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mike pence were questioned in front of a grand jury about the scheme to use fake electors to overturn the 2020 election. that includes the role of trump lawyers john eastman and rudy giuliani. "washington post" and "new york times" report that the prosecutors asked directly about former president trumps involvement. daniella diaz is on capitol hill for us. this would be a big step asking insiders directly about trump. what is the attorney general saying about this case? >> reporter: th...

american, paul whelan at. well get to those stories in this hour. but we start with a big breakthrough in democrats efforts to pass a main part of president bidens agenda. prescription drug prices, taxes, and climate change. kirsten sinema of arizona has announced her support for the bill, calling it the inflation redact act. clearing the way possibly this weekend. the democrat agreed on some changes. including dropping a carry over interest rate tax. increase on some of the risk just ...

look for lessons. from the kansas vote as a republican scramble to soften their messaging ahead of the midterms. and later, a popular female politician is quote, not ripe enough to be president. gas was notorious conservative tv personality said that. the right is taking the war on woman to a whole new level and you better believe it, i have some thoughts on that. all of that and more is coming up, so lets get started. we begin this morning on capitol hill. senate democrats are just ho...

it passed in spite of weeks of protests. -- new lap permits for borden shun only in cases of incest or. rape or if the fetus has a lethal anomaly. physicians would lose their licenses performing. portions the white house as its another about a call step by republican legislators to take away womens reproductive rights and freedom input personal health care decisions in the hands of politicians rather than women and their doctors. meanwhile, in wisconsin, donald trump continue to push t...

major victory. >> we expect one of our first vote on later on this afternoon will get it started. and then it is really in the hands of the republicans. they can offer as many events as they want, and they can talk pretty much over the next 20 hours or they want to. so if they can keep the clock moving, at the end of the day, if we keep our 15 votes together we can be able to pass this bill. >> also, breaking at this hour, president biden has tested negative for covid today. the presid...

probe of the capitol insurrection. key witnesses subpoenaed by the doj this week including two top aides of former vice president mike pence were asked specifically about the fake elector scheme and the role of trumps lawyers. and according to the "washington post," justice department investigators in april received phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration, including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. >> these are by far the most in-depth accounts of t...

fourth grade classrooms, killing 19 students and two teachers. the american people were shocked, outraged, and devastated by this attack and collectively asked, how can we prevent this from happening again? while the discussions surrounding this topic causes emotions to run high, and i understand why, for too long some politicians have tried to pit the right to live in a safe community against the iewnl right to keep -- constitutional right to keep and bare arms, they make it seem like...

conveniently ignoring that to our bill in fact lowers the deficit, and is completely paid for. >> we are watching every minute of what is happening on the senate floor. were gonna have the latest for you in just a minute. also this hour, alex jones ordered to pay up and pay a big for his lies about sandy hook in the murder of innocent children. we are going to look at that story later had as well. we do as i said want to start in washington on capitol hill. where right now we are start...

out front tonight, china talks were. a top official of the chinese embassy in washington saying today, quote, taiwan as one of the very few issues that might take china and the united states to conflict, or even a war. this, coming soon after the white house summit to chinas ambassador to condemn chinas military activities near taiwan. activities, of course, that have gone into overdrive since has bicker nancy pelosis visit to the island this week. today, 60 to chinese aircraft, 13 chi...

and the indian adaptation of the hollywood classic forrest gump is released next week. we hear from the bollywood superstar aamir khan. it kind of feels like it is a dream now because it has been such a long journey and we have come to the end and it feels a bit unreal. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. its newsday. its eight in the morning in singapore, and 9:00am in tokyo where japan is demanding an immediate end to chinas military exercises around taiwan, after fi...