elections. and house speaker kevin mccarthy trading partisan political fights for a diplomatic one, meeting this hour with the president of taiwan mccarthy says the meeting will help make the world safer. china says it s doing just the opposite so a lot to get to we start with today and donald trump embarking on an effort rarely tried in american history running for president while simultaneously fighting criminal charges. his late night speech at mar-a-lago gave us a glimpse of what s to come, a defiant trump surrounded by a loyal band of ardent supporters thumbing through a well-worn political playbook lashing out at his perceived enemies and seeming a little stunned by what happened. i never thought anything like this could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it one of many things that need fact checking. i want to bring in nbc s vaughn hillyard outside
the nurse accused of murdering babies, wrote i killed them on purpose because i m not good enough on a post it note. ukrainian fighters who surrendered after weeks of sheltering under a steelworks, we have spoken to one who been released. former culture minister will chair a new body to examine returning the elgin marbles to greece. they are currently displayed in the british museum. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. liz truss is coming under more pressure from some of her own mps to rethink her tax cutting plans following last month s mini budget. it comes after the goverment last week abandoned its plan to abolish the 45p tax rate for top earners. but senior conservatives have continued to voice grave concerns at liz truss s tax cutting measures without explaining how she will balance the books. one mp last night accused the prime minister of trashing blue collar conservatism . downing street says its policy is the right one for growth. our political correspondent
another rate hike at next month s meeting calling the july meeting a, quote, live meeting. so what does it all mean? for consumers, it is certainly good news that the fed is taking a breather here with rate hikes because we ve seen borrowing costs spike for mortgages and credit cards and car loans. and so there is some relief there at least for now. the pause also means that the fed thinks that their inflation fighting medicine is working, that the economy doesn t need these monster interest rate hikes every single meeting just to get inflation back down. one very important point that powell stressed again and again during the press conference is that these rate hikes, they hit the economy not immediately, but with a lag. it is kind of like if you take antibiotics, you might not feel the impact right away, but it doesn t mean the medicine is not working, it is just taking some time. and so all along the risk here
matthew dowd, thank you so much. good to see you as always. history was made just moments ago in california because house speaker kevin mccarthy welcomed taiwan s president onto u.s. soil at the reagan library his presidential library nbc s erin mclaughlin is there in simi valley, california talk about the significance of this and what china is threatening in response? reporter: hey, chris, while house speaker kevin mccarthy says this meeting will make the world a safer place, china is calling this meeting a, quote, provocation saying it s a political stunt, a violation of the one china policy, and one chinese official vowing to fight back now, what fighting back, so to speak, means at this point is unclear. it is, of course, worth recalling the chinese response to then house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan last august was met with unprecedented military exercises. we heard from the u.s. secretary
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