And one that cowers in fear of its apparently extremist base. The sad truth is that democrats in congress had to discipline Margie Q Greene because House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy was unwilling to do so himself. Mccarthy was willing to hold a Secret Ballot on the fate of republican congresswoman liz cheney, his own third in command who received a resounding if anonymous show of support to remain in Republican Leadership last night but he couldnt muster the courage to reject the qanon congresswoman. With this vote tonight, house republicans, many of whom stood up and gave Greene A Standing Ovation in a caucus meeting yesterday will now be defined as supporting someone who backed calls for assassinating Speaker Nancy Pelosi and threatened the nonwhite Women Members of the squad in social media ads. She promoted an antisemetic and Islam Mow Phobic video that had been reportedly circulating among neonazis. It claimed a, quote, unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists and zionist supre
unveils his debt limit plan and the white house accuses him of dangerous economic hostage taking. we have katie pavlich and robert wolf standing by. first to peter doocy on the north lawn. hi, peter. president biden and speaker mccarthy are not talking to each other. they re taking at each other. we ve been hearing for weeks at the white house that president biden s idea about the debt ceiling is simple. just raise it. republicans did it during trump. just do it again. as speaker mccarthy has a three-point plan that he announced minutes ago. i m proud to announce that we are introducing the limit save grow act of 2023. first, we limit government spending. our proposals also repeal biden s army of 87,000 irs agents. now, that will save taxpayers $70 billion finally. we will grow the economy so we are less dependent on china. white house officials are not commenting yet on a report that tax revenues on tax day this week were less than expected, which could bring the deb
your vote, you can act. you can have the final word. this is not over. we went off the air at 10:00 a.m. on friday, and ten minutes later, this. this is an nbc news special report. . we have just received word of a decision in one of the most consequential cases before the supreme court in decades. the monumental ruling by the supreme court finally handed down more than a month after that unprecedented leak of a draft opinion suggesting the nation s highest court was poised to overturn the landmark 1973 roe v. wade case. the nation s highest court ruling 6-3 to uphold the mississippi abortion ban being challenged. chief justice john roberts supported that, but stopped short of overturning roe. that vote was 5-4, ending the constitutional protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. the results follow decades after opponents of abortion made possible by three appointees to the high court by former presidential donald trump. the ruling reversed planned parenthoo
the desantis dogma as he misquotes a bible gets underway on this monday night. good evening i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we have breaking news tonight the may offer new clues as to why the justice department moved so swiftly with a search and seizure that turned up 11 sets of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the new york times reports the government has managed to retrieve hundreds of classified documents from the former president since he left office almost exactly 19 months ago. the times writes quote, the initial batch of documents which eve by the national archives from former president donald trump in january included more than 150 marked as classified. multiple people briefed on the matter said. in total, the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from mr. trump since he left office, the people said, a first batch of documents returned in january, another set provided by mr. trump s aides to the justice department in
I am ending this long running saga. I am cancelling the rest of the h52 project. And in its place. And in its place, we will reinvest every single penny, £36 billion, in hundreds of new Transport Projects in the north and the midlands, across the country. This means £36 billion of investment in the projects that will make a real difference across our nation. Applause ijust want to remind you exactly what hs2 actually is. Its a High Speed Railway which is what the Hs Stands For and it was touted as the uks biggest infrastructure project, aiming to transform public transport between london, the midlands and the north. The first part, between west london and birmingham, is already under construction and will be completed. But the length stretching further north from birmingham to manchester has now been officially scrapped. A separate leg from nottingham to leeds had already been canned. The last official estimate on hs2 costs, excluding the cancelled section, added up to about £71 bil