Cause. There is a lot of news unfolding today as well. Im live inside the Industrial Fire House for the Toledo Refining Company as some fear the Biden Administration could halt another u. S. Pipeline amid a Global Energy crisis. Now, well be talking to a worker at this plant, this as bidens fight against oil and gas could cause irreparable damage. Todd alex hogan has more on the painful spike in the energy crisis. Reporter hi, carley and todd. In the last year, weve really seen Price Increases from everything from used car sales to groceries and of course energy. Electricity bills are climbing to the greatest increase weve seen since 2009. Of course, this is causing a lot of concern for families as they head into the winter months. Among some of these spikes, gasoline is up 49 and fuel oil is up 59 . Now, when it comes to these industries, the white house is facing some backlash over be president joe bidens nominee for the comptroller of the currency. She is under criticism for her pre
The president has expressed full faith and confidence in me. Fit for duty, the White House Doctor releases his assessment of President Biden calling him a healthy, active and robust 81yearold. The one test he didnt have done. And why. More money, more problems, a judge refuses to halt Donald Trumps nearly half billion dollar fraud penalty. Leaving him less than a month to pay the money or secure what he calls an impossible bond. Plus, the largest wildfire in Texas History grossed more than 1 million acres and counting. How people in one town covered in ash are talking about rebuilding. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin on capitol hill where they push Defense Secretary lloyd austin for answers on his failure to disclose his secret hospital stay last month. Nbcs Courtney Kube joins us now. How did the secretary defend himself . Reporter well, he did make the point over and over, that despite his hospitalization, despite his staff nor he notifyi
insurrectionists across the capitol while being called the most violent, racist names. i am jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. this sunday, after four days and 15 rounds of voting, kevin mccarthy is finally speaker of the house. but, what comes next for the new speaker depends on what he had to give away to win the gavel. it was chaos and drama friday when mccarthy thought he had the vote in the bag on the 14th round, only to be thwarted by congressman matt gaetz, a never kevin who voted present instead of four mccarthy, which is strange, because gaetz had already crowed that mccarthy had already agreed to every concession that gaetz had asked for. i am excited and encouraged, i am grateful that speaker doesn t give mccarthy receptive to each and every change we have demanded. and shawn, without the stage right now where i am running out of stuff to ask for. stuff like allowing one member to call for the removal of the speaker and giving seats on the rules comm
going on now. former president donald trump s new york criminal trial we have covered. at this moment michael cohen is back on the stand. another day of the defense s cross examination. cohen is the prosecution s star witness and we ve learned he will be their final one. i mean, what would you say after whatever it is you would call what he has done on that stand? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. team trump is laser focused on shredding cohen s credibility. shouldn t be too hard. he is a convicted liar and he has been profiting off of the former president s legal journey now. on tuesday michael cohen even admitted he wants to see trump convicted. a former legal advisor to cohen shredded his testimony and his character actually for the defense. he did their job for them. robert costello, who also worked in new york s southern district said cohen insisted to him that donald trump knew absolutely nothing about the payments he was making to stormy daniels
under trump this kind of government will perish from the earth. in a surprise move the biden campaign sent a surrogate of its own to lower manhattan yesterday. two-time academy award winner robert de niro. we ll have more of the actor s warnings about the dangers of a possible second donald trump presidency. and of course we ll go through what happened inside the courtroom as well. during closing arguments in the former president s criminal hush money trial as we are now just hours away from the start of jury deliberations. plus we ll go through new reporting on the deadly israeli air strike in rafah and the biden administration s response to the tragedy. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we have a big show this morning. and in just hours donald trump s fate will be in the hands of a juror. both the defense and prosecution delivered their closing arguments yesterday in