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Know were released earlier this week that predicted that the g.o.p. will take back control of the house with a slight edge in the senate. bill? >> bill: we will watch it aishah, nice to see you. aishah hasnie on the hill tonight. up next, we continue our series on the dangers of fentanyl, the mother of one of the drugs youngest victims appears in court. we will have that for you. first, beyond our borders tonight, vai lankas president flees the country but has not stepped being. back home. chang...

That might be an understatement. heres how that ride break down, by the way, 11 minutes at $28 million. thats a whopping $2.7 million per minute. thats an absurd amount of money but maybe well spent. alicia, i want to go to you first. we see people spend a lot of money to meet influential people, so do you think this person bid that much money to actually go to space for 11 minutes or to sit next to a man whos worth about $194 billion? >> probably jamaica buddy to pay for a new buddy, but also t...

Ahead of the tokyo olympics, we have an extraordinary look inside the nuclear disaster at the fukushima power plant. keir simmons found people still feeling the impact nine years later. >> reporter: weve been given rare access to ground zero of one of the worlds worst nuclear disasters. we keep a radiation monitor close. nine years ago, japans strongest earthquake in history followed by a 30-foot tsunami. 22,000 people dead or missing. the wall of water smashing into the power plant causing melt...

94 billion. socialism is a plague and a stain on humankind that has a 100% success rate of failure. and im tired of these democrats saying denmark is socialist. its not. socialists -- those are capitalist countries. stop conflating the two. you are confusing people. socialism is death instruction and im glad you mentioned the apologists. fascism hasnt escaped this. socialism has because the people and bernie sanders. >> greg: jesse, would you do, president waters? a >> jesse: scary thought. if i...

The white house after calling a temporary halt to the trade war with china. >> its an incredible deal. it goes down certainly, if it happens, it goes down as one of the largest deals ever made. its a deal between the united states and china made by the president and the president. >> the deal postpones the increase of u.s. tariffs on china by at least 90 days giving the two sides some time here to work out what hes talking about here, long-term agreement. this is an exchange that china agreed to...

Attorney general of minnesota. when asked if democrats believed her, she tweeted, "no, they dont creative and smeared, threaten, isolated for my own party. i provided medical records from 2017 stating entered a different doctor visits, i told him about the abuse, and who did it. my therapist released records stating i have been dealing and healing from the abuse." republicans say they have offered to hold dr. fords part of the hearing in public or private, whatever she prefers. is prefers. senat...

Here in the u.s. it potentially could mean higher prices for consumers. we see other countries hit back at the u.s. yesterday, canada slapped retaliatory tariffs on $13 billion in u.s. goods. that includes a 25% tax on 40 u.s. steel products and 10% tax on items like maple syrup, coffee beans and strawberry jam. it makes products -- those products more expensive in canada and can wind up hurting u.s. exporters or u.s. companies. american companies that sell goods in canada could be forced to cut...

To avoid a trade war. trump threatened tariffs on chinese imports last week. really important here, the timing. china is also the u.s. biggest foreign creditor, just ads the government plans to -- just as the government plans to sell $294 billion worth of debt this week. look at that. thats the highest amount of debt issued since the financial crisis. china owns more treasury bonds than any foreign country. the sale is to boost federal revenue because of trumps tax cuts. companies are paying les...

On one. the u.s. is also currently talking with china to avoid a trade war. trump threatened tariffs on $50 billion of chinese imports last week. china is also the united states biggest foreign creditor. just as the government plans to sell $294 billion of debt this week, the highest level since the financial crisis, china owns more treasury bonds than any foreign country. the sale is to boost federal revenue, weve got to borrow money to balance the books because of the big tax cuts. back to c...

One on one. trump threatened tariffs on chinese imports last week. chinas also the u.s. biggest foreign creditor just as the government plans to sell $294 billion worth of bonds, issuing debt this week. the biggest amount since the financial crisis in 2008. china owns more treasury bonds than any foreign country. the sale is to help boost federal revenue declining because of trumps tax cuts. let me say this again -- you remember how republicans and fiscal conservatives screamed during 2008-2009 ...