the 20—time tennis grand slam champion roger federer won't play again this year after having anothertial procedure in february but suffered a setback in rehab so went under the knife again. 0ur tennis correspondant russell fuller has more.. there are clearly far worse years to miss, although next time roger federer it steps on a tour court to play competitively, he will be well into his 40th year. he would have been an outsider at roland garros when the delayed french open takes place. if the us open takes place, given the struggles he has had with the humidity he in latest years, he is unlikely to have one. he also thought to travel with a family, twins and children would be impractical. last time he did this with knee problems in 2016, he took half a year off and won the open in 2017. cricket now, and west indies captain jason holder says his team were put under no pressure to tour england this summer. they're the first international side to come to the uk since the coronavirus outbreak, when they arrived yesterday. the three test series starts next month at biosecure venues withou

and obviously with all the sports news as roger federer says he'll miss the rest of the year because of surgery and professional boxing returns to the ring in the united states for the 1st saw him since the coronavirus stoppage. thank you very much for joining us more than 2 weeks after his death while being arrested george floyd has been barry's in a funeral service in his hometown of houston texas floyd was hailed by family and friends as an ordinary man transformed fades into the cornerstone of a movement his killing target protests across the u.s. and iran the world against racism and police brutality john hendren reports from houston. george floyd's tragic journey ends in a houston cemetery but across the u.s. the movement he inspired continues a montage of demonstrations in floyd's name plate is his funeral displays his legacy and inspires a call to action from civil rights leaders god took to reject its salt and made him the cornerstone of a movement as quote saved the whole wide work friends and family remember the man they knew is perry or big floyd and mormonism umbrella. a

some sports now tennis great roger federer sais he will not return to action until next year often needs surgery the 38 year old is using the coronavirus break to fix a nagging injury wimbledon was to just toss this month but has been cancelled federal will miss the u.s. open which is set to take place from late august and the rearranged french open in september and now the 2021 season is now widely expected to be federalists finally give a full retirement he's won a men's record 20 grand slam singles titles. some football and the german cup semifinals where 4th chair clubs are broken wasn't able to put off the david versus goliath upset that many were hoping for the dream ended with that the blue. the team leyva couzin coming up the winner. or just 11 minutes into the game and his side never. knocked in the 2nd goal and a few minutes later in the 2nd off it was kareem bell of robby putting an explanation point on the 3 you know when you have a cruise and will pay the window option knights of the save the final win by munich i dropped from fish. and a reminder of the top story we're foll

and we have one sports item for you at tennis great roger federer says he will not return to action until next year after deciding to have nice surgery the 38 year old is using the coronavirus break to fix a nagging injury wimbledon was due to start this month but has been cancelled federer will miss the u.s. open which is set to take place from a late august and a rearranged french open in september the 2021 season is now widely expected to be federer's final year before retirement has won a men's record 20 grand slam singles titles. thank you for watching dear abby news will be back at the top of the hour there with us. africa. hygiene measures during the corona crisis in rwanda is expensive 'd and disinfectant are virtually unattainable 'd. but a young businesswoman has decided to improvise. in her distillery she produces disinfected. africa. w. d 2 you know that 77 percent market are younger than 65. that's me and me and you. and you know what time all voices. on the 77 percent talk about the issue up my. front porch to flash from housing boom boom town this is where it is. welcome to

really more sort of his way to the top in the latest edition of the world ranking swiss tennis star roger federer knocked off christiana rinaldo and lionel messi for the top spot in the highest paid athlete in the world world number 4 is the 1st tennis player to grace the top spot since the ranking started a 1990. federer's estimate have earned $106300000.00 over the past year the men's record for a great time grand slam title single title made the most of his money from georgians and appearances on all their messy though they now set to 3 not too bad while only 2 women i am your stock answer in a williams made the top 100 pretty incredible all right thank you for that regina and you don't go anywhere we'll be back at 7 pm with a lot more news for you we will report on the ground from minnesota where protesters have all but destroyed the 3rd police precinct in response to george white's death we'll take you there all that and more coming up at 7 to keep up with everything in question at all times make sure you download our brand new free app it's called portable t.v. you can watch there 247 manil

more way served his way to the top in the latest edition of the world rankings so as tennis star roger federer knocked off christian out or not on lionel messi for the top spot in the highest paid app in the world the world number 4 is the 1st tennis player to grace the top spot since the rankings started in 1990 federer's estimated to have earned a whopping 1.106.3000000 dollars over the past year the owner of the men's record 20 grand slam singles titles made most his money from endorsements and appearances are now though and messi said it still a comfortable 2nd and 3rd respectively and only $2.00 women and the stock and serena williams made the top 100 to do a sport with a much larger ball spaceballs than played s.k.y. burns look to extend their win streak when they headed to show one south korea to face off against illegal leading n.z. dynamos top of the 1st with the fans in the stands wyverns left feeling young human with a deep r.b.i. salable left field that want to score former major leaguer jamie romo as one to nothing later in the 3rd baseman choice young * on the at bat hit a 21 dou

documentary the one day taking us back 12 months to see the amazing day when of novak djokovic beat roger federert lord's. russell fuller. thank you. that is all your support for now but i will have more for you in the next hour. thank you, a bit more from you later. good afternoon, you're watching bbc news, i'mjane hill to ta ke watching bbc news, i'mjane hill to take you through the next hours of coronavirus news and much more besides. we will start with the gdp figures because they are figures for april which saw the economy shrink by a fifth. the prime minister has been giving his reaction to the numbers, and was also asked about calls from his own mps to reduce the social distancing guidance to one metre, and about the recent wave of anti—racism protests across the uk. let's hear from the let's hearfrom the prime let's hear from the prime minister. we have always been in no doubt this would be a serious public health crisis but also have big, big economic knock—on effects. i'm not, i'm afraid, surprised by the figures we have seen. the uk is heavily dependent on the services, we are a dynami

in his decades long career 1st win over a number one seed came at the age of 17 in 2004 against roger federer the doll reach a world number one in the 80 ranking in 2008 at 22 years old and spent over 289 weeks as world number one and just last year in 2019 the doll at the age of 33 became the oldest year and world number one in history just gets better with a. change to a different sport with different had a ball the 7th place katie with hosted the 3rd place just on bears in the cave in a bid to climb out of the bottom half of the league in search of a much needed win that's cost vic and dory yes pronounce like victory just hanging around the at the stadium cheering on the waves and they should have bombed the 1st with left fielder mel rojas jr with a tune on double to right field that will support joe young hole and a big gong and catcher gets just 28 with open scoring to nothing above the 4th with 3rd base and one with a solo home run to left field you can actually hear it this dance with go up 3 nothing against their gas bombs that bears you get a chance to shine and joe young called the

in sport — 20 time tennis grand slam champion roger federer won't play again this year after having anotherproving fatal around the world — but also the measures to deal with it. in india 300,000 children could die from severe malnutrition — after millions of daily wage earners were laid off during the lockdown — and are now struggling to feed their families. divya arya reports. too much hunger, too little food. withjobs gone, it's a fight for survival. hunger was always an issue here. but this desperation is new. for these children just outside the capital delhi, even one meal a day now feels like a triumph. shiva is just one—month—old. his parents rely on daily wages to buy food, and like millions of others, they lost work after the government announced a lockdown in march. translation: we used to cook rice, rotis and vegetables before the lockdown. our children ate well. now they remain hungry because we have no money and no work. these children are too young to understand why this is happening. children under five are vulnerable to severe malnutrition. india is the worst in the world, w

. >> roger federer one for the only time in 2009 in 1981 it was the onboard -- grand slam when.1986 it was the 18th and final slam when for chris everett. >>> along the line it was no longer enough to wait for the baby to be born to find out when he saw the images. we must now celebrate with what is generally known as the gender reveal. the raiders quarterback is already the father of three sons, celebrating the fact that his wife is expecting a baby girl. there you have it. very much part of pop culture these days. >> always an exciting moment, whether a boy or girl. >>> next 11:00. >> i love going on calls with him. >> a santa cruz county deputy killed in an ambush, remember tonight and described as the picture of community policing. >>> hundreds of people gathering this afternoon, the same time the call went out that sergeant damon gutzwiller had been shot . >> we are learning more about the alleged killer, and active- duty sergeant stationed at travis air force base. the fbi is looking into whether the suspect also has ties to the shooting death of a federal security guard i

when you look at someone like serena williams who turns 39 in september, roger federer turns 39 in august two things in the year 2020, win wimbledon and wanted to win olympic gold in singles. now if tokyo happens next summer, and hopefully we'll both be there, he's going to -- this guy is going to be crowding 40. he's lost basically a year, a season of his career in -- toward the end of it. he's much closer to good-bye than hello. so all kinds of athletes i think are feeling all manner of things. i think for the younger players, the players working on their games and whatever sport they're with, they can be working on technique on their mental toughness, for all those using this time well, that's great. for other people, the clock is really ticking. >> mary carrillo, my friend, so great to see you. please do not eat cheetos where you are right now. >> i'll try. >> always good to see you. >>> let's get back to capitol hill. there's a live look at the floor of the u.s. senate. we're just about an hour away from a major moment in that chamber. after months of protests calling for change, soo

roger federer will miss the rest of the 2020 tennis season after having another operation on his white need the 20 time grand slam champion suffered a setback it's very hard after his 1st procedure in february federer has not played competitively since his australian open 7 final defeat in iraq joke of the age and with much of the season where not particularly the virus pandemic he's decided to focus on a return in 2021 so federal will miss the u.s. open in august and we might see rafael nadal and djokovic so good that i was says as things stand he's not comfortable playing in new york one of the cities hardest hit by congress while djokovic shows the tournament's vargas restrictions the 2 extreme are true to many and to be more pretty stupid anyway i wouldn't have access to tennis courts wouldn't be able to train and only one person would be allowed to come with me to the club so right now it's likely overturn the clay tournament so the french open i hope we can play before that in new york but there must be some sort of compromise between the players and organizers. manchester city f

discussing discrimination by the world number one dylan all caught he was backed by novak djokovic and roger federer the u.s.d.a. says it will work with wheelchair fleets to try to find a solution this is competition will go ahead without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic that's what we'll leave it for now more sports news again later thanks so much he said round that it from me and starting to tame for this news hour but don't go away i'll be back in just a moment with more of the day's news here on out of the. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such their minds as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against eastern islands we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and fire mentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy rewinded tens. i. ran on the past about to see a documentary by the compelling way money and done by the hard line. rewind to ga

discrimination by the world number one dylan all caught he was backed by never talk of it and roger federer the u.s.d.a. says it will work with wheelchair athletes to try to find a solution this is competition will go ahead without fans because of a coronavirus pandemic again equally with a phenomenal sports for me again later thank you very much. now the pakistani activist malala yousafzai has celebrated finishing her degree in philosophy politics and economics at auction university in the united kingdom the nobel laureate posted a photograph of herself it is covered in cake and confetti as you do after traditional student festivities she's been a global advocate for girls' education since she survived being shot in the head by the taliban 8 years ago a future plans are still up in the air but for now she says she'll be reading watching netflix and trying to get some sleep. let's have a look at some pictures coming to us live of ongoing protests out in the french capital of paris some of the messages calling for justice for the people to him a black man who died in a police operation in 20

disgusting discrimination by the world number one dylan all caught he was backed by novak djokovic and roger federer the u.s.t.a. says it will work with will to athletes to try to find a solution this week's competition will go ahead without fans because of the coronavirus a pandemic that's where we'll leave it for now more sports news with me again later nick pretty yes we'll see what becomes of us something like that thank you very much and that is it for this news or early but we'll be here with another full half hour of news in just minutes but i mean o'clock in the city it wasn't. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. they call them see days knowledge property subdivided into small quarters where one or more families live crammed together is the only option for many haitian migrants in chile and it's public knowledge that they are exploited by unscrup

the 20 time tennis grand slam champion roger federer won't play again this year after having anotheragain. our tennis correspondant russell fuller has more.. there are clearly far worse years to list, although next time roger federer steps on a court to play competitively he will be well into his 45th year. —— mega years to miss. he would have been part of roland garros. if the us open happens, given the struggles he has had with humidity in recent years, he was unlikely to win that title. he also thought travelling with a family, two sets of twins, during covid—19 restrictions, was both unappealing and possibly even impractical. one positive note, the last time roger federer did this with knee problems in 2016, he took the second half of the year off and confidently won the australian open in 2017. the captain of the west indies cricket team, jason holder, says he feels assured their tour of england will be safe. they're the first international side to come to the uk, since the coronavirus outbreak, when they arrived yesterday. the three test series starts next month, at biosecure v

ways to reduce costs but they are not considering a cancellation. 20 time grand slam champion roger federer says he will miss the rest of the 2020 tennis season after another operation on his right knee the world number 4 has not played competitively since he's a strain in open semifinal defeat to novak djokovic in january he then had an operation on the joint the following month and with much of the season written off by the coronavirus pandemic federer has decided to focus on a return in 2021 so federer will definitely miss the u.s. open in august and there's doubts over the world's top 2 taking part as well novak djokovic and rafa nadal adult says he's currently not comfortable playing in new york one of the city's hardest hit by the virus joke of it says the tournament coronavirus restrictions are to extreme and hinted he may instead return at the rishi dual french open in september which are too many and to be more pretty stupid anymore i wouldn't have access to tennis courts wouldn't be able to train and only one person would be allowed to come with me to the club so right now it's li

on february 10th of this year, federal prosecutors submitted their sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years in prison for roger stone in line with federal sentencing guidelines. >> i remember being at roger stone sentencing, and being outside the courthouse and just waiting for the moment when the president was going to weigh in in real-time. it just felt inevitable. and then of course, the president weighed in on twitter. specifically on judge amy berman jackson, and calling into question her fairness, calling into question her credibility. essentially suggesting that she was out to get roger stone. >> an unprecedented action on the part of the executive who traditionally would keep his hands off. >> criticizing a federal judge in the midst of the sentencing of roger stone. a blatant attempt to interfere in the carriage of justice. a president just doesn't do that. >> one of the most damaging things the president has done has been to disparage and really verbally attack individual judges. it undermines the rule of law because judges need to be independent. >> hours later, attorney general barr ignited a fires

we know roger federer is injured but we expect to have a great field. lot of players that are just anxious to get back to competition. they haven't been able to work for six months and this is an opportunity combined with playing the western and southern cincinnati open in new york the week before the u.s. open. this is an opportunity to reopen the sport for our athletes. neil: i can understand any of the players, even if serena williams tests positive for covid-19, she's not playing, but what if they come in that day and have a temperature? they're not playing? >> no, that isn't necessarily the case. we have testing that will be done on site in the player hotel and that lab facility will be physically on site so that we can turn test results back quickly. they will be screened by our medical staff. they can execute repeat tests if need be. typically we have a day off in between each round so our medical advisers will evaluate each situation independently, but we will have the opportunity to test athletes right there on site with rapid sort of response.

federal case delayed sentence of roger stone, friend of donald trump. comes as an effort to pardon stone. first, what does this mean and how long can roger stone have a delayed sentence? >> not much longer. originally june 30th. he asked for a 60-day extension based on health concerns over coronavirus. the judge said, hang on a second. i want to make sure the justice department is not giving roger stone preferential treatment pap few days ago we saw testimony from an original stone prosecutor he had been singled out and given preferential treatment by the justice department for political reasons. eventually the judge gave roger stone a postponement, but a brief one, until july 14th as you said. hanging over all of this, the possibility of a presidential pardon. the clock is ticking. we've seen roger stone using social media to lobby for a pardon. we saw the president retweet that. something's got to give here in the next two weeks. either the president officially pardons roger stone or else roger stone is going to federal prison. >> i have to ask you ab

the federal judge in the roger stone case is demanding an explanation of that stance by the justice department by tomorrow. the hearing today also happened within hours of two conservative judges on a federal appeals court ruling that the judge in the michael flynn case has to go along with them wanting to drop the case against flynn. even if the judge believe has the prosecution of mike flynn was dropped for a corrupt reason or even for potentially an illegal reason. the two conservative judges on the appeals court ruled that the judge in the flynn case has to go along with it anyway. he can't inquire as to what made the justice department drop that prosecution. remarkable ruling from the appeals court. very, very controversial. we are basically counting down waiting to see if that ruling is going to be appealed potentially to the supreme court, which would be quite a dramatic turn. i should also mention -- you may remember we had congressman jerry nadler on the show here on monday night. that's when he said in the interview that he did here that he was preparing a subpoena for attorney gener

before i go, time to tell you that roger federer has tweeted in the last hour to tell everybody thatonies and on street corners to ‘clap for carers' to show our appreciation for key—workers. now there is a call for everyone to come together one last time on sunday 5thjuly for a nationwide clap to mark the birthday of the nhs. we're joined now by prerana issar, chief people officer for the nhs and kwame kwei—armah artistic director of the young vic. thank you forjoining us, and coming to you first of all, how are you involved and why are you involved? i'm involved because i think we are stronger together than as individuals. what the nhs and what this time has shown us is that actually we appreciate that the nhs has been there for us and we understand that we are better together than we are as individuals. iam here together than we are as individuals. i am here because i think it is important that even though we have lived a socially distant life for the last few months, our social connection with each other needs not just help but we need to underline it and we need to make sure that

you know the answer, you'd be swarmed by federal agents, roger stoned with the help and complicity ofnn and npr and so many others. there's no question, you've seen this happen before. to a remarkable degree, federal law enforcement star driven by political imperatives. certain kinds of so-called hate crimes top the list of priorities. they will draw the fbi faster than you put some of the local police to your house during a home invasion. even when, as is so often the case, they turn out to be hoax hoaxes. meanwhile, actual hate crimes, brutal crimes in which americans are gravely injured are ignored completely. they take place on our streets with shocking regularity. i mean, they don't cover them. they often go unpunished entirely. that's not speculation. there's quite a bit of video on it online. some of it very recent. we're not going to show you the clips. if you're interested, go to the twitter feed for the matt walsh blog before twitter pulls it down, you'll get the point. but you already know, laws are not applied equally in america. some victims are considered more deserving

. >>> jennifer rogers is a former federal prosecutor for the southern district of new york. she is a senior legal analyst, joining me from san diego, california. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. good to be here. >> another firing on a friday night. this has happened before from this administration. what do you make of it? >> it's not prisurprising they would try to get rid of jeff berman in manhattan. it's not astonishing. first, he was removed without his consent. he issued his own statement, about half an hour after bill barr's press release, saying i did not resign and i will not resign. berman is saying, until there's a senate-confirmed replacement of me, i'm not going anywhere. we have to see where that leads. that will lead to litigation in court, over who the u.s. attorney in manhattan will be. >> i was going to ask, who makes that decision. that could lead to a crisis in the justice department, perhaps. could it? >> it's highly unusual, because berman was appointed by the judges of the sdny, not confirmed by the president because the president didn't appoint him i

well, actually on that front, interesting news tonight from the federal district court in washington, d.c., where trump campaign adviser roger stone, who was convicted on seven federal felony counts related on his efforts to serve as a conduit between the trump campaign and the entity that was publishing material stolen from the dnc during the last election -- roger stone had been due to report to prison early next week. he's due in prison on tuesday. now, as you know, attorney general william barr has inserted himself into the stone case already to insist that the sentencing recommendation for stone be lowered. the federal prosecutor quit the case in protest and then became a whistle-blower about that this week when he testified to congress about barr interfering in the case to protect the president's friend. but facing the prospect of reporting to prison on tuesday of next week, roger stone's defense team this week asked for a delay. so instead of reporting to prison next week, he could put it off and not report to prison until september. what is interesting in this case given what's happened thus far, is that the justice

. >> tucker: a federal judge has ordered roger stone to report to prison in about two weeks by july 14th. once he reports, stone will be imprisoned for three years and four months. he apparently missed remember the details of emails related to a debunked conspiracy theory, the whole thing added up to nothing and yet for doing that, he will spend the rest of his healthy life in prison and do much more time than almost any of the violent criminals who have destroyed our city. burnt businesses, looted them, torch police stations, terrorize the population for the past month. you were shot dead, you'd think cnn would send a special news crew to capture the man who killed you, no, they wouldn't, but they did that for roger stone and they are relishing his suffering. they care more about putting roger stone in prison than about punishing looters and arsonists. why? the same time they want the mccloskey family arrested in the same reason they want michael flynn in jail, the same reason they want anyone critical of black lives matter to be fired because stone oppose them, he mock them. he can get

live desk, i'm following a high stakes testimony on capitol hill today, a federal prosecutor is expected to tell congress that roger stone a close ally of president trump was given special treatment before his sentencing. abc news has obtained a copy of aaron zelensky's prepared remarks which says that i was told that the acting u.s. attorney for d.c. htimothy shea receiving pressure to cut stone a break. he was told that shea was afraid of the president. the justice department says that mr. zelensky's actions are based on his own interpretation of events and hearsay at best, not firsthand knowledge. stone was convicted last year of lying to congress. zelensky and his team recommended that stone be sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison. stone was ultimately sentenced to kumasi. >>> the board of superintendent has approved a proposal on the november ballot to expand voting rights in local elections to 16 and 17-year-old residents. right now you have to be 18 to vote in the city of san francisco. voters rejected a similar measure four years ago. backers believe younger teens should have a bigger voice in san francisco.

a federal prosecutor is expected to tell congress that roger stone, a close ally of president trump, was given special treatment before his sentencing. abc's alex presha has more. >> reporter: this morning the justice department under fire accused of giving a more lenient sentence to roger stone, president trump's longtime friend who was convicted of lying to congress. >> roger, what is the message you want to send to the committee today? >> the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> reporter: aaron zelinsky is set to testify on capitol hill today. in his prepared remarks obtained by abc news, zelinskyiltell lawmakers he saw favorable treatment for stone with his own eyes and, quote, i was told that the acting u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, timothy shea, was receiving heavy pressure from the highest levels of the department of justice to cut stone a break adding that he was told that shea was afraid of the president. in response the justice department issued a statement saying mr. zelinsky's alles concern asarsay at best, not firsthand knowledge. zelinsky a

well, tonight, we're hearing an extraordinary allegation from a federal prosecutor who helped convict the president's friend, roger stone. that prosecutor plans to tell a congressional committee tomorrow that he faced pressure from the highest levels of the justice department to go easy on stone. here's cbs' nancy cordes. >> reporter: assistant u.s. attorney aaron zelinsky says the political influence he experienced in the roger stone case was "deeply unsettling," and rtunpredented. in a detailed 13-page statement, zelinsky says the team that prosecuted the president's longtime friend was pressured to water down and in some cases outright distort the events that transpired in his trial in order to secure a lighter sentence. "what i heard repeatedly" he wrote, "was that roger stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the president." stone was convicted on seven counts, including witness tampering and lying to investigators. but when it came time for sentencing, zelinsky said, higher ups suddenly overrode his team's recommendations in court. "we were not informed abo

one of bars federal prosecutors is testifying today that roger stone was given special treatment ahead of his sentence he because of his relationship. senate democrats have blocked the proposal to overhaul policing practices, saying it does not go far enough democrats said the legislation does not go far enough in addressing injustice, such as making it easier to criminally charge individual officers. for thehumer called senate judiciary to work together on bipartisan legislation. florida continues to see coronavirus numbers climb. health officials say the number of new cases jumped 5.3%. highest the state now has more than 109,000 cases florida began to loosen lockdown restrictions around memorial day. the coronavirus outbreak has been exploding in brazil. officials say it is likely to get worse paired brazil has more than one million confirmed cases second only to the united states. over 51,000 people in brazil have died the president has frequently obstructed efforts to contain the virus, demanding local officials stop trying to close businesses and firing a health minister who push

this is one of his federal prosecutors will be testifying to the committee about the case of roger stone. the issue is if he was given special treatment ahead of his sentencing because of his relationship to president trump. >>> still ahead. new information about the woman who was caught on camera coughing on a toddler in the south bay. >>> the plan to reform the san jose police department after weeks of unrest and clashes with protesters. >>> more hate messages discovered. how one community in alejo is responding as police investigate this as a hate crime. >>> we cannot continue to do what we have done over the last number of weeks. >> call for immediate action to stop the spread of covid-19. what governor newsom is proposing and what he says he is ready to do if cases in california don't slow down. >>> thank you for joining us and welcome to morning son two. >> i am pam cook. it does thursday morning, june 25. we have been talking about heat and wind. let's check in with steve for the forecast. >> it was a windy spring. summer, we expect the fog. a quiet pattern. if inland it is hot. b

and applause that's fantastic in that case, let's get to the news federal prosecutors yesterday, recommended that former trump adviser, rogerne, be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison for lying to congress. then today, the department of justice issued a statement calling for much less prison time for stone and trump said that he had the department what to do. then all four prosecutors in the stone case resigned in protest and then, trump called for the military to pursue legal action against lieutenant colonel alexander vindman for testifying against him in the impeachment trial. and senate republicans blocked three bills to prevent foreign interference in our elections. and lindsey graham and don junior showed up on "fox news" in matching trump merch. [ light laughter ] i guess what i'm telling you is, by this time tomorrow we might be a cooking show. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause multiple federal prosecutors resigned today after the justice department announced plans to reduce their sentencing recommendation for former trump adviser roger stone. pretty unsurprising for someone who looks like the get out of jai

aaron zelensky is one of four federal prosecutors who quit the roger stone case.e committee today he quit when the justice department sentencing recommendation was watered down due to political pressure from the, quote, highest levels. stone, you may recall, is a longtime friend and political advisor of president trump who was convicted last fall of seven charges, including lying and witness tampering in an investigation. zelensky didn't hold back today. here is more of what he told the committee when he testified, remotely. >> what i saw was that roger stone was being treated differently, from every other defendant. he received breaks that are, in my experience, unheard of. and all the more so, for a defendant in his circumstances. a defendant who lied to congress, who remained unrepentant, and who made threats against a judge and a witness in his case. and what i heard, repeatedly, was that this leniency was happening because of stone's relationship to the president. >> joining me now is california democratic congressman adam schiff, chairman of the house intell

a federal prosecutor told a committee yesterday he was pushed by what he calls the highest levels of the justice department to go easy on the president's longtime friend and adviser, rogertone. the testimony followed a federal appeals court ruling ordering a judge to dismiss a criminal case against retired general michael flynn. mr. trump's first national security adviser. nancy cordes has the president's response. >> i'm very happy about general flynn. >> reporter: the president hailed the appeals court ruling as flynn conveyed his joy to radio host rush limbaugh. >> it's a good thing for me, for my family, but it's really a great -- a boost of confidence for the american people and our justice system. >> reporter: flynn pleaded guilty twice to lying to the fbi about his calls with a russian official. but attorney general william barr moved to get the case dismissed last month, saying the fbi should never have interviewed flynn. >> bill barr does regularly lie in ways that impact official action. >> reporter: at a hearing about barr wednesday turned heated at times. >> the american people deserve to know the truth. >> reporter: as democrats accused him of repeated poli

also this week another bill barr story, current federal prosecutor testified before a house committee about the roger stone case where barr had pushed for more lenient sentence for trump adviser, take a listen. >> what i heard repeatedly was that this leniency and they were giving a break because of being afraid of the president of the united states. howie: painted a picture that this was negative for bill barr and he was trying to help the president spare his friend a long jail term? >> ancillary points to shape the story. essentially said the career prosecutors shouldn't testify in front of congress, it should preserve their independence if not so much was made about the fact of the testimony in general that the trump administration has had such an effect on the doj and on especially the leadership at its behest. e note that barely any coverage of former attorney general mike statement that said there seems to be a tendency these days to read into every single one of ag barr's action as having ulterior motive. howie: and, mara, double hearsay. talk about that and the fact -- go ahead. go ahead. >>

. >>> i'm following a high stakes testimony on capitol hill today, a federal prosecutor is expected to tell congress that rogerne, a close am l ally of pret trump, was given special treatment ahead of his sentencing. abc news has obtained a copy of aaron zelensky's prepared remarks that says that i was told that the acting u.s. attorney for the district of cl columbia was under pressure to cut stone a break. he said that he was toold that shea was afraid of president trump and the white house responded that his allegations are based on his own interpretation of events and hearsay at best, not firsthand knowledge. stone was convicted of lying to congress. and zelensky and his team recommended 7 to 9 years. stone was ultimately sentenced to 3 years. >>> the fbi says that noose found hanging in bubba wallace's garage was not a hate crime. video evidence revealed that the noose had been there since last october. the reason was used to pull down the garage door. wallace is the only black driver at nascar's top level and he was just assigned to the garage last week. wallace told cnn he has read that people were sayi

prosecutor working on and then withdrew from the roger stone case plans to testify tomorrow that the team was quote pressured by the highest levels of federal justice to argue for a lower sentence for stone. he plans to tell the committee that quote what i heard repeatedly was that roger stone was treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the president. joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pee that's a charge whispered about, had been blind quoted about, sourced up. now hearing firsthand. what is the justice department saying? >> well, remember what the justice department said at the time was that the attorney general didn't think that that initial sentencing recommendation accurately reflected similar sentences for similar offenses and he thought it was out of line. zelens ze len ski doesn't say where the pressure was coming, hearing from the supervisors the attorney in the acting position feared the president and was getting the heat from the justice department to water down the description of stone's crimes and call for a lesser sentence. interestingly, the sentence that the ju

roger stone. >> the former lead federal prosecutor told the house judiciary committee he and other attorneys werepressure to cut stone a break. >> in the united states of america, we do not prosecute people based on politics. and we don't cut them a break based on politics either. but that wasn't what happened here. roger stone was treated differently because of politics. >> and a clash in the senate today over police reform. democrats block a gop bill from going to the flor to begin debate. is there any hope for bipartisan police reform to pass on the hill this calendar year? unlikely, but let's bring in my coanchor for the hour, katy tur. i'm pretty pessimistic, but we have been pessimistic about this for about a week. felt like this was the inevitable end of this, of at least this period. i'll be curious to see what cory booker has to say when we talk to him in a few minutes. >> me, too. i was reminded on something by something ken buck said to me. he said that a lot of lawmakers don't really want to act. they want to look like they're fighting to act to pass legislation. that way, it gives th

the department of justice is it will not oppose roger stone's request to delay his prison start date. according to a court filing by federalrosecutors they will consider his request to extend the date to september 3rd because of the department's covid-19 policies but the judge overseeing the case is prosecutors did not provide a copy of that policy, donald trump's former advisor is scheduled to report on tuesday to prison. donald trump ripping democrats over the handling of michael flynn's case and be russia probe. >> what they did to general flynn and others is disgraceful. my job is made harder by phony witchhunts, russia russia russia, i was scammed, the country was scammed. >> this comes, after an appeals court ordered it to be thrown out. however, judge emmet sullivan could opt to challenge the ruling by seeking a review from the dc circuit court roster. >> lawyers in the jussie smollett case will testify. they changed their mind saying they would not cooperate. their attorneys says a gunman went missing after being taken during a police raid last year has been found. after staging a racist attack, pleaded not guilty