The type of issues youd expect to hear in an election year. Biden set out his achievements and whats next for his presidency. He also took aim at his likely republican opponent in november, former President Donald Trump without mentioning him by name. And it was clear that the president saw his speech notjust as a state of the Union Address but also an address about the State Of The World and americas role at the centre of it. History is watching. The United States walks away, it put ukraine at risk. It is at risk, everyone will be at risk, and broadening others to do what they wish to do us harm. My message to President Putin will ever know for long time a simple, we will not walk away. Iv e ive heard many of my republican and democratic friends say china is on the rise and america is falling behind. Theyve got it backwards. To the leadership of israel i say this, humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. Protecting and saving innocent lives hav
You expecting . I think there will be a rate rise and everyone you expecting . I think there will be a rate rise and everyone is a rate rise and everyone is expecting 0. 25 from the bank today. The challenge it has is that its looking at what inflation has already done and we know Interest Rate rises take quite a while to filter through. Rate rises take quite a while to filterthrough. Is rate rises take quite a while to filter through. Is any danger here that rates go too high and therefore strangle the economic recovery . There is always a risk when putting Interest Rates up, its a really hard job to do. To know that when youre putting your foot on the accelerator that is going to do the right thing because there are lots of lags in how long it takes. In general, you get the sense of the Bank Of England and the message, they are more concerned about doing nothing, they feel that they can dial back on that a little bit more than letting inflation continue to persist. Obviously, the ris
good evening once again, good to be back with you, i am stephanie ruhle. and tonight we are tracking important developments in several investigations into the former president, donald j trump. nbc news reports that fulton county, eight fani willis, it will begin choosing to grand jury s tomorrow. if we ll estates pursue charges against donald trump, these jurors will be the people signing off on them. meanwhile, special counsel jack smith wants to take the classified documents case to trial this december. both sides have agreed to a hearing next tuesday about handling evidence that was supposed to happen this friday. the judge has yet to give the okay. the timing of the trial is absolutely key, you know why, because we are just seven months out from the first presidential primaries. the judge knows that, if this trial does not occur by the end of this calendar year, that it is going to be right up in the grill of people deciding who the republican nominees for president sho
will begin choosing two grand jury s tomorrow. if we ll estates pursue charges against donald trump, these jurors will be the people signing off on them. meanwhile, special counsel jack smith wants to take the classified documents case to trial this december. both sides have agreed to a hearing next tuesday about handling evidence that was supposed to happen this friday. the judge has yet to give the okay. the timing of the trial is absolutely key, you know why, because we are just seven months out from the first presidential primaries. the judge knows that, if this trial does not occur by the end of this calendar year, that it is going to be right up in the grill of people deciding who the republican nominees for president should be and, right now, the favorite in fact is the defendant. the case is also the focus of a new political ad that started airing in the battleground states of arizona, georgia, and wisconsin. in it, former cia and nsa director michael haden is jus
in broad daylight yesterday a quadruple drive-by shooting took place one block from national stadium. a man and woman died as a result. two other victims are in critical condition. what we know there were some individuals at one of the corner stores on the block, a white jeep cherokee came around the corner and an individual began to discharge a firearm. the jeep involved in the shooting is the same one found torched last night. investigators said it was involved in an armed carjacking wednesday night, the night before the shooting. carjackings have more doubled in 2023. d.c. police have so far logged 943. the age most compare for thieves arrested in these crimes, 15 years old. withth ten days left in 2023 the were 225 homicides. the highest number since 1997. that s when the nation s capital was emerging from a violent decade. the white house have shied away from recent questions about rising crime in the district. last month the press secretary said the administration i