45th president used one tactic, over and over again, to try and get what he wanted, bullying. Sometimes, it came in the form of want cruelty and bigotry directed towards everyone from war heroes, to disabled reporters, to judges of mexican heritage. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. Youve gotta see this guy, oh, i dont know what i said. I dont remember. We are building a wall, hes a mexican, we are building a wall between here and mexico. Sometimes it came in the form of hostile exchanges with the press. You know you are a fake, you know that. Its okay, i know youre not thinking. You never do. Im sorry . No, go ahead. You are a rude terrible person. Sometimes trump recruited other people to aid in the bullying, like encouraging crowds to beat up protesters, or getting fox news to pressure republican senators to oppose his impeachment. From the day he entered the president ial race, to his final days in office, trying to reverse the results of t
New zealanders have been feeling the pinch from soaring prices as well as unaffordable housing. Meanwhile the central bank has pledged not to lower the official cash rate from its 15 year high Arthur Grimes from Victoria University of wellington spent a decade as chairman at the Reserve Bank Of New Zealand between 2003 and 2013. There are many priorities for the incoming government. The issue will be the structure of the government as to whether they will be able to do much to tackle the economic problems that are there. At the moment, we dont know and we wont know for another two weeks whether the new Prime Minister will be able to form a governmentjust with the act party, a smaller Libertarian Party or whether they will also need to form a three Party Coalition with new zealand first, essentially a populist pork barrel politics party, and those of the two parties cannot Work Together very coherently on economic policy, so if its going to require a three Party Coalition its going to b
Passed a Stopgap Funding Bill that would temporarily keep the government open for 45 days, if signed by president biden. This comes just hours before finding was set to expire, which would have affected millions of americans and their families. Theres lots to get to this hour. Lets bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and National Reporter sahill kapoor. And we actually heard Michael Bennett speak on the senate floor. What did he have to say . Thats exactly right. Because you will remember that just a few hours ago, we wondered if senator Michael Bennet of colorado would be the one to hold this whole thing up. And certainly, he did provide a hold for about an hour or so, over the idea that no ukraine funding was included in this continuing resolution. Bennett certainly not the only one who was upset to find that that money was not included here. But what he was able to do, by putting this temporary hold on, was extract from leadership, and both the democratic and re
spokesperson about the battle plan going forward and whether there is any new effort to protect palestinian civilians as the u.s. has been pushing for. also tonight, donald trump s lawyers in court and on camera. at the first hearing in the georgia election subversion case and the defense arguing if president trump is re-elected president he could not be tried until after leaving office. and we re following the drama up on capitol hill. now that republican george santos has been expelled from congress, santos storming out after the historic vote as he leaves his divided party with an even slimmer majority in the house. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. tonight, the skies over gaza have been lighting up again. israel and hamas back in combat mode after a week long pause in the fighting and the releases of dozens of the home hostages. matthew, what is the latest on these renewed attacks
it s been quite an hour, thanks for being with us. there are yet more new developments out of israel when the news continues right now with the source. this is the source, i m pamela brown in for caitlin coppin. collins. the deal was approved by a significant majority according to a source and as part of the deal at least 50 hostages, women and children would be released in exchange for a four- day halt in israel s air and ground campaign. the statement from the israeli government made no mention of the release of palestinian prisoners thought to be a key part of this deal. we have team coverage with the very latest, matthew chance is live in israel. chief correspondent alex marquardt is here with me in washington. let s start with matthew chance in tel aviv. the cabinet met for several hours, finally approving a deal, what do we know? yeah, seven hours, which is how long it took the 38 member cabinet to debate the various details of the deal that was agreed with qatari