all a very, very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. let s do at home joining us this hour. it s great to have you here. do you remember the name brandon van grack? it s a very memorable name, so you might remember the sound of it. if not, the circumstance in which you first heard it. but if you are like me, in all likelihood, the first time you heard the name brandon van grack, it was the first time you heard the word, espionage, formerly associated with the presidency of donald trump. espionage as in the espionage act, as it not just spy movie stuff but as in u.s. law. but we are only about four months in to the u.s. trump administration in the new york times first reported that the then brand new trump administration had made a very unusual hiring decision that ultimately implicated the work of a veteran espionage prosecutor at the u.s. department of justice.
perhaps, most significantly of all, the bill also is the biggest climate investment in the history of the country. and somehow, all of that is managed to pass in a 50/50 senate, that includes folks like these, senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, who got up and said you know in the morning, before they do anything else, just because it makes them feel good. tomorrow, the president is expected to return home from south carolina, where he s been on vacation. he s gonna sign that inflation reduction act, this big new bill at the white house. he believes it will be his signature legislative achievement, and in the coming weeks, president biden and vice president harris, and members of the cabinet, all expected to have the right to promote this thing, planning 35 different trips, to 23 different states. in a technical sense, in political science terms, this is called being on it will. watch this space. watch this space you can schedule service in just a few clicks.
It will through the car window in 10 a reef British tourists are among hundreds of people confined to their rooms at a hotel where 4 cases of the virus have been confirmed and here public health England s confirmed it s not advising schools to close but so far this week at least 8 schools across England have either shot or sent pupils home after they return from half term skiing trips to northern Italy the B.B.C. s found at least 28000 people were recorded sleeping rough across England in the space of 12 months but more than a quarter of councils couldn t provide figures and the charity Crisis says the numbers can t even hope to accurately reflect the true scale of the problem Andrew Redfern runs a homelessness charity called framework it s both health and a housing problem but we don t see many people sleeping rough now who don t have some kind of physical or mental health need and often they have complex needs and the way to solve it is to recognise that it s not just a matter of pu
This is v.o.a. News I m Jim Breuer tells us President Onil Trump s impeachment trial will begin Tuesday in the u.s. Senate over the weekend the Democratic lawmakers managing the impeachment case filed a brief laying out their arguments supporting the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against the president the president s legal team issued a rejection of the house s impeachment on a.b.c. This week Alan Dershowitz once one of President Trump s lawyers says the 2 articles of impeachment the Senate will take up are not impeachable according to the Constitution you have a lot of evidence disputed evidence can go both ways but the vote was to impeach on abuse of power which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment and obstruction of Congress on the same program Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff the impeachment managers says since President Trump s legal team can t argue the facts they will try to prove abuse of power if proven is not an impeachable offens
There is strong and it will take some time the deadly wildfires which have been raging sent September have killed at least 24 people burned about 5000000 hectares of land and destroyed more than 1500 homes 14 people were killed and 9 people wounded in a bombing attack on a bus bringing children back from a school break in northern Bertino Faso Saturday while it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the blast it occurred in Seoul real province near the border with Mali Islamist groups with links to Al Qaida and Islamic state have increased attacks in the area over the past 2 years despite international efforts to stamp them out attacks in the past year have killed hundreds and forced nearly a 1000000 people from their homes Chad ended a month long mission fighting Boko Haram in neighboring Nigeria and withdrew its 1200 strong force across the common border Saturday the chatty and troops brought out in pickup trucks and tank transporters crossed the bridge back to their home