Good evening. Im mehdi hasan. The insanity defense. That is what the Trump Legal Team seems to be offering this week in the wake of Special Counsel jack smiths stunning and damning 45page indictment, excuse, me of the former president , charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. All charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. The trump team saying, though, he wasnt lying, he truly believed he won the election. Which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. But its not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. Trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own Vice President told him that he, mike, pence had no Constitutional Authority to reject the vote on January The 6th, quote, youre too honest. Best of all, one of t
Look at the us capitol. Beautiful evening, actually, here in washington as we jue just moments awas. Capity fm President Biden and tonights state of the Union Address. Y frompresidengood evening from. Im brad there. Good evening, everybody. Im martha maccallum. Any moment now President Biden will be announced on the house floor with the familiar callilia of the house sergeant of arms. He will make his way down cate, greeted by lawmakers all along the way. There you see mitt romney talking to joe awmakers manchin. Seems like theyre pretty engaged in some conversation ses that happens on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakersnh waiting a long time in the chamber. A lot of folkse chambe, you knos expressing themselves different ways. Republicans, some of the more in buttons, die of about the bo. Others dressed in white on the democratic sidemocratic in solidarity. Lets set the stage now with White House Correspondent I Peter Doocy with a preview of the president s speech. Good eveni
British ice are tax Free Allowance to invest in uk listed companies. British isa tax Free Allowance. Moving on to the uk economy. The Office For Budget Responsibility predicts uk economy will grow by 0. 8 this year and 1. 9 next year. The uks Inflation Rate is also forecast to fall below 2 target this year. But the underlying debt, excluding Bank Of England debt, is forecast to be 91. 7 of gdp this year rising to 92. 8 next year. The government also kept a freeze on alcohol duty, which had been due to end in august, which will now continue until february 2025. There will be a new tax on vaping products to start in october 2026, and the existing tax on tobacco will increase. The chancellor says is in order to maintain the financial incentive to choose vaping over smoking. 0n transport and energy, the government has frozen the fuel duty again and kept the 5p cut in fuel duty on petrol and diesel, due to end later this month for another year. A windfall tax on the profits of energy firms,
Not an elected president. That one man in our nation of laws might, just might lawfully sit is Above The Law. That applies to every other single citizen. The Supreme Court, which has some of the lowest Approval Ratings among the American Public in its history, in counts three trump appointees yesterday decided to dignify a legal series contrary to the american experiment that it rhymes with trumps Access Hollywood moment of infamy. Basically arguing when youre president , they let you do it. Agreeing to hear this case at all is the hinged moment. No matter what happens next. It alone opens the door to turning america into a country where one person can commit crimes in this effort to overturn an election he loses, enlist others in that criminal conspiracy and then instead of facing any criminal accountability, just run for office again. And every last vestige the of criminal liability, criminal exposure and accountability. Has to be Crystal Clear today about the logistical the implicat
. today marks an historic day at the supreme court. you re looking at some of the footage and some of the protesters there this morning. if trump s conduct for alleged engagement in insurrection bars him from the ballot as colorado has decided, that was the question before the court. the justices at times considered implications. home in a physical sense how the high court operates. the justices referred to that attack at times but careful to avoid pre-judging the other prosecutions from that day. they focused on this question if a state can respond to that attack by deeming a politician an insurrectionist and then booting him off the ballot. everyone realizing today the stakes are high. monumental day in judicial history. donald trump is now at the center of a u.s. supreme court battle. a legal case that could rock the race for the white house. voters in colorado sued aiming to remove trump from the ballot. the supreme court facing a major test. all nine of the