paul brennan reports from london. the aim of course is to break the link. unusually for a health zachary mat hancock rose to become a household name. thanks in large part to the covert pandemic, while he stood out embarrassed johnson's cabinets as a minister influential in setting government policy and broadcasting daily briefings to the nation by some exciting new data so on it was uniquely embarrassing for hancock to find himself in breach of social distancing rules for conducting an affair with an aide at work. it was also a wider context. caught up with him. in his resignation letter to prime minister boris johnson. hancock apologized to his family for putting them through this and said the last thing i would want is my private life to distract attention from the single minded focus that is leading us out of this crisis. i understand the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made, but you have made. and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them. and that's why i've got to resign.

paul brennan is following the story for us understanding by in london, but we'll speak to my kind of 1st from washington dc and we're waiting to hear from the f b. i mike, more details in a short while, but already this is being described as a real success. well, it's an extraordinary thing operation. and the notable fact about it is that it's truly a global one. you are talking about more than 100 countries being involved in this investigation. but to step back, how it all started some 18 months ago, the australians and the f. b, i devised an app which would go to alleged criminal gangs. now they gave this app called and non to one known criminal in australia who subsequently fled to turkey. he then passed on this app to another of other fellow alleged criminals. and it ended up in a situation where some 12000 of these apps were distributed to some 300 known criminal entities. now, as a result of the information gleaned on these apps, hundreds of arrests that be made, a number of previously unsolved crimes have now been sold massive criminal operations involving running of drugs. va

this country who has risen to the challenges that we've seen over the past 18 months. 5 now to paul brennan, who is in london and met hong hancock. very much falling on his thought as it were . yes, it's been, it's been a whirlwind for a house, frankly. i mean, matt hancock was popular with forest johnson, but not necessarily with people within boris johnson's camp in downing street, we heard from johnson special adviser, dominic cummings, not so long ago, who gave evidence that as far as he was concerned, hancock was totally useless. and should have been sacked many times over, for the way that he'd handle the pandemic here in the u. k. but the newspaper revelations about this cctv footage with math hancock in a passionate embrace with a parliamentary aid, a special advisor who he himself had appointed 1st off as an unpaid advisor and then on the $15000.00 pounds a year salary, an old university friend of his from oxford university, and both married and then the kissing and fondling each other for want of a better word. it just went to hypocrisy, frankly. in the letter that man had coaxed

and other g 7, governments poll brennan joins may not live from london. paul, what's happening there now? well, i'd say an update is that the protesters largely finished and the crowd has started . in fact, as large space and some stragglers of my shoulder just outside the gates of downing street who are chanting free palestine. but to come back to the main points of this and it is resist g 7 and an international day for international justice and listening to james bass talking from cobb and bay that one of the things that isn't specifically on the agenda for the g 70. this is the situation between israel and the palestinians. about russia, china climate change, the environment, the economy, but not the specific issue of israel and the palestinian people for the people here in the u. k has been protesting 3 times in large scale over the past month. that is significant disappointment. so there is a message being sent from this demonstration here. and joining me to make the message is benji mouth. director of the palestine solidarity campaign fan. 3 big demos in

the pandemic scenes type restrictions on public gatherings, or brennan is standing by for us just outside wembley stadium in london. so paul, how confident are authorities that people are going to be safe at this event? one of the things that's taken place in the past couple of months is the thing called the events research program set up by the government in april in order to explore ways of reopening venues, exactly like rambling, but that's a small event use like night puts and and theaters, and through the course of the last couple of months, they've been gradually increasing the capacity of the stadiums that have been opened. so for example, i was here in april for the cat about cup final, when just less than 8000 firms were allowed to watch the match in person of 3 manchester 50. and the other aspect of it was as the knowledge of how the virus is transmitted. progress the, the, the opening up continue. so for example, the f a cup funnel that was 21000 people. and today, as you said, 22 and a half 1000 people, it's important because you a for a specified that in order for me to be able to host these matchers that have

brennan. you've got blackman the author of roe versus wade. you have john paul stevens.david suitor. i can think of five republican-nominated justices that surprised us with their lack of conservative activism. i can't think of a single democrat-nominated justice that shocked us on the other side. am i missing one? >> you know, not as much. i mean, you will see instances where justice kagan will actually side with some of the more conservative justices, you know, on the court. i mean, you know, not nearly as much and on a repeated basis as we have seen from the justices who have been nominated by republican presidents, but i think, you know, there's one reason i think that could be the case, and you even look at the decision, this recent one upholding the affordable care act, in which barrett voted against striking it down as unconstitutional, and that decision was based not really on the constitutionality of the affordable care act. it's that the plaintiffs didn't have standing to bring that suit because they couldn't show injury. and so i think what we see when we nomi

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