new charges against steve bannon this morning, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. long-time trump adviser and ally steve bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in new york thursday to face state charges related to his fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern border. bannon allegedly defrauded donors who contributed to a we build the wall campaign. the crowd-funded border wall raised more than $25 million. according to prosecutors bannon falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. bannon in a statement calls the indictment phoney charges and a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same alleged crime in 2020 but president trump pardoned bannon as he was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, of course. cnn s kara scannell is joining us now with the details. what s the la
Of the things that i saw in and a lot of people are commenting this morning is the historic diversity in the cabinet. no white men in the top jobs. this is historic not just for britain but really i would imagine almost anywhere in europe. it is unprecedented, i believe, certainly in the uk for a political party to have this level of diversity and what we refer to in this country as the great offices of state. so the most senior offices of the land, prime minister obviously now occupied by a woman, chancellor of the ex jeker, the money, the first black chancellor, the foreign secretary the person in charge of britain s relations with the world is another black man. also we have a woman in charge of internal affairs, the second woman of indian dissent to hold that post. this is a big moment in terms of inclusion and diversity. there is a lot of people very happy to see that today and we saw it in sharp relief in the beverages behind her. it was the most diverse that this party has eve