helped pass the civil rights act the republicans and sixty three are going back to that kind of lynch mob mentality that's not a good sign. really appreciate you coming on interesting conversation john griffin is my guest the media contributor thank you. over five thousand victims of war have been treated so far this year in hospitals run by a un backed humanitarian organization in afghanistan a third of them were children organization called emergency has been active in the country since ninety ninety nine and says that the violence there is relentless. moscow's preparing to get warring parties together for negotiations playing host to afghan peace talks on friday a dozen countries are invited the taliban is also sending a delegation it's the first time the militant group will take part in this kind of high level meeting after almost two decades of war in afghanistan as artie's my guest there are reports not everybody has welcomed the talks. by any measure the afghan war has dragged on for too long too many people are dead too little achieved too much hatred bred why not try something ne

and back in 2017 he called the special prosecutor's office a lynch mob.hose words sound kind of interesting. the fact is he did. my point is if he had already judged this situation, rachel, before he even knew the facts. the special prosecutor had just gotten started, and that's why we had been insisting, and i agree with speaker leader pelosi he should recuse himself. to be frank with you, i'm shocked he has not already recused himself. most lawyers in this situation would voluntarily say, you know what? i don't even want to have the appearance of a conflict. yet he is the absolute wrong person to have in this position. we again will gather our information. we'll probably have hearings. we'll do our investigations and see what comes of them. >> congressman elijah cummings of maryland who is the top democrat in the oversight committee slated to be chairman of that committee when the democrats take the gavel in just a few weekends. sir, thank you for being here tonight, and i hope we can stay in touch as you ascend to this very, very important position. yo

. >> reporter: this is a man who is likened mueller's investigation to a lynch mob on twitter and that has leading democrats concerned. president trump forced jeff sessions to resign yesterday, but the ousted attorney general was all smiles as he left the justice department. the white house released a letter from sessions who told the president, quote, at your kwi question, i'm submitting my resignation. his departure was not unexpected. >> therefore i have represent used myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> reporter: he faced heavy criticism by president trump since rekugcusing himself from mueller's investigation last month. matthew whitaker will serve as acting attorney general. a doj says he'll oversee all department matters. >> this is another step in the president seeking to undermine and sabotage the mueller investigation. >> reporter: whitaker has been critical of the mueller probe in the past and has written it could become a political fishing expedition. they called on him to recuse himself. >> they should not be able to limit it, they should not be abl

he's referred to special counsel and the mueller lynch mob. what about these comments suggest to you that he's going to be impartial? >> you don't recuse somebody because they have opinions different than people they're overseeing. trust me, there's politics abounds when it comes to the mueller investigation that trump is guilty no matter what mueller finds. mr. mueller will be allowed to do his job without political interferes by mr. whitaker. mr. whitaker i think is legally qualified and otherwise qualified to oversee this investigation. until a new attorney general will be appointed and i think that will happen early next year. >> brennan: early next year. what is your first question for that nominee? >> well, depends on what the lay of the land is. if mueller is still not finished with his investigation, going to allow him to do his job, but lot of questions about how the department of justice works. >> brennan: the president issued an order this week and says he's going to issue another executive order having to do with immigration. does

but false messages have also led to several deaths by mob lynchings this year.da—gopal rajan who has been looking at how whatsapp can be used in india for spreading rumours. thank you so much forjoining us, mr rajan. we've been speaking to social media experts and these problems of mob lynchings is due basically to social tensions and that social media platforms like whatsapp basically just media platforms like whatsapp basicallyjust add fuel media platforms like whatsapp basically just add fuel to media platforms like whatsapp basicallyjust add fuel to the fire. i guess you have a lot of players who feed into this tension. and they are trying to profit from it. often i don't understand what is the motive they have but it's clear they are here to make money. how worrying is it that technology is being misused for these kinds of situations? as a platform, whatsapp was supposed to be messaging softwa re was supposed to be messaging software and if you look at how encryption works, it's something that people never imagined ten years ago. it's completely uncharted w

no—one has ever actually been executed for blasphemy in pakistan, but dozens have been killed by lynch mobsa bibi will be released in the coming days. many expect her to leave the country as soon as she can. secunder kermani, bbc news, islamabad. a man who was told he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, has walked again, thanks to new research by scientists in switzerland. the 30 year—old, who was left paralysed after a martial arts accident, had an implant attached to his spine which boosts the signals from his brain to his legs. and against expectations, some of his damaged nerves seem to have regrown. the researchers hope to test the system in the uk and other parts of the world in 3 years time, as our science correspondent pallab ghosh explains. meet the men who were once paralysed. their remarkable recovery is due to a pioneering new technique developed in switzerland. david said he'd never walk again. now, among the foothills of the alps, he is able to travel more than half a mile. an implant around his spine has changed his life. to me, it means a lot. i think you've go

likening a piece where he called it a lynch mob.e: rod rosenstein called him a superb choice to be a.g. he was jeff sessions chief of staff. howie: i'm shocked rod rosenstein was passed over. no, i'm not shocked at all. mollie: rod rosenstein has all sorts of conflicts of interest. he obstructed congress. howie: the president fired comey. mollie: he set up a special counsel to investigate that. and he signed one of the warrants used to spy on the trump campaign. whitaker has none of those conflicts. howie: he has clear views on this. "washington post" called him a crack pot because he criticized marbury versus madison. but what the press really cares about is the impact on the mueller probe. adrienne: the press is looking into his background and what he said in the past. you have a press understandably biased against somebody who had such partisan leaning and partisan statements in the mueller investigation. howie: you call it bias instead an objective look at this. adrienne: i say i understand where the media is coming from in term

he retweeted calling it a lynch mob.p funned while he was a pundit writing articles for cnn.com going on cnn as an analyst before donald trump saw him on tv and said let me get that guy at the department of justice. what could be his move against the mueller investigation? >> i think three things, first of all, he could deny the budget resources and personnel and slow it down significantly. second, he could fail to defend the decisions of the special counsel if court and if the special counsel has to litigate say a subpoena of the president, that will go to litigation and pay go up to the supreme court and the attorney general plays a significant role in defending the decision of the justice department. the third and potentially most importantly, he could refuse to make public any report that robert mueller generates. >> coming up, the newly re-elected senator, democrat i don't manchin standing by. he yoins the he joins the conversation next on "morning joe." - [narrator] meet the ninja foodi, the pressure cooker that cr

"hey, bob, i'm your new boss, let me know if you need any help with the witch hunting and mob lynching the way, i'll take that stack of indictments. they're not in the budget anymore." meanwhile, i don't know-- i don't know about you, but i am still recovering from the election of 2016. but there was also-- ( applause ) but there was also an election last night. democrats took control of the house of representatives. ( cheers and applause ) but-- 27, 37? something. mild wave. but in his press conference "usa today," trump said this was great for the republicans and so did trump. >> we saw the candidates that i supported achieve tremendous success last night. mia love gave me no love, and she lost. barbara comstock was another one. i mean, i think she could have won that race, but she didn't want to have any embrace. peter roskam didn't want the embrace. eric paulsen didn't want the embrace. those are some of the people that, you know, decided for their own reason not to embrace. >> stephen: i'm-- i gotta say, i'm really surprised that stopped him because he is not known for asking perm

whitaker has been a sharp critic of the mueller pro, calling it a lynch mob.e says one way to end it would be to take the money away from it. should this guy be in charge of this incredibly important investigation? >> as far as i know, ron rosenstein is still day-to-day overseeing mueller. i don't see that as a problem. what i do see is the law is clear, the ability of the president to name somebody acting for 210 days, extend under certain limited conditions, is well understood. it is not a new law. my former role as chairman oversight, we also have the office of personnel management under us, so we don't with that. the current situation with the omb director also overseeing on an acting basis the consumer financial protection, people may not like it, but that is the way the law was written, and it's in place for a while. president clinton and obama both had the opportunity and did use that statute. it is pretty clear, i don't see a challenge. thismportant thing is question of somebody who didn't have the respect of the president and who was clearly not on a

that is right, over the last couple of years there have been lynchings and mob beatings because of messagesuse of messages, fake messages circulated on whatsapp, and ever since these incidents have taken place, ever since these incidents have ta ken place, the ever since these incidents have taken place, the indian government has been pressurising whatsapp to counter the fake news propagated across different parts of the country and they wanted whatsapp to a pointa country and they wanted whatsapp to a point a country head, they wanted them to proper team that could address this issue. now, for whatsapp, this is the first time for whatsapp, this is the first time for whatsapp they have appointed a leader. there is another reason for this appointment. on the one hand there is the issue of lynchings. on there is the issue of lynchings. on the other hand india is one of the largest markets for whatsapp, in fa ct, largest markets for whatsapp, in fact, 200 million users, and it is trying to build a payment record. so this record will help in expanding that business once they get permission from

several times repeatedly, in fact, about the mueller probe and retweeting a article that called it a lynch mobw, the fix is in on that front. we will see how it's done. the key is with democrats controlling the house they subpoena documents that he might otherwise try to quash related to the mueller investigation. >> the president explained what he thinks he can do in terms of mueller and firing him. so listen to this. >> i could fire everybody right now, but i don't want to stop it because politically i don't like stopping it. it's a disgrace. it should have never been started because there was no crime. it is -- everybody has conflicts, they all have conflicts over there that are beyond anything anybody has ever seen in terms of conflicts. >> jeffrey, is that true, he could fire everybody right now? >> he could. he could. we could see what the repercussions would be. the mueller department is part of the department of justice. there's a chain of command which donald trump is at the top of. he could. the question would be is there now a political check on him with the democratic house, you kn

he called the special counsel's inquiry a witch hunt in an op-ed and a lynch mob in a tweet. the president repeating this morning via twitter that he didn't note whitaker, even though he told fox news last month that be he did know him, even though he had no social contact. thanks for joining me, guys. what does the "acting" in acting attorney general mean? does it limit what he can do? is a limit to how long he can serve? betsy, can you take this one? >> there are limits. some are looking to sue, charging that the president violated the senate's right. whilt ke whitaker has not been senate confirmed. he was senate confirmed years and years ago during the bush administration when he became a united states attorney. however, under this administration, he has not gone through that yet. for acting attorney general, he is for all practical purposes the attorney general at the justice department and arguably the single most powerful law enforcement official in the world. >> natasha, sure live he should recuse himself given what he said about the mueller investigation. >> you would

campaign, he has been, now, the investigation has now been charged with overseeing, calling it a lynch mobaying out a road map for how an attorney general could actually kill it, it really raises alarms. and these new developments raise serious questions about his qualification to do the job, which highlights all the more that he was selected for his viewpoint, and his willingness to serve potentially as a white house surrogate in there to shut down or impede the investigation. it is very alarming. >> so who will check this acting a.g.? >> so the only people who can check it are congress. and the fact that we haven't heard from congress is really unsettling. i mean this is a failure of congressional oversight. the president again has now fired two people for the purpose of trying to stop or impede an investigation of himself. that in and of itself is a constitutional crisis. and it is a constitutional crisis because our congress is refusing to fulfill its constitutional responsibility of conducting meaningful oversight, and getting to the bottom of what is going on here. >> so senate major

in one of two ways, either by becoming the spokesperson for a hate filled mob and watch a poor woman and her family be lynchedamily be lynched, or he can help her to escape from the threat of violence that we are seeing and help her into asylum, either in the united kingdom or wherever she chooses. this is a very clear case of freedom of conscience and leading to genuine fear of persecution or death. time for sport and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. here's hugh. leicester city players and staff are landing it's a big day ahead at the top of the premier league, with both manchester city and chelsea in action this afternoon. liverpool are currently top, for a few more hours at least, after their draw against arsenal. jurgen klopp's side had taken the lead at the emirates, thanks to this from james milner. but they were denied all three points when alexander lacazette equalised for the gunners late on, continuing manager unai emery‘s impressive start to the season. we fought hard for it, that is normal, but you can win a point had you think, thank god, it is not that feeling but i do not feel we drop

the attorney general could shut down the special counsel's case, or as he calls it, the mueller lynch mob puts us firmly into constitutional crisis territory. whitaker must immediately recuse himself. my question is what if he's here to stay? what if there is absolutely no plan to move him? >> well, then the question becomes, to what extent is he going to try to reduce the mueller investigation by shutting down the budget, by trying to remove him, by tampering with the evidence? and that's when we need to step in and step in in a very forceful manner. i also think that the special counsel is a very smart man, and he has anticipated all of these actions. i'm certain that the attorneys will go to court much like they did with the watergate situation when president nixon attempted to take all of the documentation and bring it under his control. they will go to the courts to make sure that that documentation, that evidence is held appropriately. so, there are steps that can be taken. there are steps that the house democrats can take to subpoena special counsel mueller if he is, in fact, remov

>> well, he's also said that it was mueller lynch mob. i mean, this is not an independent, unbiased person who is supposed to be meting out justice here, but this is someone who has a strong position. i also think we should ask the office of government ethics to do an evaluation as to whether or not he is appropriate to hold that position. he should recuse himself. he's now saying he won't, but we should demand that that evaluation be done. >> leon panetta, the former white house chief of staff, cia director, he was talking to me in the last hour. he doesn't think it's constitutional because he hasn't been confirmed by the senate during the trump administration. and in order to move up to a position like that you at least have to have gone through some sort of senate confirmation. >> we looked at that, and it appears the rules around having someone in that position during in a vacancy is not subject to the same kind of oversight by the senate as you would expect normally. it's something we would certainly look at. we may want to close tha

same guy retweeted articles saying the president's lawyers should not cooperate with "mueller's lynch mobhen a bipartisan group of senators drafted bills to protect the special counsel's office from political interference from the white house, this same person argued that would be a mistake, and mueller was "already protected enough." that same person also went on tv repeatedly to suggest strategies that might undercut the special counsel or shut down the investigation all together. >> i can see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesn't fire bob mueller, just reduces his budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. >> today, the person who wrote all those things and said all those things attacking the special counsel's office and proposing ways to destroy their investigation or stop it in its tracks, today, that person got a new job. he will now be in charge of overseeing the robert mueller investigation. when the president fired attorney general jeff sessions, he did not allow sessions' deputy, rod rosenstein,

op-ed that told the president that he should do everything he could to shut down the, quote, mueller lynch mob. these are all statements that make it clear he cannot possibly oversee this investigation impartially. our position as democrats is this is not a democratic issue. this is not a republican issue. this is an issue of our constitution making sure that nobody is above the law including the president. robert mueller is conducting a special investigation that has produced enormous results already. 33 people who have been indicted. five of trump's top campaign managers. these are people who have already pled guilty. not to small charges but to charges of interfering with the election, charges of obstruction of justice. these are serious charges that mueller has uncovered and we need to make sure to protect the special counsel's investigation. >> how serious will you get to do that? yesterday jerry nadler from new york talked about trying to force the passage of a bill to protect mueller. and i wonder, would democrats be willing to force a government shutdown just to protect robert mueller?

he referred to mueller and his team as a lynch mob and floated a plan to choke off funds to the specialnsel's officer. he explicitly articulated that plan on cnn. >> i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with an poappointment and that attory general just reduces the budget so low his investigation grinds to a halt. >> our big question is, what happens to the mueller investigation under president trump's acting attorney general. joining me now nbc news justice and national security reporter julia aimsley and betsy woodruff. ladies you have been following the special counsel investigation now for quite some time reporting on the ins and outs. the question of what happens if sessions were to be fired has been floated a number of times. we know he has been fired. he's been replaced by partisan. not replaced by the deputy attorney general who is rod rosenstein. julia, what's going to happen to mueller's investigation? what does this mean for the investigation going forward? s >> you're right to call him a partisan. a number of people say it's clear where his loyalties lie. t

he endorsed anti-mueller sentiment including an editorial about the, quote, mueller lynch mob. whitaker called investigations into trump's finances a potential red line and possible witch hunt, and he talked about a scenario much like the one he is in now in which an acting attorney general could slowly kill the mueller probe. >> so i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesn't fire bob mueller but he just reduces his budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. >> we're going to check in at the white house in just a moment and talk a little bit more about this chris christie development. let me bring in the panel. paul rosen was a senior counsel on ken star investigation with bill clinton. bill kirchner, an msnbc legal analyst. let me start with you. let's talk about whitaker here. also once worked for sam clovis, the trump campaign ad who testified before mueller's grand jury. he managed clovis's 2014 campaign for iowa treasurer. taking all of that into account, should whitaker need to recu

in 2017, he tweeted an article calling mueller's prosecutors a lynch mob. he argued in an op-ed that mueller would be going too far by investigating trump's finances. and he questioned the fbi raid of paul manafort's house saying, do we want our government to intimidate us? well, tonight, we're also now learning that whitaker has prejudged the results of the mueller investigation itself. betsy woodruff of the daily beast is reporting in a radio interview in june of last year, whitaker who now oversees the russian probe, comes to the conclusion that the president did not collude with russia. let's watch. >> the truth is there was no collusion with the russians and the trump campaign. there was interference by the russians into the election. but that is not the collusion with the campaign. that's where the left seems to be combining those two issues. and the last thing they want right now is the truth to come out in the fact that there's not a single piece of evidence that demonstrates that the trump campaign had any illegal or even improper relationships wit

note to trump's lawyer, do not cooperate with mueller lynch mob, adding, worth a read.e breaking news of trump firing attorney general jeff sessions. sunlen serfaty is on the hill. what are you hearing? >> reporter: certainly, jake, specifically, a lot of concern about acting ag, matt whitaker. a lot of those words you read, the top senate democrat, top house democrat, calling for matt whitaker to recuse himself in the russia investigation and across the board, a lot of top democrats expressing concern about what this means for the special counsel, robert mueller's investigation. here's senate minority leader, chu chuck schumer, earlier today. >> protecting mueller and his investigation is paramount. it would create a constitutional crisis if this were a prelude to ending or greatly limiting the mueller investigation. and i hope president trump and those he listens to will refrain from that. >> reporter: and we are also hearing from key house democrats as well. jerry nadler who stands to take over the house judiciary committee, he raised obstruction concerns earlier tod

that there was no collusion with the russians in the trump campaign, saying that it is mueller's lynch moband the specter here is of, in effect, a slow-motion saturday night massacre, a death by 1,000 secret deaths and cuts to the mueller investigation, cuts in spending, cuts in authority, cuts in charges that could be brought, and that is very, very deeply troubling. >> the president says he didn't speak to whittaker about the mueller probe before appointing him. do you buy that? >> i have very strong suspicions that there was some conversation about it. it is an issue that should be investigated by the judiciary committee in the senate or the house because, again, it goes to the question of whittaker's hostility to the special counsel's investigation, the appearance of a conflict of interest. he has set forth a roadmap for how to stifle and strangle this investigation. he has indicated how to do it through cuts in the funding for positions in that office, through limitations on its authority, and through the potential disapproval of indictments that may be brought by mueller. he has dire

he called it mueller's lynch mob and he said the way to do it was to, in effect, deny funding, stifley, or cut authority or disapprove indictments. that clearly creates an imperative for recusal by him and if not, action by the congress. >> these are personal opinions of his, right? that's coming from whitaker before he was at the justice department, things that he said, things that he has written, and i do wonder, if an fbi agent should be allowed to have personal opinions like peter strzok, many democrats said should have been allowed to have personal opinions and not have it affect his work, should the same apply to whitaker? >> he's allowed to have personal opinions, but not to supervise the investigation. peter strzok was taken off the investigation by robert mueller as soon as he learned of those communications that indicated his bias. so, whether it violates 45 code of federal regulation, section 28, it clearly is an appearance of impropriety and it infects the entire department of justice and my view is, career professionals in the department of justice ought to really raise a

he has gone on twitter and called it a lynch mob, and he has really been hypercritical of this group.erence which led tojim acosta having his white house pass removed, what are people saying about all of this in terms of the freedom of the press and yet another attack by president trump, it would seem, on those freedoms? yes, well, you hit the nail on the head there. i think a lot of journalists the nail on the head there. i think a lot ofjournalists are definitely concerned over the attacks on the press, especially on behalf of the president. as you know, cnn andjim acosta have a pretty contentious relationship with president donald trump. he has called outjim acosta ona number of trump. he has called outjim acosta on a number of pcs. jim acosta has kind of been this embattled reporter with the white house but this takes it. further by taking away his press credentials, which the nn is calling unprecedented. on the other side of the fence, of course, from supporters are probably thinking this is exactly what they want him to do. i think that is also true. he has said repeatedly on th

he could say, as he has in the past in addition to that actual clip about this being a lynch mob and not cooperating with mueller's team. and also about not trying -- this being something beyond the pale and passing a red line, but looking into finances. the interesting thing about what he said then until now is the same. at this point in time, he's no more well-briefed or well-versed in the mueller probe than perhaps anyone at this table. the reason for that is as chief of staff of jeff sessions, who has been recused, he also should not have been privy to the information. so he'll have to be essentially briefed in at this point in time. and he may have some revelations about his own words. they may come back to haunt him. there actually may be some credence. and by all accounts, including rod rosenstein, just three weeks ago, the american people should have confidence in what the investigation holds and is forthcoming and it's no witch hunt. >> and that raises the biggest question in america now, which is did president trump ask matt whitaker whether or not he would recuse himself f

but false messages have also led to several deaths by mob lynchings this year.tof iwanek who's an expert on social media in india and writes for the the diplomat magazine. he told me how wide—ranging the problem is. obviously, this is very disturbing and this unfortunately is not an isolated incident, there were a few such incidents in india in may although i would say that fake news as such are not the core issue here, the core issue are the social tensions that are exploited by certain groups through fake news and through facebook and whatsapp and so on. these social tensions have been exploited on social media platforms but of course we also have to look at the social media platform, particularly whatsapp, and it has put in place some key safeguards restricting a number of words in a message. in your view, restricting a number of words in a message. in yourview, is restricting a number of words in a message. in your view, is this the solution, apart from the social tensions, to avoid this happening ain? tensions, to avoid this happening again? no. obviously i

so lynch law and mob violence was one of the chief mechanisms by which black people were excluded from the electorate and especially in the south. >> so in a democracy, the ultimate subordination is if you prevent people from voting or discourage them from voting or frightening them out of voting. >> right. that's exactly what happened. >> cindy hyde-smith, this discovery that she attended a so-called segregation academy. that's one thing when she was kid and her parents sent her there she sent her daughter to one as well. that's not ancient history. these are people who have grown up believing that things should be separate. blacks and whites should not be doing things together, including getting an education. how does that get discussed in the context of this campaign? >> well, listen, the thing about this is we may be having a kind of shocked conscience in looking at this and saying that someone would be -- that her parents would make the decision to send her to one of these institutions, that she in turn would make the same decision for her child, but i guarantee you there is a who

there are people alive today who are old enough to have had family members lynched by a white mob. if we white southerners are proud of the pragogress, we mus have a willingness about education. do you think they're representative? >> i'm not sure. i've spoken to a lot of people. some of whom were at the rally who heard the comments. what i heard a lot, this is funny because this is different from what we heard. i've heard a lot of white republicans in this area that have some no, she shouldn't have said these comments. they weren't a great idea. she should have apologized. instead, her first comment, he said any attempt to make it a negative connotation but her remarks were ridiculous. i heard a lot of people say she should have apologizes immediately. it's usually we know she didn't mean anything by it. i wrote my college partly to try to model the kind of conversation i hoped we would have which is we don't need to point fingers. i can only speak for myself and was hoping to model a conversation that would be willing to risk a little introspection, maybe risk a conversation that

either he can become the spokesman for a hate—filled mob and watch a poor woman and herfamily be lynchedm the threat of violence that we are seeing and help her into asylum, either into the united kingdom or canada or the united states or wherever frankly she chooses to go because i think this is a very clear case of freedom of conscience leading to genuine fear of persecution or death. police investigating the murder of a 17—year—old boy near clapham south tube station have named the victim. scotland yard said malcolm mide—madariola from peckham was a student at a college in clapham. he was stabbed on balham hill at around 4.35pm on friday. the headlines on bbc news... the businessman, aaron banks, insists all his brexit donations complied with electoral law and says his critics are trying to undermine brexit. police say seven of the eight children who were being treated for "potentially serious injuries" following an incident at a fireworks funfair in woking have been discharged. the former head of the civil service, sirjeremy heywood, has died, less than a fortnight after he retired f

either he can become the spokesman for a hate filled mob and watch a poor woman and herfamily be lynchede are seeing and help her into asylum, either into the united kingdom or canada or the united states or a jangly she chooses to go because i think this is a very clear case of freedom of conscience leading to genuine fear of persecution or death. straight off a 12—hour flight from cardiff, where they won last night, leicester city's players and staff are attending a funeral for their late chairman. they are joining buddhist prayers for vichai sivaddhanaprabha, tonight and tomorrow night. the players havejoined members of thailand's business and political elite, paying their respects for the billionaire. he died in that helicopter crashed just over a week ago with four other people. a 33—year—old man from lincolnshire has become the first person to swim right around the british coast. ross edgley crossed the finish line off the kent coast in earlier this morning, after swimming 1,800 miles. he'd been in the water for up to 12 hours a day since the start ofjune. describing his swim, ross

it in one of two ways, either he can become the spokesman for a hate filled mob and watch a poor woman and her family be lynchede from the threat of violence and help her into asylum, either in the united kingdom or canada or the united states wherever she chooses to go, because i think this is a clear case of freedom of conscience leading to genuine fear rapid intrusion or death. -- fear of persecution or death. downing street has dismissed a call by more than 70 business leaders for a referendum on the terms of the brexit deal, saying the vote has already been held two years ago. in an open letter, the executives say the proposals under discussion would leave the uk worse off than if it was still in the european union. the signatories include the chief executive of waterstones, james daunt, and the lastminute. com founder, lady lane—fox. with me now is our political correspondent jonathan blake. what else are these business leaders saying? a group of more than 70 expressing their frustration about brexit in this open letter to the sunday times. a couple of other of the names people might recognise, justin kin

about the state of the country at that point, that there was a lot of mob violence going on, anti-slavery editors being killed, lynchings in the south, and the rule of law was not followed. and he worded in such a time of anxiety it would rise somebody above us who might try to tear down rather than build up, who would have authoritarian aspects. he said you might be a joy is caesar -- there might be a julius caesar or a napoleon coming on. the only thing was to reinstate the rule of law but remember the ideals of the country. he was worried that the memory of the revolution were already fading so that people were forgetting what we were founded for, so we counsel every person to read about the revolution as mothers read their bible to their children. and that that was the answer to motivate again the memory of the ideals of the country, to fight against the possibility of such a thing happening in our democracy. so your question raises that perfectly. these anniversaries are incredibly important. history is so important, so that we think about what these other people dead, how we got through how we got to those times h

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he referred to special counsel mueller and his staff as a lynch mob. you know, mr. president, when i saw general flynn on the 2016 campaign, a three-star general screaming lock her up, i said something is wrong. a general shouldn't do that, no matter what their political views. well, when the special counsel mueller refers to -- when the acting attorney general of the united states refers to special counsel mueller and his staff as a lynch mob, it's way over the top in a similar way. and whitaker has openly mused about how to grind the investigation to a halt. there is simply no question that mr. whitaker enters his role as acting attorney general with a clear bias against the russia investigation. essentially, mr. whitaker has prejudged the outcome of an investigation he now oversees. that's awful. that's not america. that's so highly political in a bad way. in light of this, two things must happen. first, we are demanding that mrm the russia investigation. on sunday, i sent a letter along with leader pelosi and top democrats from both houses and the relevant commi