since donald trump s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election culminated in a violent mob storming the u.s. capitol. for a few weeks trump was an outcast. a political comeback seemed far-fetched, almost impossible to imagine. and yet thanks to his allies in congress and the maga movement, donald trump has emerged here at the end of 2023 not merely a rehabilitated politician but as the undisputed leader of his party. now, trump began this year as the prohibitive favorite for the republican presidential nomination. even in january he had a monster 20-point national lead over his closest rival, florida s governor ron desantis. and in the months since, trump s lead has only widened. at this point a rematch against joe biden appears almost inevitable. and yet while trump s march towards the republican nomination this year was mostly interrupted, there has been for the last 12 months an x factor he has had to contend it, a series of criminal investigations. as the year began trump
languishes on capitol hill and americans struggle with sky high gas prices. we are all paying the price. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: john roberts in r washington. the president will speak in massachusetts, stop short of declaring a climate emergency. biden facing pressure from the far left to get something done after senator joe manchin shut down his plan in congress. sandra: and a drain on wallets every time they fuel up and gas prices in massachusetts have more than doubled since the summer before biden took office. rick scott will join us in moments. john: jacqui, why did the president not use the trip to declare a national climate emergency? jacqui: we don t know. speculation maybe it s tough timing to roll out the announcement on the trip to the middle east, and concerns about gas prices, state of the economy, recession fears. even some talk and speculation maybe they are holding off with some shred of a hope to get senator joe
and everyone i ve ever slept with. i was told that there was a good possibility that i would only have six months to live. four years ago, she was diagnosed with an aggressive bladder cancer, which she openly documented on her instagram. once portrayed as an enfant terrible of british art, she s now been made a dame by king charles for services to art. tracey, congratulations. or should i say dame tracey? congratulations. how are you feeling about it? well, i m smiling for lots of reasons. but dame tracey, i mean, it has a ring about it. it s really cool. i don t think there s ever been one before, and it s good. ifeel like it s a new generation of dames, really. what does it mean to you? there s nothing like a dame. no. don t get me singing. 0h, go on. no, i think for me, really seriously, what it means is that. it s the recognition from the king and from the establishment for what i ve achieved in my lifetime as an artist, which is kind of a man s world, really, and always
no. don t get me singing. 0h, go on. no, i think for me, really seriously, what it means is that. it s the recognition from the king and from the establishment for what i ve achieved in my lifetime as an artist, which is kind of a man s world, really, and always has been. and. i don t know, ifeel like i ve. it just feels really cool. and the best thing is, i only found out about it recently because i hadn t received the letter. so what happened? how did you find out about it? well, i went to buckingham palace for the garden party, and i was in a line up with five people out of 3,000, to shake the hand of the king and queen. and i was thinking, this is a bit weird. well, i m kind of up the top here. wonder why? and then on my way home, i got a message saying, from my old studio, that there was a letter for me, marked urgent from the cabinet office. so i thought, oh, i better go and see what it is. and there it was, asking me if i d accept a damehood. so do you think they
she fled communist country, ran businesses and wrote several books and synonymous with the american dream. she leaves behind not just the three children that we talked about, but also ten grandchildren and her 96-year-old mother. ivana trump was 73 years old. john. we see don, jr. there as well with his children and according to the autopsy, tragic accident, maybe a fall down the stairs took the life of the grand dame of new york city. ivana trump. president biden on the road to announce his plans on climate change, but his own czar has emitted much since he took