Chris jansing reports starts right now. Good day, i am Chris Jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. You have been following this step by step. Deja vu all over again on the house floor. A new vote for speaker once again ending in a deadlock as jim jordan comes up short. In fact, he actually lost ground when compared to the first round. 22 republicans opposing jordan this time compared to 20 yesterday. Two members, doug lamalfa and Victoria Sparts flipped and supported him. Four others went in the other direction, securing the defeat not just for congressman jordan but arguably for the far right as a whole. Now what . Joining us nbcs ali vitali on capitol hill, and steve kornacki, brendan buck an aid to former republican speakers paul ryan and john boehner whos an msnbc political analyst, and david drucker, Senior Writer at the dispatch. Okay, al what now . What are the conversations . What happens . Reporter once again, back to the drawing board, chris, and were waiting t
Looking live at 100 Centre Street here in downtown manhattan, where minute ago, donald trump made that. Now familiar with walk past cameras and into that courtroom where his future and maybe his freedom are on the line. Minutes a possible ruling from a judge on whether or not trump violence related a gag order. Again plus the next witness, the Prosecution Plans to use to convince a jury of mr. Trumps peers that he is a criminal. Im Kaitlan Collins in new york youre watching cnns special live coverage of Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial and i have jim acosta and washington. We begin week three of testimony with the question, who will go on . For oath as the prosecutions tenth witness . Manhattan prosecutors have sped through their presentation of facts of friday hit a dramatic high point when the government called Hope Hicks Stan next to the former White House Communications director, testified through tears, leaving an emotional impression that may pierce trumps defense. The jury has alr
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
cabinet ministers tell the bbc the government should have brought in tougher restrictions in the autumn to tackle the second wave of the virus. i would not let him tell me. and as this year s oscar nominations are announced we ll be speaking to the director of the white tiger, which has been nomimated for best adapted screenplay. france and italy have joined germany in becoming the latest countries to suspend use of the astrazeneca vaccine as a precautionary measure, over concerns of possible side effects. french president emmanuel macron said the country would stop administering the vaccine pending an assessment by the european union s medicine regulator on tuesday. the republic of ireland made a similar decision over the weekend following reports of blood clotting in recipients in norway. but the world health organization says there is no indication of a link between the vaccine and blood clots. the announcements by follow similar moves by denmark, norway, bulgaria, iceland
Demanding baby, woken up all hours and nick has the festive forecast for us. Good morning. Storm barbara may be pulling away from the uk, but it remains windy today, tomorrow, and into boxing day as well. The latest on the blustery christmas forecast coming up. Good morning. First, our main story. Extensive Railway Engineering works are starting across britain today, with 200 different projects being carried out over the christmas break. Passengers in london, manchester and cardiff are expected to be the hardest hit by the work. One of the biggest stations in the capital, paddington, is closed, with passengers being told to go to ealing broadway. Its where our reporter Jane Frances Kelly is for us this morning. Good morning. Its going to be a good deal busier there than normal. Yes, it is going to be busy. I have seen people turning up with quite heavy suitcases and that is because trains to paddington are terminating here. That is because paddington will be closed for the next six day