month. mcconnell, leading the meeting, didn t want to get into the details but said it was a good discussion and there would be more talks ahead. a big breakthrough that the two sides are talking. perhaps they can avoid a default before the deadline, guys. manu raju on capitol hill, thank you. top of a brand new hour. good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. a lot of activity inside and outside the brunswick county courthouse in the trial of three men accused of murdering ahmaud arbery. prosecutors finished cross-examining the man who admitted shooting arbery who was unarmed and grilled him over inconsistencies in his story. here s what s happening outside. pastors and attorneys are leading a rally and a march in support of arbery s family. martin savidge is following all of it for us. martin, what s the latest? reporter: truly a pivotal day both inside and outside the courthouse here. that march is underway, and it s anticipated that thos
cause. there is a lot of news unfolding today as well. i m live inside the industrial fire house for the toledo refining company as some fear the biden administration could halt another u.s. pipeline amid a global energy crisis. now, we ll be talking to a worker at this plant, this as biden s fight against oil and gas could cause irreparable damage. todd: alex hogan has more on the painful spike in the energy crisis. reporter: hi, carley and todd. in the last year, we ve really seen price increases from everything from used car sales to groceries and of course energy. electricity bills are climbing to the greatest increase we ve seen since 2009. of course, this is causing a lot of concern for families as they head into the winter months. among some of these spikes, gasoline is up 49% and fuel oil is up 59%. now, when it comes to these industries, the white house is facing some backlash over be president joe biden s nominee for the comptroller of the currency. she is under c
tonight, but also getting to nikki haley. i saw your coverage of nikki haley in the last hour. just a little before you started that. in new hampshire tonight. she was asked a pretty simple question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer that did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour, and explain why she gave that answer. lawrence, i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77-year-old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he dn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world, and while he
question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer they did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour. and explain. why she gave that answer. lawrence i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77 year old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he didn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world and while he was at it, he said the president s united states should rot in hell. the 77 year old criminal defendant is also the leading republican candidate for president of united states. thanks to t
tonight bringing us the context are amanda renteria, hillary clinton s former national political director and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. exactly 20 years ago today, us forces, with the uk and other allies, invaded iraq. the stated aim to rid the country s dictator saddam hussein of his weapons of mass destruction weapons that in the end were never found. it was part of the us s war on terror , started by president george w bush after the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. let s remind ourselves those first moments of the war. on this day in 2003, the first raids were on the capital baghdad it was called shock and awe . it took the us just over a month to defeat iraqi forces and saddam hussain s regime collapsed. president bush declared iraq to be free. but rather than an end to conflict, it was the beginning of many years of bloodshed for iraq and the wider region. the failure to plan for the aftermath of the invasion led, in part, t