Jim, i m absolutely delighted to have you on the programme, not least because when your story broke, i was making a lot of calls trying to find out exactly what the story was. And now we ve got you. You ve got your eyes on a document from a probate court in nevada. Just tell us what it contains. Thank you for having me. Extraordinarily, this document indicated that for some time, many months at least, rupert murdoch has been locked in a court battle with three of his four eldest children over the future of his empire, and it involves a change to his trust, the family trust, and who will control the empire after rupert s death. And it s just straight out of the show, succession, just like everything a scriptwriter would dream of. Absolutely. And i have to say, when i heard about it, i thought, my goodness! this has been going on, i think, for several months, many months, and yet certainly from my end as a media editor of bbc news, i had not had one whiff of this. Was it totally new info
Who broke the story. Jim, i m absolutely delighted to have you on the programme, not least because when your story broke, i was making a lot of calls trying to find out exactly what the story was. And now we ve got you. You ve got your eyes on a document from a probate court in nevada. Just tell us what it contains. Thank you for having me. Extraordinarily, this document indicated that for some time, many months at least, rupert murdoch has been locked in a court battle with three of his four eldest children over the future of his empire, and it involves a change to his trust, the family trust, and who will control the empire after rupert s death. And it s just straight out of the show succession, just like everything a scriptwriter would dream of. Absolutely. And i have to say, when i heard about it, i thought, my goodness! this has been going on, i think, for several months, many months, and yet certainly from my end as a media editor of bbc news, i had not had one whiff of this. Was
Replace him? it s way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early. The show that gives us answers in the form of a question. I m jonathan lemire on this thursday, august 12th. We ll start with the news. Today the fda is expected to approve covid19 booster shots for people with weakened immune systems. It comes as covid cases surge across the country, including a growing number of pediatric patients. Morgan chesky has the latest. Reporter: as covid cases surge yet again the fda looks to speed up the time line for booster shots. They ll look at a shot for pfizer and moderna boosters. Unvaccinated patients filling up hospitals as schools face push back over mask mandates. I m not willing to play russian roulette with someone s life like that. Reporter: the delta driven surge, in pennsylvania up 120%, in tennessee 40%. One in four new cases are kids under 17. Now we re seeing more kids who are symptomatic and more kids being hospitalized due to the delta variant. Reporter
Trump s reward, the big lie, the former president is giving greg abbott a resounding endorsement for pushing the voter law in the united states. Trump writes and i quote him greg abbott is a fighter and a great governor for the incredible people of texas and is all in on election integrity. Grant new power to party and poll watchers and cut back sunday morning voting which happens to be when many black church goers head to the polls. The entire motivation around this law and why this is happening now is trump s lie. Listen to the texas republican who s guiding this bill through the texas house. The constitution commands the legislature to pass legislation and punish fraud and preserve the ballot box. See here is the thing. This only works if your premise is a lie and fraud. Here is the republican secretary of state from texas and her top department talking about the election. Despite the challenges presented by covid19, this election was a resounding success. Despite of all the circums
I m not going to make the obvious joke right now. Thank you, my friend, much appreciated. Thank you at home for joining us this hour. It was november 12th, last year, november 12th, 2020. Election day had been a week and a half earlier, november 3rd, and we all know how that resolved. November 3rd was election day. By november 7th, every major news outlet had called the presidential race for joe biden. Presidentelect biden and vice presidentelect harris gave their acceptance speeches on the night of november 7. On november 12, five days after that, the level of desperation from trump supporters who really did not want to believe this had happened, it was kicking up a new notches every day. By november 12th, things got publicly quite weird. At almost a new level quite quickly. Republican governor gohmert participated in an election integrity event. That happened on facebook. They brought to bat all their best stories, all their best fantasies about what had really happened that showed t