Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, the judge in former President Trumps Election Interference Trial said this morning either the District Attorney or the special prosecutor must step aside. The decision, out of Fulton County georgia, comes amid allegations of an improper relationship between the two. This afternoon the special prosecutor nathan wade resigned. Correspondent Jonathan Serrie is in atlanta tonight to tell us where things go from here. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening to you, bret. Facing pressure from the judges order, special prosecutor nathan wade stepped down from the case leaving District Attorney fani willis perhaps wounded but not disqualified as the defense initially wanted. The Fulton County District Attorneys office faced an unpleasant but not difficult decision. Had nathan wade remained a special prosecutor in the Georgia Election interference case, d. A. Fani willis and her entire office would have had to step aside. Instead, wade resigned, expla
weekend and partying. right there is where tyler farrior will be standing with his band i love, this she used e a slicked up city kind of girl. got her by the bonfire and i sang a little merle. she perked up with some-with my turkey call. will: really turkey call? brian: yeah, turkey call. is he mocking his own great singing? will: almost like a biography. ainsley: used to be before the fire? brian: used to be a slicked up city girl. ainsley: then she sat by the fire and heard his turkey call. will: typical friday night in texas. [gobbling] ainsley: my car would get caught. we would have a party in the middle of the woods. my car get caught. the football players were there and picked up my car and got it out of the mud. brian: stuck in the mud? ainsley: stuck in the mud. mud in the tires. brian: that sounds like a song, too. that s another one. all right, check in with the mclemores with their smoking out in the square. getting along a lot better than
spending. and let s begin in washington, d.c., where the federal reserve has just announced its latest decision on interest rates. economists predicted an eighth straight rate increase as the central bank tries to tamp down inflation without causing a recession. matt egan is inside the federal reserve. what s the decision? reporter: 25 basis points, the fed just delivered its eighth straight interest rate hike, lifting interest rates to the highest level since 2007, all part of the fed s quest to get inflation back down to healthy levels. but importantly, the fed is dialing back the pace of these interest rate hikes. going from 75 basis points this past summer and this past fall to 50 basis points in december, to this more traditional move of 25 basis points today. now, this was widely expected, widely telegraphed, and yet, it is a significant strategy shift, nonetheless. the fed is still trying to slow this economy to cool off inflation, but they ve gone from slamming the
it means for you and your money. john: right now we are waiting to hear from the white house council office spokesperson, ian sams, expected to talk about the probe into president biden s classified document scandal. also waiting for karine jean-pierre to talk to reporters at about 2:30ish, sort of, with everything that s going on today. she might want to bring with her her biggest binder yet, there s a lot to talk about. sandra: the first chance for the white house to respond to the fbi search for classified documents at the president s beach house. john: we are also expecting questions at the briefing about the high stakes meeting at the white house in just about an hour s time. the president face-to-face with house speaker andy mccarthy. did i say andy again, kevin mccarthy, as the biden white house gets the first dose of a divided washington, d.c. yes, i ll call him david osman as well. i m sorry, i m excited, so much happening. john roberts in washington. sandra:
katy tur. here we are again, another fed meeting and another expected rate hike. we re going to get to the number in just a second. it is expected to be a quarter of a point. we re going to see how the markets react to that because they have been on a relative upswing and we re wondering does that trend continue? we are also watching as you well know, memphis. the funeral for 29-year-old tyre nichols is today. and supposed to begin right about now. weather has been delaying it, so we ll go there as soon as it does start. but again, there is breaking news from the fed. just confirmed, they are raising it, interest rates, by a quarter point. joining me now is nbc news business and data reporter, brian cheung. a quarter point, what can you tell us? the nation s central bank, the steward of the u.s. economy raised interest rates by .25 percentage points in their meeting today, after some encouraging news we had gotten in previous weeks that inflation was coming down. was at 6.5