Can. Welcome to columbia, South Carolina, we have a crowd, arent primary is less than a week away, 50 delegates cup are grabs, winnertakeall. Evening, former South Carolina governor and former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley is with us. First, a look at some of the headlines that were following. Former President Trump slamming a new york judge for fining him more than 350 million in his civil fraud if trial and banning him from Running Companies in the state for three years. The former president denied overvaluing his properties on financial statements. He says that the ruling will make businesses leave new york. Listen here. The decision yesterday in new york, you may have read about it, crooked judge, crooked judge. [background sounds] hes a crooked judge. By a radical leftwing judge was a lawless and unsal a atrocity. Its a sham case. There were no vix, no defaults, no damages, no complaints, no nothing. There was nothing. John President Biden apparently mixing up
postponing all public facing royal duties. we ll go live to london. the state of emergency in california as crews race to save people and pets from flash floods triggered by a monster storm with up to 8 trillion gallons of rain expected to fall. the dramatic new images just coming in. the growing pr disaster for boeing. first it was a mid flight blow out. now it s misdrilled holes. what the faa is saying today about those 737 max planes. plus, will the fifth time be the charm? secretary of state antony blinken returns to the middle east with hopes for a new gaza truce that could lead to the release of hostages. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with nbc s meagan fitzgerald who is outside buckingham palace with the breaking news on the king s health. what do we know at this hour? reporter: chris, according to buckingham palace, we understand that as the king was undergoing treatment about a week and a half ago for a benign
making his way from the airport here. he s just wrapping up a cross country tour speaking with americans living this day in and day out. they re baring the influx of migrants and in some cases, people part of gangs that are now in this country. they are disturbing a lot in these communities. i will also speak with senator marco rubio on the battle over whether the bill that congress is debating will actually fill what is wrong. i know that s a question on a lot of people s minds as we look at all of this. but first, secretary of defense, lloyd austin, facing reporters just a short time ago and taking responsibility for this secrecy that he put in place over his hospital stay. now also addressing his work at hand. whether the white house s defensive plan in the middle east is ineffective. the message has been deterrence, deterring the attack by the houthis, deterring the attacks by the malitias. has deterrence failed? our goal is to make sure that we contain this crisis in
rnc meeting which shows the maga elitism problem the party faces. this is behind the closed doors. the r fl rnc meeting has a behind the doors closed meeting. this is a departure from the past. you can see how it used to look in the old days. take haley barbour, 94 rnc chair or michael steele who so many people know from the similar meeting they held when he was chair to the closed press secret meetings. this is a file photo that shows the contrast over the years, the tightening secrecy. why is it a secret? the rnc is clearly trying to duck any further pressure, scrutiny or efficacy to end the employ primaries which would have tried to declare the primaries over and trump the nominee. the rnc said haley should drop out, trump has to be the winner. this morning nikki haley did something unusual, something trump hasn t done, which is face questions from a different and more adversarial set of interviewers. she went, just like biden has, to the breakfast club and took the que
reception from congressional lawmakers both sides of the aisle during explosive hearing today. but, first, china s very bad intentions for the u.s. via hacking. the head of the fbi sounding a serious alarm tonight. correspondent david spunt has details. good evening, david. bret, good evening. fbi director christopher wray chooses his words carefully and his words today sobering. china s hackers are positioning on american infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real world harm to american citizens and communities. wray warned lawmakers during a hearing on cybersecurity and china s aggression. he says chinese hackers outnumber u.s. cyber personnel at least 50 to 1. u.s. intelligence agencies identified hundreds of routers that have been taken over by a china-backed hacking program called volt typhoon. the program injected malware into u.s. sectors like energy communications and water treatment. china s intent? to destroy or degrade the civilian critical