in the past, she was still at the height of her powers and had still many great stories within her. thank ou. dame hilary mantel, who has died aged 70. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. good afternoon. for most of us, we have quite a lot of sunshine around this afternoon. with that, quite a cool this afternoon. with that, quite a cool, fresh feel, and one or two showers. as we can see from the earlier satellite and radar pictures, showers have been pushing in from the north west, most plentiful across scotland and northern ireland. the exception to the sunshine and showers rule is across the south east corner, where we have a stripe of cloud and outbreaks of rain, very slow moving. the ray will be a feature in the south east of england perhaps for the next 2a hours. temperatures between 13 and 20 celsius. the rain keeps falling across south east england this evening and overnight. elsewhere, clear spells, one or two showers, especially some drifting across part
possibility of more classified documents on the property. here is a teeny tiny, teensy-weensy hint, it came from inside. hold on. hold on. are you telling me the call came from the inside? wow. just going to leave that there. good morning. good morning, everyone. it is kind of like the mob, isn t it? oh, boy. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 11th. with us, we have scene from the sopranos. associate editor from the washington post , david ignatius. donald trump can grift money off supporters, but he can t erase history. it is not that he use to mock the fifth amendment before invoking it yesterday hundreds of times, it is also his attack on fbi director christopher wray, a man he nominated to the job as a, quote, impeccable individual and model of integrity. a model, donald trump said. christopher wray was a model of integrity. after all, why would the feds will worried about top secret documents floating around mar-a-lago? remember when
this is america s newsroom. all right. today is the day. moments from now we ll be seeing president biden, he is set to depart for saudi arabia late yesterday the kingdom lifted its longstanding ban on israeli commercial flight towards normalization. bill: the real objective of the trip. convincing the world s largest exporter of oil is ramp up production and reestablish things with this administration. we watch a beautiful air force one head down the runway, complicating all of this, remarks from then candidate biden back in 2020. president biden: i would make it very clear we are not going to sell more weapons to them. we were going to make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are. there is very little social redeeming value of the in the present government in saudi arabia. one of the president s first acts in the white house was releasing the c.i.a. report assessing the saudi prince ordered the killing of journalist khashoggi and also sanctioned
all right. breaking news overnight in ukraine, where a devastating months long battle in the key port city of mariupol, ukraine, has officially ceded control on russia. we ll have more on the deal that is right now allowing the city s final defenders to safely evacuate that steel plant. we ll also go live to buffalo this morning as president biden prepares to visit the grieving city in the wake of saturday s deadly mass shooting. it comes amid new reports about the suspect s alleged plan to turn the massacre into a spree. we will talk to a top member of the white house national security council on that. and it is primary day in pennsylvania. the senate race there has been rocked by twists and turns in the key final days. for the democrats, the leading candidate, john fetterman, is recovering from a stroke. on the republican side, an unexpected surge on the far right from kathy barnette. we ll be watching to see how trump-backed dr. oz performs tonight. good morning
Donald trump is back in court this morning for day 10 of your county, of his criminal trial. Todays proceedings began with another hearing on the repeated, i mean repeated, violations of his gag order. Will talk about that a little later. Things got interesting once keep davidson return to the stand. The former lawyer for both of the women trump is accused of paying off, Karen Mcdougal and Stormy Daniels. From the witness stand, davidson pulled back the curtain on the 2018 statement he wrote on behave of daniels. Seeming to deny her affair with trump. He admitted with trumps sitting in front of him, that the Stormy Daniels statement was designed to look like a denial. It was a nondenial denial you could say. The statement read, quote, i recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging i had a sexual and or romantic affair with donald trump many years ago. I am stating with complete clarity that this is absolutely false. Its a strange part of the statement. Davidson used par