Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. The Gender Gap widens in the us election well take a look at what that might mean for the campaigns. We are hearing from the united states that Dick Cheney, former Vice President , now 83 years old, has said he will be following his Daughter And Voting for Kamala Harris at the election. The republican former Vice President following his daughter, who course did say this week, Liz Cheney, she would vote for Kamala Harris. We will maybe talk about what that might mean for the democratic campaign. But now the opposite side of the age scale. Every four years in a us election, political analysts like us Start Splitting up the electorate into different subgroups, who might this time be the difference. Suburban mothers in michigan. Retired folks in arizona. Latinos in nevada. Black voters in georgia. And so on and so on. But one of the things that really stands out in this election, is the Gender Gap. It is there in all the S
Burner as the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats push forward on a cody relief bill that some lawmakers and even leftleaning economists say could actually hurt the economy in the long run. President biden saying today its an easy choice, pointing to the latest jobs numbers as proof there is no time to waste. This as he met with 10 republican senators earlier this week who proposed a Counter Offer to his nearly 2 trillion plan. White house correspondent Kristin Fisher has been following it all. She joins us live from the north lawn from the white house with the latest. Good evening, kristin. Good evening, bret. The week started with President Biden meeting with republican senators and hoping to cut a deal. But it is ending with the president giving his strongest signal yet that he intends to move forward with his relief plan without republican support. Im going to act. Im going to act fast. In his most fiery defense of his 1. 9 trilliondollar relief plan, President Biden made it
Things that i just told you i cared about, and i want you to know, a lot of americans dont trust our government and thats sad. The problem with that is, though, is i was allowed to believe things that werent true and i would ask questions about them and talk about them and that is absolutely what i regret. Regret. Its about the closest youre going to hear for anything that even comes close to an apology. There was no apology. We have a lot to unpack from those remarks. As you can see there, congresswoman greene basically tried to portray herself more as a victim, not as a perpetrator of all this nonsense and she tried to distance herself from past support of qanon conspiracy theories, drawing a line around the year 2018 and compartmentalizing things there and saying that was a different person. The house is debating ahead of that vote this afternoon to strip congresswoman greene of her two Committee Assignments. A vote putting every member on the record about where they stand on greene
Forecast, kick it off for us. Adam major storm system and one they almost never see. Right off the coast of mexico, water off the coast of mexico, these waters are very warm, this will run into colder waters of Southern California and weaken the system, what a powerful one. Wind 145 mile per hour and moving west northwest at 13 mile per hour. Probably as strong as this will get, but it is a strong storm. Typically the system run into the pacific ocean, not the case this time. Wind will force this along the coast. As you run further north, i told you the waters will get colder and the strength falls down. By saturday, winds down to 120 Miles Per Hour and by sunday morning, moving down. Ton of moisture, by monday morning, likely making landfall, somewhere around there, if it makes landfall and will bring rain. It will be a big moisture bringer. Darker orange color, three to five inches, there will be spots that get eight to continue inches of rain in areas that see almost no rain in augu
Dead. Well have the latest in just a minute. The biggest oneday strike to hit los angeles in a generation is under way right now. Everyone from mechanics to Traffic Officers are walking off the job. The latest in the series of union labor actions that disrupted the city in recent months. Well explain what it is all about and whats next coming up. We start, though, with former President Donald Trump and federal prosecutors locking horns over what will be one of the central themes of his upcoming federal trial. The right to free speech. Right now the legal teams from both sides are under orders to agree on a hearing date to hash out the scope of a protective order which would set ground rules for what Evidence Trump can and cant disclose. Last night, his Team Rejected the governments original proposal to restrict everything it hands over, arguing that would violate trumps First Amendment rights. Instead, trumps attorneys proposed more narrow limits for only genuinely sensitive materials.