Assembly aS President of the united states. Itll be my last. Ive seen a remarkable sweep of history. I was first elected office of the united states of america as a u. S. Senator in 1972. Now, i know i look like im only 40. I know that. President Joe Biden Yesterday with a lighthearted start to his final United Nations address. Well bring you much more of the president s major speech to World Leaders straight ahead. Meanwhile, the former president , continues to take a much different tone on several Foreign Policy issues including Russias Invasion of ukraine. Well also play for you those comments. And well bring you the latest out of The Middle East as israel and the lebanonbased militant group, hezbollah, appear to be moving closer to an allout war. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 25th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a lot to get to this morning, and well begin with president Joe Bidens speech at the United
11 00 a. M. Eastern. We begin way Major Development and former president Donald Trumps legal battles. Special counsel jack smith filing a superseing indictment over its efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This comes nearly two months after the original case was derailed over a Landmark Supreme Court decision president s have broad immunity for official acts. The updated indictment, contains the original four charges trump pleaded not guilty to but some charges revised. Special counsel saying, the Superseding Indictment reflects the governments efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Courts holdings and remand instructions. Joining us now katie phang, msnbc legal contributor and paul butler former Federal Proecutor and msnbc legal analyst and msnbcs garrett haake. Walk us try the new versus the old one . Yes. Jose, start with the stuff that hasnt changed. Its the same four charges that were in the original indictment from last year. Its the same defendant. Donald trump. Theres n
Christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as you said in the beginning here its really no surprise to anybody the economy did not do well contract at 3. 5 percent as you said the worst its done since 1946 so its been a long time since the economys contracted that much in a single year and that came off of the 2. 2 percent growth that we saw the year before in 1900 the bottom line here is this is basically every sector was down because of the coronavirus with th
Vaccine for use by all adults in the 27 country block the u. Has also agreed to control exports of that scenes from the blog arguing it needed to do so to ensure its own supply lines follows a growing dispute between the e. U. And the company about a supply shortage its a real pleasure to be here and to announce the carriage positive opinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of Vaccines Available to you and a Member States which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect the citizens of the e. U. We now have 3 vaccines that have been developed and recommended for purple approval against a disease that we did not know one year ago. Drug from johnson and johnson is expected to apply for merges use authorization for its vaccine in the United States next week it says its single dose japp appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing cave 19 the dutch court of appeals has ruled that Oil Giant Shell must pay com
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers john oliver, awardwinning sports announcer joe buck an allnew a closer look, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening im seth meyers and this is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Well, thats good to hear. Lets get to the news. President trump on tuesday granted a ceremonial thanksgiving pardon to a turkey named corn no such luck for the turkey named cohen. Following the news yesterday that the stock markets Dow Jones Industrial average hit an alltime high of 30 thousand points, President Trump interrupted a White House Press briefing to take credit for the milestone. Dude, its because youre leaving. Thats like Harvey Weinstein taking credit for how much safer everyone feels in hollywood now. According to a new poll, 60 of voters would support president elect joe biden canceling up to 50 thousand of Student Loan Debt per person perfect for everyone who went to nyu for a week president elect j