president trump and going after his possible pending indictment as politically motivated. un-american, and another a partisan attempt to try to bring him down. a manhattan grand jury is hearing a case related to a hush money payment made to adult film star stormy daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election. today they will hear from one final witness robert costello, a one-time legal adviser to president trump s former attorney michael cohen. he is expected to rebut cohen who has been the key witness against donald trump, isn t he a known liar? just establishing that fact. the grand jury will then need to decide whether it will indict donald trump and that could happen as soon as tomorrow. several legal experts are questioning the strength of this case however, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is looking to elevate the misdemeanor issue to a felony and make donald trump the first former president in history to face criminal charges. and house speaker kevin mccarthy went
eric: thank you for joining us, i am eric shawn. elon musk, man zero man. right now is the speaker at the annual gathering of those billionaires in idaho for they have a big one on the every year. the private conference for 24 hours after the bombshell report that he s walking away from that multibillion-dollar twitter deal. musk avoided talking about why the deal fell through during the meeting today but is now facing a huge legal battle with social media giant could enforce a $1 million payment if he is out of the deal. live in los angeles with the latest. he may not have twitter, hey, christina. that s right, we learned as you mentioned the day of the conference he didn t comment on his attempt to back out of the $44 billion deal illegal challenges he could face so he mentioned accounts on twitter. yesterday musk announced he wants to walk away from the deal with twitter claiming the social media giant has not provided accurate data on how much of its user base is made u
accounts on the platform despite multiple requests. all of this sets the stage for a potential major legal battle. a conference this afternoon musk avoided commenting on his decision or any potential legal fallout. christina coleman is live in los angeles with more on this, christina. john, elon musk was in front of an audience of tech ceos and investors at the allen and company conference today at less than 24 hours after he announced he was to back out of his deal twitter. but he did not talk about the deal at the event according to reuters for yesterday musk announced he wants to walk away from the merger agreement with twitter claiming the social media giant has not provided accurate data on how much of its user base is made up of fake accounts. his legal team says musk needed that for business planning and sec filing they said quote twitter has failed or refused to provide this information. sometimes twitter has ignored mr. musk s request. sometimes it has rejected the
affiliated media outlet is suggesting beijing should shoot down the plane carrying house speaker nancy pelosi if she does, indeed intend to go to taiwan. meanwhile, a democratic congressman openly saying most of his colleagues believe the president should not run for re-election in 2024. and the biden administration is trying to explain why democrats want a new massive spending bill while the economy may or may not be technically in a recession. previous definitions it is. white house correspondent peter doocy starts off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: the recession was just a one day news cycle. the press secretary spoke this afternoon for about an hour, never used the word recession officials around here do admit that prices are too high but they insist they are on top of inflation. we have a plan to fight inflation. that s being disputed. the democrats have no plan to help americans who are paying the highest prices in 40 years. steve.
Putin is bluffing this war by putting his entire economy onto a war footing in a way that isnt sustainable for russia over the years he would have to continue it for. Its important that the west does not blink. When you see what has happened in kharkiv, the second biggest city in ukraine, it is because, im afraid, the civilised world took their eyes off the ball just for a little while, we saw how long it took to get that package through the us congress because of internal politics there, and this is the actual upshot, this you are blaming the us, then. Im not blaming them but the internal politics meant that the money did not flow in the way that in the uk were giving consistent amounts of money, then we increased it again, added an extra half a billion so we are giving them 3 billion this year, plus different packages. It is important that support is consistent because if you stop these are the problems you see. At the moment it is some villages on the outskirts of kharkiv, and it is