Nearly 3 billion lawsuit in which he plays a starring role. Others at fox news do as well. And then a Battle Of The Ages and for the ages, of course, tom brady versus Patrick Mahomes in the super bowl tomorrow, coming up later this hour, were going to talk about that as well. I want to start, though, with nbcs mike memoli traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, and nbcs ali vitali on capitol hill. Thanks for joining us on this. Mike, i want to start with you on this one and the president s worry, shall we say, about the former President Trump. This is the first time that you had a former president who essentially is going to be barred from Intelligence Briefings, right . Reporter well, yasmin, thats right. This would be the case if thats the final decision thats made by the white house but you know what . This is par for the course because the last time i was speaking to you from here in wilmington, it was during the president ial transition and what was one of the storyl
on the debt ceiling. this is all about the amount of money the us government is allowed to borrow which has a self imposed limit, a ceiling. without a raise, this would leave the us unable to pay its bills. on tuesday, president biden met with top lawmakers in washington, who are currently blocking raising that ceiling but they came away without a breakthrough. nomia iqbal was there. both sides came out of the meeting which lasted more than an hour, announcing there was no deal. both showing they are entrenched in their positions. the republican speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, attacked president biden for not negotiating. his opponents came out a short while either later saying republicans refused to take default off that table and mrjeffries called the publicly party as a party of magyar extremists. they have two weeks otherwise the us will default to not pay their bills and it would lead to economic ruin, leading to stock markets plummeting and millions ofjobs are p
up by the facts and when everybody from the tippy top all the way down to the company knows that that network is broadcasting lies to millions in america. should anyone still call that network a news network? it is a question worth asking today about fox news. in light of allegations by voting machine company dominion. we are still for our part pouring through court documents filed by dominion. those documents are filled to the brim with stunning revelations and evidence that fox news knew at the highest levels at the time that it was broadcasting misinformation to its audience. misinformation so dangerous that it led to death threats, harassment, ultimately it led to a deadly terror attack, so described by fbi director chris wray on the u.s. capitol dominion knew that sidney powell had never entered into an agreement to represent donald trump as his attorney. yet, she appeared on fox news over and over and over again. here is what lou dobbs said on december 10th, 2020, with
and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i am your retribution. donald trump at cpac over the weekend, feeding his followers the dark conspiracy driven vision for america that they crave. just like fox news, trump and the rest of the republican party would rather fill their followers brains with lies than tick them off by telling them the truth. also tonight, trump pledges to run in 2024 even if he s indicted. the strongman principle used by other indicted leaders around the world where criminal charges actually make them more popular with their base. plus, how ron desantis is creating just the right kind of right wing safe space marjorie greene was asking for where you re free to lead your cruelty fly and the children of white christians won t have to worry their delicate, fragile minds learning anything that makes their right wing parents uncomfortable. we begin tonight with jim jordan s subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal
to his role in thejuly 2020 twitter hack which affected over 130 accounts, including those of barack obama and joe biden. josephjames o connor, known as plugwalkjoe, pleaded guilty to hacking charges carrying a total maximum sentence of over 70 years in prison. mr o connor hijacked numerous twitter accounts, asking followers to send bitcoin to an account, promising to double their money. ousted fox news host tucker carlson has said he is launching a new show on twitter. the announcement came in a video on the social media site two weeks after his sudden exit from fox news. carlson s departure from the network came shortly after fox news paid $787 million to settle a defamation suit brought by voting machine company dominion. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.