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trump knew that and we know it from the contents of hunter biden s laptop. but joe biden, as you may h recall, did not even respond. that s russian disinformation, he said. and then he went on the offense. disi your tax returns, biden. demand it. show us your tax returns. and of course, trump refused. biden, by contrast, already set up a website called joe biden .com to showcase his own recent tax returns because he had nothing to hide. unlike donald trump, you coulduo trusu t joe biden. m that was the message. now, whyy ar are we telling yout this tonight? why are we dredging up history when we re doing it? because two years later, the roles have reversed in a bewildering and pretty remarkable and kind ofwa hilarious way. so wey. now have donald trump s tax returns. house democrats grab them law and precedent and privacy be privacy and they release i them to the public becausead donald trump is orange and bad and has no protections under the bill of rights. so now that w
hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are benjamin butterworth, who s a late editor, and senior reporter at the i newspaper, and martin bentham, the home affairs editor for the evening standard. tomorrow s front pages are in, let s take a look at them. the i leads with the conservative leadership debate, which ended abruptly after presenter kate mccann fainted during the live programme. talk tv have said she s recovered, but followed medical advice not to continue. the express stays with the tory leadership, saying liz truss will set new targets for police to cut serious crime by 20%. the guardian says a report by the public accounts committee has found the government acted fast and loose with more than £700 million worth of covid contracts awarded to a health care firms that employed the conservative mp owen paterson as a lobbyist. tomorrow s rail strike leads on the metro front page the paper says just a fifth o
saluting the class of 2022 from the president to the fonz. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester tonight, a dangerous tropical threat taking aim at florida, parts of the southern coast getting pounded by heavy rains. the tropical cyclone with warnings issued for a large part of the state, including south florida and the keys also on alert, parts of the bahamas and cuba where at leas one person already died dangerous rains expected to continue overnight, causing torrential downpours and possible tornadoes. just this week the national weather service predicting an above average hurricane season we start tonight with meteorologist bill karins tracking this dangerous storm. bill, what are you seeing reporter: tom, i m very concerned with heavy rainfall overwhelming flood control systems in south florida. they re thinking the possibility for water into homes, evacuations and rescues in the next 24 hours. let me give
streak, tiger woods returns to the pga tour. in less than five hours he tees off in the bridgestone invitational. congress celebrated its long overdue deal on the debt crisis by racing out of town for summer recess. lost in that cloud of dust, funding for the faa and thousands of workers who now can t be paid. personally, this is devastating. i ve spent i spend most of my day trying to figure out what what can i not ay, what can i pay, where can i get extra cash. we re pretty much going to burn through all of our savings within a monday. athena jones is on capitol hill. the numbers are huge. 4,000 faa workers furloughed and tens of thousands of other workers idle and doesn t include the billions of dollars in tax money that won t be collected. it s not just the thousand of workers who aren t getting a paycheck and therefore not spending their paycheck in this fragile economy. it s the money and tax receipts the government is not going to get and because the two pa