remains rock solid. in his brief visit to london en route to lithuania the president called in on the king at windsor and then on number 10. we will dig into what the purpose of that visit might have been. yevgeny prighozin led a mutiny on moscow two weeks ago. five days later he and his wagner generals were sitting in a meeting with vladimir putin. what was discussed, what does it mean for their future role in ukraine. and deep sea mining returns a two year moratorium comes to an end. why do we to go hunting beneath the waves, and what danger could that pose to pristine deep water habitats. our panel tonight is the former head of the russia desk at mi6 christopher steele and media law expert, david banks we are going to start with those allegations made on friday evening that a bbc presenter paid a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit images. the young person, now aged 20, is being represented by a lawyer who has issued a statement in the last few h
day. we expect to hear two live witnesses that day, caroline edwards one of the first to respond to the attack. she was injured that day, as well as the documentaryian who was embedded with the mailitia group, the proud boys. they have been diving deep into this topic, and promising a lot. manu, tonight is just the first of several hearings in 2022. what can we expect in the days and weeks to come? we expect this month to be filled with hearings. two are expected next week. as far as additional ones through the course of this month, all of which leading up to a report that will come out later this year, probably before the midterm elections, detailing what this committee found. tonight will be the beginning of that effort to detail what they found leading to that report, as they try to complete this investigation in the coming months. all right, thanks so much. joining us now is a member of the house committee investigating the january 6th riots. congresswoman elaine lo
now the people at the center of them are begging and pleading with their elected leaders to do something and do something now. a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has been trying to strike a narrow, modest deal on gun reforms, one of the lead negotiators telling me in the last hour he is cautiously optimistic that they can get something done. despite ongoing talks on capitol hill today, it is still legal in most states for an 18-year-old to buy a semiautomatic weapon. josh campbell went to a gun range to show us just what such a weapon can do. they are known as assault style weapons. and have been used in some of the country s deadliest shootings. from uvalde, tulsa, and el paso, to parkland, san bernardino, and sandy hook, it has been the weapon of choice for many of the killers. line is hot. the los angeles police department demonstrates an ar-style semiautomatic rifle for us on the department s gun range. you have a 16-inch to 20-inch barrel. you have a stock that
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat are ari melber starts roelgt now on this today. our top story a beat special report about trump s criminal enterprises, how we got here and why it matters. to put it simply there s a key link between this new conviction of trump, the person, and the legal accountability for trump s organizations, which have long been found criminal in our legal system. so let s begin with these two realities. first last week s news and then the news that has dogged trump s organizations for years. there are guilty verdicts. we are looking at count one guilty, count two guilty. count three guilty. we re hearing guilty on one through five. starting on count six. count six guilty. count seven guilty. count eight guilty. count 27 guilty, count 34, guilty. the unanimous jury verdict unanimous on all counts. that is trump s guilt. then there s his top aides across many ye
crime at the intersection of his campaign and business activities comes after all these convictions of campaign and business aides. so after years where people did fairly know that trump himself had not been convicted and was legally presumed in the in many open cases, we are now in this new terrain. and there s been so much criming and misconduct it would be easy to lose sight of that important context. the legal system has showed this isn t where a lawyer had bad judgment it could be a ceo in the 60s and had an employee convicted of crimes and yet the i.e. didn t know about them. here s the difference now. the courts has determined this is not like that. this follows the convictions of key leaders and operators in