Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, Special Counsel jack smith has filed a reworked indictment in his election interference case against former president donald trump, the new filing keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against the former president following that Supreme Court opinion on broad immunity on former president s. So what about this . What goes on from here . Correspondent david spunt has details from the Justice Department tonight. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. This is the new indictment of president donald trump, the former president still has the same four core charges from when he was indicted last year. But, as you mentioned, it narrows some of the language. The language is a little bit tighter and it takes out mentions of certain people that Special Counsel jack smith felt that he could not move forward if he wanted to be successful in court. Something else to point out, a brand new grand j
Have to be counted some of them are only or a lot of them actually starting to be counted today and thats an awful lot of ballots to be counted so an official result of that is actually quite usual for the United States here we didnt have and other elections also you official results its the t. V. Networks and the pollsters who called the winner early about official results likely not to be happening tomorrow at this time will there be a network or Many Networks and polls this calling a winner by tomorrow this time. I dont know maybe thats the best you can get out of me and maybe a solid maybe its really not clear theres a lot of voting count valid to count the vote count going on and it has to be done to really really firmly call a state or. An overall result for the elections ok and what should we expect from these these old important to swing states that a so important for these counted is. Yeah there as you said they are really important it is those states where actually the math i
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Infrastructure and construction has brought workers back into the city. But growth is still a lot slower than in previous years private consumption especially is lagging behind companies have cut wages and council bonuses for the employees in downtown beijing that traces of the past 6 months are still visible. Businesses have been hit hard by this crisis many have little to no income from month and month and many shops and restaurants have to shut john experts have long warned of chinas imbalance growth too much investment and today it will consumption corporate 19 has made these warnings ever more urgent. China has a history of ambitious projects the great wall of china the silk road and now its new silk road officially known as the Road Initiative its the largest Infrastructure Project ever seen the transport Energy Mining i. T. And communications projects spanned the globe and even reach into outer space the original so prob a same quaint according to todays standards but the fact i
Staking out its claims on every continent with its sprawling belton Road Initiative impacting how most every country does business officials in beijing as setting the Global Standards intake by drawing up their own treaties and deals and theyve got the up ahead with an immense amount of financial 5 power but chinas also highly secretive fad restrictive the question is is china more of patna old rival. President xi jinping has promised time and again to open his mammoth economy to the world to lead an International Investment and allow for a level Playing Field german executives ive spoken to say its going in the other direction they say chinese officials at clamping down on foreign firms more than ever china and the European Union have been hammering out a comprehensive agreement on investment for 7 years now but after multiple rounds of negotiations theyve basically got no way. The skyscrapers of shanghai have all been built in the past 30 years. Almost all the big German Companies ha