Spectrum, liz cheney on the right, joe biden, are warning on a near daily basis an increasingly dire terms that our very democracy is in trouble right now. I dont understand why one partys careen threatens to derail the entire american experiment, the entire republic. Can actually just look no further than what happened last night. Nikki haleys dorsment of donald trump is part of what has become a time honored tradition of Todays Republican Party in the trump era. Prominent republicans whose closely held private views about the expresident may not actually be that different from mine or that of any trump critic or any democrat. And taking all sorts of very public abuse and scorn from donald trump, including attacks on their spouses. Despite all that, despite everything he said about their families and everything they have said about him in return, they turn around and offer him their endorse the. Ted cruzs capitulation before the 2016 election after trump attacked his wife. Cruz said t
Another legal setback for hunter biden as the judge rules his federal Gun Crimes Trial will proceed as scheduled. A big primary for voters in maryland and West Virginia as republicans speak gain control of the u. S. Senate and Secretary Of State Antony Blinken visits ukraine as the u. S. Sends in more weapons. Rain showers for donald trump start the crossexamination of the key witness in the former president s criminal case. That trial of course centers on 34 case against counts on falsifying Business Records for a payment to an Adult Film Actress who alleged a sexual encounter with mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election. This is the first ever criminal prosecution of an expresident. Former Trump Attorney and selfdescribed fixer Michael Cohen was immediately grilled on crossexamination about his often profane social media posts. Concerning his former boss after prosecutors on direct tried to link the former president to that payment and the record of it. Correspondent nate foy is outside
Inflation numbers are up. Sharper than expected. You are looking at yields at tenyear at 2. 6 . We have news breaking overnight. Uk watchdog giving the green light to the microsoft 69 billion takeover bid of activisionblizzard. It removes the hurdle for the deal to close. The regulators said this deal would stop microsoft from locking up competition in cloud gaming and preserve customers. In a post on x, brad smith said we are grateful for the review and decision today. We crossed the final regulatory hurdle to close the deal to benefit players in the gaming industry worldwide. This has been one for the books. Saga that i dont think anyone was anticipating would go on this long. Given all of the regulatory hurdles. Maybe the ftc. And cma. There was a question of if they would ultimately approve it. 22 months. A long time coming. A lot of questions of what this means. Just about every deal will be questioned by the doj or cma. Microsoft took the extreme steps and saying we will do whate
Are fighting back. Were getting organised. Were not going to take things lying down. So theyll be hearing from us. This is ever so slightly in contrast to what labour leader sir keir starmer said in 2015. Though. Sir keir starmer said in 2015. Though. Hs2, hs2 on cost and on though. Hs2, hs2 on cost and on merit , it will not achieve its merit, it will not achieve its stated objectives. And trump is stated objectives. And trump is he liable for fraud and new york judge says the former president repeatedly misrepresented his wealth to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars to banks and insurers. And ive got to say, im terribly excited. Say Jeffrey Archer is coming into the studio this morning. Hes going to tell us how you steal the crown jewels. Jewels. He is indeed. Let us know all of thoughts on our talking of your thoughts on our talking points ever. Points this morning, as ever. Email us, gbviews gbnews. Uk. Com email us, gbviews gbnews. Uk. Com well get stuck into all of those
Christi, texas. So, lester, look, were i know its hard for people to believe. Were in the middle of this even though youre not in winds and rains. How bad is it now and how much worse do they think its going to get . Reporter well, Corpus Christi was pretty quiet night and they are beginning to get power on. And you can see its rather calm. There are still rainbands coming through and they expect a lot of rain here over the next several days. But about a halfhour, 40 minutes in that direction was rockport. Thats where we spent much of our day yesterday. It 150e6d serious damage. Power lines down. There were some builds that this collapsed. And ther announcer this is an nbc news special report. Here is savannah guthrie. Good morning, everybody. If you come on the air the wrath of harvey is being felt across southeast texas. Houston, the countrys fourth largest city, mostly under water at this hour and mandatory evacuations were ordered overnight. For several neighborhoods there with ano