ThIs an amerIcan nIghtmare. WIth just four months to go untIl the presIdent Ial electIon. Is It tIme for the democrats at the very top to speak truth to power . Can stand by for a specIal trIbute to our Loved KIrsty who tonIght Is presentIng herfInal newsnIght to our Loved KIrsty who tonIght Is presentIng her fInal newsnIght wIth the help of some well known faces. Good evenIng. Welcome to newsnIght and to my very old frIends, Alan CummIng, who has just arrIved from a very jIttery amerIca, and the Today Programme presenter, the marvellous martha kearney, who leaves her show next thursday. Here too Is the Enfant TerrIble LewIs Goodall who started out on newsnIght before he flew the coop for the News Agents and lbc, and as always our very own nIck watt. FIrst, lets remInd ourselves of those IncIdents from presIdent bIden last nIght. Now I want to hand It over to the presIdent of ukraIne, who has as much courage as he has determInatIon. LadIes and gentlemen, PresIdent PutIn. PresIdent putI
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin Mccarthy escalates. Mccarthy is now facing criticism for joking about hitting pelosi with the gavel if he becomes house speaker. The question is did he really think that comment was funny . And after much delay, senators have introduced the long awasted text of their bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. The question is when will we see a vote . Its way too early for this. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early, the show that at this point would settle for the bronze. Weve got some Breaking News in olympics just ahead. I eenl Jonathan Lemire on this monday, August 2nd. Lets start with news. We begin with a grim new milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. According to an nbc tally, late last notice total cases surpassed 635 million. Florida is quickly becoming the epicenter of this fourth wave of infections, accounting for all, about a fifth of all new cases in the u. S. Yesterday the state broke a previous record for current hospitalizations s
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