washington s probe into the blockbuster truce between the pga tour and liv golf out of saudi arabia. the multi-billion dollars investment group is looking at some other sports now. we start with some big news from the campaign trail. let s get to that. gillian: former president trump s campaign says he hauled in over $32 million during q2, despite mounting legal troubles and expenses. bill: will his competition be able to keep the pace? all eyes on the numbers, and our first real barometer of how some of the other candidates are doing and do they have the momentum and how is the grassroots support and what about the big backers and the questions continue. gillian: a busy week on the trail, iowa and new hampshire. bill: the former vice president mike pence speaking to voters in the hawk eye state and a few hours from now, nikki haley in new hampshire. and looks like the former president s numbers have picked up yet again. they have. $35 million is nearly double, six
we began this morning with an update on that traumatic incident with the chinese spy balloon 60,000 feet in the air. eight days after it was first spotted in u.s. airspace, and have 22 raptor shot down the balloon with a single missile yesterday off the carolina coast. the search for degree is now underway. it my touch off a war of words between the u.s. and china. heightening tensions in an already data diplomatic relationship. china expressed its, quote, strong dissatisfaction. they have insisted that the device was a civilian weather balloon. a u.s. senior administration official said in response that they were confident the balloon was, quote, seeking to monitor sensitive military spots. we shift the focus now tuesday state of the union. president biden s first before the new republican house majority. security is being ramped up with plans to install fencing around the u.s. capitol ahead of the primetime address. we don t know too many specifics about what the president
fort myers beach, florida, one of the cities that was hardest hit by hurricane ian, hurricane ian made landfall on wednesday afternoon in florida as a category four hurricane. it was just a few miles shy, two miles per hour shy of being a category five storm, the likes of which have only been experienced four times in u.s. history. at this hour, more than 1.2 million people across florida are still without power, and as of late yesterday parts of the county where i am now, where ian did make landfall, did not have access to clean drinking water. in fact, much of where i am now has no access to power either. hard to know exactly how many people are displaced this time, officials are estimating it is in the thousands, possibly tens of thousands, at least 34 people have been confirmed dead so far, 12 of them here in lee county. after hitting florida eons rain grain strength over the atlantic ocean. what across florida, went out in the atlantic, and made a second landfall as a ca
right before my eyes, we will see where we can go from here because there is no moving back in, this is all we had. this is everything i worked for. i think i have lost everything i own,, my family and i are safe and we will worry about all that other stuff later. according to nbc they have claimed vilest 34 laps in for the admirable are still unaccounted for, first responders are busy trying to reach those left stranded, stranded by the coast guard on santa belle island, cut off from the mainland. president biden but joining me from charleston, south carolina, but emily, what is the latest, what are you hearing? 70, behind me they sights and sounds, and you re very welcome probably here of cleanup efforts are playing out here in charleston, all along south carolina s coastline, after many trees like this one were knocked down by hurricane-force winds, sustained winds around 85 miles per hour, gusts topping 95 miles per hour, will it just uprooting hundreds of trays
he was able to appeal to black voters in south carolina, pushed out competition at the same time and the result of that primary was ultimately to send him on the path toward being the nominee and the president. they have decided to award that this time around but done so by offending the new hampshire voters and they are very proud of their first in the nation status, they, you know, are certainly people who pay close attention to politics, independent streak in them but also a swing state, which obviously south carolina isn t in terms of presidential politics, it s a republican state. and so why have the kind of approach that insults swing state voters, even if you are trying to send a message to having more diversity in early states and the like, i don t think that this was something the dnc did as a necessary way. i think they went about it the wrong way. and ultimately if this results in an early contest loss for the