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As World Leaders meet in New York to try and avert all out war. The idf has called up two brigades to the northern borderfor what could be an imminent invasion. Sir Keir Starmer is urging british nationals to leave lebanon now. 700 troops are on their way to nearby cyprus to prepare for a possible evacuation. Well be live tonight in beirut and New York, where the un Security Council is soon to meet. Welcome to the programme. The head of the israeli armed forces, Herzi Halevi, has said preparatio...

>> ainsley: the presidents son indicted on nine tax related charges three of them felonies brought by special counsel david weiss. >> the defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts, girlfriend, luxury hotels and rental properties. exotic cars and clothing and other items of personal nature. everything but his taxes. >> brian: accused of paying $1.4 million in taxes over a four year period. latest indictment could mean big trouble for the biden campaign. >> its got to be a nuclear bom...

Tonight, the next test for america. How and when do you reopen . Saving jobs without risking lives. And what the president said moments ago about testing in this country, with pressure to ramp up tests, to get americans back to work. And tonight, across the country, the fight to save lives continues. New yorks governor pointing out about 1,000 new patients a day. 337 lives lost in the last 24 hours in new york. He says he will extend the shutdown beyond may 15th in parts of the state, and hopes ...

Look at, for example, the issue of school. there are lots of parents who are going to be watching this interview. right? everybody whether its parents, teachers or students themselves, want the schools to be back open. now 95% of the them are. what did we need to do? we needed to address the fact that in particular our public schools need help with resources to improve their ventilation system. so we sent out $310 billion to the schools of america to help them get masks, do testing, get ventilat...

Also, theyre working with companies like cabot cheese and chobani to process the extra milk and turn it into yogurt and cheese that will be given to food charities. >> steve, thank you. and our reporting continues on small businesses in our country. today, another desperate scramble to get help from ppe program. and trouble on the website that didnt help. heres mary bruce. >> reporter: tonight, the race is on for small businesses to apply for a new round of government funding. but already its ...

The days of the united states being taken advantage of are over. >> in his two years in office, the trade deficit has swelled by well over $100 million. he has called himself tariff man, but the tariffs brought retaliatory tariffs that made u.s. exports more expensive. and tax cuts in this country also made more imports into the united states. no comments yet from white house officials. the numbers coming in after the treasury department said the budget deficit soared to $310 billion in the firs...

U.s. exports more expensive. no comment yet from white house officials on the swelling trade deficit. the numbers coming in after the treasury department said the budget deficit soared to $310 billion in the first four months of the year, up 77%. mark zuckerberg laying out his plans to transform facebook and his number one priority, privacy. the founder and ceo posting a longest say to his facebook account saying the companys focus will shift to encrypted kept, that means data will be scramble...

Trade deficits are a failure. the u.s. trade deficit last year was the worst in a decade $621 billion. the overall deficit in goods 891 billion. th the president detests trade deficits. he simplistically sees them as losing money to the trading partners. yet the trade deficit has swelled to way more than $100 billion. that 77% surge in the budget deficit in the first four months of the year. 310 billion. tax revenue down about 1.5% over the past 12 months. larry kudlow down played those numbers....

Responsibility. trying to now its the opposite. why? catherine rampell, three questions. help me. youre the one with the intelligence on this. first four months, fiscal year 19. federal deficit, $310 billion, up $176 billion year-over-year. why? >> there are a few things going on. one of course as you mentioned is the tax cut. despite what was promised, the tax cuts sadly did not pay for themselves. wouldnt you know? we cut taxes, and tax revenues fell. so thats snake oil, still not working. but...

Numbers from the u.s. treasury department. the deficit grew 77% in the first four months of fiscal year 2019. the deficit, $310 billion up from $176 billion a year ago. now, the budget deficit ballooned as tax revenue plummeted and government spending rose. but interest rates are still relatively low, right? so, you can finance all of this debt, longer term is it sustainable. larry kudlow said this on fox news. >> we are making an investment in americas future. its already beginning to pay off. ...