july 4 is going to be our birthday. three years from the big 250 and sadly the perception of the state of the unit, our union, not that great of the people in it, americans. 39% say they are extremely proud of our country. a whopping 48% think america s best days are behind us down from 70% in 2011, that was not too long ago. amazing how relevant the warnings and worries still are from 240 years ago even though we see more patriotic back when our country started. challenge number one, spending. not just 2023 think, key concern from america s survivability in the beginning. benjamin franklin of all people born against dangers of overreliance on debt emphasizing the importance of fiscal responsibly for overall health as a country. thomas jefferson similar concern. he says i place economy among the first was supporting the public and virtues and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. we have problems that. alexander hamilton said national debt, if it s not excessiv
her trial. still, no official ruling on that. from the drug. back to you. ,. ,,,,. ,. . a the he it,. ,. the reckless will disregard of e. jean carroll s rights. it is awarding carroll $18 million for deliberating for less than three hours. it included trump storming out of the courtroom and the judge s threats to lock up trump s lawyer. we have reporters and analysts in place ready to go through all of the days big developments for us. o go ti welcome you all. we begin in las vegas where we expect donald trump and vice president harris to be speaking separately just a few hours from now. a little more than a week before voters have their say in both races. my colleague, nbc s liz kreutz is in las vegas. joining me right now. liz, welcome, set the stage for us on what we can expect to see from donald trump later today. might we hear him talk about the e. jean carroll position for the first time publicly? hey alex, yeah, that s the big question. donald trump out of the c
the ongoing disputes. and the darts a 16 year old is the world championship final right now. can he go all the way? we should know in the hours ahead. welcome to the programme. we start with the events and ironic that took place this afternoon uk time. 100 people killed, two explosions, 100 people killed, two 2 bags of explosives detonated by remote control. this picture shortly afterwards. all this during ceremony to mark the anniversary of the killing of qasam soleimani. he was a top commander in the revolutionary guards a branch of the iranian armed forces. soleimani was killed in 2020 in us air strike in iraq. let s ta ke let s take a look at where they were in the southeast of iran, next to the grave. qasem soleimani. 0ur diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley. the first bomb was fired by a second more deadly explosion. it comes four years to the day since he was killed himself. in an american drone attacks all on a visit to iraq. the general was a huge field gear
lanes above, it will take months to fix. fox news correspondent sieve cotton with y update. philadelphia leaders are asking everyone for patience. they are crediting divine both lines of i95 are closed in northeast philadelphia as crews work at the site the of collapse, a truck was carrying gasoline that caught fire. this happened before 6:30 this morning. causing northbound overpass to collapse, about 10 miles of i95 northbound and southbound lanes are closed, officials warn that other streets near the bridge could be closed too. i95 is one of the country s oldest most traveld routes, firefighters arrived to find portions of northbound lanes reduced to rubble, pennsylvania governor saying that crews are trying to identify anyone who was caught in the fire and collapse, public transit leaders are ask employers to be patient with their workforce, saying it will take long target to work tomorrow, philadelphia governor shapiro said it will take a while. northbound side of i9
bring ryan riley, i want to thank him as well, and everyone who was here tonight. i want to throw to another big gun, chris hayes. i toss it to you, my friend. this is one of the biggest nights i think for any of us who are in this business. it is a night of pathos not joy in the sense that the american republic is having to witness this integration of the presidency or the former presidency in the form of the apparently now confirmed indictment of donald trump. now c there is something so different about the manhattan district attorney indicting donald trump for actions that he took in the run up to him becoming the president in in that hush money payment scheme. we have a multi jurisdictional form of justice. they re from different jurisdictions for different crimes. the united states department of justice, this is the sort of republic at its, defending itself against itself in some senses here. it does feel like we are at the, you talk about all the clichés we is about g