as texas froze, ted cruz flew to mexico. has the state s republican senator left his reputation out in the cold? and facebook unfriends australia the social networking giant blocks access to news media on its site in a row over paying for content. hello, welcome to the programme. we start on another planet mars, where the nasa perseverance rover has safely touched down. it has already started sending back messages from its new home, and will now set about the business of trying to find signs that mars was once and could even still be a planet where life took hold. here s our science correspondent rebecca morelle. and a warning her report contains some flashing images. perseverance is going about one kilometre per second. a nerve racking wait at mission control. perseverance has landed safely, on the surface of mars! cheering then celebrations as a signal is received from mars. it s touchdown for nasa s perseverance rover. and these are its first images a view of i
the governor even threatened it to destroy him during a phone call. and just moments we will be speaking with republican congresswoman from new york nicole malliotakis. she said the governor s days are finished. john: but first we go to bryan llenas live in brooklyn, with the very latest on all of this. the albany times union is reporting that the fbi and u.s. attorney investigation is particularly focused on senior members of governor andrew cuomo s covid-19 task force and whether or not his administration purposely withheld the nursing home deaths told data from lawmakers and the department of justice despite the fact that they were requested and also whether or not they withheld the information from the public. now new york democratic assemblyman ron kim is accusing governor cuomo of obstruction of justice and is leading an effort to strip the governor of his pandemic emergency executive powers. yesterday governor cuomo dismissed kim attacking his personal integri
there are a lot of this is the time to have a big. then tom suozzi is going to be on the ballot yet again in november, in a matter of months in 2024, when this bellwether district, the seat comes back up for the voters, like many before it, like several others that flipped from blue to red in 2022 and gave republicans control of the house of representatives. the victory for tom suozzi has given a lot of democrats, including in this room, confidence that they get this elsewhere and get the house back this fall, stephanie? all eyes on long island tonight. sahil, thank you. folks, do not go anywhere. updates on the special election in new york are coming up right now. right now. it is midnight on the east coast, i am stephanie ruhle, and thank you for joining us for our coverage of the special election in new york s third congressional district nbc news can officially project that democrat tom suozzi has defeated republican mazi pilip. this is, of course, is the house seat v
for when this bellwether district, the sea comes back up for the voters, like many before, like several others that flip from blue to red in 2022 and gave republicans control of the house of representatives. the victory for tom suozzi has given a lot of democrats, including in this room, confidence that they get this elsewhere and get the house back this fall, stephanie? all eyes on long island tonight. sahil, thank you. folks, do not go anywhere. updates on the special election in new york are coming up right now. coming up right now. it is midnight on the east coast, i am stephanie ruhle and thank you for joining us for our coverage of the special election in new york dirt congressional district. nbc news can officially project that democrat tom suozzi has a defeated republican mazi pilip. this is, of course, the house seat vacated by george santos when he was expelled by congress. it is a huge pick up for democrats, with the margins and the alice razor thin. suozzi spo
prosecutors will be pouring over videos and interviewing witnesses this weekend trying to decide whether to charge the 24-year-old former marine who held jordan neely in a fatal choke hold on the subway. tonight we have the first statement from that 24-year-old. plus, donald trump has until 5:00 p.m. on sunday to tell a judge whether he wants to take a stand in the e. jean carroll rape and defamation case, but the jury has already heard from him in a newly released video deposition. he claimed carroll was not his type but then mistook her photo for his second wife marla maples. i don t even know who the woman let s see, i don t know who it s marla. you re saying marla s in this photo? that s marla, yeah. it s my wife. which one are you pointing to? here. the person you just pointed to was e. jean carroll. and the great macaroni mystery. who dumped hundreds of pounds of pasta in the woods in a new jersey town? we re going to ask the mayor tonight. okay, but