2020 election. we re still not done. an nbc news analysis finds jack smith s grand jury has interviewed dozens of witnesses from little known campaign aides to the former vice president of the united states. and smith s questions are, quote, focused particularly on the fake elector scheme. smith is also said to be focused on that unhinged december 18th oval office meeting about seizing voting machines. the meeting was full of insults and conspiracy theory, concerning powell, michael flynn. here s how the people in the room described that december 18th meeting. someone screamed at me that i was a quitter, kept on standing up and turning and around screaming at me. they were fighting. the first thing i walked in and i looked at them and said who are you? people fighting with each other and hurling insults at each other. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. how nuts was it? this was the draft executive or they were pushing trump to sign: it was not written
me save you some breath. if you re going to ask about this, i am not addressing [inaudible] i know you do. more than i d like you to have. i am not going to address this issue from this podium. i m just not going to do it. [inaudible conversations] thanks, guys. have a great weekend. maria: oh, yeah, no response from the white house to the damning message from hunter biden to the to a chinese executive demanding he keep his, quote, commitment or face retaliation from the big guy. then-vice president joe e biden. and, quote, everybody he knows. coming up, chairman jim jordan on why fbi never followed up on the potential corruption in plain sight. oversight committee members byron donalds and south carolina congresswoman nancy mace on what comes next in their investigation of the biden family influence peddling. all of this as communist china ramps up aggression with plans for a military training and spy center in cuba, 100 # miles away from the florida coast, amidst a we
and we ve got we re celebrating our first responders and heroes this morning too. rachel: absolutely. pete: let s head there right now, head back down to 1 world trade center, the freedom tower, where rick reichmuth is live from the tunnel to towers 104-story tower climb in new york city. rick. [cheers and applause] rick: i m not doing this to the act like i m on tv with this, i literally it s really how old in here, i can barely here you. you recognize abby hornacek? she was really nice to come on with us morning. i was not prepared to go on television this morning. [laughter] rick: we all look like this when we re not prepared to go on television. no, no, not at all. rick: talk about this team and how this experience was. this experience was unlike anything. this organization is one of my favorite organizations. to be here with our amazing coworkers and also amazing people here, there were three cats catastrophically injured veterans who did the stair climb, so ev
the former presidents immunity claims in the 2020 election case . what does this mean for the trial s start date? plus israel says it is expanding its offensive in gaza tonight, as a new cnn investigation uncovers where israel has been dropping massive 2000 pound bombs. new concerns about american paul wheeling as he reveals a prison official that is targeting him inside that dangerous russian labor camp. how worried is his family about his safety? his sister is my guest. let s go out front. you do good evening, i am internet for erin burnett. out front tonight, for now the when you donald trump, the supreme court fusing to decide right now if trump is immune from the alleged crimes he committed as president, including his efforts to overturn the election. the decision from this court came in the one page, one sentence order, rejecting the request by special counsel jack smith for expedited review. this means the issue, which is at the core of the election interference case
hello and welcome to the programme. the financial times is reporting that ubs has offered to buy credit suisse for up to $1 billion dollars, although bloomberg reports that credit suisse sees that as vastly undervaluing the bank. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america s silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than $50 billion dollars by switzerland s central bank, but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. our business correspondent marc ashdownjoins me now. where are we up to with these negotiations? fist where are we up to with these negotiations? where are we up to with these negotiations? where are we up to with these ne . otiations? ., ., negotiations? at the moment we have not heard anything negotiations? at the moment we have not heard anything new negotiations? at the moment we have not heard anything new for negotiations?