peter: good evening, bret. dealing with the next steps of the pandemic. republicans are trying to go back to the beginning how exactly did covid-19 start pressing dr. anthony fauci today about what he knew and when. senator paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect. a fiery dr. fauci defended himself today from charges the covid-19 origins can be traced back to testing he is now accused of supporting to make controversies more dangerous called date of function research. government scientists who favor gain of function research. i do not favor gain of research. you are saying things that are not correct. now the senate minority leader wants to know when the biden white house which he will visit the tomorrow bless a relaxing of strict covid protocols. there almost seems to be some reluctance to let go of emergency measures even to the point of clashing with science. and there s a new example of that. the centers for disease control
with john berman. breaking overnight, an extraordinary moment in the insurrection probe. former white house chief of staff mark meadows held in criminal contempt of congress from defying a subpoena. 222-208, two republicans, adam kinzinger and liz cheney joining democrats there. it will be up to the department of justice to decide to pursue criminal charges. house speaker p er nancy pelos adding, we will find the truth of that dark day. the vote came after meadows shared thousands of documents and texts with the committee, but declined to testify claiming courts need to decide whether the claims of executive privilege are valid. the committee released even more of his revealing text messages sent and received as the violence unfolded on january 6th. here are a few others from republican members. quote, it is really bad up here on the hill. another one,s the president needs to stop this asap. another one, fix this now. harry dunn defended the capitol january 6th. he wa
including alleged racketeering or rico crimes. that s typically used in gang related cases where criminal act are carried out on behalf of a mob or a gang leader. also to convict somebody of racketeering, you must prove criminal intent, that means that somebody knowingly committed a criminal act and knew they were committing a criminal act. challenging election results has never been a crime before, not when democrats do. georgia 2018 or stacey abrams in 2017. or hillary clinton making a challenge over and over and over again. democrats saying he was an illegitimate president over and over again. not with al gore s recounts in florida. in 1960, a little history lesson. democrats challenged the results of the presidential election with alternate electors in support of john f. kennedy. in hawaii. way back in 1876, 3 different states nominated alternate electoralors before hayes prevailed. none of the candidates were ever charge with a crime. no former president in american hist
use the euro currency. next week, it s the turn of the bank of england with another rise widely expected. but with inflation starting to ease, are we finally seeing the peak in the cost of borrowing? and when can we expect rates to start coming down again? let s hear first from michelle fleury in new york. the federal reserve has moved with unprecedented speed to get inflation under control. since march of last year, it has raised its benchmark rate by 5.25 percentage points. its latest move is likely to push up the cost of borrowing for american businesses and consumers even further. with inflation showing prices rising more slowly than a year ago, the key question at the press conference was whether this rate increase was the last or would it hike again later this year? fed chairjerome powell wouldn t be drawn. i would say it is certainly possible that we would raise funds again at the september meeting if the data warranted it. and i would also say it is possible that we w
passengers crashed into a freight train standing on the same track. its coaches overturned, hitting another sleeper coming in from the opposite side, leaving a pile up not seen in decades. through the night rescue teams had worked pulling out people. when i came out of the train is a lot of people had reached the site. you ll make those who were seriously injured were brought out so i had to wait. ambulances have been rushing passengers for critical medical care. ambulances have been very critically injured passengers to this trauma centre here at this hospital. this is the biggest hospital. this is the biggest hospital in the state but it is still a three hour drive from where the accident happened. we understand that since last night, hundreds of critically injured passengers have been brought in here and given medical care, but the scenes outside is one of despair and distress and of chaos. many people outside are still looking for their family members who were passengers,