candidates running for congress is shocking, all we expected, not at all what republicans on capitol hill are saying. more evidence there is a disconnect between republicans in washington and everyone else. it has been 15 years since the global financial crisis since 2018, a long time but it hadn t gone away. consequences still define our world. why is u.s. government so deeply in-depth. how did wall street get so much money. why are housing prices so high? leaders stoke racial conflict. why so many americans conclude the system is so rigged. the answer to those questions the same, it all began in 2008. 2008 and aftermath is a complex story. let s sum up in the broadest possible terms what happened. big financial institutions took foolish risks and nearly blew up the u.s. entire economy. nobody was ever punished. the rec press bankers responsible got off, so did the politicians encouraged to be reckless. no one was banished from the industry. some of the wrong doers dot their
mid-terms. cross-country winter storm having a major impact bringing blissard conditions to the upper midwest and significant icing through the great lakes as it heads to the northeast. more than half a million customers losing power so far. transportation secretary pete buttigieg finally visiting east palestine, ohio nearly three weeks after the train wreck there. the ntsb will release its initial findings today and we ll have more on those stories throughout the hour. but first republicans getting a close-up look at president biden s border crisis. the house judiciary committee is holding a field hearing today in yuma, arizona to find out how illegal immigration is affecting the local community there. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. you were just there in yuma. bill: we were down there. i m bill hemmer. good morning. they were getting read at the for this at the time. i was told at least some members of the democratic party or staff would a
now on bbc news it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. venezuela s authoritarian leader, nicolas maduro, has, for the moment, outmanoeuvred those forces inside and outside the country intent on his removal. last month, the opposition gave up on their own alternative president and indicated a willingness to negotiate with maduro. in the us, in latin america and in europe, they seem ready to engage with the caracas regime, not least because oil supplies are at a premium. my guest is leopoldo lopez, long time venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner, now in exile in spain. is it time for him to acknowledge failure? leopoldo lopez in madrid, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity. it s great to have you on the show. back in 2019, your big idea as a key leader of the venezuelan opposition was to undermine socialist president nicolas maduro by creating an alternative president and an alternative
the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there are un
you can buy me a boat [laughter] rachel: i m sorry, we didn t mean to karaoke that, but it s so good. will: welcome to fox & friends. st the new york boat show later coming up in the show. pete: that s what i want. pontoon, baby. will: you want a pontoon? because it s the nothing but a good time. pete: it s just a a floating living room rachel: with a cooler in it. will: one that had a couch on it, an actual couch that he put on it. [laughter] pete: that s amazing. rachel: i love that. sean loves his boat. he likes to wake board though, and some of the boats are can do that. pete: i boated at your house, and i made the neighbors angry. rachel: yeah. he jet skis way too close to the shore, is and some of the neighbors got mad. we just told them, listen, when pete comes over, he just does what he wants. pete: you are definitely a boating family. rachel: yeah, we do love to water ski and wake board. best place in the country. will: we ve had conversations throughout the mo