evening. hi kevin. former president trump has been posting an avalanche of attacks on his truth social today criticizing president biden, the fbi and ripping special counsel jack smith, who led the investigation. donald trump writing about smith quote this is a man who caused the lowest catastrophe with the irs, one of the evangelicals and great americans of faith. the us had to apologize and pay major damages for the deranged lunatic did. his wife is a tramp hater just as he is a trump heater. a deranged cycle that shouldn t be involved in any case having to do with justice. earlier today special counsel jack smith, formally enough the 37 counts against trump. the laws that protect national defense information, are critical for the safety and security of the united states, and they must be enforced. violations of those laws put our country at risk. today, prosecutors unsealed the indictment against former president trump. alleges he intentionally stored hundreds of cla
live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on the programme. we ll bring you two first half goals from anfield as liverpool and arsenal fight it out to be top of the premier league at christmas. another day to forget for manchester united as west ham pile the pressure on erik ten hag. bath go top of the gallagher premiership with a bonus point win over harlequins. also coming up on the programme tonight. can anthonyjoshua deliver tonight, as his journey on the road to redemption and potentially fighting deontay wilder continues? of fighting deontay wilder continues? course i am ter to of course i am tense because i want to perform, i want to win. i ve got that urge to win and i want to hurt my opponent as well. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. there were high hopes of a christmas cracker at anfield where liverpool and arsenal are fighting it out for top spot in the premier league. with the second half about to get underway, it s i i. the opening goal came afterjust thre
tonight it s 11:00 here on the east coast. 8:00 on the west coast. breaking tonight, more fallout tonight over the colorado supreme court decision to keep donald trump off the 2024 ballot l. more states follow suit? the former president is also fundraising off the ruling. it even had his republican primary opponents speaking out in his defense. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live in los angeles where that case goes from here. good evening, jonathan. donald trump might be angry over his legal challenges but the flip side of that for the former president is the old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity and today everyone was indeed talking trump. as we wait to see whether his legal team asks the supreme court to overturn the colorado court decision, that because he encouraged insurrection he s constitutionally ineligible to be on the ballot, president biden weighed in, all bee it in measured fashion. however, the 14th amendment, let the court make that de
in colorado, now everyone s asking what will happen next. tonight on laura coates live. how can i put this, tonight is politically surreal. donald trump, the 45th president of the united states, the current republican front runner, campaigning right now as we speak to be reelected, hoping to sit right back down at that resolute desk while the colorado supreme court saying tonight, you are going to have to do it in 49 states because colorado is not one. why? because they say that he engaged in an insurrection on january six, and as a result they say the 14th amendment say that he is now disqualified from the ballot, and from being the president of the united states. now, here is what the 14th amendment actually says. it says, no person shall hold any office, who have previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the united states, shall have engaged in insurrection, rebellion, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. sound familiar? i bet it does. because yo
the release includes infamous former defence contractor leonard glenn francis known as fat leonard. he s at the center of one of the us navy s largest corruption cases. in exchange the us has freed alex saab, an aide and top ally to venezuela s president nicolas maduro, accused of laundering money on behalf of the maduro government, which he denies. mr maduro is also releasing 20 venezuelan political prisoners. it s all part of the biden administration s efforts to improve relations with venezuela, and push mr maduro to hold fair elections next year. earlier, i spoke with our reporter mimi swaby about the deal. president byers was emphasising that this was all about encouraging venezuela to hold free and fair elections. how much leveraged you think the biden administration has in that regard? this is yet another sign of significant flowing between relations between the us and venezuela after months of really high level negotiations. this comes as biden is grappling with a