Have been hit the hardest. This is the first earthquake of such magnitude to hit the area in more than 100 years. Lets go right to nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley. What do we know about the efforts that are underway . Yes so far we are seeing local authorities and the military trying to bring people out of the wreckage. As you, said the death toll is now at 8000. It was only a couple hours ago the death toll is at 800. A couple hours before it was at 600. As you know from the earthquake that happened in turkey back in february, they have a way of climbing very high after Rescue Workers are able to get in and extracting dead bodies. Thats when we start to see these numbers going up and up. As you mentioned this is a 6. 8 magnitude earthquake according to the geological survey. That is the strongest earthquake to strike this country and 123 years. As you mentioned, this was in the high atlas mountains. About 50 miles away from the historic city america. There was some damage
hi, bret, how are you doing? bret: good. i appreciate it. good evening, welcome to washington. breaking tonight, actually moments ago, president biden telling democratic donors in boston, quote: if trump wasn t running, i m not sure i would be running. insisting democrats cannot let the former president win. we ll talk more about the president s messaging later in the show. meantime today on capitol hill, jewish students at some of the top colleges and universities in the country said they are in fear for their lives on campus. those students and some top administrators appeared on capitol hill today. the educators were grilled about their school s failure to provide protection in the midst of anti-semitic incidents. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill tonight with the latest. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. tonight, the presidents of those universities are defending their actions, even as jewish students who aren t on thei
some 240 hostages. i believe it s going to happen. president biden suggesting china s economy hz real problems ahead of his meting with xi jinping today. relations are at their lowest point in half a century. we want to signal to the american people and our allies that he is engaged with china in a responsible way. a government shutdown likely averted. speaker johnson had to rely heavily on democratic votes to get this over the finish line, and a few fistfights as well. i got elbowed in the back ask there was kevin. if i hit somebody, they would know i hit them. stand your butt up then. you stand your butt up. we re looking at the impact of a party that is not a functional party. this place is a pressure cooker. good morning, everyone. welcome. happening right now, israeli troops are carrying out an operation inside gaza s largest hospital. a palestinian journalist tells cnn there s been intense gunfire as soldiers search the complex and interrogate yo
thank you home for joining us this hour. i am jump into gun, because this has been a heck of a day in news. the united states supreme court for the first time ever has issued an ethics code for serving court justices, first time. first time in our history. and, honestly, we have had some terrible justices in our history. it s not like everyone before this was good, so we did not need rules. we had a justice resigned ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery. we had a supreme court justice reveal to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got referred to the court. we had a justice who was so antisemitic, he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. you would not speak to justice brandeis for years, because justice brandeis was joyce. that guy was such a thorough jerk, when he died, not a single one of the other supreme court justices even bother to go to his funeral. we have had some bad ones, i tell you. but we have never before had a hole w
they 70s dirt on scene cnn breaking news. welcome to inside politics. i m dana bash and we start with a monumental supreme court decision on the power of the presidency the highest court in the land is just ruled that donald trump is entitled to some level of immunity from prosecution for actions he took in the final days of his presidency it could put big parts of the election subversion case against him in jeopardy and sets a critical new precedent for future commanders in chief the split 6-3 opinion was authored by chief justice john roberts, who writes in part, we conclude under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure. for an office. at least with respect to the president s exercise of his core constitutional powers this immunity must be absolute he also said that there are some parts of what the president does. tha