the person who drove is a professor named david keith at harvard who i know quite well. i'll return to the technology specifically, let me say in answer to your last point. in our little nonprofit, we expect to come out with rart in june that will be called carbon direct removal. and among the many technology pathways will be the one you're referring to, specifically, carbon engineering and a number of other start-up companies in the united states and canada and switzerland, germany. are looking at something called direct air capture. you're able to reproduce what a tree does in terms of taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere it's very expensive today. let's call it $1,000 a ton with a goal of getting it down to 100 or $200 per ton. some are even more optimistic. that stretches my imagination. now, you said it very well. great. let's capture billions of tons of carbon dioxide, what do we do with it? you have two choices, either you put it underground to store it, or you convert it into some useful product carbon engineering, for example, says let's combine carbon di

to say it's ready today, i would question in the sense that -- and i think david keith would agree thatoday the cost would be extremely high to do that at scale, but again, we hope with innovation it will come down. but there are many other pathways for removing carbon as well. and our report in june, we'll talk about those many pathways and the need to pick up the pace in innovation. an example, by the way, would be biological sequestration. well, first, expanding things like forest cover would soak up carbon dioxide. but frankly, we may also be able to use modern biology, synthetic biology to be able to generate some plants, some grasses that could fix a lot more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere into the biosphere. so the many, many pathways going on, and this is exactly the kind of innovation agenda that we will be advocating. host: want to get your reaction to the news that former vice president joe bide suspect running for president again. guest: well, the vice president, i have to say, is a great friend and one with whom i completely enjoyed working with, and that was across t

they also reportedly spoke to the president's former security chief keith shiler about his conversations with davidi. the inquiry admitted to paying $150,000 to karen macdougall on behalf of the president to keep her from going public with her alleged affair with him. investigators reportedly have a recording of a phone conversation between michael cohen, president's former lawyer and a lawyer who respected macdougall as well as stormy daniels. cohen pleaded guilty to charges that included campaign violations and testified before congress about payments he says he made on the president's behalf to both women, nicole hahn is one of the reporters behind the story. you can walk us through what investigators learned from the interviews? >> sure. we don't know the full scope of what the southern district asked them but we know at the very least they were interested in both hope hicks and keith shiler's communications with david pecker, who is the ceo of "the national enquirer's" publisher. >> and a close friend of the president. >> exactly. >> a long relationship. >> what this tells us is that the inves

they were interested in hope and keith's interactions with david who is the chief executive who made one of the hush money payments on trump's behalf. obviously, two people very close to the president and probably will have a lot of information to tell prosecutors. >> thank you for that. weal we're going to go back now to barr who is being questioned. >> the cken starr investigation grand jury secrecy was overcome to allow congressional access. did you ask the district court to release grand jury material to congress? >> did you say were you citing the starr investigation? >> and the watergate, yes. >> okay. well, the starr investigation involved the specific statute that -- >> rule 6e? >> no, no. the starr statute setting up the independent counsel provided for the report going to congress and overroad 6e. so, i don't view the starr situation. >> but more specifically, have you asked the district court to release grand jury material? >> no. the law right now in the district of columbia that the court can only waive 6e for one of the grounds specified specifically. there's no sort of

investigators were reportedly interested in hope hicks and keith schiller's communications with davidker, the chief executive of american media incorporated which has admitted to paying is hush money to former playboy model karen mcdougal on trump's baffle. according to the report, prosecutors also asked at least one other witness whether ms. hicks had coordinated with anyone at american media concerning a journal article on november 4th, 2016 that we vealed american media had paid $150,000 for the rights to karen mcdougal's story of an alleged affair with mr. trump. "the wall street journal" also says investigators possess a recorded phone call between former trump lawyer michael cohen and a lawyer who represented stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. this investigation was begun by robert mueller. so much of it will -- so how much of it will be in the mueller report and will there be any comment in the mueller report about why the president was not indicted for according to federal prosecutors, committing the same campaign finance crimes that michael cohen was charged with. after a bre

keith schiller. but when it came to talking to hicks they wanted to talk to her about her contacts with david peckerd the time that david pecker and everybody else involved in the scheme was still selling a fake cover story to deny what had really happened. hope hicks was involved in conversations with david pecker around that time when they were covering it up and now david pecker has immunity? what about hope hicks? "the journal" is reporting she was questioned as was keith schiller. ami has the nonprosecution agreement, don't commit any crimes and it will be fine. cnn is reporting jeff bezos will talk to prosecutors as soon as some time this week. they are reportedly investigating whether ami extorted jeff bezos, extortion is a crime, running stories about his extramarital affair in the "national enquirer" to punish him for how his newspaper "the washington post" has covered the murder of jamal khashoggi and saudi arabia's apparent complicity in that murder. sdny is looking at whether ami might have been doing the bidding of saudi arabia in going after bezos on their behalf. so ami already has th

hope hicks, michael cohen, the president's former lawyer, keith schiller in charge of security, davidker, publisher of national enquirer. wise he willburg, long time chief financial officer of the trump organization, it is a big deal. >> doesn't get closer to the trump inner circle at that time than the people you just put on the screen, not only michael cohen but more importantly keith schiller, his long time body guy, security guy with him all the time and hope hicks we know was his communications person. the question is whether or not they're being asked about the president's role to keep in their back pocket for when he is no longer the president, maybe he can be indicted, or for other broader reasons because we know that they've got their answers with regard to michael cohen and his case and his vulnerability on this. he was convicted of doing, and the president himself was named in that. >> individual number one. >> individual number one. if i'm president trump, this is extremely troubling. >> legally jeffrey toobin, allen weisselberg, david pecker got immunity in exchange for t

keith schiller the former security chief. investigators learned of calls between mr. schiller and davidwho is the chief executive of the parent company of "national enquirer." so -- i mean, in other words, it's much closer and maybe these two were somehow implicated. >> the key points are that schiller and hicks are incredibly close to donald trump both adds candidate and president in terms of shear day to day proximity. so the fact that they've been making calls to american media, this is donald trump's infamous david pecker problem, and the catch and kill that they have been alleged to conduct with karen mcdougal, this all brings these figures closer together. and the issue is not just campaign finance, it's whether it was designed to deprive the american people of information that could have changed the result of an election. this is a significant ratcheting up and a reminder that the ongoing investigations of the president are significant, could have a significant impact on his presidency over and above the mueller report. >> and hope hicks in particular, chris, with as a campaign s

keith chile, the president's former security chief. investigators learned of calls between schiller and david becker, the chief executive that paid for rights to the story about the alleged affair but never ran the article. that practice known in the tablet industry as catch and kill. also, investigators had asked hicks about her contact with mr. pecker in november of 2016. michael cohen pleaded guilty last august two campaign finance violation charges after claiming that he arrange the payments at mr. trump's direction. something the president has denied. the journal reporting that investigators also possess a recorded phone conversation between cohen and a lawyer who represented daniels. that's new information for the u.s. attorney office in new york declined to comment on this cas case. >> melissa: laura ingle, thank you so much for that. new york city declaring a public health emergency over growing measles outbreaks, with city officials doing to stop it. plus, presidential hopefuls kirsten gillibrand saying she is ashamed of some past positions on immigration joining other senate 2020 democrats apologizing for past comments. it is sorr

we'll go behind the scenes of sir david attenborough's new documentary, our planet. producer keith are. good morning, i'm asad ahmad. the mayor of london has backed the boss of transport for london — after a damning report into crossrail suggested the tfl commissioner should consider resigning over the delays. europe's biggest infrastructure project linking east and west london had been due to open in last year but was delayed just weeks before it was due to start. it won't now fully open 2020 at the earliest. a report from the london assembly this morning says warnings that crossrail would miss its december 2018 deadline were downplayed. a day after ‘extinction rebellion' activists took—over part of the natural history museum, police have placed restrictions around parliament square to stop further disruption. about 100 people lay down under the blue whale skeleton yesterday. 1,000 people have been arrested in a week of protests. the die—in at the museum lasted around an hour. self—harm among men is increasing faster in london than anywhere else in the country. figures obtained by

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hicks and keith schiller, the longtime trump security chief and former director of oval office investigations. both hicks and schiller, according to "the wall street journal," made phone calls to davidtional enquirer" boss who had a so-called catch and kill agreement with the president to help bury the stories about what stormy daniels and karen mcdougal say are affairs with then businessman donald trump. among what prosecutors want to know, whether mr. schiller during a phone with pecker passed the phone to then candidate trump. so more details about these investigations. part of this was in the case against michael cohen, where individual one, the president of the united states, is essentially named as an unindicted co-kpconspirator in campaign finance violation. are they trying to develop a case against the president, even though the justice department said you can't indict him? do they just want to have it in a file? >> look, i think all of those things are a possibility. the idea that the investigation is going to continue through the end of this presidency is very much i think on the minds of the trump lawyers who are dealing with this. what "the journal" story does is it defi

keith schiller the long time bodyguard. and they have been questioned as part of the investigation into the hush money payment made by michael cohen. but the key issue for both, their contacts with david pecker, the ceo of american media the publisher of the "national enquirer." and reminder american media paid $150,000 to suppress a story about an alleged affair between trump and karen mcdougal. so i say that to set it up to get everyone up to speed. harry, how significant is this? >> pretty significant. now the big thing to remember is there is already a crime here. cohen pleaded guilty to it. the feds alleged it and the court accepted it. and the crime involves individual one. that is the president. and it stands to reason that there is -- that hope hicks and keith schiller might have had involvement and you have an aggressive prosecutor and it is one thing that they won't indict trump, that is the policy, but other people may well have been involved and they could get to the bottom of it and even try to get to the bottom of what trump knew and when he knew it even if they're not going to indict him. so it showed they are dogged on the trail, not going away and pursuing not just ho

keith doyle has the details. he got by with some spanish playing for real madrid but was less successful mastering french while at paris st germain. now, technology has made davidcott's team, uses artificial intelligence technology to have david beckham speak perfectly lip—synched the words of malaria survivors and doctors in languages including german, hindi, arabic and nigeria's yoruba. every two minutes, a child dies from malaria. i think that's really powerful. it's a shocking statistic. it's great to be involved in something where the tech side of our lives and our world get involved. you know, to be one voice of many different people. organisers of the malaria must die campaign want people to add their actual voices rather than their signatures to what they say is the world's first voice petition. they hope this unique, multilingual film will help influence world leaders to fulfil a commitment to halve malaria by 2023. keith doyle, bbc news. it's arguably the most famous passengerjet ever built, and 50 years ago today concorde took off for it's first british test flight. passengers didn't get to fly until 1976 when the jet officially entered service, flyi

keith doyle has the details. he got by with some spanish playing for real madrid but was less successful mastering french while at paris st germain. now, technology has made davidogy to have david beckham speak perfectly lip—synched the words of malaria survivors and doctors in languages including german, hindi, arabic and nigeria's yoruba. every two minutes, a child dies from malaria. i think that's really powerful. it's a shocking statistic. it's great to be involved in something where the tech side of our lives and our world get involved. you know, to be one voice of many different people. organisers of the malaria must die campaign want people to add their actual voices rather than their signatures to what they say is the world's first voice petition. they hope this unique, multilingual film will help influence world leaders to fulfil a commitment to halve malaria by 2023. keith doyle, bbc news. that is clever, isn't it? amazing what you can do these days. now we need to prepare you if you are anti—snake. need to prepare you if you are anti-snake. snake phobic or anything like that, you might want to look away for a of moments. here is a group of snake hunt

keith doyle has the details. he got by with some spanish playing for real madrid but was less successful mastering french while at paris st germain. now, technology has made davidkham speak perfectly lip—synched the words of malaria survivors and doctors in languages including german, hindi, arabic and nigeria's yoruba. every two minutes, a child dies from malaria. i think that's really powerful. it's a shocking 5tati5tic. it's great to be involved in something where the tech side of our lives and our world get involved. you know, to be one voice of many different people. organisers of the malaria must die campaign want people to add their actual voices rather than their signatures to what they say is the world's first voice petition. they hope this unique, multilingual film will help influence world leaders to fulfil a commitment to halve malaria by 2023. keith doyle, bbc news. from arch—enemies to entente cordiale, the relationship between britain and france has always been interesting. the latest potential bump in the road is brexit — and how will paris help — or hinder — the uk's departure from the european union. david eades looks back at what has sometime