Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, Special Counsel jack smith has filed a reworked indictment in his election interference case against former president donald trump, the new filing keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against the former president following that Supreme Court opinion on broad immunity on former president s. So what about this . What goes on from here . Correspondent david spunt has details from the Justice Department tonight. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. This is the new indictment of president donald trump, the former president still has the same four core charges from when he was indicted last year. But, as you mentioned, it narrows some of the language. The language is a little bit tighter and it takes out mentions of certain people that Special Counsel jack smith felt that he could not move forward if he wanted to be successful in court. Something else to point out, a brand new grand j
A major city in the disputed region where its fighting with armenia. Heading home after a year in exile former president evo morales is on his way to believe yeah after his process wins elections. U. S. President elect joe biden is moving forward with transition plans as a growing list of high profile figures at home and abroad congratulate him he visited a Church Cemetery where family members including his late son are buried topping his priorities that 19 as infections continue to spike. Donald trump whos been golfing outside washington is refusing to concede defeat tweeting about legal challenges and recounts insists without evidence that the election was fraudulent but fellow republican and former president george w. Bush says the vote was fair and its outcome clear hes congratulated joe biden as have israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and saudi arabias rula lets go straight to our White House Correspondent kelly hulk it so bidens team already pushing forward with their plan
Bloomberg television. Eight days to the election across the station, and those watching around the world. The confluence here this morning, futures up 33. I get it. At the confluence here of really grim news worldwide on the pandemic, along with major uncertainty on the United States senate elections, makes for an interesting monday. Jonathan i couldnt agree more. The composition of congress all about what happens next with fiscal stimulus for market participants. Playing out for everyone to see, the increase of infections in the United States and europe, and extra restrictions coming down italy and spain at a time when the economy was already losing momentum. Youve got an equity market that gets hammered. The s p down almost 1 . Say full credit, i hate to this because jon is only with us for a brief hour today on bloomberg television, but the basic idea i have is that you were way out front on this. P guess if i am an sa shareholder, im a little surprised off of where it was friday. L
Secretary of the United States Steve Mnuchin planning a meeting with nancy pelosi to discuss it which means maybe republicans can go along with this, cobble together something acceptable to both sides but just the talk of that, and some of the stimulus that would give the economy a boost, markets a boost has stocks raising ahead. Hillary vaughn following that, but the postdebate excitement. Both candidates are out on the stump. President trump will be in michigan. Former Vice President in ohio. Busy in a lot of states. Hillary in ohio with more. Reporter hi, neil. Biden has his busiest schedule on the campaign trail weve seen since really the primaries, way before the pandemic. He has seven stops today as he kicks off his train tour. Biden hopped aboard an amtrak train. He will hit seven different cities on one of his favorite modes of transportation the amtrak. It is a nostalgic moment for a man spent decades taking that very train from wilmington to washington. The familiar sound of
Her confirmation to the highest court in the land could put health care for hundreds of millions of americans at risk. As youd imagine, taking away health care is deeply unpopular with the American People. So it seems the strategy from the republican majority is to invent some new distraction of fresh outrage to talk about. My colleagues on the other side would rather talk about anything besides the fact that their president , their party, and their Supreme Court nominee poses a dire threat to Americans Health care. Today, the outrage from the republican leader was directed once again at the idea that democrats would attack the nominees religious beliefs. But, of course, in their zeal to manufacture this issue, republican senators began telegraphing this line of attack even before a nominee had been named. One republican senator wrote me a letter to warn against anticatholic attacks that happened yet against a nominee who hadnt been named. Thats how transparent this republican diversio