it s 4:00 in new york on a monday. an empire built on lies. that is how one veteran prosecutor describes the twice impeached disgraced ex-president s family business. the trump organization. it is the linchpin of the image of a successful businessman that donald trump sold to his voters for years. but those are the words of mark pomerantz. you re going the hear a lot about him in the coming days. he is a former prosecutor for the manhattan district attorney s office, a man who spent a year poring over financial statements from the ex-president s businesses and interviewing potential witnesses about them. he came to one inescapable conclusion, that donald trump committed financial crimes. here is what he said to cbs news about his boss, manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s decision to halt the grand jury probe that was looking into trump s finances, a decision that led pomerantz to resign in protest. if you take the exact same conduct and make it not about donald trump and not about
committee and the countdown to the state of the union speeches on, folks. president biden is expected to make his case for reelection after more positive news on the economy. i will get a preview from a member of the council of economic advisers. plus, we are continuing our special series on living black history with trail blazers cynthia marshall. the first black woman ceo of an nba team. i am symone with sandra townsend and i have something to say. and the balloon is out of this guy. the questions surrounding u.s. security and relations with china are still up in the air. on saturday, and f-22 fighter jet shot down a chinese surveillance balloon over the atlantic off the coast of south carolina. the balloon entered u.s. continental airspace last tuesday. china s defense department condemned the strike and denies the balloon was intended for surveillance. but a senior administration official has rejected that claim, telling nbc news this. this was a prc surveillance balloon.
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of a sitting president. the 54 year old denies three criminal charges stemming from his purchase of a handgun in 2018 the prosecution claim he was heavily addicted to drugs at the time and lied about it in registration forms. the first lady, jill biden, attended the jury selection hearing in delaware. president biden was not present. he issued a statement saying he was proud of his son, but he would not comment on the case. our correspondent tom bateman has been outside the courthouse in wilmington. well, five months before a presidential election and a trial here that will throw a very public glare on the personal life and the allegations of drug misuse of the son of the us president. now, hunter biden arrived here first thing this morning along with members of the biden family, including his stepmother, the first lady, jill biden. she satjust behind him at the front of the public gallery in the courtroom all day. i was in the press benches and watched hunter biden turn an
for mexican people the rights. and of course, i m going to leave a different time in history. viva mexico! mexico may have turned a corner with claudia sheinbaum s win, but it is still a nation where women are treated as inferior, where 11 women and girls are murdered every single day. to curtail that violence, she must now succeed where so many men before her have failed. will grant, bbc news, mexico city. pakistan s islamabad high court has overturned a treason conviction against former prime minister imran khan. he had been given a ten year prison sentence for making public a classified diplomatic cable in 2022. but he remains behind bars after being convicted of separate charges. emergency talks have been taking place in nigeria aimed at ending a nationwide strike by public sector workers. the walk out over the rising cost of living has caused major disruption, including