says will quote, end a painful chapter. the new details on the tentative but huge civil settlement between doj and victims of the 2017 sutherland springs church mass shooting. why intelligence officials are keeping a close eye on russia and china right now after trump s indictment what they re trying to stop from happening. and republican house speaker kevin mccarthy threatens alvin bragg with action on the hill. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments i want to go first to nbc s ali vitali who has been following the threats from house republicans against bragg. we heard what donald trump had to say last night with alvin bragg, now speaker mccarthy is jumping in what s his angle. reporter: look, for mccarthy, it s more of what we have seen from him even before the trump indictment became official, we watched mccarthy mobilize here on the hill three powerful committee chairman from oversight, judiciary, and administration, all asking alvin bragg
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. we begin with global markets in turmoil in the wake of the failure of two major commercial banks, svb and signature bank in the united states. global markets, asian shares closed down sharply as investors fear further bank collapses to come. european stocks have been climbing though in the last few hours, a mixed performance now, but trying to find some footing this europe. and look at u.s. futures, they are up slightly. we ll try to make sense of all of this for you in a moment. one place you don t want your investment dollars right now, regional bank stocks. first republic shares first more than 60%. western alliance bank corp down 47%. driving the u.s. market overall, extreme fear. according to cnn business fear and groeed index. clare sebastian is joining us now. explain why u.s. futures are up again. yes, and there has been five straight down sessions, basically a week of losses le
good evening, we begin tonight with two developments into the january 6th investigation. the first concerns john eastman, the trump lawyer who cooked up the scheme to overturn the election. the one that former white house attorney eric harshman told to quote, get a great criminal defense lawyer. we learned tonight that the fbi has seized his phone. eastman did nothing to dispel suspicion when he went before the select committee, took the fifth over and over again. i assert my fifth amendment right to being compelled to be a witness against myself. did the trump legal team ask you to prefer a memorandum regarding the vice president s role in the counting of electoral votes in joint sessions of congress, 26, 2021? doctor eastman, did you advise the president of the united states that the vice president could reject electors from seven states and declare that the president had been reelected? fifth. doctor eastman, the first sentence of the memo start off by saying tha
outfront tonight, new evidence, january 6th committee abruptly scheduling a hearing for tomorrow. last week, said no additional hearings until next month and then suddenly a hearing scheduled for tomorrow as the committee released only a brief statement, including quote, recently obtained evidence and witness testimony. this is a very sudden reversal for the committee and it comes at an important context. we just learned federal agents seized the phone of trump s election attorney, john eastman, man who presented trump a road map for overturning the election. someone who was right there, front and center, in trump s ear in the days and weeks ahead of the deadly insurrection. and someone who was working the phones for trump. so his phone is now seized. here s just some of the testimony we ve heard so far about the importance of john eastman. and what it, dr. eastman want you to do? that we would in fact vote, take a vote, to overthrow, or i shouldn t say overthrow that w
following the breaking news tonight. good evening, matt. good evening, bret. fox news digital has confirmed there are deaths from that train crash today but the number is unknown right now. amtrak says this afternoon the train going from chicago to los angeles was derailed when it hit a dump truck that was blocking a public crossing near minden missouri. amtrak says the train was carrying approximately 243 passengers and 12 crew members. in addition to deaths, our fox affiliate in kansas city is reporting at least 50 people are injured. video and picture appear to shoat horrifying chaos after the crash. some flipped on their side passengers crawling out of them. incident response has been activated. new video shows ambulances and hospitals arriving to a university of missouri hospital in colombia. that hospital confirming to affiliate kmiz that they re expecting at least three patients from this derailment halfway between kansas city and st. louis. the missouri highway patr