last couple of hours happened as the u.n. security council met in new york over north korea s firing over japan the first time. we re monitoring all of this for response from the west. in our other top story tonight, less than five weeks ahead of the midterm elections, terrible news for president biden and the democratic party. if you are looking at gas prices. as opec plus oil ministers say they will sharply cut production. this comes as the u.s. is dealing with a new surge in gasoline prices across the country coupled with skyrocketing inflation and soaring interest rates. white house correspondent peter doocy has our report live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. president biden doesn t have any control over what opec does. he asks them to increase production. they decided to decrease it. and now gas prices back home may start rising at a terrible time for him politically. but, as international politics get tricky, the president has a surprisin
our family. he touched lives we had no idea existed. i don t know if i could have that same view, i would be so angry, the strength of this mom is unreal. carley: what a statement, did you see the picture when he was little with his siblings, absolutely heart-breaking. then there is this. todd: to florida, affidavit detailing gruesome murders of an elderly couple in their retirement community. carley: the career criminal had two arrests in the last year, ashley strohmier has more. ashley. ashley: police do not have a motive behind the burl of darrell and sharon getman. they have a suspect, vicki williams. the elderly couple was stabbed to death in their apartment, dh is a gated retirement community. the affidavit lining out a timeline what took place new year s eve. at 10 a.m., a woman entered the village and 3 p.m., security escorted her off the property and that same woman can be seen reentering the gated community and knocks on an apartment door asking to take a sh
speaker. at home we re watching a major test of former president trump s influence over the republican party. in the five states where voters are headed to the polls today to vote in primary elections, all eyes will be on the slate of candidates who the former president endorsed and have embraced the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. will that message resonate with republican primary voters? today will also be a big test for these three house republicans who were among the ten who voted to impeach the former president. will they survive after taking a critical stand? one of today s biggest tests will happen in kansas where abortion rights are on the ballot for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. we ll have the latest into the massive implications of that vote. let s get right into it with nbc s steve kornacki at the big board. steve, what are you looking for this morning? a couple things, jose, you touched on. i think this referendum in
steve bannon to testify publicly on the eve of his federal criminal contempt trial for refusing to honor the committee s subpoenas. among those scheduled tomorrow, a former spokesman for the oath keepers which played a central role in the coordination and execution of the capitol insurrection. just moments ago, president biden was joined by gun safety advocates at a white house event celebrating bipartisan legislation signed last month. while the administration is struggling with the grim reality, on the cover of today s new york times about how many in the president s own party as well as independents are souring on him. and hundreds of firefighters in california are in a desperate battle to protect 3,000-year-old historic sequoia trees from the wildfires. we begin with the january 6th insurrection. joining me now ali vitali, jeremy peters. and tim miller, author of why we did it. ali, take us through what we can expect this week from the hearings and how they might
britain s strawberries and how british cheese could be made, and making good old fashioned english fishermen where her nets. there was even a column about the evil making condoms too small. none of this was true but he seemed to think it was all great fun. he told an interviewer quite, i was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall and listening to the amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over an england. everything i wrote from brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the conservative party. it really gave me this i suppose rather weird sense of power and quote. his right-wing newspaper would splash its headlines over the front page of the secret evil plans of european bureaucrats to take over british life and rule the u q k from afar. and this newspaper for readers learn to distrust and hate the eu. those readers included a lot of your conservative lawmakers and he watched with glee a civil war broke out in his own party about how anti europe they