announcement that he appointed a special counsel to investigate hunter biden was like a really bad practical joke. here today to announce the appointment of david weiss as a special counsel consistent with the department of justice regulations governs such matters. in keeping with those regulations, i have today notified the designated members of each house of congress of the appointment. laura: yes, that s the same david weiss who tried to give hunter that sweetheart plea deal before a smart judge stepped in to say not so fast. now, droned weiss isn t even eligible to be named special counsel under the regulation governing his appointment according to section 600.3, he has to have a reputation for integrity and impartial decision making. now, that s obviously in question, the impartial decision making part after how he handled the initial phases of this investigation. and the special counsel shall be selected, it says, from outside the government. okay. garland is not a
so coming up very shortly, we will have that briefing from the pentagon, live here on bbc news. we will be hearing from a number of officials, including mark milley, the general. and secretary lloyd austin, as well. there is at the officials we will be hearing from but i think now we can stay with us pictures, we can go back to that as and when the briefing starts, that we can now talk about the extreme heat around europe. we have been talking about the extreme heat and temperatures across the world, and the heatwave that is continuing across southern europe. several cities in italy are on the red list, places like rome and sardinia have passed a0 celsius. we can now cross live to martinjones, who is in lazio, he is a british citizen who has lived in italy for the past five years. how hot is it where you are? the past five years. how hot is it where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. so where you are? rig
so many start the process of building homes and businesses. a.i. fancy thing two letters, it means artificial intelligence. vice president harris raising eyebrows after attempting to explain a.i. it s about machine learning. the machine is taught what information is going into the machine. please welcome the training staff by the buffalo bills. the response to damar hamlin s injury was able to bring our nation together for a moment and show the world the power of prayer and use it to make sure we can save the next life, too. steve: good morning, everybody. it s 6:01 in new york city on this thursday, july 13th, 2023. we start with this. you probably saw a little of it here on the channel. fbi director christopher wray refuting republican accusations that the bureau is protecting the biden family. ainsley: in a heated house hearing, he also faced questions about investigations into parents as well as the handling of classified documents among other things as well
we will issue an invitation for ukraine tojoin nato when allies agree and when conditions are met. we owe it to the ukrainians, because they are fighting there so that the british, australians, americans don t have to fight with russia. translation: we are grateful to partners promising - new packages of security and defence. so how significant was this year s summit? for more on that i spoke with ivo daalder, former us ambassador to nato and now ceo of the chicago council on global affairs. i m sure you are following this week s nato summit very closely, was the gathering in your mind a success? yes, i think it is very difficult to call it anything other than a success. a number of things are very important for the ukrainian audience, it was important that nato reaffirmed not only its commitment to help ukraine in every possible way to defend itself against this brutal invasion that the russians launched, now more than 500 days ago, but also to not only open a door but to sa
but one thing we ll try to him about is something i haven t discussed in a full segment on this program but i have suggested from time to time, that i do not see, given that presidents of the united states get lifetime secret service protection, i have not been able to see how a president, former president, can be sentenced to prison. that means a dozen secret service agents. you ve seen how many secret service agents go to court with him. how many have to go to prison with him? how do you do that? in what prison? how is that supposed to work? i have just as i think about it i have thought i thought it to be impossible. eric holder thinks it s possible. as attorney general used to be in charge of the bureau of prisons so finally we have someone who knows more about this than i do, which is pretty easy to find. those are some logistics i would like to hear about, lawrence, so i will be tuning in. finally we re gonna have that discussion. i m eager to do. it at long last.