Legal experts tonight. Were discussing rico is a powerful charge because it is so broad. It is one of the broadest laws in the nation, the way georgia uses it, as the Washington Post explains, because prosecutors can weave together alleged crimes, violations of state and federal laws, activities in other states, the law as this d. A. Knows well, does not require a defendant to set foot in georgia to be charged. Why . Because rico is that broad, you do need, of course, something to happen in the state, in georgia, but you could be a person who stayed out of state. Maybe youre a busy coconspirator. Maybe youre a coward and send other people to do things for you. Under the Georgia State rico statute, a long as some people have committed these crimes of some kind inside the state, other people can be looped in. Thats one of the ways d. A. Willis came out with this strong, broad set of charges last night rounding up these 19 defendants. Theyre not all Household Names. I want to show you def
That you might have missed. The hthousep of representatives passed a set of Funding Bills needed to avoid a partial government shut down. House speaker johnson said he is pleased with the legislation because it allowed him to make spending cuts. We also advanced as you seen the surgery cuts to some of the agencies that we believe are really overreaching. And have been turned in some ways against the American People. We are going soto cut 3 from doj, 7 from the atf, 6 from the fbi, and 10 from the epa. And thats a start. We have a lot more priorities and things we need to advance but the reality is we have to grow the house majority, take back the senate and win the white house and i am hear to tell you the reason we are optimistic is because we believe the things will happen in november. What happened to my former party. You got a speaker who bragging about defunding the police. He is bragging about defunding the top Law Enforcement agencies in america. He is bragging about defunding t
a state of emergency and massive cleanup after catastrophic flooding. these train tracks left hanging in the air. tonight, the warning from officials that a major vermont dam could overflow. this is devastating. it s a total loss. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has arrived in lithuania to attend the annual nato summit. for not providing a concrete path for his country to achieve membership. norah: more california homes at risk of falling into a canyon after a major landslide. lawmakers grilled pga executives about the tour s controversial merger with saudi-backed liv golf. a brutal, repressive regime can buy influence, indeed even take over a cherished american institution. norah: our series, age of ai. how you can protect your family from phone scams that use artificial intelligence. what you are about to hear is something i never said. hey, this is carter, i need your credit card number right now. i mean, that really sounded like
areas seeing nine inches, higher than hurricane irene. the p.g.a. tour and saudi-backed liv golf teed up for a merger. congress is stepping in. 9/11 families, betrayal to the community. obesity is body positive. neo-nazi and white supremacy ideology. if you are woke, be out of shape, fat, antifa. ainsley: president biden and leaders of g-7 will huddle up on the sidelines of the summit. todd: nato declined to invite ukraine into nato for now. steve: griff, day one got a deal with his best friends. griff: best way to describe what is about to happen is the consolation prize to not join nato. what we re watching any moment is president biden and g-7 leaders will have an official announcement. it wasn t on the schedule. they will announce joint declaration of support, similar to what we give to israel annually and it comes after we just heard president zelenskyy expressing frustration that the summit will end even without a conditional invitation to join nato.
defending mr. biden s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the hard but necessary choice amounted to this. if we didn t do it, if we don t do it, then they will run out of ammunition. if they run outof ammunition, they will be defenseless. every ally said they understand why we re doing this, when we re doing it. my conversation this morning with nato s secretary-general, one day after he successfully worked with turkey and sweden s leader to alleviate concerns and pave the way for sweden to join nato. sweden will become a member of the alliance. that s good for sweden. it s good for turkey. it s good for whole of nato. with both in the alliance, the whole task of protecting the baltic area becomes so much easier for this alliance. this is important for the whole nato, but in particular this region. good day. i m andrea mitchell in lithuania. we begin with the scene moments ago. president zelenskyy at a concert here at nato just hours after he