his planned trip to the middle east including saudi arabia. on capitol hill lawmakers are racing to put together a new bill that addresses rising gun violence and pass it all before the july 4th recess. we ll discuss with congressman salud car ba hall. we ll highlight the key races to watch with steve kornacki at the big board. we ll bring you an update on the fight for ukraine s donbas region which ukrainian president zelenskyy says will go down as one of the most brutal battles in and for europe. we begin with the growing unease over the state of the american economy. right now the dow jones industrial average is 141 points 140 points up. you see the index at 30,654. this is one day after it fell nearly 900 points yesterday on worries about inflation and what the federal reserve will do when it comes to interest rates at its next meeting which gets under way today. at the same time the s&p 500 which retirement funds are pegged to entered bear market territory, having
Like magic and bird shades of that. The lead with jake tapper starts right now its not just donald trump upset with the judge these days, the Special Counsel now has a bone to pick with a different judge the lead starts right now andy, strongest rebuke, yet Special Counsel jack smith goes in blasting how judge Aileen Cannon is conducting that classified documents case against now prompt down in florida, he says her latest action has quote, no basis in law or fact were going to lay out what she did that has prosecutors so upset plus celebrity Chef Jose Andres speak picking out, accusing the Israeli Government of systematically targeting his aid workers killing them in gaza. Here his comments ahead. And cnn investigates whether another major us bridge is just as vulnerable as the one that collapsed near baltimore. This one is longer and busier than the one that i just went down welcome to the lead on jake tapper, we start today with our Law Injustice lead aid and Special Counsel jack smi
The first Prime Minister with south asian roots who, after a period of turmoil in his party, promised to unite the conservatives. Well look at how he did. And the us House Of Representatives finally has a new speaker, as trump loyalist mikejohnson get s thejob. It concludes 22 days of confusion, after Kevin Mccarthy was ousted three weeks ago. Here to talk about all this are rebecca harding, an independent trade economist, and bryan lanza, former Deputy Communications director of trump campaign. Lets of trump campaign. Begin with Breaking News coming lets begin with Breaking News coming to us from the United Nations. We were discussing earlier how the Security Council had two votes which were put forward. One from russia and one from the United States. We now have the decision on the United States. Russia has vetoed the United States. Russia has vetoed the us Draught Resolution On Israel Gaza Calling for humanitarian pauses. That draught got ten votes in favour, three against and to ab
It was a really busy week so lets get to some of the conversations you might have missed. I want to call this Session Therapy with hillary, if i may, because she is now going to she needs another role, therapist, i know a lot of people answer ask this question, so i want to ask for our viewers about, not just abortion, which i will get to in a moment, and womens right, but about former president , donald trump, who is in criminal court in New York City for this hush money thing. Meanwhile, the documents case is delayed. Meanwhile, georgia, what is going on here . Everything seems to be delayed and moving down the road, and there are even those who argue that this manhattan case, it is not as big, it is not serious and he might get off anyway, or not, and how do people manage their especially people who really love this democracy, who take it seriously . Take the words that you just said on hours show very seriously that you cant just sit back and let democracy come to you. But this is
Well. Tonight, pena looking unbeatable, and just nine months to go until the paris olympics. Megan fitzgerald, nbc news, antwerp, belgium. It is absolutely awesome to see simone back in action, feeling good and kicking butt. And on that note, i wish you a very good night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Ill see at the end of tomorrow. Today, in the Fulton County election interference case, Rudy Giulianis lead lawyer asked the judge if he could be removed from that case. Now, that is the second lawyer to leave giulianis georgia team this week alone. They are departures come on the heels of mr. Giulianis former lawyer and longtime friend suing him last month for allegedly unpaid legal bills. We have known for a while now that all is not well in giuliani land. He has huge legal bills. He is reportedly very short on cash. And now, to add to those troubles, there is a new story out today that, at first, feels kind of like it ha