of their own to see if biden took anything after he left the vice presidency in 2017. joining us is mike memoli. good to have you. a mix of good news and bad news for the president. yeah, katy, for those who remember what happened in 2016, involving former secretary of state hillary clinton, the democratic nominee at the time for president, of course we remember there were no charges but a pretty damming report from the attorney general at the time, james comey. the initial top lines were reading of this report find a similar situation. that there are no charges recommending here against the president, but some damming details, including statement that he willfully retained documents after leaving office. the point you highlighted about how the special counsel and his team found their interviews with the president in which he, as it was put, his memory was significantly limited, are certainly going to be weaponized by the president s opponents. we also see an interesting mo
An audit exit if this is put in charge of this years climate complement. And a look at whats happening in the front line town of soledar as russia and ukraine fight for control. Welcome to the programme. We start with the controversy in washington. The white house has confirmed that a second set of classified documents has been found in the garage of President Biden s home in delaware. Its thought the documents are linked to Barack Obamas time in the white house Whenjoe Biden was Vice President. And in the last half hour, us Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of Special Counsel to investigate joe biden s handling of the documents. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters and to Making Decisions guided only by the facts and the law. Heres what the us president told reporters a little earlier. As i said earlier this week, and by the way my corvette in a locked garage
let s remind us of the events that led us to where we are today. richard sharp was appointed chairman of the bbc in february 2021. at the start of this year the sunday times reported he was accused by a group of mps for failing to declare his involvement in securing an £800,000 loan for mrjohnsonjust involvement in securing an £800,000 loan for mrjohnson just before he recommended mr sharp for the bbc job. there was discussion of his listenership with eventbrite minister and there was added pressure for him to resign amid the gary lineker impartiality row last month. mr sharp denies any wrongdoing. as i mentioned, started in the sunday times and we are going live to the whitehall editor at the sunday times. gabriel, quite a skip on quite a conclusion. what is your reaction? i on quite a conclusion. what is your reaction? ~ ., . on quite a conclusion. what is your reaction? ~ . . ., , reaction? i think, in a way, it has codified and reaction? i think, in a way, it has co
conversation with the cabinet secretary on the lith of september 2020, i reminded him of the fact that i was in the bbc appointment process i believe as a result of the conversation that i had been removed from any conflict or perception of conflict. i understood this refusal to be absolute. this was my error. and my subsequent interview with the appointments panel i wish with the benefit of hindsight this potential perceived conflict of interest is something i consider to mention. i would like once again to apologise for that oversight, inadvertent or was and for the destruction of these events have caused the bbc. 50 that is richard sharp events have caused the bbc. 50 that is richard sharp speaking events have caused the bbc. so that is richard sharp speaking earlier - is richard sharp speaking earlier today. he says he will stay in post until the end ofjune by which time as accessible or been appointed. how did the bbc end up in this situation? richard sharp was appoi
every member of the committee, regardless of democrat or republican, were unanimous many that in that this position that we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates thatst okay for us to get briefed is not going to stand. maria: coming up, texas senator ted cruz on his calls for a hearing on what exactly is in those documents amid new questions about the so-called biden records, that s 1,850 boxes of records that joe biden donated to the university of delaware can. why is the university withholding the so-called gift agreement of the mystery funder of maintaining those documents? and did the money come from china after the ccp sent $50 million plus to the university of pennsylvania and was able to get penn to lobby for the china initiative investigation to get shut down as oversight committee chairman james comer told me recently. we i now learn that the university of penn successfully lobbied the fbi to drop their china initiative which was an inves