilege. i m grate ful for all the regulr viewers. a quick story. back in 2006 after i was appearing regularly on cnn as a legal guest, the network told me they liked my work but didn t know what to do with me. do you have any ideas, i was asked. i do. i think the network brass were surprise d when i pitched my idea. hosting a weekly book club. i envisioned an entertainment show featuring author interviews and discussion of the best in journalism. the network was intrigued and decided to go ahead and order a pilot. we filmed it beginning with me back at home on market street in philadelphia. i remember being so nervous and having to do many, many takes. headlines plucked from today s newspaper. when you add in drama, when you add in a wisecracking whip, when you add in a sexy, smart love interest, then you can gentlien transition from the hard news to the h
and disregard them, the jury, as subjected to them, may not. the court shall not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which trump inject politics into this proceeding. jack smith then kicks off a highlight reel of trump s favorite spurious arguments, things like, trump, quotes complaints about the jury indictment and the trial date will interfere with his political activities. or trump s quote, false accusation was directed at the former president. jack smith also takes issue with some of the trump s favorite catch phrases like the injustice department or biden indictment. all of it, jack smith says, would taint a jury pool. quote, the in addition t being wrong, these allegations are irrelevant to the jury s determination of the defendant s guilt or innocence. it would be prejudicial if presented to the jury. put another way, the trump defense was, quote, repeatedly used rhetoric that made the acceptable on the campaign but not on the trial. make no mi
world tour have agreed to a shock merger with the saudi backed liv golf. this comes despite the pending litigation between pga and liv. that will now be halted as they move forward as part of the same enterprise. over the past year liv golf caused huge disruption in the men s game, with top players such as rory mcllroy and tiger woods boldly criticising it. but other players such as brooks koepka joined liv golf for large sums with the backing of the saudi arabia public investment fund. the bbc s golf correspondent iain carter believes it is the big investment being offered that has made this deal possible. players can get along fine when they are playing for the biggest prizes. money is the massive driver here, the likes of rory mcilroy and the establishment from the live setup, they used to be west friends. michael roy was a groomsmen at garcia s wedding. they now do not speak. but that sort of thing will be shoved to one side. what we wait to see is what shape men s golf t