Pacific waters of pullout are becoming a beacon of hope. And timely harding with sport saudi arabia. Football champions and while there defends his heavyweight boxing title with yet another devastating knockout to win his rematch with. Us. And we begin this hour in hong kong where polls have just closed in local elections the turnout has been the highest in the citys history more than 2800000 people thats nearly 70 percent of registered voters cast their ballots now more than 1000. 00 candidates are running for 452. 00 District Council seats of recorder of the councils are also part of a Large Committee that votes for hong kongs chief executive now this is the 1st election since the antigovernment protests began in june and is seen as a political tests for kerry lands government. In a moment well go live to rob a broad in hong kong 1st though hes got with this report. In a hong kong neighborhood hardest hit by battles between protesters and Police Voters in manchaca cast last minute ba
In the United States, are expected them to cut rate another quarter point, dropping the ball on all of this and president declaring not even two weeks ago that hes an enemy, reminder how easy it is to make friends in the city, dow 75 points, lets get the latest first on the trade front on whats going on there and growing talk that at least the talks are back on and so far no one is throwing dagerds. No one is throwing at each other, the jobs are fundamentally strong, 130,000 jobs in august, 3. 3 over the past months, the white house economic adviser say it doesnt really matter that the jobs missed the estimate because the Labor Force Participation edged up. The people on the fringes of this come are coming in and getting jobs, if you peel back some of the numbers, consumer is still spending and thats in construction 14,000 jobs in construction, half in Residential Home construction, people buying homes, consumers are buying, the other half divided among specialty trade construction and
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Im Chris Jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york. As we speak, gaza is being decimated by punishing air strikes. Israels Defense Minister is emphasizing that this is phase one, warning of a potentially monthslong invasion designed to wipe hamas off the earth. The latest sign this could explode into a wider war. Plus, the Herculean Task ahead in the house as nine men square off in the attempt to claim the cube yous honor of becoming house speaker. What are the chances this produces more gridlock and chaos . Well have a live report from capitol hill. And what is potentially a 10 million question. Were Donald Trumps defamatory comments about the writer e. Jean carroll covered by president ial immunity . Hell test that theory today in court. We begin overseas with the war pushing into a more dangerous phase, already spilling beyond its initial borders. Today the Israeli Military announced it sent tanks and infantry on a series of limited raids deep into gaza, escalating beyond the a
8 00 a. M. Pacific, im jose diazbalart. The House Oversight committee is holding the first hearing of the Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. The Committee Says this hearing is focused on the basis for that inquiry. House republicans are presenting evidence they say they have uncovered about the president s knowledge of and role in his familys domestic and International Business practices. The white house has rejected assertion that biden abused his office to enrich his family. With us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc News White House correspondent mike memoli and paul butler, former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at the Georgetown University law school. He is an msnbc legal analyst. Ali, bring us up to speed of whats been happening so far. Reporter look, this is the first hour, jose, of a very lengthy day on capitol hill, the first Impeachment Inquiry hearing were seeing republicans launch who have got all three Committe