Tonight, but california, biggest state in the union having this Recall Election. That is the Election News of the night. Thats what we will be on for at least the first half hour, depending on what we get, we wont be getting anything really on returns until 11 00 p. M. 11 00 p. M. Eastern, 8 00 p. M. California time. As you say, as Steve Kornacki said, we will get a huge dump. Yes. A really huge dump of votes at 8 00 p. M. Pacific, 11 00 p. M. Eastern. So we may know a lot very soon after the polls close. Yeah, and california is obviously a giant state. If it is not if it is not a blowout, if it is a close race, it is totally possible california could take this count for weeks. Yes. I mean theyve got a full month to count if they need it, and people who made in their votes, they only have to be postmarked by today. They have a week to get them in. If it is close, then it could take a very, very long time. If it is not close, what we get at 11 00 may be may be very, very important in te
to our financial futures? the bank of england tells us what they think later this morning i ll have the details. unfinished business for manchester united, as they march on in europe. they finally finish the europa league tie, which started before lock down, and now play copenhagen in the quarter finals next week good morning from windsor castle where it will be open for visitors on thursday and friday throughout august but you will have to people. drizzly this morning. we will see some sunshine today, the best of which in northern scotland. the details later in the programme. it s thursday, august 8. our top story: port officials in beirut have been placed under house arrest while an investigation continues into the massive explosion which killed at least 135 people. 5,000 people were injured and many more were left homeless by the blast, which it s thought was caused by ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse. sean dilley has this report. a city in ruin, as authorities sta
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i am thomas robbeerts. republicans are warning the white house to back off after the plan b was leaked. this draft bill which was obtained by usa today over the weekend allows for an eight year path to residency for the undocument already inside u.s. borders and within hours of that plan s release florida senator marco rubio fired back saying if proposed the bill will be dead on arrival in congress leaving us with unsecured borders and a broken legal situation for years to come. the chief of staff defended the white house choice to be ready to go it alone. we re doing exactly what the president said we would do last month in las vegas which is we re preparing. we re going to be ready. let s make sure it doesn t have to be proposed. let s make sure the group up there, the gang of eight, makes the good progress on these efforts as much as they say they want to. republicans on the hill are upping the ante and accusing the administration of political games man ship that will
now, that s no way to get it done. with both parties agreeing now is the moment to make this reform happen, will congress be open to obama s backup if the efforts fall short? it is a threat from the white house by saying, hey, if you don t do it, the politics get really bad for you very quickly, so hurry up and get something done. say good morning to our president s day political power panel, contributor jonathan caphart and an opinion writer for the washington post and angela reid, principle of impact strategies and msnbc contributor susan dellpurseo. you come in on president a days. let s dive in and get to work talking about this leaked proposal that came out. angela, i want to start with you. we have the timeline here and if we look at it, the president was scheduled to go to las vegas on january 29th and give his first policy speech of the second administration but we see that on the 28th the bipartisan group of senators, they came out with their plan trying to