Welcome to the amine for our, heres where were headed this week this week, we examined power and all the ways it affects our lives. First, were going to compete with china were determined to do that. Todays big Power Conflict between china and the United States. My conversation with veteran diplomat us ambassador To Beijing Nicholas Burns, then people have always been interested and now theyre sort of worried. And concern about oh, no Luck Power unchecked power. And the fact that it might be coming for america, the writer who examined a man named Robert Moses who had the power to build and trample over new York Pulitzer prize winning Author Robert Kara joins me. Why 50 years on his seminal book is still flying off the shelves now its safe, you know, so people stay in the deadly Power Struggle in El Salvador between a Strongman President and the criminal gangs. And what it all means for the United States and then in our letter from london, he unleashed her as his secret Weapon Kingmaker
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It is good to be back with you on this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, irans interference game, what the fbi is revealing about hackers who tried but failed to interest Joe Bidens Team in documents stolen from the Trump Campaign. Plus, what will the former president is saying about it. And its the Blue Dot in an ocean of red, but now a fight is brewing over a Nebraska District with a single electoral vote, so critical it could decide the president ial election. We have new reporting. Plus, a possible Mass Tragedy averted, how police track down a Missouri Teenager who allegedly had a fully loaded handgun with an extended magazine right outside a school. And are we witnessing a new phase of the war . Israel and hezbollah Trade Fire after a series of Pager And Walkietalkie explosions that left the entire region on the brink. Our Nbc News reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with nbcs Ryan Nobles covering these new revelations about iranian i
by catering to the hard right. conduct like theirs is just asking for another january 6th to happen. that s of course chuck schumer, but it s not just democrats who are calling out fox news for trying to down play the violence of january 6th. some republican senators did not hold back their criticism either. we ll have their comments straight ahead. speaker mccarthy making no apologies for his role in all of this. we ll tell you how he is justifying handing over thousands of hours of security video. also ahead, the latest on the kidnapping in mexico that ended with two americans dead and two others in the hospital. plus, federal investigators digging deeper into norfolk southern s safety culture following two train derailments in ohio and a deadly collision yesterday morning in cleveland. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, march 8th. it is international women s day, and mika is getting ready for her big event in our next hour, including a conversatio
tennis legend billie jean king on the game changing moment for women in sports 50 years ago. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. president biden tonight announcing his new plan to bring down high fuel prices the president calling on a somewhat skeptical congress to suspend the federal gas tax. that s currently around 18 cents a gallon for gasoline. 24 cents for diesel. a federal gas tax holiday will provide only minimal relief from the price at the pump which has trickled down to a still staggering average of $4.95 a gallon and the president is asking states to suspend their fuel taxes, too. gas prices are up nearly $2 a gallon in the past year helping to fuel soaring inflation. with limited levers at his disposal, the president faces increasing pressure to show he s trying to do something to blunt the impact of runaway prices but at what cost chief white hous correspondent kristen welker leads us off tonight. reporter: under pressure with gas pri