but i m a former minister for safeguarding, and i worked for 20 years in the criminal justice system. and so in all of this and in our conversations about it, we have to remember that there is a person, a young person at the centre of this. the bbc do need to speed up their processes. it looks like that these issues were raised in may and we re now injuly and the presenter stayed on air. that s not good enough. the culture secretary held talks with the director general, tim davie soon after and came away apparently reassured that the bbc is investigating swiftly and sensitively and should, she said, be given space to establish the facts and take action because these are just allegations, they may not be true. this is reputationally damaging for the bbc, which still has questions to answer, not least in terms of what exactly it did in may after the families complaint and whether it knew at that point that potential criminality might be involved. how many attempts were made to contact th
and in our conversations about it, we have to remember that there is a person, a young person at the centre of this. the bbc do need to speed up their processes. it looks like that these issues were raised in may and we re now injuly and the presenter stayed on air. that s not good enough. the culture secretary held talks with the director general, tim davie soon after and came away apparently reassured that the bbc is investigating swiftly and sensitively and should, she said, be given space to establish the facts and take action because these are just allegations, they may not be true. this is reputationally damaging for the bbc, which still has questions to answer, not least in terms of what exactly it did in may after the families complaint and whether it knew at that point that potential criminality might be involved. how many attempts were made to contact the family after they complained 7 was the presenter interviewed and should he have been taken off air? tonight the metropolit
has questions to answer, not least in terms of what exactly did in may after the family s complaint and whether it knew at that point that potential criminality might be involved. how many attempts were made to contact the family after they complained 7 was the presenter interviewed, and should he have been taken off air? tonight the metropolitan police told bbc news that it has received initial contact from the bbc, but that no formal referral or allegation has been made. it will, it says, require additional information before determining what further action should follow. the bbc has said it expects to be able to provide a further update on this story in the coming days. but as a publicly funded corporation it depends on trust. trust that is earned. the bbc has faced a series of crises in recent months. for some its reputation is already tarnished. we can only fullyjudge how damaging this latest crisis will be when the full facts of the story are known. let s take stock of where we a
was not covered by the republicans today, the fact that the multiple probes by doj taking place at this moment into trump s conduct are examining an unprecedented violent, deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol. as well as a months-long effort by the ex-president to resist handing over some of the country s most sensitive intelligence secrets. and that even the probe launch bid trump s hand-picked a.g. bill barr to investigate the investigators didn t just come up with nothing, it actually uncovered more evidence of potential criminality on the part of the ex-president, donald trump. it was left to democrat to make these points. here s congressman jamie raskin doing just that, with a stunning takeover about who is really trying to weaponize doj. trump and his obliging attorney generals like sessions and barr, repeatedly pressured career prosecutors to go hard or go soft in particular cases, always seeking to reward trump s
further down the road of investigation. that s where the end of investigation, as they, said we intended to join those charges with the more consequential charges that we hope to bring, regarding the years of false financials. i heard that there were at least nine different criminal areas inquiry, about potential criminality, the da s office was looking into, at the time that you joined. he said one of them was the hush money payment to stormy daniels, another newest taxes, improper business in his relationship with deutsche bank, could you have defrauded on by getting financing. he overstated financial statements. whether he had engaged in money laundering through deutsche bank, using overseas bank accounts. the accuracy of the materials you put supplied to the gsa about the old post office. and a host of other things, including insurance fraud, the