session fears. this hour i ll be joined by dr. anthony fauci to discuss the biden administration s response to monkey pox. the public health emergency and the impact of the most recent covid variant spreading across the u.s. we begin with the new u.s./china tensions. joining us now are nbc chief white house correspondent peter alexander cohost of weekend today and the former nato supreme allied commander. peter, tensions you have been tracking so closely between two major powers, the two remaining super powers, clearly es-kating. i cannot recall any time between the u.s. and china where the military behavior by china has been at this fever pitch. i think you re right. the escalation has increased in recent days with these live fire missile tests in the taiwan strait in taiwan s territorial waters there. so much so that just yesterday nbc news has now confirmed with white house officials the white house summoned china s ambassador to the united states to the white house fo
desperately needs, and it is what democrats will deliver on in the coming days. so up next, the bill still needs to survive a rare weekend session, a parliamentary review and a senate vote-arama. more on that coming up. assuming it passes, it would send democratic members home on top of another win on top of the kansas abortion vote that fired up the base and great jobs numbers today as well. it also adds fuel to the already frenzied pace of midterm campaigns escalating to levels we rarely see today. nbc news now predicts election denier and trump acolyte kari lake is the winner of the republican primary for governor of arizona. she repeatedly claimed election irregularities but now says her supporters, quote, outvoted the fraud. among those endorsing lake, the conservative group cpac, which is now meeting in texas and where the keynote speaker was hungarian prime minister victor orban who was welcomed with a standing ovation. the washington post described it as, quote, a
that we know of. take an amount from him that punishes him. take another amount that ensures that he never does this again. the real question is, will something like this verdict and up making people like alex jones and others, not do something like this again? $49 million award is coming, after sandy hook parents confronted alex jones on what his lies did to them. i can t describe the last night, or even the last nine and a half years that i and others have had to endure. because of the endangerment and the recklessness of alex jones. what was said about me, and sandy hook itself. it resonates from around the world. my life has been threatened. i fear for my life. i feel for my safety. joining me now, former fellow prosecutor, united states attorney, paul, from the database, who has been all over the story from the beginning. what is your response to this new, punitive damaging verdict that just came in? reporter: this is a smart award for the punitive damages. combi
sir salman rushdie, who s now on a ventilator, after being stabbed on stage in the us state of new york. more extreme heat is expected in the southern half of the uk over the next two days. that, as experts also warn england s drought could last into the next year. travel disruption after thousands of train drivers from nine rail companies go on strike across the uk today. it s the latest walk out in a row over pay and conditions. now on bbc news talking business with aaron heslehurst. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. they re the most powerful group of shoppers in the world. but can the american consumer save the world from recession as gas prices, food prices and interest rates rise? i m going to be taking the temperature of the american shopper and ask if it s still true that when america sneezes, the world catches a cold. i m going to be discussing all of that with th
analyst, norm eisen. he was special counsel for the house judiciary committee in trump s first impeachment trial. also cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser, and dave ehrenberg, an attorney for palm beach county, florida. susan, i almost butchered your name so i m gonna begin with you. on this very notion. i gotta ask you, the washington post report is fully frankly breathtaking. i have to ask you, what is your reaction to the reports that they were searching for not just classified documents, but those that may be related to nuclear weapons? not somewhere where it secured under the cover of the federal government, but mar-a-lago? what s your reaction to that? yeah, i mean look laura, this is a very, very serious allegation. this is the kind of thing that government does not screw around about. and obviously, the idea of nuclear secrets being held in an insecure way at mar-a-lago is just extraordinary. and certainly, really changes the conversation in a significant way