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
Dont look now, but the border crisis is back with a vengeance and a big concern among president ial candidates that make that a primary start. Why tim scott shows this time to do it. Scary numbers are probably the reason. Kevin corke has more. Kevin . Griff jenkins. I apologize. Look out, kevin corke. Neil my bad. Ive covered the border forever. Theres a reason why tim scott isnt just going to the border for a photo open. Hes going there because the situation is not under control. Sources tell me that Border Encounters are trending up, averaging between 5,000 and 5,500 a day across the entire southwest border. Cbp says they seized more than 22,000 pounds this fiscal year alone as mexican cartels tightener that grip on the border. Heres senator scott. As president of the united states, i would sign the legislation i created that would freeze the assets of the mexican car tens. We have the power to do that. Just a few hours area, jason owens tweeted this saying yesterday Border Patrol ag
We spent too much. Im disgusted by it but it is what is and democrats dont think it is the problem and the fed will bring money, this isnt anything new. Weve never known a situation like this where the political calendar and a litigation calendar mary up like this. No one knows. China is provoking dangerous intercepts. One of them could lead to combat. What can we trust about this government . This should never happen in this country. This is dangerous. It has transcended something that means that something is not right. Stuart shania, it is a nice upbeat song. Here we go. It is friday august 4th. On the market, nice again for the dow, up 200. It is up 91, green for their. They are all up except for apple which is sharply lower, disappointing Earnings Report yesterday, down 3 . Amazon powering ahead 11 . Microsoft is up one. 6 for alphabet and smaller gain from meta but they are up, apple down. Show me the yield on the 10 year treasury, it is going down. 418, first thing this morning,
there s new reporting about the story that broke late yesterday, 40 subpoenas going all the way up to line to top people in trump s orbit. it s all about coup and insurrection. we have more on that. also something i told you about yesterday, bill gates is on the beat tonight in depth. climate change, inflation, public health, a.i., the metaverse. what he says we the west owe africa, not a conversation we have every night on the news. as well as a discussion about how mr. gates got somewhat involves in talking to joe manchin about what he says are good ideas by joe biden. so we re going to get into all of that. but we begin with republicans and the push to roll back women s rights at a time when democrats say it s wrong on policy and human rights and that they have a political answer that they think could help win the midterms. here s lindsey graham introducing a bill today. this is news right now, not a drill, that he says would ban abortion nationwide. i think we should
Congressman thompson of pennsylvania chairs the house Agriculture Committee. Congressman Glenn Thompson of pennsylvania chairs the house Agriculture Committee. The Committee Comes to order and thank you for joining the meeting, the dangers china imposes to the department of agriculture. After brief we come to order. , good morning and thank you for joining todays hearing entitled the danger china poses to american agriculture. After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from Witnesses Today and then the hearing will be open to questions. Traditionally we do questions with panels of our colleagues. I know that the governor is interested a full five minute round with the governor and the second panel will be five minutes of questions is normal. Good morning and thank you to all for being here for a timely and necessary conversation about the threats that china poses to agriculture. The peoples republic of china governed by the Chinese Communist party, which is where the th