Bret former President Donald Trump will not have to appear in person for the next hearing hes facing following this weeks indictment regarding alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The trial judge making that ruling today. This comes amid growing questions about the Justice System in the midst of dozens of criminal charges against the former president and multiple investigations involving the family of President Biden. Congressional republicans are vowing a strong response to what they feel is a twotiered application of the law. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. Good evening, chad. Bret, good evening. The g. O. P. Says there are two sets of rules. One for the bidens, another for former President Trump. The right intends to level the playing field. You cant beat them, you persecute them. Republicans believe there is something nefarious going on. It seems as though every time trump goals higher in the poll he gets a new
that voters are going to feel. planning to will quarter of twitter s workforce. members are no longer directors. speech is their enemy. this is why they are going completely nuts. makes it to chupp. takes off. dives. touchdown. everybody wants to rule the world. brian: i don t know if everybody wants to rule the world. more a party wants to rule the country and they want some power and the republicans feel they are poised to do it. we have a lot going on with seven days until the big day. ainsley: one week until this crucial and very important midterm election next tuesday. steve: and you know what? i bet a lot of you have already voted in your state. a lot of people want to avoid the rush. historically republicans show up on election day but that has changed over the last couple of years. on the program today we have all sorts of people from all across the country with seven days to go. as you can see right there senator tom cotton a brand new book and le
in missouri the battle of the two trump endorsed candidates called eric has been decided. and we seem to projects that missouri eric schmidt has won the republican nomination for senate, defeating the former governor eric greitens. and in washington state, the votes is still too early to call for tua publicans running for election who both voted to impeach donald trump. congresswoman jerry her rather butler s leading right now against trump endorsed candidate joe can t. and congressman dan newhouse is leading a tremendous candidate, lauren colp. steve kornacki with us all night, let s go over to the big board and see what s going on right now. i say you ve chosen to talk about arizona first. tell us what you are looking at. a bit of a potential surprise here in arizona, kerry lake, the republican backed by donald trump, former newscaster up there in arizona, had let in the polling in this race, and i think came in today as the favorite. you can see we got a lot of the vot
years, marking the central bank s most aggressive move yet to bring down the soaring costs of food and gas and almost everything else. inflation is not easy. just days ago we learned it s at the highest level since 1981. the fed released a darkening forecast projecting more inflation and higher unemployment. joining me now matt egan. we heard from the fed chairman. he signalled more rate hikes. what did you learn? reporter: well, victor, clearly inflation is on fire. today the federal reserve officially called in help for some reinforcements. taking aggressive steps to raise interest rates and fed officials are signaling that even more aggressive steps may be needed to get inflation under control. listen to what jerome powell just said. we anticipate ongoing rate increases will be appropriate. the pace of those changes will continue to depend on the incoming data and evolving out look for the economy. clearly today s 75 basis point increase is an unusually large one. from
who think they might be having a good night. easy, easy. right. easy but but but. a court leaving the ballot open, diane, saying there are lines there in this race that we know is unusually competitive. it means you keep watching it. now let s come back to where we are as we wait. we still have no votes in in mississippi. we do here for another one. again, in this tough national climate for democrats, you have an incumbent democratic governor in a very red state, 56% of the vote in now. right. i told you earlier, watch down here. and a lot of them are starting to slowly fill in. right. these are the conservative counties. but daniel cameron getting only 51% of the vote there. let s just go back in time to 2019. andy beshear getting 46. so the incumbent did a little better. but here s what you look at here. go back to the presidential race. donald trump getting 74% here. and so the margins, the margins are not going daniel cameron s way. if you know that in the urban areas tha