7:00 in the morning, they re our teams will continue working. now we have had a past few days here at hiroshima, i think we ve had very important, productive meetings of the g7 summit. we also held a quad meeting here in hiroshima rather than australia, and important bilateral discussions, with primary issues prime minister of japan, prime minister of australia, and president zelenskyy in ukraine as well as the prime minister of india. this is my third trip to the north pacific as president, and i look forward to rescheduling my stops in popular guinea, and australia later. i spoken with the prime minister and probably in the guinea, and secretary blinken s traveler to meet with the pacific island partners in that moment. also i will be hosting, and i ve spoken with the prime minister, hosting the leaders of the pacific island forum in washington this fall, because i will be unable to make it to pop what new guinea. and with prime minister albanese, we ll have a state visit l
good evening, lawrence. good evening, alice. it s subpoena night here at msnbc. with mike pence making little history. could be the first vice president ever. we should never lose sight of the fact that the vice president is getting a subpoena to talk about the actions on the part of his own president as it relates to potentially fomenting an insurrection at the capitol to undermine democracy. the gravity should not be lost on us. yet another unique entry in the mike pence position and in vice presidential history. once again. a long history at this point, lawrence. thank you, alex. the breaking news of the, night if you just heard, is that mike pence has made history once again. this time as the first former vice president in history to receive a subpoena from a prosecutor investigating possible crimes committed by the president who the vice president served. special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed mike pence to give under oath grand jury testimony. washington po
What were beginning the hour with Breaking News. As Night Falls On Israel and gaza, after a day of evacuations, exchanges of fire, and diplomatic appeals, here is what is new this hour. 360,000 Idf Reservist Mobilizing for the next phase of the war against hamas. The New York Times reports ras time is to capture gaza city and, quote, destroy Secretary Of State Anthony Blinken says that egypts Border Crossing will be open to ing aid to gaza. And Israels Energy minister says that israel will renew Water Supplies to parts of Southern Gaza after talks between President Biden and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [sirens] thats also new today. The sirens sounding in tel aviv, sending visiting u. S. Senators, majority leader Chuck Schumer and republican senator mitt romney and to bomb shelters. Schumer says they were rushed to the shelter to wait out hamas rocket fire. Israel also reported taking rocket fire in the Southern City of sderot. Israeli strikes were unrelenting, pounding
Its civil fraud trial tomorrow. Who better to talk to than former trump lawyer, Michael Cohen. He bullied blew the lid off of trumps shady business dealings, hes on the Witness Stand for this trial, he could come face to face with his former boss for the first time in years. We are waiting remarks from President Biden at any moment from the white house and when he is ready we will take that to you live. But, in the meantime, i just want to level set on what we have seen in washington over the last couple of days. One Republican Congressman said that the last week was, like quote, riding a mechanical bull. That is quite a visual, but pretty accurate. The president is going to weigh in after Congress Managed to pass a short term funding bill that will keep the government open for the next 47 days. Now, preventing a Government Shutdown is obviously good news. And so is the fact that the final bill did not include any of the devastating cuts to Domestic Violence programs that have been on
dealt with the japanese government, reporting here for a long time, the situation in terms of our relation with japan i ve never, ever in american history been stronger. never. never. and we started this relationship when i saw some of you here on my first trip, when i came to see the presidents predecessor, to make the case that what is happening in europe, while the world is getting smaller, happen to be in europe, the invasion of ukraine this affects everyone including people here in the pacific basin. so we ended up or do you have to pan stepping up in a way that is of real consequence in terms of your defense budget, number one, and the beginning of a rapprochement with south korea. i spoken at length with the president of south korea, he came to washington of late, he agrees all in the same agreement that in fact, we are