these extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. this is one of those nights. we are tracking several developments, including a brand-new hearing over evidence in a case alleging unlawful lies by fox news. if you re thinking, wait, is this a rerun? did i dvr this? no, this is a different multibillion dollar case that the network is dealing with while reeling from the other original record defamation settlement in the defamation case. that is big. we re going to get to that. also, more tom hanks. we have new material from our interview that s airing tonight for the first time. it will be new, and i m excited to share it with you. we begin with cascading set backs and a political request that s backfiring in public with house republicans pushing on on their deep state in that nothing burger report from trump and bill barr s hand picked attorney general. you can make up your own mind about the evidence, because these kind of things involve eviden
the chairman of the bbc richard sharp has announced he s resigning after admitting he breached the british government s code for public appointments. the report found that mr sharp failed to properly disclose his involvement in facilitating a loan of £800,000 for the uk s former prime minister borisjohnson. this morning, mr sharp released this statement. the morning, mr sharp released this statement- morning, mr sharp released this statement. , statement. the view is while i did reach the code statement. the view is while i did reach the code for statement. the view is while i did reach the code for public- reach the code for public appointments, he states very clearly that a breach does not necessarily invalidate an appointment. indeed, i ve always maintained the breach was inadvertent and not material, which the facts he lays out substantiate. the secretary of state has consulted with the bbc board, who support that view. nevertheless, i have decided that it is right t
another day of travel chaos with thousands more flight delays and cancellations. southwest struggles to recover from holiday storms and system-wide operational problems. the u.s. department of transportation says it is launching an investigation. as a wash dog we ll hold them accountable and have to take a deeper look what s going on with their scheduling systems. we all understand you can t control the weather but this is clearly crossing the line from what s on uncontrollable weather situation to something that s the airline s responsibility. julie: president biden dodging the travel chaos and winter weather as he jets off to a tropical vacation. peter doocy is live at the white house. we have a heater right here. it s pretty warm. not that bad. it s not that bad. as we look at some of these images from airports, julie, people who are stranded and looking to the federal government to maybe help them out, help them get home faster are out of luck. and there is really n
he lost two at trial. he didn t land that. and i ve said it before, and part of my job is being annoyingly repetitive. sorrier i ll say it again. if they had news that was real, we would report that. i don t care what party if you can report that in the fbi, and law enforcement are not above that review. we have the review of the inspector general wash dog, we have judges of course who are constantly supposed to secure fairness to both sides in a case. they didn t find it, ruth. what does it tell us? what do you see here in that very week that exhaustive conclusion comes out, it s just on to the next? yeah, well, you know, this is a perversion of the institution of whistle-blowing. and whistle-blowing is traditionally an anti-corruption activity that s done usually in the name of democratic
warm words for the work richard sharp has done. this all comes down to thing the wash dog thinks he should have declared during the process that he didn t declare. i m sure the bbc will be looking forward to getting onto speaking about different things rather than its own chairman. ., ~ , ., , . chairman. david, thank you very much indeed. doctors in sudan s at least 7a people have been killed during two days of fighting this week in the darfur region in the west. despite agreeing to extend a cease fire, the army and arrival groups, the rapid support forces, have been fighting each other in the city of elgin nina in west darfurand each other in the city of elgin nina in west darfur and the capital. take a look at these pictures from khartoum. there are reports that fighters have looted and torched markets, aid warehouses and banks in