rules helped murkowski survived, at least for now liz cheney never had a chance and she knew it. two years ago i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump s lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. [ cheers and applause ] against the backdrop of the teton mountains at sunset, cheney, whose father served five terms, gave her concession speech to just 150 people, an invite-only event where i.d.s were checked before entering. i think can you guess why. her father sitting off to the right of the stage watched as his daughter ended the family dynasty. let as resolve that we will stand together, republicans, democrats and independents against those who would destroy our republic. they are
as we speak, voters in seven states are heading to the polls in some critical primary races. the results, expected to give us some important clues about which party could control the house and more specifically, which wing could control congress. but what s driving voters to the polls? what is their motivating? a new survey shows americans frankly are fed up with politics right now. two-thirds of democrats and republicans think most candidates are thinking of themselves, not their constituents. one issue affecting everyone is skyrocketing gas prices. a gallon of regular gas is now more than $5 in states plus d.c. and some americans can t afford to fill the tank anymore. gas prices are killing us. i m trying to get a second job. i m trying not to follow all the politic, but i m starting to because of everything. we know a police officer will testify before the january 6th committee in its first prime time hearing. two sources telling nbc news that caroline edwards will t
court. he been told he has to be there. he is awaiting the decision earlier. judge juan merchan read specific sections of his instructions to the jury also at their request, the jury also asked for headphones, a specific type of headphone to use with their laptop that contains the physical evidence or evidence of it. this morning? yeah. and that jury, who asked to those headphones is also right now rehearing the testimony that came from david pecker. he has of course, the tabloid king but they left yesterday. they asked to rehear four key pieces of that testimony, and that is what is happening inside that courtroom, right now. that includes michael cohen and david pecker s a counts of a 2015 trump tower meeting. pecker is 2016 phone call with trump about the former playboy playmate karen mcdougal. and also pecker s testimony about not finalizing the payment with trump is going to pay pecker s company bag after they had purchased karatay goals life rights about her alleged a
stormy daniels in an attempt to hide their affair in the final days of the 2016 election. and they began a historic process. deliberations to determine whether to convict a former u.s. president of any of the 34 felony counts. trump was at the courthouse today where he has been every day in his trial and where he must remain every day the jury deliberates his fate. here is how one court reporter captured trump after the jury left the courtroom. todd blanche appeared to gently shake trump awake. nudging his shoulder as the six alternated filed out of the the courtroom and he was the only person still sitting down. judge juan merchan handed the case over to the seven men and five women jurors with this charge. quote. it is not my responsibility to judge the evidence here. it is yours. you are the judges of the facts and you are responsible for deciding whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty. these 12 jurors are the quote judges of the facts. only they have the power to d
stake through the heart of the trump business and brand. you can see him here entering the courtroom a few hours ago. he is the first member of the family to be called as a witness by state prosecutors, but he will not be the last. his brother eric is set to testify, as well as his sister ivanka, and his dad, the ex-president himself, who is scheduled to take the stand monday. donald trump jr. along with his brother eric trump have spent their entire careers at the trump organization. eric runs day-to-day business, and trump jr. is a trustee of the business entity that technically controls the entire trump org. because of their roles, they stand accused of committing fraud for years and years and years, involving those financial statements that have been submitted by the company. in his testimony so far, donald trump jr. has been asked about his grasp of accounting on that nbc news reports, quote, he said he was aware of what g-a-a-p is, quote, generally accepted accounting p