Six days for west nile virus recently? i remember reporting that. It is in such context right now. We think it is far away but it is happening in our backyards. Thank you. I would like you to come back later in the show to repeat this information. Thank you. September 10th will be here before we know it. In moments, what both candidates are doing and not doing to prepare. It may surprise you. good day to you. I am alex witt and this is alex witt reports. We begin this hour with breaking news from the middle east. U. S. Military operation in iraq killed at least 16 islamic fighters and six soldiers were injured but none of them were described as lifethreatening. The joint operation with the rocky mac security forces happen in the country s westerni desert. Joining me from rehobeth beach, delaware, gary is here. What is the biden administration saying about this? reporter: at this point, not a lot. We have that statement reporting of the operation, along with the security forces you
our top story this hour, the two major new rulings by the u.s. supreme court and what they mean for the nation. our justice correspondent jessica snider, she s here with mere in the situation room. jessica, walk us through these very, very significant decisions. yeah, two major decisions on the last day of the court s term, wolf, from what has become a very divided supreme court. so the conservative majority striking down the president s student loan debt forgiveness program while also issuing a ruling in favor of a website designer that leaves the door open for businesses across the country to discriminate. the supreme court ending the term with a dramatic finish and showing just how ideologically divided the justices are. first, all six conservative justices ruling in favor of a christian web designer from colorado who refused to create wedding websites from same-sex couples citing religious grounds. she objected to a colorado law that prohibits discrimination saying it v
welcome to a special edition of jesse waters prime time. i m will cain in for jesse. and we start with the fox news alert. a major blow for the democratic party. the supreme court today shut down special counsel jack smith s appeal to fast track trump s january 6 case, handing trump a christmas gift. time jack smith. the overzealous prosecutor with the scraggly beard, tried to leapfrog the lower court of appeals and force a quick decision on the question of whether or not the former president should be granted immunity from his federal charges. why? to make sure donald trump spends the month of march stuck in a courtroom. trump, who s already been out of commission for the last two months over his fraud case in new york will be taken off of the campaign trail again, meaning no rallies, no fundraisers, and will be forced back into the court the day before super tuesday, when trump is supposed to be on the ballot in 16 states. it s been the biden campaign strategy a
and even more horrible day for the people of ukraine. the lead starts right now. a helicopter crash outside a kindergarten in the suburbs of kyiv and a ukrainian cabinet minister and a child among the 14 killed. what caused this tragedy? plus, she s called matt gaetz a fraud, used a clown emoemp bey to describe marjorie taylor greene and called her own party tone deaf on the subject of abortion. speaking with congresswoman nancy mace as the swing district republican fights for the soul of the gop. and officially charged in his wife s murder. google searches including how long before a body starts to smell, how to clean blood from wooden floor and, how long for someone to be missing to inherit, quote/unquote. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the big story in our world lead. an investigation is und? er way and three days of mourning in ukraine have begun after a helicopter crashed in the kyiv suburb earlier today. the crash at 8:20 a.m. ukraine time
we might find out as early as thursday. we re gonna show you more importantly how to white house is trying to play a game of smoke and mirrors and they want to change the very definition of the word recession sort of like the new recession, inflation is transitory live. also tonight take a look your screen this is pretty unbelievable. a bishop robbed at gunpoint right there in the middle of a church service. we have the entire video coming up. first tonight we begin in the washington squad. it joe biden it continues to from covid-19 thankfully we don t want anybody sick of this program we wish him well. so far his schedule as primus remained kind of normal for him which is to say he does little to nothing. no president in modern american history has worked less in your present joe biden. he rarely appears in public he almost never conducts sitdown interviews or press conferences. frequently the daily briefing is the only thing on a schedule and then to make matters worse whoe