thank you. congress returned from a two-week recess, just in tim for the jim jordan showed to hit the road house judiciary committee le by ohio congressman jim jordan arrived in new york city today with a hearing that they calle victims of violent crimes in manhattan. the hearing was not to propose or advance any republica policy to combat violent crime in manhattan, the purpose of the hearing was to examine how it manhattan district attorney alvin bragg pro crime, ant victim collett - and dangerous community for ne york city residents. by attempting to undermine the new york prosecutor who charge donald trump with 34 felonies, jim jordan is making it clea that the victim that he trul cares about is donald trump. jim jordan is all in on th trump defense fund raising grift. he was pitching republican donors on his tax against th district attorney bragg in tennessee last week. and thankfully, for the quote, hard earned money. in tennessee, last week, day after 39 year old child
opportunities to advance a political agenda, a radical political agenda he said that here in manhattan the scales of justice are being weighed down by politics, and they are but only today an america being rich, being powerful, even being president of the united states does not intitle you to violate the law with impunity. the republican-led house judiciary committee travels to new york city for partisan political theater. we ll is much more about this grievance-filled hearing in just a moment house speaker kevin mccarthy was also in new york talking about a plan to raise the debt ceiling but his proposal was messing several key details. and we have the latest from eastern europe following a rare trip out of russia by president vladimir putin good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, april 18th i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. following a two-week recess congress was back in session yesterday. but instead of legislating
ayman, nice to see you. thanks at home for joining us. so if you got in your car and you drove out of oklahoma city, you drove southeast out of oklahoma city about four hours, before you left oklahoma state limits, before you crossed the border, the last place you would hit is mccurtain county, oklahoma you can see it on the map in the farthest southeast corner of the great state of oklahoma. it borders arkansas to the east and borders texas to the south and in mccurtain county, in that part of oklahoma, the local newspaper there fittingly is called the mccurtain gazette-news and the mccurtain gazette news is a print only newspaper. if you want to read its reporting it s like the good old days, you have to wait each week until the hard copy of the paper hits your doorstep and then you can see what they ve reported on now, like all good local news outlets online or in print or both, the staff at the mccurtain gazette-news make it their business to make sure they are di
tonight breaking news and what is now the most consequential ruling since the supreme court overturned roe versus wade trump appointed federal judge has just suspended the fda approval for a widely used abortion drug. that means the drug called mifepristone could soon be banned nationwide, even in states where abortion remains legal. now, this is a hugely consequential ruling. the drug has been on the market for more than 20 years and used and more than half of all abortions in this country. we have reporters covering this story across the country for us, but first let s start with ariane de vogue, outfront live and washington, ari. and what else can you tell us so far about this judge s decision? absolutely right. this is the biggest ruling we ve had since last spring, when the supreme court reverse roe v. wade here, this federal judge has halted the approval of this popular medication abortion pill. now what s important orton . here is he s put this ruling on hold for a wee