facilities in iraq used by iranian backed militants. joey: the act of retaliation comes after three u.s. service members were hurt on an attack on northern iraq. black smoke rising over gaza as the idf ramps up attacks on hamas terror attacks. the intense fighting comes after iran s president issues a threat against israel after one of their commanders was killed. david spunt is live in washington with the very latest. hi, david. one of our service members critically injured. the other two injured but in the critically. still waiting further details on those. the president ordered after u.s. forces came under attack by a drone. the iranian backed militia tied hezbollah and other affiliated groups under the umbrella of iran affiliates. president biden. camp david. let me be clear the president and i will not hesitate to take necessary action to defend the united states, our troops, and our interest. there is no higher priority. while we do not seek to escalated conflict in
yeah, yeah, yeah. thank you. thank you. thank you. however, that feels so good. it s friday, so you know what that means. let s welcome tonight s guests. she runs bikes and swims. anything to avoid the cops. joseph kennedy saves the world podcast. he s the funniest thing to come out of new jersey since chris christie s diet coach, actor and comedian. it s all good as a former miss florida citrus. she never blames the juice. former state department spokeswoman and founder of polaris and security morgan taking. and he s the naughty list for eating sandy s reindeer. new york times best selling author, comedian and former nwa world champion darren. all right. now, before we get to some news stories, do this. greg s left. yes, that s right. it s the leftovers where i read that jokes. we did news this week. and as always, it s my first time reading them. so if they , we ll send joe machi a strip club and have lizzo give him a tap dance. ooh, tap dance. no, you re right. it s
jack smith to accelerate a decision on donald trump s claim of presidential immunity in his federal election criminal interference case. now, the one sentence reply the order from the supreme court reads, quote, the petition for writ of serzh yry is denied. in other words we re going not going to the appeals process could give donald trump ample time to further delay this case, which is of course supposed to go to trial just a few months from now, the first week of march. trump may now try to delay the start of the trial until the calender begins to encroach on next november s election. in which if he s the nominee the next court could ask to put the case on pause until the next presidential contest is decide. and should trump win that election the case will go away entirely which is to be clear and we all understand including the people on the supreme court exactly what he wants. although i have to say it is stel unknown if trump will be allowed to meaningfully delay thi
investigators who investigated the ties between the trump campaign and russia and beyond. as new york times reports today, durham delivered a report that scolds the fbi but fails to live up to the expectations of supporters of donald j. trump that he would uncover a politically motivated deep state conspiracy. he charged no high-level fbi or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign did nothing prosecutable either. to no one s surprise though, the disgraced ex-president and his allies have used it as evidence of their priors and what amounts effectively to a campaign of disinformation. once again from the new york times, predictably the reporter s actual content, it contained no major new revelations and it accused the fbi of confirmation bias rather than making a more explosive conclusion of political bias, made scant difference in parts of the political arena. mr. trump and many of his loyalists iss
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off staying