we start in germany where after 16 years the era of chancellor angela merkel is finally coming to an end. she is set to be replaced by former finance minister olaf scholz. he has become germany s chancellor in waiting, after the social democrat party struck a three way coalition deal with the greens and the free democrats. they have pledged to transform europe s biggest economy with a decade of investment in renewable energy. but they have many big challenges ahead as damien mcguinness reports from berlin. the end of an era in germany. after 16 years of conservative led government under angela merkel, germany s new leaders are younger and more radical, and they want to modernise the country. it s an unusual alliance a left wing social democrat chancellor, olaf scholz, in government with the greens and the business friendly liberals. in germany, it s called a traffic light coalition after the colours of each party. mr scholz drew parallels between the incoming coalit
show both parties. fair point about again spending dealing with the recession and everything going through hard times. we do our reporting and reading but some days i got to phone a friend. you can always call me. nice to see you, nicole as always. welcome everyone to the beat. we have more on the news or developments that nicole and i were just talking about that we re trying to interpret around here. president biden did formally delay this planned morning departure to europe for the g20 that was today which seems like a sign that s spending negotiations are getting close, maybe. today was a policy roll are coaster, progressives and this group of holdout democrats made what could be the final moves in the march to pass this giant spending package so crucial to biden s opening plans for his administration and according to the president crucial for america. now what is the president telling us? why is it like i said to be just honest and transparent with you hard to in
the man trump belittles as sleepy joe seemed quite fiery last night as the president tries to flip the script launching a campaign blitz, just one day after his forceful kind of political state of the union address. plus donald trump s one-on-one at mar-a-lago today, meeting with hungary s viktor orban ban. the authoritarian leader, knowing, known for anti-immigration nationalist rhetoric, who often cozies up to vladimir putin and attempts to stop the aid. see what happened when cnn confronted israeli protesters, determined to make sure little food, if any, makes it into gaza despite the overwhelming human and tharon crisis welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start today with our politics lead in the white house in an all reelection blitz trying to capture on any momentum from president biden s fiery and rather political state of the union address last night in which the president referenced donald trump, at least a dozen times in less than an hour, we expect to h
been talking to the special counsel, and jack smith responds to trump team s efforts to delay the documents trial. also tonight, how conservative republicans managed to attach restrictions on abortion access to a key defense bill, and what that could do to the chances of getting it through congress. later, without being able the say who left a pact of cocaine in the west wing, the secret service still says case closed. why? good evening. jack smith decides to charge the former president for his role in trying to overturn the election, being able to show his intent will be critical. and showing a ten could hinge on whether or not he believed he had won. tonight there is new evidence that smith is thinking along those lines, and is looking for evidence for people who know or heard him indicate he d lost. jared kushner and hope hicks have both gone before the grand jury, and some of the questions asked was whether the former president was told he lost the election. other mem
ticket. oh, okay. i ll come up with a new one. i got it. no problem. all right. have a great show. thank you . okay, i ll pick it up. hannity, let me out. i am laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle from new york . city tonight. now life is getting harder and it s feeling more dangerous . and the liberal utopias like san francisco are we just were or l.a., philly, chicago, regular sane people are getting tired of paying through the nose for a declining quality of life. and as we ve seen in new york , they re just deciding i m going to pick up and move now, seeing a lot of for lease signs i have over the last few days. they re hanging in all the office building windows and one real estate expert is warning of a permanent collapse of real estate commercial real estate due to what s being called urban doom loop. oh, my god. that s awful. of course, who would want to make the trek into the city when it seems that criminals have the run of the place, especially with left