Several investigations into corruption close to the u. S. President s in a circle today and seeing an indictment charging love parness igor froman in october last year he announced charges against 2 men linked to Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani they were accused of trying to buy influence of u. S. Policy in ukraine and a case that added fuel to the calls for trumps impeachment they saw political influence not only to advance their own financial interests but to advance the political interests of at least one foreign official. These cases and an investigation into giuliani have concern to the trumpet ministration on friday night attorney general william announced berman was leaving his position saying that the president intends to nominate jay clayton the current chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission a lawyer with no experience as a prosecutor statement ending by thanking Jeffrey Berman describing him as stepping down after 2 and a half years of service the only
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Bidding farewell to its late leader a state funeral is being held for the president here. And joining us roscoe with the sports. Fans celebrate as a whole takes the English Premier League title for the 1st time in 30 years when they were scrabble set up in the race for the crown. To start this news in iraq where the Security Officials there have raided a base belonging to an iranian backed armed group 10 rockets were seized and at least 13 members of hezbollah were detained including its commanders the groups fighters and are demanding their release lets go straight to baghdad where correspondent Simona Fulton is standing by for us so mona can you walk us through just what happened here. Well last night the Iraq Counterterrorism forces received an order from the Prime Minister to carry out a raid on one of the basis of. A southern neighborhood of baghdad they detained at least 13 people and seized 10 rockets and this operation was according to my sources in an effort to prevent an impe
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Investigation now the statement does tread quite carefully it doesnt name the group that these individuals belong to but our sources have told us that all of these 14 members are in fact members of the. Hezbollah which is part of the Popular Mobilization forces and that it was actually their base that was raided now and the other interesting thing that is in this statement it does confirm that these individuals were arrested after obtaining an arrest warrant from the iraqi judicial reduce was not initially cleared and was definitely an order from the Prime Minister to carry out this raid but then subsequently we saw dozens of armed fighters arrive in the 45 green zone and protest against the detention of those individuals claiming that it was unlawful that there were no arrest warrants and that in fact that iraq account to secure Counterterrorism Forces had illegally raided a base that belongs to the Iraqi Security forces so this statement does confirm that there was an arrest warrant