Welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. He is tall, lean, and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and he looks ever so much like robert redford. He dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs, and at only 30 years of age, estimates that he is worth more than 200 million. That is how the New York Times described donald trump in 1976. If you asked donald trump then and now, hed say his most valuable asset was his brand. And for decades, the name trump has been synonymous with wealth. Trump promoted himself to the world as a business genius, want to be rich . Be like trump. You walk down the street sometimes, and people will touch you just for the good luck. Ive never figured that out of never really understood it. But its something thats been happening. And i took great offense that. And now i guess not to get at considered a compliment. I dont know what it is. But perhaps theyre going into a deal, or theyre going up to
as further allegations against the presenter emerge tonight, we ll ask where this crisis goes next. and there are further questions for the sun including why will no one from the newspaper talk to us? today, the bbc s director general did speak. clearly these are damaging to the bbc. it is not a good situation. also tonight. the government faced down mps who wanted to dilute its illegal migration bill. but could there be more challenges to come? we ll talk to a conservative former minister who wants downing street to compromise. and in the last few minutes the government has said the g7 s going to announce, quote, a significant international framework for ukraine s long term security arrangements at the nato summit tomorrow. will president zelensky be satisifed with that for now? we ll talk to his former defence minister. good evening. as we came on air last night we tried to be really clear with everyone watching about the limits to what we actually know as fact in t
as both sides debated the defense bill that has become a maga agenda political football. i hope all of these measures stay in there because the military should not be paying for abortion tourism or they should be buying weapons we need to defend our nation and to support our troops. my hope is that we will, in fact, be able to pass a clean nda that really meets the needs of our department of defense, families, and people. later on this hour i will be speaking with democratic congressman, stansbury, about that. all of that plus a mother s rage. we are asking. we are begging you if you will not support our queer kids, we leave them alone. shame on you. you better, all of you! i will be joined by lindsay patrick wright who went to war with the local school board to protect her lgbtq daughter, that interview as a head as well. we begin this hour, once again, in bucks county, pennsylvania. just north of philadelphia, about an hour from now, we are expected to get an up
sent to the front lines. as putin s paranoia is leading to a bigger military purge. breaking news, two of trump s most senior white house aides, jared kushner and hope hicks have now testified before the grand jury investigating trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. we re going to tell you a key question that both of them were asked. and we have new audio tonight of a passenger plane s frantic call for help after hitting extreme turbulence. that plane dropping thousands of feet in seconds. what was it like on board, two passengers on the florida-bound flight are my guests. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, putin s military meltdown. we re getting new video tonight of a deadly fight that broke out at a military camp near moscow. according to russian media, these men were about to be sent to the front lines, and then one of the soldiers here is said to have upset his superiors, he was reportedly beaten by members of a recon
the price of oil on international markets is not high enough for them. oil and energy leaders are gathering again today in vienna for the latest opec summit. the biggest and most powerful player saudi arabia started this week with the news it s extending its voluntary output cut of1 million barrels per day to august. russia is making a similar move. but these cuts are failing to boost energy prices. why? jonathan robinsonjoins me now to explain he is global power & energy research director at frost and sullivan. just talk us through our oil is at the moment. just talk us through our oil is at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, oil at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, oil prices- cuts in production, oil prices have stayed relatively low in what we have seen historically in the past year, 1.5 years. there are a few specific reasons for that. chinese demand, industrial out would, increasing