the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi had to pay a penalty to settle a multi million pound tax dispute. an investigation ordered by rushi sunakfound he had broken the ministerial code. our political editor, chris mason, reports. nadhim zahawi arrived in the uk as a child, unable to speak english. he became a multimillionaire and rose to be chancellor of the exchequer. but tonight, his political career and reputation is in tatters. in a 2,000 word letter to the prime minister, the government s ethics adviser is devastating in his criticism of mr zahawi. sir laurie magnus says. minutes after the prime minister had sacked his party chairman for what he called a serious breach of the ministerial code, the questions began. for a start, why hadn t he got rid of him days ago? as a general rule, i think it is important when allegations are raised that they re investigated promptly. bu
cruise missiles. at this hour former trump lawyer michael cohen is before a manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments made to stormy daniels. straight ahead what he told us as he enter had courthouse. and the assurance from president biden to americans worried about their money after the collapse of two big banks in a matter of days your deposits, he says, are safe our nbc reporters are here with the latest developments. and that s where we begin on wall street, where the markets have been up and down all day after the president tried to convince americans the collapse of those two banks is not a reason for alarm cnbc s senior markets correspondent bob pisani is at the stock exchange what s happening there well, there is some relief and there is some confusion, chris. there is relief because the government stepped in and essentially made all of the depositors at silicon valley whole by saying you re not going to lose a dime that was a great sigh of relief o
and what we ve now seen is those searches were not only incompetently done because the bureau found additional documents in the wilmington residence after the searches took place but green lighting having people without security clearances look for classified documents that they were not authorized to see, which is virtually what biden is under investigation for. dana: if i could make a point then. if you remember, it was president biden s legal team said in january that they had looked at the beach house and there was nothing there. dana, not to cut you off but they also said that about the wilmington home, right? they serarched at least twice. then the bureau, we don t know how much stuff they missed. bill: it is possible, gentlemen, that he could have had documents everywhere in multiple locations. the story is still ongoing. you have a spot in washington, d.c., a spot in wilmington, delaware, maybe one along the shoreline in delaware. maybe there is information and
christmas the night before christmas and all throughout the country, good luck for those trying to travel anywhere in the country. more than 11,000 flights cancelled or delayed in the u.s. just today. bad for travelers that can t get off the ground. bad even if you re not traveling because that package you re waiting for might not get to you. fed ex and ups say they are worried and close to 1.5 million americans are without power. fox on top of a country frozen in place with mike tobin in chicago where they re used to flight cancellations but nothing like this. madison alworth in newark, new jersey with a lot of travelers that have had it with this. max gordon in new york where major flooding worries are adding to all of this. fox weather meteorologist steve bender on just how long we re all going to have to deal with this. so forget about who will see a white christmas. the race is on for millions of americans who are having a devil of a time getting anywhere before christma
the scourge of human trafficking is one of the biggest crises of our time. 25 million around the world are being pushed into firelessed labor or sex trade against their will. generating $150 billion every year. a lot of that activity taking place right here at home in the u.s. we see human trafficking across all 50 states and really it can happen in any of the 50 states. last year in 2021 the national trafficking hotline had over 50,000 calls into the hotline and more than 16,000 of those were likely survivors of human trafficking. bill: eric shawn is on this story more on how it can happen and what is being done to put an end to it. good morning. good morning. one of the heartbreaking tolls of the migrant crisis is human trafficking. the product moved by those cartels are people. trafficking for labor or commercial sex work is a booming business in the southern border. the feds say trafficking has been lucrative for the mexican base trans national criminal organization