Senior figures running and advising the BBC have been questioned about the crisis at the broadcaster, which has been threatened with a $1bn lawsuit from Donald Trump. The BBC's director general, Tim Davie, and the head of news, Deborah Turness, resigned this month after controversy triggered by the leak of a memo written by a former external adviser. Their departures followed a disagreement over how to respond to the memo from Michael Prescott,
I really think that we are going to have no other choice, Laura, except to take Speaker Johnson to court if he refuses to respond to us, if he doesn't quickly swear in Adelita Grijalva, again depriving her of the ability to help her constituents, said Mayes: We've had some flooding out here in Arizona. She has no way to help those people in southern Arizona who have been impacted by that flooding.
