president getting a big vote of confidence from the university despite major backlash over congressional testimony concerning anti-semitism on campus attracting widespread outrage. the university released a statement of support and right now we re waiting to hear from house republican conference chair elise stefanik with a couple of fiery exchanges with dr. gay at that hearing. she is scheduled to speak in moments. right now the push to impeach president biden taking a major step forward. the house rules committee is meeting this hour preparing a measure to formalize the impeachment inquiry into president biden setting up the resolution for a vote by the full house as early as tomorrow. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. we start with a bang. bill: yes, we do. we saw that coming, didn t we? i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. it now appears house republicans have the votes to authorize what is called an impeachment inquiry. house speaker mike
Now its time for World Business report. Hit by the eu profits fall at googles Parent Company alphabet, after a huge fine levvied by the european union. And bitcoin whats it for . Well, now you can use the cryptocurrency to pay for art. All will be explained. Welcome to World Business report. Im rachel horne. In a minute sharanjit will tell us how sk hynix increased its profits by more than 500 . Three of the worlds most valuable Internet Firms release their latest numbers this week. The biggest by far is googles alphabet, which has just reported a 21 jump in revenues. That was better than expected but there was less cheer on the when it came to earnings. Net profit fell 27. 7 to 3. 5 billion. Hitting the bottom line was a 2. 7 billion fine issued by the European Commission injune. It ruled the firm abused its power by promoting its own shopping Comparison Service in its search results. Google says it may appeal. But, alphabets shareprice fell 3 in after hours trading. But take a look a
They have the legal authority. Basically he formed a commission promising you can even look at me. Then when he looked at him he said, lookin at me . Thats it for special report fair, balanced. Streaming into the United States, children. Streaming out of washington, the president. Senate leader harry reid and Speaker John Boehner and hundreds more politicians, the entire house and senate are all streaming out. Nothing is going to get in the way of their vacation, even the crisis they helped create. Theyre illegal. Theyre breaking our laws. Hearing complaints about some the conditions in some Border Patrol states. Theres nothing being done at the border. Whats going on is absolutely insane for this country. President obama is jetting off to Marthas Vineyard for two weeks and the house and senate go into recess for five weeks. This crisis, as some call it crisis, we have to view as an
opportunity. Stay in washington and insist that it be resolved. We can stop this crisis in one week. Har
All right, thats going to do it for this edition of way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning look at that, willie. That is a beautiful view. Beautiful day. Its a Beautiful Day. Last couple , not so beautiful. Its thursday, august the 14th. Great to have you here with us. Along with you, we have got washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay and nick consori and then with bloomberg news, al hunt. Yesterday, willie, really bad storms out there. Did you see some of the pictures . Even out here on long island. Cars on the highways up to their roofs. Looked like a river. It was. Yeah, parts of the midatlantic and northeast cleaning up and drying out after heavy rains sparked flooding across several states. The hardest appeared to be long island. Islip 13. 27 inches in under 24 hours and more than a foot in less than a day. More than the region receives in an entire summer. The rainfall shattered previous records and a lot of cars abandoned and a lot of people h
On this sunday night, terror attack. A suicide bomber strikes at a packed Train Station in russia, killing at least 16 people and raising security concerns with less than six weeks until the winter games in sochi. The benghazi attack, a New York Times report reignites a fierce debatever whether al qaeda was involved in the deadly september 11th assault on the american compound in libya. Calorie count, the new regulations coming to a Vending Machine near you, but will it really guide your snack choices . And year of the selfie. Memorable images from what became one of the 2013s hottest trends. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The death toll is now 16 in the deadly bombing of a busy Train Station in russia today. An attack that tonight has security concerns reverberating across that country now just 39 days before russia hosts the 2014 Winter Olympics. Officials say a lone suicide bomber detonated inside the entrance o