This is the story right now. My exclusive oneonone with independent president ial candidate, r. F. K. Jr. We sat down yesterday in East Palestine, ohio. Very interesting conversation with people from that town and with him as well. Well have our wideranging sitdown one day after democrats in michigan warned President Biden that they are open to other options come november. I think he needs to show americans that, that he a lot of these decisions are the product of complex and nuance thought. I do not think that that is happening now. Martha talking about the president s ability to lead and do the job for another four years. But first, hunter biden defiant, but answering questions on the hill right now as we speak. House republicans continue their Impeachment Inquiry in to the president. Hunting telling republicans i did not involve my father in the business. You do not have evidence to support the maga conspiracies about my father because there isnt any, says hunter biden. Earlier this
bret: but breaking tonight, a pair of journalists who were permitted to see through sources internal communications at twitter testified today before a house committee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. republicans who control that committee are trying to show a link between censorship of conservatives, the biden administration, and the fbi. democrats today tried to pushback in a fiery hearing. correspondent david spunt takes a look tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. good evening to you. today s hearing delivered on a promise from house republicans to expose what was going on at twitter behind the scenes leading up to and after the 2020 election and, as we expected today, things got tense. can discuss. no one has yielded the gentle lady is out of order. and she is out of order because he interrupted. gentle lady is not recognized. you are not recognized. he has not said that. the new house subcommittee on the w
and we re also going to save billions of dollars on going after criminals who commit fraud. a lot of people are saying to me they don t like the idea i m prepared to forgive up to $20,000 if you got a pell grant or $10,000 for anybody who has a student loan during the recession. well, guess what, we pay the so called ppp program, we paid significant i think it s $900 billion. don t hold me to that number, but it s well over 9 for anybody who had a tough time with their business during the pandemic so they could pay employees. but guess what, you may remember, i was running for office at the time, you all may remember it that i had a big fight with the former president. and maybe future president. bless me father. anyway, all kidding aside, and here s the deal, what happened was the folks are really going after me for trying to, and by the way, 90% of all debt forgiveness for student loans will go to, under my plan, 90% will go to families making under $75,000 a year. okay.
string of derailments, primarily the derailment and toxic spill in east palestine, ohio, that s terrified residents. i want to begin today by expressing how deeply sorry i am for the impact this derailment has had on the residents of east palestine and the surrounding communities. i am determined to make this right. you have my personal commitment. norfolk southern will get the job done. this hour, an update on mitch mcconnell s health. the longest serving senate leader in either party hospitalized overnight after tripping at a private dinner in a d.c. hotel. tammy baldwin joins me to discuss her bill to legalize abortion rights across the nation, restoring the rights stripped away by the supreme court s dobbs decision. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. at a hearing today, senators in both parties are pressing norfolk southern s ceo to honor his company s commitments to the people of east palestine for months or years after the train derailment rais
there for the moment. and the u.s. is warning china that it is going to face stiff consequences if beijing goes ahead to give weapons including drones and ammunition to russia for the ongoing invasion of ukraine. this is two ukrainian worker were killed amid a fresh wave of russian attacks. and we have the late west the storms overnight. at least seven tornadoes touching down in oklahoma. we have ed lavandera in norman which is south of oklahoma city. you been doing a good job this morning to showing people what it looks like in the wake of one these, and tell us what you are seeing now? well, the sun is up, and the residents here are beginning to go through the neighborhood, assess the damage and begin the cleanup process, but you can see the magnitude of the car, and this is flipped up on top of another one, and this is ripped apart by the storm, and we have seen this throughout the particular neighborhood in norman, oklahoma. the good news, it is isolated, so once you