been diagnosed with cancer and is postponing public duties. he left the hospital a week ago after treatment for an enlarged prostate. joining us is nbc s molly hunter. i understand the palace has just released a statement. what are they saying? chris, that s right. we just got the statement. i m just reading it for the first time as well. the big thing to understand, as you know, we covered the king s health scare last week which was really presented as a routine procedure. he was only in the hospital for three nights. he was in the london clinic right here in central london. right now we have the statement from buckingham palace. it says during the king s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement of owes that s what we knew. we knew he had gone into the hospital for what he and the palace called a routine procedure. a separate issue of concern was noted. subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer. this is coming directly from buckingham pa
also on the programme an injured rafael nadal withdraws from wimbledon, missing an opportunity to achieve a new grand slam record. and the american actorjames caan best known for playing the gangster sonny corleone in the godfather has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to the programme. borisjohnson is no longer leader of the conservative party, but he s still british prime minister following an extraordinary day at westminster. shortly after 12.30pm this afternoon, he walked out of the door of number 10 to confirm he will resign as tory leader and that he intends to stay in charge until a successor is chosen. many of his colleagues, along with opposition parties, are deeply unhappy with that and have called on him to go immediately. remember, this time yesterday, mrjohnson was insisting he would not stand down. but after the avalanche of resignations over the past 48 hours, today, everything changed. our political editor chris mason begins our coverage. at bre
Crossexamination for Stormy Daniels, perhaps at the defendants behest whether or not it helped his case. And after the jury left to defense motions, one, to modify the gag order for that, mr. Trump is under to allow him to talk about Stormy Daniels the other asking for a mistrial for the second time this week judge, juan merchan denying the Gag Order Motion saying and i quote, your clients track record speaks for itself. He also denied the Mistrial Motion, which the defense had based on what it claimed was prejudicial testimony by Stormy Daniels about sex with mr. Trump. The judge said the defense brought it on themselves by denying a sexual encounter or had taken place meaning he said that the jury needed to be able to determine whether to believe her or the defense he also sculpted the defense for not objecting to items they were now citing as grounds for a mistrial. Prosecutors meantime, said they will not be calling the other woman who is alleging an affair with the former presiden
All right. Thank you so much im going to let your husband know your birthday present. Thats right thanks so much to all of you for being with us. We appreciate it. Its time for anderson good evening. Welcome to our continuing special problems on coverage of the trump at new york Hush Money Trial De 40 ten. So im prosecutor focus or for current bookkeeper a former white house staffer on how closely their boss wants to every dollar, including far smaller sums and his Jackson Michael cohen, also day two of crossexamination for Stormy Daniels, perhaps at the defendants behest, whether or not it helped his case. And after the jury left to defense motions, one, to modify by the gag order that mr. Trump is under to allow them to talk about Stormy Daniels the other asking for a mistrial for the second time this week, John Juan Merchan denying the Gag Order Motion saying and i quote, your clients track record speaks for itself. He also denied the Mistrial Motion, which the defense had based on