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
new concerns the reason could become a bigger tineder box. smoke rises over the skyline of gaza this morning. i m mike he manual in for bill hemmer. claudia, great to be with you. claudia: this is a special edition of america s newsroom. the u.s. going after hezbollah targets in iraq after a christmas day attack against american troops. defense secretary lloyd austin says his prayers are with the brave americans who were injured. that attack one of the more than 100 against our forces since the hamas massacre in israel october 7th. trey yengst is live in tel aviv with more. good morning, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targets belonging to militants in iraq. we do know according to u.s. central command that three different strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of kataib hezbollah militants in response to a drone attack against the erbil air base that houses u.
counter offensive against russian forces. in a rare interview, oleksiy danilov describes the planned assault as an historic opportunity . now on bbc news.political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. every so often there s an issue that bubbles up. if you ll forgive the metaphor, and reaches beyond the westminster bubble. the issue we re talking about today is the issue of sewage, the quality of our waterways, our rivers and our seas. my my guest this week is the man who is insured that no political figure can and should ignore the question of the waterways. he is keen angler, campaigner, and original lead singer with the undertones, fergal sharkey, a man who left the stage in order to campaign for musician s right before taking up his current position another one of the country s leading environmental campaigners. he b
[barack] i believe governor romney s a good man, but when he said 47% of the country consider themselves victims, think about who he was talking about. [tim] for conservatives across the country, they ve been frustrated for a long time. justice antonin scalia has died. i simply ask republicans to give merrick garland a fair hearing. i am running for president of the united states. there are questions swirling tonight around hillary clinton and they concern a personal email account. you say that you have the most transparent administration ever. it s true. it can be frustrating, this business of democracy. mahalo. as some of you heard, the state of hawaii released my official long-form birth certificate. [amy] president obama, a first black president, was constantly questioned not really because of the policies but literally because of who he was. it s not just that they disagreed with obama, the undertones of it were pretty clear. he is an other. [chip] donald trump called th
i will cap federal spending and finally balance the budget. i believe governor romney is a good man. but when he said 47% of the country consider themselves victims, think about who he was talking about. for conservatives across the country, they ve been frustrated for a long time. justice antonin scalia has died. i simply asked republicans to give merrick garland a fair hearing. i am running for president of the united states. there are questions swirling tonight around hillary clinton, and they concern a personal email account. you say you have the most transparent administration ever. it s true. it can be frustrating, this business of democracy. mahalo. as some of you heard, the state of hawaii released my official long form birth certificate. president obama, a first black president was constantly questioned, not really because of the policies, but literally because of who he was. it s not just that they disagreed with obama. the undertones of it w