Gulf coast ports shut down. That was going to be disastrous. President biden helped get that thing fixed fast. They have agreed, tentatively, to a 62% increase in wages over the next six years. The first offer that the union turned down, to show you how far apart this was, was 40%. That is where this began, so the pressure that the union put on related work and of course the port companies, they were hoping that president biden would feel the pressure of this and just order a tafthartley return to work by that union to get through the election and you can imagine how the company s thought the president will have to do this because this will be so difficult for the harris campaign, but the president kept the administration pushing both sides to an agreement. At 5:30 you can imagine how this was at the white house. The white house chief of staff is on zoom. Pete buttigieg and others in the administration, with both sides forcing them to get together and so both sides understood that it l
Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conversations he had on the 6th Of January, as the riots were unfolding at the capitol. Quote, beginning at about 150. 30 p. M. the defendant settled in the Dining Room off of the oval office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing twitter on his phone, while the Dining Room television played Fox News contemporaneous coverage of events at the capitol. Citing testimony, the filing says that when trump was informed his Vice President had to be rushed to a secure location after trump attacked pence in h
Donald trumps efforts to target what he calls trumps desperate attempt to stay in office. Where do things go from here . Plus, Kamala Harris appealing to republican sense of History And Tradition as she tries to convince them to cast their vote for her. How the Location Today and the woman who will be campaigning alongside her could help her make her case. Just hours ago, israel expanding Evacuation Warnings to nearly two dozen more towns across southern lebanon. How the people on both sides are now bracing for this wider war. A lot to get to. We start with Jack Smith. The Trial Wont be until after election day. To do that, Jack Smith has to convince the judge that trump was acting as a candidate, not the president , and orchestrated a criminal scheme to hold on to power meaning the Supreme Courts recent ruling on president ial immunity should not apply. The following is full of examples. Smith argues trumps conversations with Vice President pence were in their private capacity as Runn
It is good to be back with you for this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, Donald Trumps private conversations with Mike Pence in the weeks and months before a mob swarmed the capitol. The neverbeforeseen evidence unsealed by a judge and trumps reaction when he was told his Vice President escaped the violence. The former president prepares to take the stage in michigan after attacking special Counsel Jack Smith as deranging. What else hes saying about a filing detailing his increasingly desperate bid to remain in power. The apocalyptic scenes in lebanon, more than A Million people sleeping on the streets, israel keeping up its Air Strikes. A live report on that, and the stunning claims the agreement Hezbollahs Leader made just days before he was killed. And the growing desperation after hurricane helene, A Thousand active duty troops now in areas without power or clean water. And with the fate of hundreds still unknown, President Biden visiting the Storm Zone right now
Your show. I was. Have a good night. Thank you. We re just 24 hours out from the vice presidential campaign. And already the harriswalz campaign has picked the most important part of that debate. It s really rich for democratic leaders to say donald trump is a unique part of democracy when he overturned peaceful power. Who won the election? i would rather focus on the future. You have a real clear choice of who s going to honor democracy and who s going to honor donald trump. That was an absurd statement that donald trump peacefully turned over power. If you watched the debate you would have seen j. D. Vance trying to put a normalcy. It is hard to defend donald trump s action. There s a lot of bad data points there. Tonight today it sort of feels like the news gods watched last night s debate and saw j. D. Vance appalling answer and decided to highlight the whole issue. Because today a federal judge in washington, d. C. Unsealed a partially redacted a statement from jack smith in which