reinforced it. white house correspondent peter doocy has our lead story tonight. good evening, peter. shannon, good evening. officials here are telling us the mistakes we have seen president biden make this week on camera are normal, and they have nothing to do with the special counsel s findings of a president with a poor memory. no one in this building would say that what we saw in this report about his memory. peter: just days after mistaking him with a now dead predecessor, president biden met with the german chancellor olaf sholls swing and miss leaving it up to the vice president to clean up a special counsel report that challenges president biden s mental acuity. the comments that were made by that prosecutor gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. white house officials believe the special counsel was pressured to be tough. republicans in congress and elsewhere have been attacking prosecutors who aren t doing what republicans want politically. democrat
and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence s former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the news first reported by the washington post, that the doj is formally investigating trump s actions leading up to january 6th. possibly a step closer to a criminal probe of trump himself. more and more former trump officials have come forward since the january six committee s public hearings started last month, and congressman jamie raskin, who is a lead manager and trump s second impeachment trial
electric car that can go more than 200 miles on a single charge. it will cost less than 40,000 dollars. greece in germany are headed for a showdown in brussels. finance ministers meet today over greece s request to extend the bailout agreement for six months. a new headlined says a deal tonight looks unlikely. greece needs the extension to avoid defaulting on its debt. germany has rebuffed the greek request. the german finance minister says greece needs to make a firmer commitment to austerity. here s a greece s debbie prime minister responded. deputy prime minister responded. at this moment, it appears there are powers that would like greece on its knees so they can impose their will. i believe we can think of what helps our country and what helps these powers. betty: germany is the biggest contributor to the $273 billion bailout to greece. the parent company ann taylor, looking to sell. working with jpmorgan and reached out to potential buyers. it also owns the loft. th
if so, bailout funding will keep flowing to greece. if not, there will be another round of emergency talks late this week. on friday, the eurozone agreed to extend the bailout funds for another four months. we want we won the battle but not the war. the real difficulties including those related to the negotiations in our relationships with our partners are still ahead. alexis tsipras says the new agreement wipes out previous pledges to cut wages, pension, government jobs. security has been tight at the largest mall in the u.s. after a terrorist threat. the terror group al-shabaab called for an attack on u.s. canada and u.k. specifically mentioning the mall of america new minneapolis. jeh johnson says these are threats people must take seriously. if anyone is planning to go to the mall of america today that to be particularly careful. as the statement you read indicates, the will be enhanced security that will be apparent federal security as well? there will be
cyprus says the new agreement wiped out previous budgets. it is murder monday. at pharmaceutical group has agreed to buy another four billion dollars in cash. valley and was stored in valeant was sorted from buying the maker of botox b. announcement will be made later this afternoon. a change at the top of dish network. charlie ergen is not going to be the ceo of dish at the end of march. he is replacing joe clayton who is retiring. they keep losing tens of thousands of subscribers while they are investing up to $50 billion in wireless airwaves. that is his next big bet. a pay cut for the ceo of british bank which has been hit by lower profits and a tax evasion scandal. it has been cut 5%. the 2014 earnings fell 17%. the bank is dealing with fallout from a report on how it handled swiss accounts for tax evaders and criminals. the oscars went to drumroll bird man. and 14 oscars last night including those for best picture and best director. julian moore won the oscar fo