bloody war in ukraine. is that what was behind this week s confrontation with the u.s. drone and what does it say by him asking billionaires to save the russia economy. and the roller coaster on wall street shows no signs of stopping the s&p 500 is actually up what it all means for finances of everyday americans. and donald trump and his allying ramping up on ron desantis. and vladimir putin is under exterior and growing pressure both at home and abroad. mired in a war that s gone on far loster and cost more money and lives than nearly anyone had predicted. today putin addressed business elite in person, the first time he s done that since the war started. he called on them to invest in russian society, to put patriotism above profit. the latest sign of how badly russia s economy is suffering. it comes on the same day they released the have i i don t. nbc has learn that the pilots was on to harass the drone before ultimately colliding with it, forcing it to crash in t
with the president. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. president biden hoping to flex his diplomatic muscles here in new york. it s unclear how much of the world he has been able to rally so far around these issues that he thinks are the most urgent facing the planet. we are the authors of history. president biden sees two problems as bigger than all the rest. climate change. we don t have much time. and russia s invasion of ukraine. permanent member of the united nations security council invaded its neighbor. peter: but no call to remove russia from the u.n. security council despite renewed warnings of weapons of mass destruction. they re making irresponsible threats to use nuclear weapons. critics say the president s russia talk was missing something. call out the countries that are helping russia. call out the fact that china is helping. call out the fact that iran is sending drones. call out north korea for rockets. ing. among newcomers
just maybe things in this country would snap back into something resembling a pre-trump normal. dangerous elements of the far right would crawl back into their dark caves and corners that want harm done to the foundations of our most prized institutions, relentlessly maligned for years under donald trump would repair themselves. maybe even overnight. simply because trump is no longer the person sitting behind the resolute desk. sadly it appears that any of those hopes were in vain. more proof this afternoon that the destruction he left in his unhinged wake, the moral wrought he spread quietly continues to spread to this day inside some of our most important and revered institutions. considering chilling new reporting in today s the new york times, cataloging attacks on the fbi. the piece centers in part on a somewhat dishonest effort by a group of former agents calling themselves the suspendables. they wrote a letter earlier this month of accusing the fbi from discriminatin
A former american president and his fixer and a big time ally of his in the tabloid media. It was a plan crafted to cast then candidate donald trump in a positive light in the allimportant tabloids. Using stories that were favorable to him and silencing ones that werent and smearing everybody that got in the way. The witness on the stand today on the Hush Money Trial, details exactly how this scheme worked on a daytoday basis. David pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer described a relationship with donald trump that dated back to the late 1980s and noted that trump was one the first people to call him and congratulate him when he bought the National Enquirer back in 1999. So tlir friendship was already long standing by the time donald trump decided so to run for president. The questioning today was the details an the operational aspects of that explicit agreement between trump, his lawyer Michael Cohen, and david pecker. And what they did to boost trumps campaign. And
hello, welcome to cnn newsroom, i m john vause we are following live stories this hour. israel s war with hamas, and election night in america. democrats, there is now brief distance hope for the presidential election, with results now in from state what election races across the u.s.. it is the power of politics which is becoming increasingly clear. first to kentucky where governor andy beshear has been reelected making him one of the few democratically colors republican states. he made abortion rights a major issue in his campaign. tonight, kentucky made a choice. a choice not to move it to the right, or to the left, but to move forward for every single family. in mississippi, cnn now projects republican governor who won a second term. defeating the second cousin of elvis presley. who said, we came up belittle short. you people in mississippi, both sides of the aisle, both republicans, democrats, and representative for the good part of our, state you represent