The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Charge of an investigation and a guy who is the subject of an investigation that just got more profound. We have to preface everything, ari, with if the account from Michael Cohen is true, blah, blah, blah. So if the account is true, it is a tremendous change in the landscape. What it does is show us two things. One, that donald trump, from the very beginning, was in on an attempt at collusion, an attempt to conspire with a plot that was described to donald trump jr. As a secret operation by the kremlin to help trump. So if trump knows about that from the very beginning, and is in on it, i think that has a lot of legal, but even more so, political implications. Plus if hes told about this, and even if nothing came out of the meeting, remember throughout the whole campaign and up to now he keeps denying or dismissing the russian operation. Could have been a 400pound guy in a basement. The
when he was in his late teens. the england and wales cricket board said robinson had been suspended while a disciplinary investigation is conducted. well a little earlier, my colleague, reeta chakrabarti spoke to the former england cricket captain, david gower. he told her that what 0llie robinson had written was simply wrong. first of all, one has to always preface everything you say on this matter by saying that one entirely disagrees what was written in those tweets all those years ago. i mean, no one is condoning anything racist or sexist. so having done that, in the space of the last four or five days we ve all had time to move on. consider, first of all, how the affair was brought to light which had nothing to do with ecb, for instance, doing their own research prior to the game which might or might not have made life easier for everyone concerned, but now that we know it is out there and know that we know he has apologised, now that we know he has already contrite and know that
preface everything you say on this matter by saying that one entirely disagrees what was written in those tweets all those years ago. i mean, no one is condoning anything racist or sexist. so having done that, in the space of the last four or five days we ve all had time to move on. consider, first of all, how the affair was brought to light which had nothing to do with ecb, for instance, doing their own research prior to the game which might or might not have made life easier for everyone concerned, but now that we know it is out there and know that we know he has apologised, now that we know he has already contrite and know that we know he is already eight, or nine years older than he was when he first wrote those things, we imagine he has changed. i think most people in that position would have changed. so not to condone anything that happened all that time ago, but my view would have been, and is very straightforward, that you have a chance here not to suspend someone just when the
but they were written a decade ago, and the england cricket board should think again about his suspension. the prime minister s official spokesman said mrjohnson is supportive of the culture secretary s comments. well, for more on this, we can speak to the former england cricket captain david gower. good afternoon to you. you have given various interviews and tweeted yourself in agreement by and large with the secretariat for culture and the prime minister. but tell us why you think the decision is incorrect? 0k, first of all, one has to always preface everything you say on this matter by saying that one internally disagrees with what was written in those tweets all those years ago. no one is condoning anything racist or sexist. having done that, in the space of the last four or five days, people have had time to move on and considerfirst of all people have had time to move on and consider first of all how the affair
charge of an investigation and a guy who is the subject of an investigation that just got more profound. we have to preface everything, ari, with if the account from michael cohen is true, blah, blah, blah. so if the account is true, it is a tremendous change in the landscape. what it does is show us two things. one, that donald trump, from the very beginning, was in on an attempt at collusion, an attempt to conspire with a plot that was described to donald trump jr. as a secret operation by the kremlin to help trump. so if trump knows about that from the very beginning, and is in on it, i think that has a lot of legal, but even more so, political implications. plus if he s told about this, and even if nothing came out of the meeting, remember throughout the whole campaign and up to now he keeps denying or dismissing the russian operation. could have been a 400-pound guy in a basement. the russians didn t do this. we don t know the russians did this. they kept doing that.