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welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin with the arrest, questioning and release of the former first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, in connection with the investigation into the finances of the scottish national party. mrs sturgeon says her arrest was a shock, and she is innocent of any wrongdoing. she's been released, without charge — pending further investigation. our scotland correspondent james cook reports. nicola sturgeon, for so long, front and centre in scottish politics, was arrested well away from the cameras, just ...

Agents, disinformation that was never verified and then lying to the court about this. one of the things they will discover in those court applications is the fact that even the fbi, wasn't just a footnote. they never admitted that they actually knew. they only speculated that it might be political. they only speculated and mark my words on that. >> that's a purposeful deception and omission to the fisa court. that is beyond material that is beyond material that would have been a game changer for any judge. >> that was deceptive even if its own footnote statement. wouldn't it have been easier ...

Deep it's hard to follow every single aspect of this. >> it is. it is. if you just lay out the facts, sean, here you have the hillary clinton campaign and the dnc paying for a dossier that is being gathered by a foreign agent, a british foreign agent. that british foreign agent is using russians to gather information. then have you members of the hillary clinton campaign, people that were close to her and her husband actually gathering their own separate dossier and then feeding that that information to the british foreign agent who is trying to get the fbi to open an investigation into then c...

Agents, disinformation that was never verified and then lying to the court about this. one of the things they will discover in those court applications is the fact that even the fbi, wasn't just a footnote. they never admitted that they actually knew. they only speculated that it might be political. they only speculated and mark my words on that. >> that's a purposeful deception and omission to the fisa court. that is beyond material that is beyond material that would have been a game changer for any judge. >> that was deceptive even if its own footnote statement. wouldn't it have been easier ...

Spreading these kind of misinformation, disinformation that's spread on fake news sites, et cetera, and that the president-elect of the united states is trafficking in lies. this is a huge problem, and the press ought to be concerned about it. >> you think he -- you think he knows it's not true, but he's still tweeting it? >> if he doesn't know that it's not true, it's even worse. >> ana, what do you make of it? >> well, listen, i'm going to disagree with you. i will tell you, he actually did tweet out something true this weekend. he tweeted out "fidel is dead." >> that's true, he did, with an...