Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. Good morning. Hump day. Fz good morning. Half way through. We have a lot of deve developments. A lot going on overnight. Lets start with five things to know. Voters in ohio showed up in a big way. Overwhelmingly rejecting issue one, an issue that would have made it harder to amend the constitution. Its a major win for Abortion Rights supporters ahead of a vote to ensure access to abortion. We are seeing a secret memo from an Unindictmented Coconspirator in the January 6th Case against donald trump. The New York Times got ahold of the letter, which shows the evolution of the fake elector scheme. Also this morning, hawaii is under a State Of Emergency right now as large wildfires rage. They are fuelled by winds from hurricane dora. The coast guard is rescuing people who have been jumping into the ocean to escape the smoke and fire. The police chief of montgomery, alabama, says its huk hewly likely 245 more people will be charged in the chaot
interest rates up again. tonight with the context long time capitol hill correspondent, and now washington post live anchor leigh ann caldwell, and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. welcome to the programme. initial results for its self styled referendums, in four areas it occupies in ukraine, show people have voted overwhelmingly in favour ofjoining the russian federation. the process has been denounced as a sham by ukraine and its allies, who view the referendums as a stage managed forerunner to russian annexation which the ministry of defence here in the uk says president putin is likely to do within days. nearly four million people from the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk, and the southern regions of kherson and zaporizhzhia, were asked to attend polling stations there s been allegations of intimidation, as election officials went house to house accompanied by armed guards. the votes serve a deadly serious purpose as they will be used by the
americans and their governmentm. a decade ago. the new york times admitted this. the times markedis the anniversary of 9/11 by publishinhed a piecg a piece on the rise of domestic surveillance abuses which explode after the 9/11 attacks. the patriot act, according to st the new york times, quote, govem quickly became a sort of shorthand for government abusenh and overreaching, which, quote, inflicted collateral damage on political dissent, religiousl liberty and the freedom of association, end quote. that is still true, in fact, truer than it s ever been,trage. and it is still a tragedy. what s fascinating is that stopd the new york times has stoppedi acknowledging it. in fact, remarkablity, there wae not a single mention oft page o the 9/11 anniversaryf yesterday. on the front page of yesterday s paper, the paper that purports to represent new york , the epicenter of the 9/11 attacks. now, why would the new york times ignore 9/11? ignore well, good question, be the new york
healthcare, prescription drugs and more. we need to show democrats across this country that the democratic party can actually get stuff done when we have 50 democrats in the senate, and i think that s where we are right now. so i m all about forward looking, brianna and hello, joe manchin. happy to have you. a new effort to form a viable third party, names from the right, left and center say they will succeed where others failed. soon we ll hear from the president of the united states live at the white house. he ll tout big progress on his agenda, a senate agreement that includes new climate and new health care investments. a package, the president will say in a way that will also take a big bite out of inflation. it is a smaller, but still significant piece of the giant goals the president and has party had back in the beginning of his term. the white house event is a presidential push to get this new senate deal to the finish line and, make no mistake, it is a president
Hi, everyone. Happy friday. Were monitoring the ongoing criminal trial of donald trump. Were on day iegt eight of of this election Interference Hush Money Trial. Today brought the introduction of websites number two and three for the prosecution. Right this moment, the prosecution is questioning gary farro. He was Michael Cohens banker at First Republic bank. He set up the Home Equity Line Of Credit through which Michael Cohen paid stormy and was reimbursed by donald trump. Its the financial transaction thats at the heart of all of this. The second witness was a woman by the name of rona graph. You may not know the name, but she was in the room for jirs about everything. Shes Donald Trumps longtime assistant. She worked at the Trump Organization for 34 years. She also noted that she was on the stand because she had been subpoenaed and that the Trump Organization is paying for her attorneys. In a very brief line of questioning from the prosecution, alvin braggs team had her authenticate