now. welcome to the beat, our top story is new developments right now in what s shaping up to be the case of the decade for trying to hold liars accountable with real swift justice. fox news on defense, facing over a billion dollars for punishment and lies, it served up and fed the insurrection. as you see here, top fox hosts have clearly been on team trump in public for a long time. we know that. we know sean hannity broke all journalistic rules of pretense by endorsing and publicly campaigning for trump. there s no court punishment for breaking that kind of rule. there just isn t. but there can be penalties for malicious lying, for defamation if you can prove the defendant acting knowingly, maliciously, intentionally. that s hard to prove and that difficult standard is deliberate, which is why this case has to turn on hard evidence, not asking whether hannity is biassed for trump, he is. but asking whether hannity knowingly and maliciously pushed lies that caused immeas
got it back. and our nbc news exclusive inside nasa s historic apollo mission control as america prepares to return to the moon this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening we are literally reading between the lines. the heavily redacted copy of the fbi s mar-a-lago search affidavit made public today, describing the whats but not the whos surrounding classified materials that were removed from the white house and taken to former president trump s florida estate, along with details of the fbi s month s long efforts to recover them and even references to information provided by a significant number of civilian witnesses. in its warrant application, the government saying it believed there were contraband, proofs of crime or other items illegally possessed at the trump estate after the fbi said after 15 boxes mr. trump returned to the national archives earlier this year, it discovered 184 classified items, including 25 top secret documents peter alexander has m
hours after a redacted copy of the affidavit was unsealed. it s not proof of the time, instead it represents the doj is believed that it has probable cause that a trump has been committed. trump s legal team filed a document late last night, to get a special master the editorial boards of major newspapers, the railway in. we ve got the new york times editorial saying donald trump is not above the law. the washington post editorial board says the trump affidavit shows the mar-a-lago search was hardly capricious. the wall street journal editorial board as, the mar-a-lago affidavit, is that all there is? a bit earlier today sheila jackson lee told msnbc have the classified documents in question could be a national security risk. when you think of the names of the sources of individuals who were securing important information through human deeds, human activities, if that was exposed, not only with these individuals be in jeopardy, where they snow in posted in countries aroun
and nowadays, you ve got something called a calculator, and these are just marvellous things. anybody that gets one of these, it does all the work for you. in other news. the investigation into the murder of nine year old olivia pratt korbel continues police are questioning a former drug dealer, who was the intended target of the attack. a think thank campaigning on behalf of low and middle income families has warned that a catastrophe is coming this winter , unless the government steps in to help with energy costs. search and rescue operations are under way in eastern ukraine, after russian missile strikes killed at least 20 people. and coming up this hour. we hear the remarkable story of the 66 year old man running inside a nine foot dragon costume in shropshire. good morning from denbigh high school in luton. we are here all day finding out how pupils at the school have got on in their gcses. like many others across their gcses. like many others across the country, tho
rain. this is what happened through the small hours, these thunderstorms developed to the south, pushed northwards. we ve seen around 5000 lightning strikes so far today and a lot of rain as you can see from the radar picture. in some places but not in all places. however, where it has been wet, take this figure, bury saint edmonds, above 70 millimetres of rain so far, that is more than that place would normally expect in the whole month of august, so it has been an exceptionally wet day so far but this rain is now starting to clear eastwards, taking a while to do so i have to say but generally improving through the midlands and eastern england this afternoon. sunny spells elsewhere although cloud bringing showers for northern ireland and western scotland and asked that rain clears through a fresh feel than we have had of late and certainly cooler and fresher overnight. with all the moisture on the ground, could see some fog patches developing across parts of the midlands and