Polling as we speak of some kind. Kind News Unspooling always. Thank you for joining us at home. Today has not been a good day for the Republican Party. It began with a fourth defendant flipping in the George Racketeering case against donald trump Turning Jenna Ellis tearfully pleading guilty in state court. This afternoon we are bombshell new report from abc news the trumps former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows, has been granted immunity and special counsel jack smiths federal interference case. Mr. Meadows has reportedly told smith team that he long believe the trumps was being dishonest about his claim that he won the election. Which is certainly something new. Now that report has not been confirmed by nbc news, and Meadows Lawyer is denying it, so we will have a lot more on that later in this hour. But we start with the absolute debacle unfolding among republicans in the house of representatives, which is entering its fourth week. Fourth week, without a speaker of the house. Right, n
This afternoon we have a Bombshell New report from abc news the trumps former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows, has been granted immunity in special counsel jack smiths federal interference case. Mr. Meadows has reportedly told smiths team that he long believed that trump was being dishonest about his claim that he won the election. Which is certainly something new. Now that report has not been confirmed by nbc news, and Meadows Lawyer is denying it, so we will have a lot more on that later in this hour. But we start with the absolute debacle unfolding among republicans in the house of representatives, which is entering its fourth week. Fourth week, without a speaker of the house. Right, now republicans are holding a vote Behind Closed Doors to choose their fourth nominee for speaker in less than two weeks. This morning, after five rounds of voting Behind Closed Doors, the party nominated its third speaker candidate, congressman tom emmer. And then, just four hours and ten minutes later, t
The deals on top before there job the defense has rested. Testimony has wrapped, and donald trump notably did not take the stand of course, sanchez, alongside jessica dean in the nations capital, and soon the judge and attorneys for both sides are expected to go back in court to go over Jury Instructions. In this historic Criminal Hush Money Trial of the former president. Earlier today, jurors were dismissed for the week the judge telling them to be ready for Closing Arguments next tuesday it comes after the defenses second and final witness, attorney Robert Costello, took the stand for a second day, and once again, the former adviser to Michael Cohen face some tough crossexaminati on prosecutors, youth castellows, emails in an attempt to show he made several efforts to stop cohen from flipping and assured him that he had a backchannel to trump won email dated april 19, 2018, indicated trumps former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was joining trumps team and costello wrote to cohen, quote im su
Helicopters that were in this aerial convoy and only one of them crashed. But yes, it was carrying the president. It was carrying the Foreign Minister hossein amir of the law at least three crew members, the governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province. Thats again where the ceremony had been taking place on the border with azerbaijan is separate country. Of course and then the friday prayer, imam who leads the friday prayers in the city of tabriz. Thats the Major Metropolitan Center in that part of iran paula, i have done a road trip through this part of iran to the border, to turkey from tehran and i can personally attest to the fact that this area is rugged. It is very sparsely populated as well. We perhaps explain why you would have such a high level delegation traveling by helicopter because any kind of trip by road would have taken hours and hours and also been on potentially the dangerous roads. But this is a rugged and remote place and an indicator of perhaps why the iranian authori
At any moment. We are watching efforts by the Biden Administration to get americans out of the war zone. Americans trapped in gaza trying to get out of egypt. There are now scheduled to open in just hours. Inside gaza, desperation as israel ramps up its attacks. And residents are running out of food and medicine. Theyre facing a real risk of starvation. Locate u. S. Sending a ship to evacuate americans from israel. Secretary of state Antony Blinken in the region trying to head off a broader war. Annoying to do anything that this conflict away u. S. Delegation on the ground here in israel forced to take shelter when silence went off. Majority leader Chuck Schumer told me he went directly to israels Prime Minister. Tell israels leaders we have your back. And with the americans heading to war, theyre almost a little goodbyes with family of these as they traveled to israel to fight. This is an nbc news Special Report, israel and hamas at war. Reporting tonight from tel aviv, tom giannis. A