they re donating 15, 25, $100 because they believe in donald trump. they re not giving him that money so he can pay his personal legal fees, and let s remember something he s a billionaire, self-professed billionaire. why can t he use his own money to pay his personal legal fees and not use money coming from the public? it s disgrateful. some straight talk there as presidential candidate chris christie essentially calls donald trump a grifter there on cnn as he continues his anti-trump campaign in the early stages of the 2024 race. meanwhile a book from former trump s chief of staff seems to dispute the former president s latest claim he did not show-off u.s. attack plans to people at his new jersey golf club. and president joe biden hits the road to highlight how bidennomics is helping every day americans. good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. let s get right to the headlines here.
number of angry depositors who have forced banks to return their savings. millions of dollars remain trapped by capital controls imposed in the face of an unprecedented financial crisis. the credit agency fitch has lowered the outlook for its credit rating for british government debt from stable to negative. it comes after the government announced huge tax cuts funded by borrowing in a mini budget last month. some of those plans were reversed on monday. earlier, prime minister liz truss gave her first conference speech as conservative leader. she s been in thejob for less than a month, but already, some are questioning whether she ll still be in the position by christmas. but despite all that, she was in bullish mood as she addressed her party. our political editor chris mason was watching. # moving on up, you re moving on out. not everyone here has been standing up for the prime minister in the last few days, but they did today. moving on up, liz truss hopes. she began with
Way to put it, he is a liar. He is nor t to bane trusted eve. We will explain. And we have highlights of his most recen wilt and frankly, mot egregious lies about the border, about his son. Now hes blaming the nationwide crime wave that he created, h of course, on donald trump. Cr biden,ght, we got obama, clinton fundraising. It was donald trump was visiting the wake of the slain nypdmp was officer. Hav well have reaction straight ahead. Also, Vivek Ramaswamy will joioh with more on joes transgender day of visibility, a proclamation which he denies. Now we actually have a cop y of it. Lara trump will be here to respond to a nasty, vicious, vilea respon from the dnc and te speaker of the house. Mike johnson has a message for a the president who just called him uninformed. Well see who was uninformed. But first, lets turn our attentio wiln to what is perhaps joe bidens most blatant lie of all. Ie now, yesterday, when Millions O Of Americans were Celebrating Easterl is, which is the holie
Three dozen according to local then at Fordham University here in New York City earlier this Evening Police wearing helmets andce carrying batons arrested propalestinian demonstrators placing them in zip ties as they took down an encampment inside a campus building. This is all, of course, part of a larger Protest Movement spreading across dozens of colleges. And while the demands of each individual protest vary, theyre primarily focused on drawing attention to the Tens Of Thousands of Palestinian Civiliansni killed in gaza and calling for their colleges to financially divest from investments connected to israel. Protesters have been followed by dozens of counterprotests primarily in support of israel and against what supporters call rising antisemitism. Overall more than 1,500 protesters have been arrested in just the past two weeks. Many of those arrests have been brutal withar protesters forcedo the ground and forcibly removed. With a story this big its important not to paint all of
Do you get these calls in secret where guys go listen, i cant say it publicly but im for you and im going to vote for you. Im a republican but screw it, i cant vote for this guy . Theyre not saying theyre going to vote for me, theyre saying i agree with you. Do you say to them, why dont you Say Something publicly . Where is jeb bush, where is george bush, where are these guys . Why dont they say, hey, im interested in saving democracy for our grandchildren . I dont think the election is over yet on that score. If you notice traffic was especially snarled in New York City today, asked and answered. That was President Biden in midtown, manhattan today to be interviewed by radio legend howard stern. While former President Donald Trump was in Lower Manhattan back in a courthouse for his criminal trial. And that is where we begin tonight. At the end of the first week for a 12member Jury Empanelled in the first ever criminal trial of a former president. Today was the final day of the prosecu