Cant believe that theres going to be a close election. You know, were leading in the polls Brand New, this hour, as the race for the White House kicks into high gear, Brand New Cnn Polling, it shows a dead Heat Race in critical Battleground States. And detroit, michigan. Are you ready to have your voices heard after slipping from red to blue . In 2020, michigan shaping up, yet again to be key to unlocking victory in 2024, were going to take a deeper dive into this critical state and the Justice Department files criminal charges against the leaders of hamas for the October 7 attacks as the White House looks to forge a Ceasefire And Hostage Release Deal all right. 5 00 a. M. Here youre in washington. A live look at Capitol Dome on this wednesday morning. Good morning, everyone. Im Kasie Hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us the Post Labor Day sprint to the White House is on a new Cnn Polling just out this hour shows a Neck And Neck race. The polls conducted just after the end of the de
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
like a lot of fun. their politics there today to enter tim scott from arkansas governor asa hutchinson both expected to speak in this hour. we will bring their remarks live when they speak. top story percy prime suspect suspect in the top 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway. remember this question ricky is one step closer to extradition. jordan is serving time in peru for a separate murder conv conviction. was transported to maximum-security prison in the capitol city today. he s about to be transferred to the united states. you may recall natalie went missing 18 years ago with high school vacation trip to aruba but she was declared dead in 2012 but her body has yet to be found. meantime in alabama grand jury to indict and 2010 on charges he tried to extort money from her family. claim he could lead them to hurt remain so will his return by the break the family needs? and so desperately want? charles watson with the breaking development in the fast-moving case hi charles.
house to capitol hill with the collision of two historic and deeply connected events. the first, the ongoing crisis over the house speakership still unfolding in the house at this moment, which just voted to adjourn until 10:00 pm tonight after 13 votes took pl. and the speaker was still not elected pickett is something that has not happened in american politics in 164 years. since before the civil war. the second event, the anniversary of the january 6 insurrection. the worst attack on the united its capital in centuries. the commemoration today took place at the white house where pres. joe biden awarded the country second highest civilian honor, the presidential citizens will to 14 people who were instrumental in making sure that american democracy survived the coup attempt by the ex-president and his republican allies. it is group that includes first responders, officers, as well as election workers like ruby freeman and shane mossberg we have a chance to speak to two of t
for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need to build a whole bunch of new stuff. you need a whole bunch of new or retooled or expanded facilities to build that stuff. you need a lot of people to work in those facilities, so they need a place to live. the math is simple, right? on paper, that s all very rational. that all just follows. it s very logistical. it makes sense. in practice, though, it was its own kind of war. while detroit resi