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main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team, it's goodnight. controversy rages over rape trials withoutjuries in scotland. could a new pilot scheme improve convictions rates in rape trials, or undermine the principles ofjustice? we'll be speaking to a former snpjustice minister, who is implaccable opposed and the head of rape crisis is scotland who backs the principle. also tonight. the afghan interprete...

drawers in the office there. the report also says agents searched former first lady melania trump's closet. trump's attorneys told the post agents would not let them inside the building to observe the raid. a laundry list of questions left unanswered at this point. silence from the d.o.j., at least until now. and from attorney general merrick garland himself. not a word. republicans are now demanding an explanation saying the american people have a right to know what sparked the raid. >> when are heads going to roll for those who are involved in weaponizing the power of our governmen...

No, they have violated that trust, and again, i think the vast majority of fbi agents have integrity, and you could trust them. the problem is, we have and we have had, at least, politicalactors is, we have and we have had, at least, political actors at the highest levels of the fbi, people like elisa page, andrew mccabe, james komi, the acting director of the fbi. these were political actors. the fbi knew that the steele dossier, one of the sources was investigated as a russian spy by the fbi, and they knew that as early as october 2016. and yet, they allow the investigation to go forward, th...

That the fbi, for example, tried to pay or offered christopher steele $1 million to verify his report. we knew the whole steele dossier was paid for by the hillary clinton campaign and pushed on the fbi by people like michael sussman, and your next guest, who went to the state department to try to push this completely false story about russian collusion with trump, so this was the largest political dirty trick in us history. it interfered in the 2016 election, and now we know exactly how members of the cia, former intelligence official, also interfered in the 2022 election. i will put that ele...

By john durham over that whole steele dossier thing back in 2016. and you call the hiring astonishing and a new column, why? >> for one thing his lawyer is carrying enough baggage for amtrak, i really was quite surprised, because you have a special counsel in the field looking at his conduct in the last major election cycle while he is advising mcauliffe on this election cycle and you don't want your attorney dividing his time in that way, the expectation is even if he is not indicted that he will be the subject of any report that durum comes out with. he has been accused by two "new york time...