Large of jurors currents and author of the book the crisis of zionism. Another hour of velshi begins now. Now. Good morning, its sunday oo may 5th. Many republican lawmakers have spent the weekend in Sunny Florida where the gop held its annual spring retreat this year. Some of them will have to face the bleak situation that faces them on capitol hill. Thousands of her presenters will be back in session tomorrow. There is one big issue hanging over their heads. Marjorie Taylor Greene is continuing to bow to force a vote to oust the speaker of the house, mike johnson, which she intends to bring in the floor in the coming days. If you didnt already know, marjorie Taylor Greene is big matt that johnson worked with ha democrats to negotiate the passage of some major bills, particularly the latest package of foreign aid that includes 60 billion for ukraine. Aid to ukraine has become a ne contentious point for Many Republican members, driven in no small part by Donald Trumps opposition to sen
In 2016 donald trump carried michigan with the support of the car workers. Today it wasjoe biden who stood alongside them, the most pro Union President , he said, in american history. But does he support their calls for a four day week, and how will he resolve a strike in its 11th day, that costing the us economy billions of dollars . We will get the thoughts on that and the impending Government Shutdown from our panel this evening in Washingtonjoel Rubin former advisor to the Us State Department and on this side, the conservative commentator and columnist tim montgomerie. Its hsz, the High Speed Rail Linke that weighs on rishi sunak. But if he scraps it where does that leave the plan for levelling up. Leave the plan for levelling up . Well hearfrom one engineer tonight who worked on the project who thinks phase 2 should be dropped. Good evening. It is without precedent. A sitting us president joining a picket line. Joe biden was in michigan today to visit the workers striking against
but, first, the battles over biden s border crisis and big tech dominance playing out in courtrooms across the country. texas a.g. ken paxton leading the charge demanding answers from twitter, google, and the biden administration. here s paxton with me on the program earlier this week. we have asked twitter for basically answers that if they are going to operate in our state they have to answer. it s state law. and despite that, they have taken this to california to ask a california judge about texas law doesn t make any sense to me but i guess i understand why they want to be in california because they don t want to answer questions in texas which they re ultimately if they are going to operate here have to answer those questions. maria: and the questions do not stop there. 21 a.g.s are banning together to save american jobs. suing the biden administration over its shutdown of the keystone pipeline. several other states are fighting the administration in court over its d
Been arrested in east london today in connection with the attack. Well have the latest on the investigation. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. In paris a man has been shot and wounded by police after he attacked an officer outside notre dame cathedral. This is the scene live. The area around the cathedral has been closed and people are being asked to stay away. In Election Campaigning here labour says planned cuts to the size of the metropolitan police force will make it harder to stop Terror Attacks in future. And with just two days to go well bring you ask this your questions to the parties, today its the turn of plaid cymru. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that police have named The Third Man who carried out the attack in the London Bridge area on Saturday Night. He was Youssef Zaghba an Italian National of moroccan descent. Its reported that the italian authorities had prevented him from travelling to syria last year and that he was on a watch list shared with the moroccan a
Lets face it. The big show is going to be the Supreme Court. And i think also the planned parenthood funding. Some republicans are squishy on that. One other thing he said this morning that will cause concerns on the hill from his party was talking about a border tax, instituting a border tax on companies that ship jobs overseas. Thats something when he talked about that after the election, republicans were running away from that. Majority leader of the house, Kevin Mccarthy warned it could start a trade war. Paul ryan started to distance himself from that saying well worry about doing this in a larger tax reform bill. Trump today made it very clear that he wants to go that route. As president , you do have fairly wide latitude to impose tariffs. Does he carry through with some of those threats . I agree with karen. A lot of stuff is symbolic. We knew tpp was dead. A symbolic move. When we get into details of legislative push on obamacare and Supreme Court nominee and on doing things l