fascinating snapshot of business. we will start with the economy, where it recorded a growth of 0.01%. they fell by 0.8%, underscoring the impact of the ongoing strikes on the cost of living crisis. hardly booming, but a far cry from the record breaking recession that the bank of england was protecting six months ago. on thursday, they announce a major rethink of its forecast, said the uk will avoid going into recession. the bank also raised its main interest rate again by .25%, but is why it sets. it is the 12th right in a row and puts the cost of borrowing at around a 15 year high. areal cost of borrowing at around a 15 year high. area i spoke to stephen nolan, a lecturer at liverpool in economics, and asked him why the uk is lagging behind the other common needs. . . , is lagging behind the other common needs. . ., , ., needs. there are a number of factors, needs. there are a number of factors. but needs. there are a number of factors, but when needs. there are a numbe
stephanie s one-on-one with two time winner of rupaul drag race james monsoon. her message for those attackin members of her community 11th hour gets underway on thi friday night good evening. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we might be just days away fro finding out whether donald trump will be indicted by grand jury in manhattan. tonight, nbc news has learne exclusive state and federal la enforcement are preparing for possible indictment as early a next week. five senior officials tell nbc this involves conducting preliminary security assessments and discussing potential security plans nbc s laura jarrett has more no charges have bee announced but behind the scene officials are focused on how t secure the area around the criminal court building in lower manhattan for what could be an unprecedented moment - a former president in cour arraigned before a judge nbc news reached out to all of the agencies involved. all have declined to comment the crux of the gr
appointed to investigate classified documents that were discovered at former vice president and likely presidential candidate mike pence s house, right? documents returned according to an adviser for the former vice president mike pence. aides to former vice president mike pence found a, quote, small number of documents bearing classified markings during a search of pence s indiana home. according to the archives and the fbi collected the classified documents from the home on january 19th. the discovery comes as a shock, sort of. given that pence stated over and over again since his former boss s home was searched by federal officials after he failed to turn over classified documents to the national archives that he, mike pence, did not take any classified documents with him. this is what mike pence said when asked about it to cbs s robert costa just over ten days ago. he was asked a specific question, did you take any classified documents with you? watch. our staff reviewe
very different timelines when it comes to the appointment of a special counsel when it comes to the handling of classified documents. merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of some classified documents. his appointment follows the development that a second set of classified documents were found, these in a storage space in the garage of president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. the president s lawyer said it was a small number of documents. watch. on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. based on mr. laush s initial investigation, i concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. as i have said before, i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraord
and google searches local information another data could now be used as evidence of a crime in states that are banning abortion i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. let s begin with the news that dropped in the dead of night from the january six committee. chairman bennie thompson has issued a subpoena to the secret service, requesting text messages and other records related to the capitol insurrection. , that subpoena, issued days after the committee learned that the secret service might have erased texts, from the january 5th, and january 6th, of 2021. now, after those messages were requested by the department of homeland security s inspector general. the secret service, claiming the messages were lost in a data migration but the agency has for decades, now been accused of destroying evidence, and evading congressional investigations. we will have more on that in, just a moment. but news of the subpoena, following a jaw-dropping hearing from the committee, early