hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. the next hour starts right now. as i ve been to a very good day from msnbc headquarters of new york, welcome to alex witt reports. breaking news at this hour, we have some new details to share from the biden administration on the u.s. air strikes on iran- backed targets in iraq and syria. a senior administration official told nbc news that the strikes, quote, said the strong signal about the capability that we have and other things that we are going to do. the u.s. striking five targets in seven facilities used by iran s revolutionary guard and the militants they support of the region. this is in retaliation for three american soldiers killed in jordan. a senior administration official also telling nbc news that iraq received prior warning that, of the strikes, contrary to the claims of iraqi government aggression against iraq sovereignty. we go right now to nbc s allie raffa at the white house. ali, what are we hearing from the
reigned for 70 years. in other words the vast majority of the 67 million people living in the uk and the millions more in countries that recognize her as their queen have lived their entire lives without anyone else on the throne. at this hour, all of them, along with the rest of the world, are praying and hoping for the best, but bracing for the worst. i want to bring in correspondent molly hunter, historian jon meacham and katty kay, an msnbc contributor. molly, what do we know at this hour? reporter: as you just mentioned we now believe the queen has all four of her children with her. we saw the picture of prince william driving three of his uncles, we believe they coordinated their travel, arrived together. we believe that prince harry is traveling to balmoral without meghan. i do just want to bring your audience back up to speed with the statement from the palace we got a few hours ago. we have not gotten an update from buckingham palace since this statement. it reads
have occurred in the lastey 18 months we ve moved that wasov joe biden s first sit downed interview in one hundred and eighteen days. and despite a flurry of well, nothing but softball questions from a democratic activist pretending to be a late nighted comedian, biden still struggleia to communicate he could barelyy get words out. he had noo answersword for the economic problems we are a lot worset got today. now inflation is up yet again to an all new forty one year high, eight point six percent. the the cost of food is up ten point one percent. o the cost of housing 70%f rent is up in some places as high as 20 percent. household energy bills are up a whopping nineteen point one percent. and meanwhile the average cost for a gallon off gas has nowd more than doubled since biden took over as president. now over five dollars a gallonev nationwide for the first time ever. remember when he first became president on day one you were only paying two dollars and thirty nine cents f
Trump continues to violate the gag order, citing a Radio Interview when the former president said the jurors were all democrats and had been chosen hastily. Hes not supposed to talk about the jurors. Well is a live report in a few moments. Also this hour, how the politics of the trial are playing out for both former President Trump and President Biden and their campaigns. Plus, striking comments from donald trump during a mass audition for Vice President at maralago over the weekend. And new details about a phone call between President Biden and netanyahu as israel is ordering residents to start moving out of rafah. Despite u. S. Warnings, it could end with a hostage deal and a cease fire. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. In court this morning, the judge in new york is fining the president again for violating the gag order, putting him on notice that the next violation could lead to him being jailed. Judge merchan calling it a last resort saying hes fully aware of
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper in washington, d.c. a busy afternoon as we come on the air this afternoon, an historic and contentious day in court has just come to a close. moments ago we saw donald trump leave the courthouse in new york followed by the new york state attorney general letitia james who brought the civil fraud case against mr. trump and the family business. the former president spend the day on the stand repeatedly classing with the judge, the very person who will decide how much the trumps must pay after he already found them liable for fraud. we re going to go to the courthouse in a moment where this case could put trump at risk of losing his entire business operation in new york where he s accused of inflating financial statements. hs ahead, an astounding number coming out of gaza, the p.i.n. mrin stri of health which is controlled by hamas, the palestinian ministry claiming more than 10,000 deaths have taken place in response to the initial hamas