latest on the fight and the fallout. good evening. reporter: just a few days ago, twitter owner elon musk made headlines when he challenged meta ceo mark zuckerberg to a cage match. that cage match is still tbd but a legal battle between the two might actually be heating up. twitter is reportedly threatening to sue meta the parent company of facebook and instagram that is owned by zuckerberg alleging that a copy twitter with its remarkably similar new social media platform threads. that officially launched last night and is even being there for the twitter killer. in a letter published by the media reporter max bottani, musk s lawyers sent a cease and desist to zuckerberg claiming that mehta has engaged in systematic his appropriation of twitter s trade secrets and even hired a former twitter employees. musk responded to the lawsuit making headlines by tweeting, quote, competition is fine, cheating is not. fox news reached out to meta for comment. director andy stone respo
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bret: let s all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, i m bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this week s candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. we ll have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major stories at this hour. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at the congressional hearing today up on capitol hill on whether he should be charged with contempt of congress. but we begin with a late afternoon surprise. this one in the 2024 campaign. republican presidential candidate chris christie is suspending his campaign and is dropping out of this race. christie making that announcement just minutes ago. you saw it live on the five. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is here in de
as he meets president xijinping for the first time since the invasion. and one of the all time tennis greats, roger federer, announces his retirement. welcome to the programme. with shaun ley in westminster and me, ros atkins, in the bbc news room. tens of thousands of people are waiting for their turn to pay their respects to queen elizabeth ii at westminster hall where she is lying in state. these are live pictures from westminster, where the queue is currently stretching over some five km. some people have waited for more than eight hours to get here, inside westminster hall, where the closed coffin is being guarded by soldiers from units that serve the royal household. that process will continue, 2a hours a day, until monday morning at 6.30am. for the latest, we can nowjoin shaun ley in westminster. hello and thank you very much. hello to all of you watching, whether you re in the uk or around the world. here in westminster is the opportunity for members of the public, as
a new episode of my podcast about grief and loss called all their eyes came out today. if you point your phone s camera to the qr code you see on the side of the screen, a link will show up on your phone that you can click and listen. last week, i spoke with president biden on the podcast, at the white house, about how he lives with grief. this new episode is called the greatest loss. it s about the pain of losing a baby, which is something we don t talk much about in this society. millions of women, including my mom, had experienced the child loss during pregnancy, or soon after. but their losses compounded by the silence that surrounds it. people don t know what to say, we don t say anything at all. in this episode, i speak with a texas mom named katie tolman who lost her first daughter when she was 23 weeks pregnant. it s extraordinarily powerful and moving interview. i hope you listen. it s available now on a podcast, spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. cnn town