Some pieces to bang your head on. Yeah. We have a GrAnd Piano if youd like to entertain us. A GrAnd Piano . Yes. I can open it, but i couldnt play it. John laughs Michael Palin, welcome to This cultural life. Thank you. You were born in sheffield in 1943. What are your earliest memories of childhood, Home Life . Um, i think it was shopping in the Ration Book era. Um, And i can remember going with my mother to get. I think we were given free Orange Juice at that time. Really, This must have been. I must have been three or four. And watching it being filled up And hAnded over. Your father was an engineer in the sheffield steel industry. Yeah. What Sort Of man was he . What was he like . He was. He was quite a difficult man in a way. He was a little Bit Sort of. Could be quite cantankerous. And i think a lot of This went down to the fact he had a stammer all his life. He was a man with a good sense of humour, but probably unable to telljokes because of the stammer. So i think there was a
We are grateful. Hi katie. Hi, thank you so much, and welcome to the beat. Tonight, there could be a delay in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial in new york. More on that in a moment but we start with breaking news. Judge cannon denying without prejudice trumps motion to dismiss counts one through 32 and is classified documents case. Her ruling coming in moments ago. She said trumps arguments are better suited to be argued later on in connection with other motions. In other words, she punted the decision. It comes after trump and jack smith faced off in a federal courtroom in florida today, trumps attorneys arguing to dismiss the entire superseding indictment against him, claiming the president ial records act gives them the authority to take and claim those classified documents as his own personal property. In the motion, trumps lawyers wrote, President Trump exercise virtually unreviewable authority to designate the records as personal. In court, trump lawyer todd blanche arguing, quote,
the special counsel investigation on trump s attempt to overturn the election, tonight a look at how jack smith s prosecution of that plot could play out. plus, breaking news in that investigation with reporting tonight that trump s son-in-law jared kushner has testified to the january 6th grand jury. also, the radical normalcy of joe biden on the world stage. he s leading a united nato after his predecessor publicly sided with putin. hollywood showdown, the actors have joined the writers on strike. what they re fighting for and how it will affect what you see on tv and at the movies. we begin tonight with breaking news in the special counsel s investigation into donald trump s efforts to try to remain in power after his 020 election loss. late this afternoon the new york times reported that federal prosecutors questioned multiple witnesses in recent weeks including trump s son-in-law jared kushner on whether trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 20
we are very grateful. i will be back with you tomorrow. the beat with katy faang in for ari melber starts right now. hello. what a fantastic show. good to see you. thanks so much for everything. and welcome to the rest of you to the the beat. i m katy faang in for ari melber. breaking news on donald trump s coup charges and the united states supreme court. late today donald trump s lawyers urging the united states supreme court to delay hearing arguments on a monumental question, whether he has absuit immunity criminal prosecution from actions trying to overturn the 2020 election. the filing coming in response to special counsel jack smith who is urging the high court to fast track this case. today trump s lawyers telling the court it should wait until a lower court has ruled while questioning why smith wants to move so quickly. arguing that smith s proposal would lead to a, quote, radically compressed timetable, and that, quote, the special counsel identifies no dpelg re
polarizing decisions, issued by the court on abortion, gun rights, and today s ruling limiting the epa s authority to fight climate change. we are going to have much more that ruling specifically, and on the future of the court, and its newest member just ahead. before we get to all of that, do you remember when the donald trump campaign was caught scam in its own donors. i just have to redo the lead from the new york times, the story that broke the scandal open. quote, stacey black was in hospice care and september 2020, listening to russia limbaugh s dire warnings about how badly donald trump s campaign needed money, when he went online and shipped in everything he could. $500. it was a big sum for a 63 year old battling cancer, and living in kansas city unless than $1,000 a month. but that single contribution, quickly multiplied, another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 next week, and every week through mid october without his knowledge, until mr. blasts bank acc