until we finish this hearing and the investigation, the justice department is now doing its own inquiry. but i do think there s near overwhelming evidence that prosecution is important to send it in a message, a deterrent message, and also insisting on accountability. remember that the company paid comparatively very little in terms of criminal counter in connection with that deferred prosecution and the families of people who perished in those two plane crashes, 346 people lost their lives. still feel that justice has not been served and that feeling pretty understandable. so i think that there is mounting evidence perhaps overwhelming evidence now that prosecution should be pursued while that is a big statement from senator richard blumenthal there that prosecution maybe should be pursued. you have this hearing coming up today. we will all be watching to see what happens. all of us are part of the front in public and the public really wants to make sure that their lives
mobile savings are calling. visit xfinitymobile.com to learn more. doc? at walmart it s thursday, june 13, right now on cnn this morning, attorney general merrick garland held in contempt of congress. will america s top prosecutor be prosecuted president biden in europe, meeting with world leaders, trying to shore up support for ukraine plus they re not making it. we ve seen over 50 cars this in the middle of the light, in the middle life-threatening flooding in roads submerged over a foot of rain already falling in florida. in the threat, not over yet all right. 5:00 a.m. here in washington alive. look capitol hill on this thursday morning. morning, everyone on kasie hunt, it s wonderful to have you with us tension between the doj and house republicans spilling over on capitol hill resolution recommending that the house of representatives fine, united states attorney general merrick garland, in contempt of congress on this vote. the yeas are 200 216. the net s are 207. t
of communications under president trump and lord kim darroch, former british ambassador to the us. first, the latest headlines. joe biden and volodymyr zelensky have signed a landmark us ukraine security deal, with the us president warning russia that kyiv s allies are not backing down . mr biden said the bilateral agreement, plus a g7 deal for a $50 billion loan for ukraine using frozen russian funds, collectively showed mr putin that he cannot wait us out. hezbollah has fired a fresh barrage of rockets and drones from lebanon into israel in retaliation for the killing of a senior commander on tuesday. israel said a number of projectiles were intercepted by air defences, although some hit open areas, igniting fires. russian prosecutors say the american journalist, evan gershkovich, will go on trial for espionage at a court in the urals, but no date has been given. mr gershkovich was reporting for the wall streetjournal when he was accused of spying. he denies the charge
anti immigrant, anti eu party will get more than 20% in the polls and may do better than the social democrats, the coalition partners. it will shake the confidence of the eu s current leadership. how much of that do you agree with? there are many parties in germany and italy who are pretty eurosceptic. yeah. the kind of picture that michael has just painted is correct. not much is going to happen until the german elections in the autumn so we have in front of us a long period of uncertainty and instability in which populist forces are going to mount an extraordinary challenge to the status quo. having said that, there is something else going on, which is extraordinary story, and terrifying, which could pull together the european union leaders who are going to be smart enough and convincing enough to explain to the people what s going on in the world. i m referring to the migrant phenomenon which is going to accelerate massively and is going to show, for the first time in euro
dateline london, first, let s look at the headlines. the queen is attending church after missing services over christmas and new year because of a heavy cold. the israeli ambassador in london has apologised after an embassy official was filmed saying he wanted to take down the foreign office minister, sir alan duncan, who is a strong critic of jewish settlements. theresa may is promising a far reaching programme of social reform to tackle the everyday injustices experienced by working families. the average amount of unsecured debt has reached a record high of almost £13,000 per household in the uk. heavy snowfall and subzero temperatures continuing across europe and the eastern european states causing more than 20 deaths and bringing transport chaos. hello and welcome to dateline london. two stories in today s programme two stories likely to dominate the year ahead. first, the future of the european union as britain prepares to press the brexit button. and secondly, how fa