princess patient, the surgery that will keep cape middleton hospitalized for up to two weeks, and the other major royal who is also headed for treatment. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments. we start with new york where e. jean carroll is getting back on the stand at this hour. nbc s rehema ellis has more. e. jean carroll has returned to the witness stand and before the lunch break as the judge sent the jury out for their lunch, there was a back and forth between donald trump and the judge. and it all refers to the fact that e. jean carroll s defense attorneys have been objecting to the fact, saying donald trump has been making gestures, shaking his head and making suggestions that e jean carol is not telling the truth. at one point he slammed his hand down on the table. her attorneys say they heard him saying, it s a con job, it s a witch hunt. so the judge said to donald trump and his defense team, mr. trump has the right to be present here. t
extreme maga republican effort to default on our debt, crash the economy. i m worried about the consequences of us not coming to terms and raising the debt ceiling. at this point, it s economic terrorism. my communications to them are, stand firm. there s no reason not to. stand firm. you have a white house that is not serious. republicans want to drive us over the cliff of default. it s idiotic for anybody to consider anything other than what we had. we will ride it out. neil: does that sound like progress? we ll see. both sides far apart as lawmakers race to cut a deal we re told a week away. this as fitch, the big ratings agency warns that a credit down grade could be in the cards and maybe soon regardless of how this works out. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much to get to. let s get to it with chad pergram on capitol hill on where things stand right now. hi, chad. good afternoon. the move by fitch and the ratings arm of morning start caught the att
you, mike. that s right. so these lawmakers will soon meet with president tsai here in taipei in just a few hours. this is their last stop of their three-day tour through the island and it s really been focused on deterring a chinese invasion but, if that day does come, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee relations committee, excuse me tells fox sending u.s. troops to this island is not out of the question. conflict is always a last resort. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul doesn t want war. but if china invades taiwan, he says the u.s. military could step in. speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan now, before there s any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? i think, you know, then you are talking about unauthorized use of military force. would you support that. if the american people support this, the congress will follow. so, you re saying that the option to authorize war powe
with incidents in the weeks leading up to her death. and one month since the devastating earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria conditions are still desperate. we begin with the war in ukraine. the country s president, volodymyr zelensky, says military commanders support digging in further, and continuing to defend the eastern city of bakhmut. it follows reports ukrainian troops may have been preparing to withdraw from the city, which russia has been trying to capture for months. fierce fighting is seeing battles happening from street to street. this is where bakhmut is located. the all out assault here by russia has led to the loss of many thousands of men, that s despite the us pentagon saying victory is of little strategic importance. lets dive deeper, here s a detailed picture of the current situation from the think tank, the institute for the study of war. you can see bakhmut in the large circle in the top right of the screen. the red shaded a
with more. happening right now in missouri search and rescue efforts are happening as a massive tornado ripped through the state. plus, what you need to know about what s being calleded the most consequential election in the year liberals have a won of the supreme court in a major battleground state that could shape the 2024 race. and in chicago a win for progressives in the highly watched mayoral race and just hours from now a high profile meeting between house speaker mccarthy and the president of taiwan despite warnings from beijing. how the chinese government is responding coming up this morning former president donald trump is plotting his next legal steps one day after becoming the first american president ever to appear in court as a criminal defendant. trump is accused of falsifying business records as part of what prosecutors say is an illegal conspiracy to undermine the 2016 election manhattan district attorney alvin bragg says hush money payments were made to