Federal investigation. The doj is pointing a special council. Republicans say this is not aimed at seeking justice. The Senior National correspondent kevin corke is live in d. C. With the breaking details on this. Good evening, david weiss is the man. The very same same david weiss who says Congressional Republicans attempted to paint a Sweetheart Deal for hunter biden, despite possible or some would say obvious violations. That david weiss is leading an escalation into hunter biden. His title became special council today. His powers were the same yesterday. Whats different . It does not make any difference to us given what we understood to be the case. Critics argued weiss should not have been named Special Counsel citing this as section 6. 3 in the doj regulations. A Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States government. This is a political decision, not a legal decision. Theyre trying to put out a fire, and they just poured gasoline on it. Nobody in their right
Voiceover this is bbc news. We will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. As an art critic and ajournalist, ifeel like a very lucky man indeed, because i get to spend tonnes of time inside museums, places ive loved ever since i was a boy. And during my working life, ive witnessed something astonishing how radically theyve changed. The days of museums as grand, intimidating treasuries for dusty objects are long gone. Theyre becoming much more dynamic and inclusive places less solemn, less elitist, and less west centric too. Museums, i believe, are really having a moment, and thats what i want to explore. This is amazing. So this is his studio. I can walk around, can i . He was painting the orient within the orient. When you see my work, you can easily link the concepts, lets say, or the technique, anything from them, as inspiring. I think thats rather wonderful. Im in istanbul, that great, entrancing, ancient megalopolis, once the cap
On tuesday. The results are coming in from the president ial race to the top two vote getters in the race to fill the open, u. S. Senate seat right here in california. I want this u. S. Senatorc jo, and i want to do the job for you because you deserve it, because youre a great california. You helped us build the biggest Grassroots Campaign for senate in california history, and i cannot thank you enough. It is official. Congressman adam schiff will advance to the general election against political newcomer steve garvey in the race to fill the senate seat once held by the late Dianne Feinstein. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im julie julie haener. Lets get right to the latest numbers newsroom tonight. Right now, as you can see, democrat adam schiff has 36e of the vote, while republican steve garvey has 29 of the vote. They are the top two vote getters, congresswoman barbara lee have m coverage of the California Senate race. Ktvu Cristina Rendon is standing by live in oakland,
Today we have the privilege of being joined by marie arana, the author of this new book, latinoland latinos a portrait of americas largest and least understood minority. So its a fantastic book that hes just coming out with simon and schuster, and were going to be discussing it today. Is that is a thick book find full of exciting stories new information overviews of the different latino populations that live in the United States of america. So we are not going to be able to cover it all today. But i want to scratch the surface and ask some questions to the author about this fascinating new book. So, first of all, congratulations, mary, on on this great endeavor, these great, accomplished. And i have enjoyed very much reading the book. Its very accessible, very easy to read. Its hard to stop reading a page turner so that it might be accomplished because it also goes over a lot of history, demographics, facts, definitions in a way that is very illuminating for for scholars, students and
There, shes hiding in the second row. David 16 books, this does not include the two that were written as fiction. It does. Ups, my bad. 16 previous, books including the tangle tree, that some of the dodo, the reluctant mr. Darwin, and spillover, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award, and earth at the end of the market prize. He has written for the new yorker, harpers magazine, the atlantic, national geographic, and outside. Among other magazines, and is a threetime winner of the National Magazine award. He shares a home and boozman, montana. With his wife, author of american zion. With two russian wolf hounds, across ive cat, and a rescue python. We wont hold that against. You give a warm, savannah welcome, to david quammen. Thank, you, nancy thank you all. Nancy does not like snakes. But that is okay. We talked about that, we talked through the, up next, spiders, everybody has their boundaries. Thank you so much, bob and, diane thank you nancy, thank you savannah book