morning as authorities warn residents to stay inside. just 48 hours left for donald trump s co-defendants to enter their pleas or get ready to appear in court in georgia s election interference case. we start in the remote nevada deserts where tons of thousands of trapped concern growers are trying to organizer plan to reopen roads in about two hours after sudden storms turned the annual gathering into miles of mud. so thick that some are comparing it to quicksand. others are starting to hike out after being warned to shelter in place and to conserve food and water. the situation so concerning, even the president has been briefed. the festival ceo told my colleague chloe melas, there s no cause for panic. we ve made it really clear that we do not see this as an evacuation situation and that the community is patient and the water is drying up. i want to give right to nbc s liz kroits, and michelle grossman standing by with the forecast. thank you very much. liz, the an
seeing trump s very own words and rhetoric in a court filing as it gets. attorneys for the ex-president accuse the special counsel of asking the court to, quote, take the extraordinary step of stripping president trump of his first amendment freedoms during the most important month of his campaign against president biden. they say, quote, now keenly aware that it is losing that race for 2024, the prosecution seeks to unconstitutionally silence president trump s but not president biden s political speech. on pain of contempt. end quote. now, if all this sounds familiar, it s because trump s attorneys have been making this argument for months now. as the new york times notes, almost from the moment mr. trump was indicted, his legal team has raised a first amendment defense. it s also a defense that jack smith anticipated. his indictment of donald trump on the election interference case says on the second page, the defendant had a right, like every american, to speak public
thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle live from san francisco. we ve got some big news tonight. a federal grand jury has indicted president biden s son hunter on felony gun charges, setting the stage for a possible criminal trial during the 2024 campaign. and d. c. s line nobles has the latest on the story. tonight, hunter biden, hunter criminal indictment and facing the possibility of quid prison time. hunter biden investigations are? david weiss, not commenting today after handing down three federal felony gun charges against federal under biden. for lying about his drug addiction when purchasing a firearm. two of those charges carry maximum sentences of ten years in prison. it comes just two months after that controversial plea deal fell apart under a judges extraordinary. wise had negotiated an agreement for the president on to avoid any prison time by going through a pretrial diversion program on the gun charge and pleading guilty to misdem
heading towards. the strikes are contacting three big automakers. floyd, the parent company of chrysler, stellantis, and general motors. the ceo says her company is making significant concessions to meet demands, but no detail agreement can be reached, at least not yet. we have a historic offer on the table. 26% gross wage increases over the life of the contract. i think we have a historic offer on the table, and it s a very serious offer, and i believe if our people really understand the details of it, they re going to support it. the white house says it s been monitoring this for weeks if not months, now sending high-profile officials to michigan to support the parties and try to find a compromise. and in washington, the political reaction, progressive lawmakers saying they are on board with this strike, the former president trump said in an interview that he believes this could make auto companies move more jobs overseas, especially the electrical vehicle production co
seeing across asset classes that are seeing the stocks lower. it is the biggest one-day goinge for the s&p 500 back to august. we saw that earlier in the week as well, and we are also seeing simultaneous at least 1% decline for each of the major averages. this has become increasingly uncommon until the past week or so, when we see volatility returned to the market. scarlet mentioned what has happened on the week as well. as well,500 down and you have to go back to february 2016, or depending on the lowest today, maybe even january 2016 to find this kind of magnitude of a drop. it is being felt in a lot of different ways in the market today. we are watching media stocks among the groups that are selling off today. are both trading lower, discovery communications as well. analyst who covers media was on bloomberg earlier, and he says he believes the cbs ceo is reluctant to go ahead with some sort of combination between cbs and viacom, something that has been talked about re