it isa it is a fresh start for some of this morning. a day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest across scotland, northern england. wherever you are it will be blustery. details coming up later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 12thjuly. further allegations have been made against the unnamed bbc presenter who s been accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs. another young person has told bbc news they were sent abusive messages by the male star, while the sun newspaper claims the presenter broke covid restrictions to meet another individual he met on a dating site. charlotte gallagher has the latest. another day of damaging headlines for the bbc and a male presenter who is still unnamed. this morning s front page of the sun bbc star broke lockdown to meet another young stranger . this individual has told the newspaper the presenter travelled to another county to meet them in february 2021. this was during the third national lockdown. the sun says
an fbi form which senator grassley says includes the claim that a burisma executive has 17 recordings of meadings with the bidens discussing bribes for policy. could it reach president biden? that is also an open question today based on weiss s latest comment. but weiss is also arguing strongly that the doj did not impede his investigation into hunter biden. that is the that is not what the whistle-blower, gary shapley has claimed. he says he never saw an investigation that was so buried, so back burnered intentional as what he witnessed in the treatment of hunter biden. so who is telling the truth here? we re going to sort it out with shapley s attorney, mark lytle in moments. first to david spunt. good afternoon. a lot going on here. david weiss for the third time contradicted irs whistle-blower gary shapley. in his third letter to congress yesterday, he once again said that he was fully in charge of the investigation, he never asked for special counsel status and never
from his time as even a senator. but vice a sen, vice president w been made public. that report, it is beyond. e fae biden just tried to save face with the american publicwi. it was a shocking display of his cognitive decline. we re going to play those outrageous remarks in a minute. but let s lay out the details in this report. devastating, according to the report, quote, president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vicey when presidency when he was a private citizen. investigatore was s found classd documents, including notebooks from meetingsifieds regarding hy sensitive material on foreign policy and national security, sy security carelessly stored in what appears to b ie his garage. and while what the special counsel found about biden ss handling of classified documents was alarming , what itsays a says about his cognitive statebo is quite frankly, shocking. and by the way, it should have every single american concerned about the mental
discussing today but they said there is no investigation at this time. we can go straight to scotland yard and speak to our correspondent who was there for us now. what more can you tell us? i there for us now. what more can you tell us? ~ , there for us now. what more can you tellus? ~ , ., tell us? i think it s probably worth remindin: tell us? i think it s probably worth reminding our tell us? i think it s probably worth reminding our viewers tell us? i think it s probably worth reminding our viewers as - tell us? i think it s probably worth reminding our viewers as you - reminding our viewers as you mentioned, the allegation against the bbc presenter is that he paid a teenagerfrom the bbc presenter is that he paid a teenager from the the bbc presenter is that he paid a teenagerfrom the age the bbc presenter is that he paid a teenager from the age of 17 years old tens of thousands of pounds in exchange for explicit photographs. under the protection of children act, 1