florida lawmakers can w disney on the docket, the one that ended the tax district after the magic kingdom came out against the don t say gay law. i m hallie jackson in washington, but let s start with nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter, and nbc news meteorologist bill karins. let s take a look about what we know about the story that has developed quite a bit over the last 18 hours or so. very strong earthquakes, two of them, in a region that includes part of turkey and syria. the first was early in the morning. 7.8 magnitude. the second later in the afternoon, 7.5. we know at least 3,000 people are dead. it s very likely that number, horrifically will go up. rescuers on the ground, countries around the world promising to send help as well. the quakes took place near the turkish city, pretty large, population, more than 2 million people, people as far away as egypt and israel felt this thing. that s the difference between new york and chicago. i want to get to molly
administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. i want to start by doing something that i don t do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn t do that until a week after it entered u.s. airspace. they re saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms. they are premature, and they are political. presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nation and basically explain these things early on, and his failure to do so, i don t understand that. i don t understan
lawmakers have rarely sought to make public confidential taxpayer information. there is some precedent. now we ll see a whole new one today. we ll go live to capitol hill this morning. what time are we expecting these to come out is what everyone really wants to know. reporter: this is going to happen around 9:00 a.m. so just less than an hour at this point and we are mere steps from the house floor where this is going to get entered into the congressional record. what you should expect to see today is the ways and means committee will release a press release that will include the following documents. one of them, trump s personal federal tax returns for the years between 2015 and 2020 as well as the returns for eight of his business entities. here s where the real treasure trove of information could come from, additional work files that the irs might have as they were looking over former president donald trump s taxes. we should talk about the importance of this moment bec
Have been criticized by fans and artists alike. But we are not here today because live na conduct is inconvenient or frustrating. We are here we allege, that conduct is anticompetitive and illegal. Our complaint makes clear what happens when monopolist dedicates its resources to entrenching its monopoly power and insulating itself from competition rather than investing better products and services. We allege that live nation has a monopolized markets across the live concert industry in the united stes it is time to break it up. Ticket master made itself ubiquitous in the industry. It directly manages more than 400 artists and controls more than 60 of concert promotions across the country. And or controls more than 60 of large we allege to dominance, live nation relies on wf anticompetitive conduct to exercise its monopolist to control over live Event Industry in the United States and over the fans, independent promotors and venues that power the the result is that fans pay artists have
The doj alleging the Live Entertainment Conglomerate Monopolized markets and boxed out rival companies. There you see at the Department Of Justice, the podium is set up. These companies, the Department Of Justice is alleging, unfairly have resulted in higher prices for consumers. 30 state and District Attorney generals are joining in the lawsuit. Dominic chu, good morning. What exactly the basics . What does livenation doo, how do they they make their money and what is the government accusing them of . This is a suit highly anticipated for quite some time now and hit a fevered pitch, got a lot more traction a couple of years ago when livenation took a lot of the heat for the botched handling of ticket sales for taylor swifts concert tour at the time. That whole ordeal of dropped sales, long lines and reportedly outrageous prices eventually led to even a congressional hearing on what exactly happened. Now, today, the Justice Department made it official, earlier just this past half hour