Elisea hernandez. The white house Correspondence Dinner had just one item on the menu last night. Jabs at donald trump. The highlights in just a moment. Plus, new reporting on President Bidens confidence that he can beat the ex president this fall. Previewing week three of the 2016 Election Interference Trial in new york. Were going to talk with the former National Enquirer editor. So grab your coffee, settle into the weekend. It is the morning after the white house core Correspondence Dinner. Snl star, colin jost headlined the event, throwing more than a few jabs at donald trump in his set. Take a listen. Trumps so desperate, he started reading those bibles hes selling. Then he got to the first commandment. You shall have no other gods before me. Thats when he put it down and said this books not for me. Age is the only thing we have in common. My Vice President actually endorses me. I was about to say the reaction from Vice President harris, the whole thing. Joining us now, the author
Arrived on the scene right at the start. And the heroes are those in the hospital now, suffering with injuries, some of them life threatening. Nine years after the financial crisis, Barclays Bank and four former executives are charged with fraud. Britain is facing its longest heatwave since 1995, and if it lasts until friday, the longest since 1976. He does it with an ace and at queens, a shock defeat in the first round for andy murray, losing in straight sets. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news its not all bad news for british tennis, Asjoanna Konta Books her place in the last 16 at the aegon classic in birmingham. Good evening. Have few technical problems tonight, for which we apologise. A few. On the eve of the queens speech, and in the week the formal brexit talks got under way, the chancellor has defined his own goals for the negotiations ahead. Phillip hammond said thatjobs and Economic Prosperity had to be the priorities in the brexit talks, and he stressed that immigration
June day since 1976. But theres also a risk of very heavy rain or thunderstorms. Extreme weather is also causing problems in other countries, including france, spain and portugal and our science editor David Shukman has been considering the latest evidence on volatile Weather Conditions. The terrifying sight of one of the most aggressive forest fires that portugal has seen for years. As a heatwave took hold, whole families had been caught in their cars. More than 60 people in all have died, and the fires have advanced with devastating speed. There was a massive noise, says this survivor, and then we saw the flames. Wed never seen anything like it, according to this man. It all happened in just a few seconds. Anybody want a bottle of water . Here in britain, the heatwave is far less dangerous, but it is disruptive, delaying trains as the rails have buckled and forcing speed restrictions to be imposed in many parts of the country. A road in cambridgeshire, damaged as the temperatures hav
down the home stretch showed that voters were most concerned about disorder and public safety and violent crime more so than any other issue. it was an even bigger issue than covid, jim. that s how important it is to people. when the streets don t feel safe or you see attacks on the subways, which we ve seen, people being pushed on the tracks and so forth, people get really, really upset that. is job one of government obviously. it s what voters said they want the next mayor to deal with without delay. we were out with police on patrol a couple weeks ago and we saw exactly what they re nasing. i wonder, given the margin in this race, but also the major hiccup early on in the first count of these ranked choice ballots when they accidentally the board of elections put in sort of test votes that should not have been in the count, do you expect either mile wily or katherine garcia to challenge these results or ask for an audit? i don t know if they re going
and they re going to have to try and settle how they approach donald trump and come at it in a unified way without allowing the president to say all democrats are socialists. and we know trump has gone down this road before. i mean, i was looking back at 2018, midterms. remember low i.q. maxine waters. he was trying to do what gloria said he s trying with these four progressive congresswomen. make maxine waters a face of the democratic party. is it an accident that all five of those people are women of color in the democratic party? it s not. we ve seen the blueprint. he pushes the boundary and pushes the boundary to see what he can get away with. what he s doing with the sends them back, if he allows the crowds, that s further he thinks it s good politics. we shall say. it s ugly. there s more news. hundreds of thousands of puerto ricans are taking to the streets don t demand doing the resignation of the islands s scandal-plagued governor. will the growing outrage force