If people are held to what they are said prior to being in this house, if Majority Party gets to decide who sits on what committees, i hope you keep that standard because we have a long list to work within your own. Paul thursdays near partyline vote came a day after House Republicans overwhelmingly chose cheney in her leadership post after she came on fire from some numbers for voting to impeach president trump. Lets bring in our panel. Deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger, Colonists Can Strassel and kyle peterson. Why did liz cheney her leadership post even after members were saying her fate was sealed. The boat wasnt even close in the end. Kim i think its because were hogans came to understand this was a symbolic vote in a way, it would send a terrible message if they were to vote her out because it would suggest they were purging her from the party were disagreeing with donald trump. The reality is, theres a lot more going on here, a lot of frustration among the ranks over t
i m yasmin vossoughian in for another busy hour. this morning we re tracking major developments in each of the three yes three separate investigations related to the 2020 election and the big lie spread by the former president and his allies. first in the justice department investigation. a source telling nbc news mark short, former chief of staff to mike pence appeared before a federal grand jury on friday to discuss what? we ll get into that. second n the house january 6th committee investigation, the panel revealing in crucial deposition clips how the former president was reluctant to condemn the capitol rioters the day after the attack. third, the investigation in fulton county, georgia and the setback for the da probing the former president and his allies attempts to overturn the 2020 election. we want to bring in nbc knew capitol hill correspondent ali vitali is joining us, michael schmidt, msnbc contributor, and glenn kirschner, msnbc legal analyst. glenn, let me
that causes the disease was found in london sewage samples. symbol of an era a new statue is unveiled to the so called windrush generation who arrived in the uk from caribbean countries in the 1940s. and glastonbury is back after the pandemic. the crowds are heading to the music festival in england, hoping for sunshine. hello. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. more than 1,000 people have been killed after a major earthquake in eastern afghanistan. many more have been injured as the 6.1 magnitude quake damaged countless homes in one of the poorer regions of one of the poorest countries in the world. afghanistan, which is governed by the militant islamist taliban, is already in the grip of a humanitarian disaster with millions facing famine. the taliban have asked for international aid. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is in sharana, the capital of paktika province, where casualties from the earthquake are being cared for. a desperate search for
and polio virus has been detected in new york city s wastewater. what that means about how the virus is spreading and why some may not know they have it. and congresswoman liz cheney in a fight for her political career in wyoming s election next week. new day starts right now . it is saturday, august 13th. welcome to your weekend. we re grateful you made us a part of it. a lot of news to get to this morning. new this morning, we now know the potential crimes that the justice department cited in its warrant to search former president trump s florida residence. federal agents were investigating federal crimes associated with violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. so, in total, the fbi seized 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including some material marked as top secret/sci, that means sensitive compartmented information. that is one of the highest levels of government classification. go docum
rescue bill of my lifetime is now very likely to be signed into law. saturday after an all-night session, senate democrats passed the $1.9 trillion covid relief package in a strict party line vote. democrats all voted yes. republicans all voted no. because senators made some changes to the bill, it now has to go back to the democratic controlled house which is expected to pass the identical senate version this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. so the bill would then go to the president, president biden for his signature. take a step back. we re in the early part of march. right? we re not at the 100-day marker yet. this is an incredible victory for both the country, the biden administration, the democratic party, which held together. amid unified opposition from congressional republicans. they didn t get a vote in either house. they tried to break the party apart. that s republicans did. by forcing tough votes on amendments and arguing against the bill in public. but in th