Chris Barrow
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There was a class of minesweeping ships.
Four of those have been decommissioned very, very recently.
And the other four are based in Japan, in Suspo.
So they are not in theatre at the moment.
The capability, slightly newer than that, is on the literal combat ship, which is a modular ship, so it can be configured to different missions.
So there is a mine capability that can be put onto those ships.
Emma Salisbury.
Now, Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election, which brought Donald Trump to the presidency, has died.
He was 81 and had been suffering from Parkinson's disease.
His investigation did not conclude that Mr Trump had committed a crime, but neither did it exonerate him.
Daniel Lipman, who's the White House and Washington reporter at Politico, has been speaking to my colleague, Rajini Vaidyanathan, about Robert Mueller and the fallout from that investigation.
For several years, this investigation dogged Trump's administration.
It was kind of like a cloud over everything they did.
And it did have some accomplishments.
It got the conviction of Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor for Trump, and Roger Stone, a close Trump ally.
But it never...
got Trump.
And a lot of Democrats feel like Mueller took too long and did not actually do a good job when testifying about this hearing, about this whole inquiry on Capitol Hill.
Yeah, it's pretty unpresidential for most presidents, but Trump is not one to...
have an artificial grief and sympathy at this man's death or other political opponents.