i. 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. var

brennan. you've got blackman the author of roe versus wade. you have john paul stevens. you have david suitor. i 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 nominate a conservative judge

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 sent to the prime minister tendering his resignation. he said, the last thing i would want is for my private life to distract attention from the sin