tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we
life-threatening cold already moving into the midwest. the northeast bracing for wind chills in some places 50 below zero. rob marciano with the late forecast. was a potential mass shooting plot hod foiled by the lapd? tonight, the suspect in custody, and what they found in his 18th floor apartment over sunset boulevard. an arsenal of loaded weapons, high-powered scopes. matt gutman reporting. the new jersey councilwoman, a rising star, just 30 years old, shot and killed in her car. that community in shock tonight. police now appealing to the public for help. on the hill tonight, the vote in the house. the gop majority removing democratic representative ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. the congresswoman and her speech today, and what she said this was really about. rachel scott live on the hill. a dramatic day of testimony in the alex murdaugh trial. the defense grilling authorities about what they found or didn t find the day after the murders. and pros
think they believe that the impeachments of president trump were illegal, were totally political, and so they have they believe they have a constituency that wants to see them strike back in the same way at joe biden. i think kevin mccarthy is responding to that constituency. so we may be in that situation that you described. we may be in a situation where impeachment becomes a phase of a presidency. elise, there is a comic aspect to watching mccarthy speak like that, there is a political aspect, but there is also a tragic aspect to it, in the sense of, are we watching a democracy collapse in full, public view, in plain view, that these people like mccarthy are
breaking the law, something the justices of course are not supposed to do and, that would mean that the doj should investigate. take a listen. how low can the court go? the highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards. what is so hard for them to adopt a code that every other court has to abide by? only supreme court justices refuse to allow their conduct to be investigated or reviewed. it s a coverup in plain view. the supreme court alone among federal courts is okay with that. it is really striking, and it s ultimately quite sad that it took something of this nature to expose all this to many american who is know that the supreme court makes decisions about your life, your rights, if you re ever on death row, it s the court of last resort who decides whether you get executed by the government or not. it makes big decisions, and yet it is not accountable to even a
so, look, the problem that kevin mccarthy has is that, you know, he can t cooperate because that would risk the wrath of mar-a-lago. a lot of these folks know that, you know, the orders have basically come down from donald trump, that they should not cooperate. this is a cover-up, an obstruction in plain sight, in realtime, in plain view. they are willing to make the tradeoff of all of this, but this should not stop the january 6th committee, i think, from getting to the bottom of all of this. and i actually, even though i m often skeptical about these things, i do think that the way this committee appears to be going about its business leads me to believe that they re going to have a lot more avenues to get to the truth than some of these, you know, topline headlines might suggest. clint, liz cheney talks about trumpism as a threat to the country and to democracy the same way liz cheney has talked about other threats to the