to hit the area in over a century. the epicenter in the high atlas mountains near marrakesh is a yunesco world heritage site. equipment and manpower are limited in this region. patients are waiting outside hospitals, and residents are sleeping on the streets, fearing intense aftershocks. more than 700 people are in critical condition. officials believe the death toll will steadily rise. i want to bring in ben wedeman for more on all this. ben, you ve been to the area. set the scene for our viewers, what the topography is like, who lives there, why it s a tourist attraction and how an effarthque of this magnitude is cause so much damage. this earthquake happened just a few minutes after 11:00 p.m. friday evening. from the video we ve seen of cctv for instance, there was a small jolt followed by this massive earthquake. you see buildings just collapse in one cctv video. a block of buildings just falls into the street, sending tens of thousands of people sleeping outside last
one former staffer of then v.p. biden saying, quote: this is a russian disinformation operation. i m very comfortable saying that boy, does that sound familiar. here now with reaction, florida congressman, retired green beret colonel michael waltz. congratulations on your military career. i know you retired a couple weeks ago. gave so much to the country and still giving. now i want your take on where this investigation is going two and a half years later. yeah. brian. this testimony from devon archer is pretty amazing but it s on top of what we already knew from the laptop. so, when the laptop you had an email teeing up vice president then vice president biden to be at the dinner. now you have sworn testimony that he was at the dinner. and then also on the laptop was a thank you note from a burisma executive that read dear hunter, thank you for inviting me to d.c. and giving me the opportunity to meet your father and spend time with him. i don t know what more that you need. what i
audience in the town hall was not told, you know, react however you feel. they were told they could cheer but they couldn t boo. so they could cheer, but they couldn t boo. so what then happens is it creates the atmospherics that everyone in there was loving on trump, but there s a video, i want to see if we have it, some of the crowd weren t cheering. even i represented it as a whole crowd full of goons that were cheering when people were insulting e. jean carroll, look at that. you have men in the back hooting, hollering, loving trump, and a bunch of people sitting in front sitting there quiet. and they weren t allowed to boo. how is that journalism? yeah, that s essentially teeing up, you know, the home run pitch for a particular candidate. and creating a friendly audience. so i think you also have to take issue with the way this has been framed to the point you made in your intro, that there is a false dichotomy here, as if the
america stands with you and the world stands with you. freedom is priceless. it s worth fighting for for as long as it takes, and that s how long we will be with you, mr. president. we are learning more tonight about how the u.s. pulled off this rare move, keeping the entire trip a closely guarded secret within the u.s. government with everything in place, biden formally finalized the trip after an oval office meeting friday night, teeing up air force one, at 1:00 a.m. sunday morning reporters were barred from bringing their phones and also unusual, the flight landed in poland and then biden switched to a train making a ten-hour train trip to reach kyiv this morning. he stayed for about six hours and the headlines tell the story with dispatches from the new york times, amid air raid sirens biden makes surprise visit.
question whether the fed s aggressive moves have already secured a recession in the coming months. i hope that that is not the case, but that is you know, that s something that s on the table given how aggressively they have moved. yeah. soft landing sounds great in theory, a little bit harder in practice. heidi cher hose, i really appreciate your expertise. thank you so much. indiana has become the first state to pass an abortion ban sinlds roe v. wade was overturned. the bill will offer exceptions for some abortions for babies in fetal distress or in some assaults of rape and incest. protesters filled the hall owes of indiana s state capitol as lawmakers voted on the measure. the new law goes into effect on september 15th. still to come this morning, tensions at a tipping point