Warns of a real and growing threat to key national infrastructure. And its finally confirmed the yorkshire batsman, joe root, is named as the new england test captain. And coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News could Manchester City move up to second in the Premier League with victory over bournemouth . Good evening. There is no quick fix available to solve the problem of serious overcrowding in prisons. Thats the view of liz truss, the justice secretary, who says that preventing more prisoners from re offending is the key to success. The scale of the problem has been shown by bbc panorama, which secretly filmed evidence of widespread drug use and a number of Security Failings at one of britains biggest prisons, as our Special Correspondent ed thomas reports. Undercover in one of our biggest jails, bbc panorama filmed the drugs feeding addiction inside. And the staff pushed to their limits. Hmp northumberland is a private jail run by the French Company sodexo, home to more than 1300 inmate
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Jay sekulow on abc yesterday. Would that meeting constitute a violation of the law . And what you have is a situation and ive said this well over a year. You have to look at what laws, rules and Regulation Statutes are purportedly violated here. Hes been saying that for well over a year. Well over a year ago, he said the opposite about that meeting in trump tower. Remember, it was all about adoptions. I didnt hear anybody talk about babies this weekend. And there are some potentially relevant laws. For example, u. S. Code of federal regulations. Quote, a Foreign National shall not directly or indirectly make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value or expressly or impliedly promise to make a contribution or a donation in connection with any federal, state or local election. And, quote, no person shall knowingly solicit accept or
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repercussions, consequences for hosting that meeting with those ruckuses back at trump tower last year. the president suggesting there s nothing to it. basically saying it s fake news reporting. saying it s a complete fabrication that recent report over this weekend. but the bottom line is we have been witnessing him while on vacation, hardly in vacation mode, lashing out increasingly frequently. the pace of his mistruths or lies has been growing in recent weeks and months. appears something in the president s head, as one person said to me last week, this is something in his head, this russia topic, and he can t erase it. the lies or mistruths might work for his base or republicans who want air cover here. the question we need to dig into is was the law broken. because if it does, it don t matter how popular you are. i want to bring in my panel, kim wha waley, a professor at the
and thank you, donald trump. reporter: with her position in the white house, hicks gained access to the world stage, taking part in this intimate gathering with the pope and also the japanese prime minister s state banquet where hicks stole the spotlight in her black tuxedo. her access to the president put her at the center of several key investigations too. on russia, she s been interviewed by special prosecutor robert mueller s team multiple times. just yesterday, she was in front of the house intelligence committee answering questions for about eight hours, admitting that sometimes she was required to tell white lies in the trump administration, but insisting she never lied about substantive matters. so much stuff goes through her as the conduit between outsiders and the president that she really sits in a particularly important seat for mueller. reporter: and hicks was also involved in the aftermath of don junior s meeting with a russian lawyer at trump tower last year. onboa
first-hand knowledge of things that happened, could shed light on the comey firing, for instance, misleading letter to the public after the trump tower last year. democrats in particular frustrated that they re not getting the answers they want from this testimony so far, brianna? manu raju, covering the halls there. thank you very much. dana bash, david chal iian. she s really not saying a whole lot on the things that are most interesting to members there. as we heard from mike quigley there, it s interesting. she s not asserting privilege. in a way it s an outright refusal. it s not actually within the white house jurisdiction of