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7,000 extra hospital beds this winter including in pop up sites the nhs in england unveils its plans to cope with expected pressures. and the shortlist is announced for hosting next year s eurovision song contest seven uk cities are in the running. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news channel. a drought has been declared across more than half of england, after the driestjuly on record in some areas of the country. it means water companies can impose stricter measures over how we use water at home and at work. a drought is defined by a lack of water due to extreme weather that has been built up over time. the four stages are normal, prolonged dry weather, drought and severe drought. eight areas have been moved to the third stage, including devon and cornwall, solent and south downs, kent and south london, herts and north london. as well as east anglia, thames, lincolnshire and northamptonshire, east midlands. in the wake of low rainfall and high temperatures, w ....
expert witness. nobody s ever heard of it before. that s donald trump yet again making false claims, this time doing so yesterday after testimony wrapped up in his hush money trial. the judge cleared the jury out of the courtroom because of the lawyer trump just referenced. we ll have expert legal analysis on that very contentious moment straight ahead. meanwhile, rudy giuliani and other trump allies accused of election interference in arizona are due in court today. we ll explain that case and how prosecutors tracked down the former mayor of new york city. also ahead an update on campaign cash of president biden and donald trump as the rnc ramps up funding to overcome the former president s legal bills. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we have a lot to get to this morning, and we ll begin with donald trump s criminal hush money trial, which will resume later thi ....
trump throws his support behind jim jordan for speaker, but will it make it easier for him to claim the gavel? and the jobs report stunner, the big numbers that economists didn t see coming and how the markets are reacting. plus, two people charged in a fake elector plot in michigan try to argue they re not guilty. just brain washed. how that worked out for them. and why the new jersey s attorney general s office is re-examining a deadly car crash from years ago involving senator menendez s wife. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. first we want to go to capitol hill where nbc s gary grumbach has more on the endorsement that could shake up the speaker s race. you ve got jim jordan reveling in the endorsement from the former president, steve scalise seems to be playing more of an inside game. talk us through it. reporter: jim jordan and steve scalise are really spending the day on friday here on zoom calls. they re meeting with different p ....
law. a grand jury handed up an indictment outlining how 11 republican supporters of the former president lied to congress, allegedly acting as part of a conspiracy to commit fraud and forgery. now, the lie is that donald trump won the 2020 election. that lie was memorialized on video, a video posted by the arizona republican party itself you can see here the fake electors put pen to paper and swore to fraud. the name defendants included the state s former republican party chair to sitting legislators, and a former united states senate candidate. the defendants whose names are obscured by black ink, pierce trump s most inner circle. it s rudy giuliani. it s mark meadows, mike roman, jenna ellis, john eastman, or it s epstein and it s the 1927 yankees of bogus election fraud essentially at the center is one man unindicted coconspirator number one, also known as donald trump, the former president of the united states. now, the arizona indictment is yet another blockbuste ....
a third principle is judicial review. here i would just remind the committee about the supreme court s decision in trump versus mazar. the court said about this committee that in fact it has to conduct the investigation for a legitimate purpose. a fishing expedition is not a legitimate purpose. moreover, the court in the trump case it is not a legitimate purpose for the house or house committee to be conducting the function of law enforcement. i heard many references here to criminal misbehavior, to whether or not somebody should be thrown in jail. criticisms of a prosecutor, mr. weiss. that sounds to me like an attempt to really substitute for the properly legitimate proceedings of the house. two other safeguards real quickly. one is that these proceedings should be based on principle, not partisanship. i fear that what we re hearing today, which can be traced back to 2019, and accusations made against mr. biden are driven bipartisan animus more than principle. a final ....