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foreign aid bill failed a procedural vote in the senate. both sides now blaming each other for tanking the measure. and now they are trying to get the funding for ukraine, taiwan, and israel. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie tells us what is causing the hiccups from capitol hill. good evening, aishah. >> good evening to you, bret. so, right now, the senate is paralyzed. we are waiting to see if there is a path forward on a foreign aid only package. some republicans want to be ...

former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things? so for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but youre also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process this? >> i talked about this a minute ago, and i think, you know, when you have the former attorney general, when y...

in his report on the biden classified documents investigation. now, while hur ultimately decided not to charge biden for mishandling the classified documents going back decades, the bigger news was what his team uncovered about the presidents mental faculties or lack thereof. the 345 page document is the must-read tell-all of the day. complete with gems like this. he, the president, did not remember when he was vice president. forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ...

his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair -- chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagons abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight w...

shannon, this was fascinating. we saw the court in almost total unison on wondering how far colorado was going and why. spell it out. >> yeah, normally you know, neil, it takes years to get here, maybe months if youre fast tracking. this made it in weeks. showing the urgency the court gets about this happening in an election year. so theyd had the arguments. there were tough questions for both sides. at the end of the day, it really came down to whether or not this 14th amendment provi...

now for the news. a bbc investigation has led to the identification of a new suspect in the stephen lawrence murder case. hes been publicly named for the first time as matthew white — who died two years ago. the investigation found the met police seriously mishandled key evidence relating to him. scotland yard has apologised for how it handled the case. russias defence minister has appeared in public for the first time since the uprising by wagner mercenaries. sergei shoigu has been ...

presidential election. the first american election with a front-runner indicted for conspiring to steal the last one. dividing his time between the campaign trail and the courtroom. >> i think hes got a lot going on. >> i think the d.c. circuit will rule against him. >> in the frigid cold. >> the coldest in modern history. >> temperatures so low, they bring new meaning to the term negative campaigning. republicans in iowa will make their choice. >> donald trump is a threat to democracy...

yeah, you can hear. this is the beat with ari melber, where one week at -- official voting of 2024, launch of these presidential primaries. candidates already barnstorming iowa this weekend. youre seeing just some of what happened on your screen. and for many reasons, these first few primary states at the pivotal and possibly last test of the republican party deciding whether to bring its trump passed into the future. nikki haley, trying to emerge as the one alternative to trump, argui...

a huge campaign issue for 2024. but were going to start with an even bigger one. is donald trump eligible to be president of the united states again? colorado says no. maine says no. oregon and new hampshire and others might also chime in and say no. of course donald trump says yes, he is. so who ultimately decides this? the supreme court obviously is the ultimate decision maker here, and they might get involved. colorado has already asked them to. now with maine and perhaps others mov...

hello, everyone. im katie pavelich, along rac with rachel campos-duffy, jessica tarlov, charlie hurthei. and jimmy failla, 5:00 in new york city. and this is the five bells they democrats creating more election chaos as the ty to stop americans from voting for donald trump. maine disqe disqualifying the g frontrunner from its 2024 ballot. f and its all thanks to the states democrats. secretary of state shennaw bellows. she decided to follow colorados leacolo d and find trump to be inel...