two dozen house contests, three gubernatorial elections are all within two points. that is called a statistical tie. now, as a reminder, three key swing states , if you go back to twenty sixteen , propelled donald trump to victory in 2016. the combined vote of those three swing states . seven thousand votes, 2020 forty three thousand votes in three states. that would be georgia, wisconsin and arizona decided the election. if you stay home, democrats. well, they re likely to win and you will get the government you deserve. we are warning we warned you. and this brings us to the most important question. every american this election needs to be asking themselves, are you better off? are you better off than you are ? twenty one months ago, are you happy we have a 40 year record high of inflation. we have backbreaking gas prices ,diesel prices and a diesel shortage. are you happy about that? is that is that the best we re capable of? are you happy that our borders are wide open?
we just observed the minute of silence, marked at the beginning by big ben. the final day the queen is lying in state there at the state funeral. that will be tomorrow, with state leaders and dignitaries from around the world attending the funeral there. after ten days, of course, of mourning. we want to bring in nbc s former editor, tim york. both in london for us. and lindsey, let me start with you, as we just marked that moment, that minute of silence for the queen there. talk to me about what we heard from america s president, president biden, paying his respects earlier today ahead of the state funeral tomorrow. before we get to that, i saw somebody walking along the queue here, filing behind us. reminding people, the moment of silence at 8:00 local time, to make sure everybody did pay their respects. and actually, a muffler is being used with big ben, to create a quieter tone. you have mentioned, president biden and the first lady are visiting and paying their respect
how the former president donald trump put pressure on the then vice president mike pence to overturn the election results. today is the third day of hearings from presenting the findings of the committee investigation and two men are appearing before today s hearing. the older man blue shirt you can see is a retired judge who was an informal adviser to mike pence. the younger gentleman is greg jacob and he is a former legal counsel to the vice president. the session his life now. has all the players led by mr eastman got wrapped around the axle may the hysterical evidence claim by mr eastman let me explain very simply this is what i said would require a digression that i would be glad to undertake if you wished in short if i had been advising for brett vice president of the united states onjanuary brett vice president of the united states on january six brett vice president of the united states onjanuary six and evenif united states onjanuary six and even if then vic
Deescalation. That is the message from the us Secretary Of State, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. Now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the United States was not involved in any Offensive Operations. As he also said, the focus for the United States and g7 remains deescalation you saw israel on the Receiving End of an unprecedented attack. But our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so deescalating tensions avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus so israels strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. The early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. A source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. John. All right. Us officials confirm that israel
The results reverse culture shock. Ready for. You realize how strange artificial is really connected to life. The prize winning documentary something from the forest starts people first on t. W. It is a trunk tweet that changes decades of u. S. Policy in The Middle East today the us president said its time to recognize israeli sovereignty over the Go On Heights Israel captured to go on hikes from syria in one thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Seven a move considered illegal by the un israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who could be voted out of office in two weeks i think the president for making History Today netanyahu critics say hes trying to engineer an election victory with the help of the u. S. President gul from berlin this is the day. The
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