country s rejection of donald trump in the 2020 election and became a critical battleground in the campaign by trump and his allies to overturn his defeat. a letter today from fulton county d.a. connie willis to judges and her fellow county officials saying in essence, clear your calendars. the new york times reports this, the georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into the former president and his allies has taken the unusual step of announcing remote workdays for most of her staff during the first three weeks of august. asking judges in the downtown atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time, as she prepares to bring charges in the inquiry. the move suggests that the fulton county d.a. is expecting a grand jury to unseal indictments during that time period. thanks to court filings and reporting, we know that willis has cast a very wide net, with everyone from state gop officials to the ex-president himself, under scrutiny right now. the new york
he s currently getting treatment with paxlovid as we hear that and that is to reduce the likelihood that, in fact, he would be hospitalized or have more severe symptoms from covid. the first lady has tested negative as well. the vice president has been informed of the president s positive test as well so following this breaking news story out of washington and, of course, the fallout from all of this because the president has an incredibly busy schedule ahead and how he s going to deal with all of. i want to bring in mike who has been standing by for us following what s going on inside the white house as the president continues to isolate. we re told that the president will isolate until they re quite conservative about it, until he tests negative. if you know differently than me, let me know. what else are you hearing? reporter: no, that is, in fact, the white house protocols for just this scenario, whether you re the president of the united states or whether you re a ju
requests from congress. plus a house vote puts same-sex marriage one step closer to becoming federal law. now democrats must peel off ten republicans to sends a sweeping civil rights bill to the president s desk. would you vote for that? i m looking at the bill. i probably will. if and when he brings a bill to the floor, we ll take a hard look at it. and can democrat tim ryan turn ohio blue again? we ll talk to him live in just a couple of minutes. up first, new credibility questions for the secret service. the agency is alarming the january 6 panel by turning over just a single text message in response to a subpoena. the committee tells cnn this morning that they did receive radio traffic and emails from the service. tomorrow, though, the panel returns to primetime to focus on the 187 minutes of donald trump s inaction during the insurrection. but today we have more evidence that the former president is still engaged in an active plot to subvert the 2020 election
capitol on his behalf. here were witnesses including jared kushner on what was behind that statement. i sat and spoke to miller about putting together for draft remarks for jan 7 that we were going to present to the president that we felt we had to call for further de-escalation. from what i understood at the time and from the reports coming in there s a large concern of 25th amendment potentially being invoked and there were concerns about would happen in the senate if the 25th was invoked so the primary reason that i had heard other than, you know, we did not do enough on the 6th and we need a stronger message to get out there otherwise this will be the legacy and think about what might happen in the final 15 days of your presidency if we don t do this. there are already talks about invoking the 25th amendment. so to be clear according to jared kushner and cassidy hutchinson, sworn testimony, it was concerns about the president s cabinet finally after years of talking
Of detoxing withjuice. The founder of nosh detox will be in the studio with us. And ten years on from the beginning of the Credit Crunch, we want to hear your memories of the crisis and how it affected you. Let us know. Use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. Get in touch with your memories. I know for us, it was the start of ten long years of covering the stories and the repercussions of it. This week the main Stock Markets in the us have had another record run and londons ftse 100 flirted with breaking into record territory. Its a far cry from ten years ago when the global Credit Crunch began. Ten years ago today 9th, august 2007 banks suddenly found that they had billions of dollars in toxic debts that customers couldnt afford to repay. So overnight, they stopped offering loans. The financial crisis that followed cost the british economy over £7 trillion in lost output thats close to 10 trillion. For the us economy, the cost hit a staggering 22 trillion. So