affair heats up as russia announces a new set of sanctions targeting trump critics. and stacey abrams joins me. we begin tonight with the old bait and switch, we re one week away from a potential default on the national debt, every economic expert agrees would be catastrophic for our economy resulting in millions of americans becoming unemployed. interest rates on your homes, cars and credit cards shooting through the roof and a major punishing recession, a meeting between president biden and house speaker mccarthy at the white house is still ongoing as the clock ticks down to find some agreement to avert economic disaster. treasury secretary yellen warned again of an economic default saying it s highly unlikely the u.s. will run out of cash if the debt ceiling isn t solved by this. lyndon johnson was a united states senator for 12 years, quote, if you can convince the lowest white man that he s better than the best colored man, he won t notice you re picking his pocket. th
of arizonians. 740,000 ballots violated. it s gnaw true. the maricopa county board of supervisors put out a 98-page report. that is a fact. check your facts. not true. not remotely true. but the threat to democracy is real. and with two weeks until election day, we re already witnessing how that threat is becoming a reality. also tonight, you would think justice clarence thomas would stay out of any cases involving trump s big lie, given that he s ginnee s husband, but he s gotten involved again to help out one of trump s washington cronies. and republicans love to point the finger of blame about ifflation, but do they even have a plan? what would it mean for the u.s. economy if their plan was implemented? plus, if you want to be the republican nominee for president, apparently, you have to break a few laws. new reporting tonight on the migrant flights organized by ron desantis. we begin tonight with the open unabashed rise of anti-semitism. over the weekend,
the ukrainian leader warns his troops in the eastern city of severodonetsk are outnumbered by stronger russian forces. there we go. the technology is working. it isjust there we go. the technology is working. it is just that time of the evening! welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. hopefully the tech gremlins will let us speak to our guests and show you the papers. with me are annabel denham, who s director of communications at the iea the institute of economic affairs the free market think tank, and also with me is the broadcaster john stapleton. good evening to you both. i am glad to see you alive and working there, envision! good stuff. yes, john, fingers crossed! let s run you through those front pages of the newspapers. the mail leads with the rmt s planned industrial action, referring to it as a hard left strike which will paralyse britain. unsuprisingly, it makes the front page of the metro too. the strike will see 50,000 wor
Track on the mining industry. The founder and chairman of one of the Worlds Largest Mining Companies Vedanta Resources willjoin us. Well get his thoughts on the Trump Presidency, and likely drivers for Commodity Prices this year. And we also want to know your thoughts are you optimistic or pessimistic about the new leader of the free worlds economic plans . Will it be a trumpjump or a bump . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Or 0rdump or dump welcome to the programme. Lots going on, weve got that friday feeling. Later today donald trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Lets be frank. The Billionaire Businessman has gone from long shot candidate to the leader of worlds biggest economy in just a year and a half. His supporters will now be hoping that he can shake up the us economy in the same way the he shook up the president ial race. Lets ta ke lets take a look at some of the details that we know. He has promised to create 25 million jobs over ten years, and
caucus goers backing trump putting him well ahead of nikki haley and ron desantis. that has some wondering if 2024 could shape up to be a trump vs. biden rematch. the biden campaign weigh in on the eve of the iowa caucuses. we re prepared to wage this campaign against donald trump. he s leading in the polls right now. but i ll leave the punditry to others. we re focused on drawing the sharp contrast between entire field. no matter who emerges after iowa, they will have done so by running on the most extreme and harmful agenda in mod politics. they are talking about banning abortion, ripping away health care from millions of americans who need it. they are talking about slashing taxes from millionaires and corporations at the expense of the middle class. they are doing all that when they are not talking about tearing down the fabric of our democracy. so the contrast is clear,