Galaxies when politics, media and the courts are drawn into an existential battle over the white house, the hill, the supremes, donald trump, joe biden, hunter biden and, well, the american way of life. Its the ultimate drama for the main stream media which have practically created Opposition Camps in this president ial election year. Looming over the landscape is the nations highest court which agreed to hear trumps appeal on the crucial question of president ial immunity. Shannon if bream ahead on that. Many in the media see this as the right way to settle such a weighty question while many others in the media are calling this a Stall Thing Tactic to delay the January 6th Case past the election. Its all a been fast and furious. Illinois has become the third state to kick trump off the ballot, and were waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on that. And given the con. Census that this is a consensus that this is a very bad and undemocratic idea, i dont know why scotus isnt moving faster.
jesse: i made bret give me one. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. a damning federal government report about local law enforcement failures during the uvalde, texas school massacre. neither side is willing to budge in the border standoff between texas and washington. over land along the southern border. we will bring that you story. and we talk live to the founding chairman of the no labels group about how democratic groups are allegedly trying to undercut attempts to construct a unity presidential ticket, get on ballots. we will talk about where that effort stands tonight. we begin tonight with an update in the ongoing threats from china. hazardous materials team from the environmental protection team is removing dangerous chemicals from a warehouse in california turned to unlicensed bio lab by a chinese national. it s raising new questions and concerns tonight. national correspondent william la jeunesse shows us from reedily, california, good evening, william. bret
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in washington in the united states where it s a crucial night for the committee investigating the january sixth capitol riot, when supporters of former president donald trump stormed congress, while lawmakers met to certinyoe biden s election victory last year. this will be the committee s eighth hearing, and maybe the final televised hearing before the report is published in the autumn. let s hearfrom two insiders who were in the trump white house onjanuary 6th. matthew pottinger, the deputy national security adviser. he s one of the few senior officials to have been there, throughout the trump administration. as countless others left, he stayed. until the afternoon of jan 6. at 2:24, the president sent this tweet attacking mike pence at the very moment his supporters were in the capitol search for the vice president. at tha
Headquarters in New York City. Senator bob menendez calls it the biggest fight of his political life. He had the knives out for everyone from prosecutors to democrats who say feel a political opportunity. Binge watchers and Channel Surfers rejoice. Hollywood appears to be back in business. After 146 days in the picket lines, the Writers Unions says it struck an exceptional deal with the heads of the studios. Whats in it and what does it mean for your favorite shows. Families of fbi agents increasingly under threat. Prosecutors under 24hour protection. All of it the result of a toxic mix of overheated rhetoric and an angry and polarized public that officials increasingly fear will explode into violence. How do we turn down that temperature . A lot to talk about today. Well start in new jersey where senator bob menendez made it official. Not only wont he step down after fridays detailed and devastating indictment on bribery charges, but he claims some yettobe revealed facts will exonerat
deeply rattled and rethinking the ticket or rallying behind the president. robert garcia on where his ro party goes from here after president joe biden s debate flops . on his last day of prid we take you to stone will house in new york which exemplifies the need to keep lgbtq elder say. i am sam stein, let s do it! the debate is the debate is not the only big event shaking up the presidential campaign season, tomorrow is another high-stakes day after months of waiting, we will find out whether trump can be held accountable for attempting to subvert the 2020 election when the court releases presidential immunity. it could have immense reverberations, not just on the race, the future of ■çthis country. to say it s taken a while to get here, that is an understatement, supreme court has shown us multiple times that it has the ability to efficiently handle decisions in importing cases that affect presidency, 50 years ago, the court moved quickly in the watergate tapes case han