at mar-a-lago. and cutting it close. the freeze on student loan payments is set to end this month and borrows aren t the only ones in the dark about what s going to happen next. it s the weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re so grateful to be a part of yours. thanks for joining us. sounds like you were well rested last night or something. almost never. almost never. well you do a good job of faking it. good to be with you, boris. a lot of news to get to this morning. first, the white house defending its response to the spread of monkeypox across the u.s. and implementing its new aggressive plan to control the outbreak. yeah. more than 14,000 monkeypox cases in the united states. more than a third of all cases in the world. and listen to this, in the last three weeks the number of monkeypox cases in the u.s. has nearly tripled, according to the cdc. the biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency earlier this month after facing criticism tha
best part though, listening to the ports by his mom. it completely makes you understand some things and the compassion that you expressed, i totally get that. it looks good. and you look good in that yellow today, alex. i m bright sunny, here we go. thank you, have a good one. every good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new developments in the mar-a-lago search. first, new alarm from the doj expressing concern about what could happen if surveillance video from the fbi is made public. a doj official says the department hopes caution and care would be used by anyone with access to that video. that comes as trump s team is planning to file a new legal challenge very soon. one of trump s attorneys now claiming his client s fourth amendment rights were violated when the fbi searched his resort. this is going to be fourth amendment day. we are going to weigh in a very strong and ve
decision by texas governor greg abbott to bus thousands of migrants to new york and washington, d.c.. and the controversial ruling in florida that has abortion rights activists furious over the decision to block a perilous 16-year-old girl from getting an abortion, if i think she isn t mature enough to handle up. state senator lauren joins me live. lawmakers are calling on social media companies to address the increased threats to law enforcement after the fbi search of mar-a-lago almost two weeks ago. house oversight committee leaders sent a letter to eight tech firms, instead meta, truth social, and gab, just to name a few, urging him to take immediate action to address the surge in violent online threats. now, it s unclear if those companies have responded to those letters, as of right now. it comes just as of yesterday a republican candidate seeking a house seat in florida, luis miguel, had his twitter account permanently suspended after he tweeted that all floridians w
in defence of ryan giggs at the former footballer s trial, on assault and coercive behaviour charges. and we re injeddah, as antonyjoshua fights this weekend to regain his heavyweight titles. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel: there s a crushing defeat for england at lord s, as south africa go one up in the test series. good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at six. there have been more warnings about serious pressures on the nhs this coming winter. in a letter to ministers, the nhs confederation which represents employers in the health service says the uk is facing a public health emergency because people are having to choose between heating and eating this winter, due to soaring energy prices. the government says it s giving millions of the most vulnerable households £1,200 to help with higher energy bills. but it comes at a time when nhs services are already under intense strain. our health editor, hugh pym, is here. hugh. yes,