it comes to presidential politics. on trump s first day in office he started raising money for his reelection campaign, and some of that donor money poured right into his businesses. in 2018, you would say today said washington hotel taken $351,000 during his first year in office. about 60% of that came from the republican national committee to host events at the hotel. trump also has a history of using charitable donations for his own benefit. in 2019 new york times, excuse, me new york judge find trump $2 million after the trump foundation misused donations meant 4chan charity. the npr reported at the time, quote, the case is tied to a televised fund-raiser for veterans held by trump in iowa when he was running for president. trump said the funds raised would beach distributed to charities, but according to two court documents, the trump foundation improperly use nearly $3 million it received from that fund-raiser and now a year and a half after trump s 2020 election defeat
senior american official to visit the island in decades. china has warned that america would pay the price for her visit. a man has been charged under the trees and act after allegedly being found with a crossbow and the grounds of windsor castle on christmas day. adverts featuring edited model should come with warnings and nonsurgical procedures need tighter regulation. that is according to a group of mps investigating the impact of body image. a snorkeler suffered a leg injury after allegedly being hit by a blue shark off the coast of cornwall last week. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the energy company bp has recorded its second highest three monthly profit in history. between april and june is made £6.9 billion, three times the figure for the same period last year. in the oil trading performance was exceptional and it expects to pay more than £i performance was exceptional and it expects to pay more than £1 billion in uk tax this year. but the news comes as dome
recorded testimony by former pence chief of staff mark short who was with vice president pence an january 6th. was a firsthand witness to trump s pressure campaign in the days leading up to it. we re told house investigators will try to make the case that the pressure on pence directly distributed to the insurrection at the capitol and the continuing ongoing threat to the rule of law and democracy in the united states. many aides are promising new information about what the vice president was doing during the riot, and where he was hiding as that mob chanted, hang mike pence, hang mike pence. the panel also will focus on the role of conservative lawyer john eastman in pushing the bo fgus unconstitutional theory that pence has the power to invalidate legal, lawful e electoral votes. let s go to ryan nobles on capitol hill right now. ryan, the chairman of the select committee congressman bennie thompson of mississippi just chaired a block buster new information about a potentia
border now away from ukraine. there is no question nato is relevant. it is effective. finland and sweden make nato stronger. the january 6 select committee once again has in its sights a republican member of congress. and republicans are now asking for the capitol police to release the video in question here. live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. minutes from now, u.s. president joe biden is expected to land in south korea to begin his very first az i sia trip as president, he will spend most of the weekend holding talks with the now south korea president and then heading to japan where he will meet with their prime minister and indian and australian leaders. this comes later in his presidency than he might have liked, but he says he hopes to, quote, confirm the importance of our indo-pacific alliances. paula hancock is live in seoul for us. so an unwelcome/welcome gifts of sorts with some kind of weapons tests expected to be conducted during o
globe so what is monkey pox and how is it spreading? let s go outfront. outfront tonight, the u.s. opening the floodgates for ukraine. a massive $40 billion aid package about to be signed into law, so that brings the spending from the biden administration and the united states to $54 billion in just 60 days to aid ukraine. it sounds enormous and i want to be clear, it is enormous, in fact it is more than the united states spent on the entire foreign aid budget in 2019 in 60 days to ukraine. it is important to note, this is a bipartisan thing, the ukraine aid bill, and once the bill passes will be flow to seoul so president biden can sign it in his trip to asia and tonight, president biden pledging more aid. so the money coming at a turning point in the three-month war, ukraine s top military commander saying tonight, and i quote, tonight we are not just defending ourselves, we have conducted a series of successful counter attacks. so russia controls mariupol and the war i