brand-new this morning, a cnn poll that is a huge flashing warning sign for president biden. support sagging among democrats. plus, the one republican who holds a clear lead over him and it might not be who you think. the flipping has begun. a worker at mar-a-lago strikes a deal with a top investigator overseeing the federal documents probe. a closer look at what the man known as trump employee number four has to offer and how much it might hurt trump s case. pennsylvania authorities are still on the hunt for the inmate who has been on the run for a week now. that is despite multiple sightings and even his escape being caught on tape. i m kate bolduan alongside john berman and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. an incumbent democratic president losing support among democrats. voters including democrats with concerns about his age, his handling of the economy, and his son s alleged criminal activity. that is what president biden faces this morning as he prepares to l
the d.o.j. indicting the president s son on nine new tax charges, three are felonies. a maximum prison sentence of 17 years. you ve already made it. it s friday. dana has the day off today. she drew the good straw. i m bill hemmer live in new york. welcome back. martha. martha: two more hours and it is good to be with all of you and bill with you. i m martha maccallum. this is america s newsroom on a friday. there is a lot popping this friday morning. bill: the list is pretty interesting. we were talking about it. martha: getting ready for your morning coffee and how hunter spends his money. it centers on a four-year period where he failed to pay his taxes and most of you pay your taxes but he went several years according to this indictment, if everything is in it turns out to be factual. so he spent a lot of money. look at line number two, various women $683,000. adult entertainment at the bottom $188,000. that was more expensive than his legal fees. bill: if you r
to six and then five and then four. we know who we re dealing with. we re dealing with a ruthless - and fanatical terror organisation. we saw the sort of violence - that they committed against innocent civilians on october 7th. and just tonight in the people | released i ve received the list, there are two three year old twins. yes? who kidnaps three year olds? only a brutal, ruthless terrorist organisation. | so we have few illusions - about who we re dealing with. but as president biden| said on friday, he said, hamas understands one thing and that s pressure. - thank you for coming on the programme. external pressure building from the us and un for a longer extension. mark expects ten hostages for everyday letters but i wonder the longer this goes on the harder it becomes for the israeli government. it’s harder it becomes for the israeli government- harder it becomes for the israeli covernment. , . , , government. it s a pretty impossible situation. good government
any alternative to donald trump, who s ragged this party through several losing elections now. you probably saw or heard some of that debate which did not seem to clarify a ton, except perhaps how much the vac has managed to alienate everyone from nikki haley to eminem, a sentence we didn t know we d commit to here on msnbc. it was vivek who took the mic and actually told republican candidates and voters something they have not wanted to hear this week. that they are in the middle of an ongoing, rolling, epic losing streak that is not stopping. we have lost 2018. 2020. 2022, no red wave that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. that is just a mathematical fact, whatever you think of the messenger. it cannot be spun by pundits or trolled out of existence in the echo chamber of elon musk s anti-free speech version of twitter. it can t be buried under the type of fake news that really animates so much right-wing discourse from the internet to actual insurrections.
we start in the us where the federal reserve gave financial markets a double boost on wednesday. it says the world s biggest economy will recover much faster than it was predicting a few months ago as vaccines are rolled out and government stimulus cash begins to flow. and it has put to rest for now fears that higher interest rates are around the corner. the fed has promised to keep them close to zero until the recovery is complete. michelle fleury has more. jerome powell was surprisingly forthright. he said he is in no rush to pull support from the economy. with 9.5 million jobs still missing and spending on travel and hospitality still weak, the fed chief said the bank was committed to keeping borrowing rates near zero until the job is done. the job is done. today, interest the job is done. today, interest rates - the job is done. today, interest rates were - the job is done. today, | interest rates were kept the job is done. today, - interest rates were kept near