phone records of his closest allies. and then you email evidence joint insiders knew exactly what they were doing. then, as republicans split over the former guy and his former vp, could democrats be in for some big wins despite a complicated economy. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. here we go. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with bombshell breaking news from the washington post. the post reporting the justice department is investigating former president trump s actions in its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the paper reports, quote, prosecutors who were questioning witnesses before a grand jury, including two top aides to vice president mike pence, have asked in recent days about conversations with trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute trump allies for certified electors for some states to that joe biden won. in addition, justice department investigators
the washington post. the post reporting the justice department is investigating former president trump s actions in its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the paper reports, quote, prosecutors who were questioning witnesses before a grand jury, including two top aides to vice president mike pence, have asked in recent days about conversations with trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute trump allies for certified electors for some states to that joe biden won. in addition, justice department investigators back in april received phone records of key officials at aides in the trump administration including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. earlier tonight, our friends carol leonnig broke down some of a reporting and describes what federal prosecutors wanted to know. what we learned is that they are asking most of their questions at least so far, about donald trump. the questions are overwhelmingly are, what did
also in the programme: one of america s top lawmakers, nancy pelosi is reportedly expected to visit taiwan on tuesday, putting further strains on relations with china. doctors successfully separate conjoined twins with shared fused brains in historic virtual reality surgery. champions! champions! and as england s lionesses celebrate winning the euros 2022, we ll talk to gurinder chadha, director of the classic celebration of women s football, bend it like beckham. now look my god, we did it! cheering live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news: president biden has confirmed that the al-qaeda chief, ayman al zawahiri has been killed in an american drone strike conducted in kabul. zawahiri was on the fbi s first ever most wanted terrorist list following the 9/11 attacks, which he had helped to coordinate alongside osama bin laden. this is what presidentt biden announced a short time ago. m
trillions of dollars? go woke start implementing environmental, social governance esg opened the borders to millions of illegal immigrants, prioritize criminals over victimson and go green before green works. perhaps economic catalyst or c fauci. weat just recorded the highest r inflation readingec in forty years 40 years. we did it down. i yeah yeah you did it. congratulations you two don t believe your eyes or your pocketbook. joe s gotn y this .hi millions of americans are o moving up to better jobs and better pay sincece i took office. families are carrying less debt on average in america. they have more savings than they ve had because of the progress america can tackle inflation from a position off strength, a position of o strength that we re in right now. americans p seef right through consumer sentiment plunged again this week, pp dropping fourteen percent . may to a historic new low but of course the whole inflation thing that s not biden s fault. today s
trump s obsession and repeated false claims of voter fraud laid the foundation for the deadly siege. leading off tonight s hearing expected to run two hours in prime time, new video of the attack. as well as live testimony from a british documentary filmmaker, embedded with members of the proud boys who captured the chaos. the night s first in-person witness captain police officer caroline edwards. she suffered a brain injury after she was knocked down by rioters. those images, the smells, the yelling, the chaos, the blood, i mean it was that day was a war zone. reporter: the committee is also expected to show recorded testimony from some of the 1,000 other key witnesses interviewed including the former president s daughter ivanka and her husband jared kushner. trap allys have blasted the hearing. this is a smear campaign. reporter: but overnight new audio recordings provided by the book this will not pass reveal kevin mccarthy less than a week after the january 6