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now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. sport is a massive global business, and the best athletes in the most popular sports earn mind boggling sums of money. but even they struggle to compete with the off field earning power of the promoters and agents, who wield enormous power behind the scenes. my guest is the veteran promoter barry hearn, who made his name in snooker and boxing and built a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars. has money spoiled sport? barry hearn, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s a pleasure to be here. well, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. you have spent a life in sport. was it all about business for you? no, i mean, it started off, and still remains to this day, a question of passion. making money is, you know, not easy sometimes, but you have a chance to do whateverjob you want to do in life. i suppose with me, i started off wanting to be a great sportsman, but then found out i didn t really have ....
welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. sport is a massive global business, and the best athletes in the most popular sports earn mind boggling sums of money. but even they struggle to compete with the off field earning power of the promoters and agents, who wield enormous power behind the scenes. my guest is the veteran promoter barry hearn, who made his name in snooker and boxing, and built a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars. has money spoiled sport? barry hearn, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s a pleasure to be here. well, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. you have spent a life in sport. was it all about business for you? no, i mean, it started off and still remains to this day a question of passion. making money is, you know, not easy sometimes, but you have a chance to do whateverjob you want to do in life. i suppose with me, i started off wanting to be a great sportsman, but then found out i didn t really have the ability. so next best th ....
garland appointed a special prosecutor to look into it. well, today we got the results of the investigation in a report. the special counsel will not seek criminal charges against president biden. so if you re in a fantasy league for presidential indictments, it s still, trump, 91. every other president ever, 0. you got that? clean that up. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 9th. good to have joe, willie and me here together. along with us, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg. and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is with us this morning. we have a lot going on. we ll start with the special counsel investigating president biden for his handling of classified documents will not bring charges against the president. that s the conclusion. he wrote in the report ....
when the house has enough votes to pass it. this is what they are doing with their time. deputy managing editor of politics at politico paul stein, octer of the book how the right lost its mind charlie sykes, good morning to talk about that book this morning. and our capitol hillpi correspondent julie tsirkin is with uses as well. good to have you all. julie, tell us what happened? you guys saw it. i m glad you went back to watch c span. we were all glued to it last night. it was stunning and a bad week for republican leadership not only in the house but in the senate. this was absolutely stunning on the floor. speaker mike johnson and his leadership team spent a long time on the floor trying to pressure mike gallagher to vote for impeaching alejandro mayorkas. he said he would not thchlt you had the same pressure on mike buck who is retiring from congress. he doesn t have any to go with this because he said that the impeachment doesn t rise to the level of high cr ....
democrats controlling the senate chamber. although this hour, counteroffer for a hostage deal from the terrorist group hamas, which is calling for complete cease-fire. i m going to get the reaction from the father of nine-year- old emily hand. she spent nearly 2 months in hamas captivity. leading this hour, the major ruling earlier today for a three-judge appeals court panel agreeing that donald trump is not immune from prosecution for alleged crimes he may have committed when he was president, getting trump s team until end february 12, monday, to file emergency action with the u.s. supreme court if they want to afield. let s get straight to cnn s caitlin collins. this was more than just a denial of donald trump s legal arguments. it was the judge s unanimously rejecting and repudiating donald trump s actions around january 6. yeah, they said it could be criminal. jake, they noted all this is what laid out in the indictment from jack smith so they used the words alle ....