Good to be with you. Im katy tur. Mitch mcconnell is stepping down as leader of the Republican Party in the senate, a position he has held now for 17 years. What is going to change . Mcconnell has been hugely effective as leader. He single handedly blocked President Obama from filling a Supreme Court seat, refuse to go hold a vote on merrick garland. Coming up with a novel and hugely controversial policy that Supreme Court vacancies cant be filled in election years. A policy he immediately said did not apply when President Trump had the chance to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburgs seat just before november 2020. From the Supreme Court to the federal courts across this country, no Single Person has arguably had a bigger impact, confirming 228 judges in the trump years alone. Almost all young, White Conservative men who will be able to serve for the rest of their lives. In spite of that success with trump, mcconnell has also been seen as one of the last guardrails against maga. Holding firm on uk
good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, march 15th. thank you for waking up with us. here are five things to know this morning there are new tensions between the u.s. and russia over the downing of a u.s. surveillance drone. they clipped the drone over the black sea forcing it to crash. russia denies the accusation claiming the drone fell on us own. yeah. and another day of jitters over the fate of america s banking system seem to be easing slightly. stocks of some regional banks bouncing back after suffering declines. fallout is far from over. doj and scc investigating the collapse of silicon valley bank. also this morning high stakes case over abortion pills set to get its day in court. a federal judge in amarillo, texas, will hear arguments over a lawsuit that could disrupt access to the pills nationwide. protests are planned outside the courthouse. also the faa is convening a rare safety summit after seven close calls at airports. the faa says the flight cros
a fifth general election in four years could benjamin netanyahu return to office? hello and welcome. the chief inspector of prisons in the uk says that the government the chief inspector of prisons in the uk says that the government must the chief inspector of prisons in the uk says that the government must get the chief inspector of prisons in the uk says that the government must get a the chief inspector of prisons in the uk says that the government must get a grip. the chief inspector of prisons in the uk says that the government must get a grip. a report saying the centre was working reasonably well but since then it has deteriorated significantly with conditions are described as rigid. once an airfield now a migrant centre stretched before its capacity. it was designed to hold up to 1600 migrants for 2h hours, it is now struggling with almost three times that. a report today from the prison watchdog raising fresh questions over how the home office has managed arrivals si
into those numbers. remember stephen colbert had someone arrested for trespassing on capitol hill last month? we got all the details in just minutes. press, police are labeling a 22-year-old man a hero because he used his legally own a gun to take out a mass tutor and in india and nepal. some of the left is a pressing him will not save lives. gun control bill. we ll debate that with our law enforcement panel. we begin with president biden back in washington tonight, facing tough economic realities and sinking poll numbers along with criticism of his trip to the middle east. white house correspondent. good evening. good evening, good to be with you is always. a return trip to washington, d.c., with not much in the way of deliverables. critics of the president s recent trip to the middle east even worse, when they return home, he did so to a steady drumbeat of negative news. will inflation go down from here, mr. president? hoping inflation will go down. not exactly channe
off? what dollars amount is more important than american lives and values? and the house speaker leaves today for asia. an important trip but her itinerary still unsettled. the big question will she visit taiwan and test what china means by the perish by fire warning? we begin with multiple developments in the january 6th investigations. more missing records. more important cooperation. fierce preparations now for a daunting court battle. the washington post reporting late last night there is yet another batch of missing text messages. sources telling the newspaper texts from donald trump s homeland security chief chad wolf and his deputy kent cuccinelli are reportedly lost to a reset of their government devices both potentially critical witnesses to a number of important trump episodes including a presidential demand to seize voting machines. there is this, too. brand new cnn reporting that justice department prosecutors are now preparing for a courtroom war to compel