Kind Martha Maccallum and this is the story. Today, how weaker to interview the former president over the weekend and hugh hewitt who is interviewed President Trump recently as well join me to martha react to a number of things regarding the 2024 Campaign Including this trump bloodbath comment and the spin that has dominated the story. Not a whole lot of retractions or apologies around this and we will break it down for you as well as President Bidens reported angry west wing grants. What thats all about with some gentlemen who know the background on it vary well. So first, the former president s attorneys say he cannot secure the 454 milliondollar bond at the new york civil fraud case after being turned down reportedly by roughly 30 different underwriters to cover the normas unprecedented judgement. So that means the attorney general Letitia James could potentially seize his assets days from now. She said she kept looking up at 40 wall street 2, you know, put a number on it and figure
abortions sued texas over its near total ban on the procedure. we ll hear from one of them who says she nearly died because of the law. we begin this hour with that breaking news out of mexico concerning those four americans who were shot at and kidnapped in matamoros, mexico. the governor of the state of tamaulipas says two of the four americans have been found dead while one more is injured. the fourth was found unharmed. disturbing video shows part of the kidnapping where you see the assailants dragging people into a white pickup truck. a law enforcement official confirmed. joining us now, nbc s ken dilanian, nbc s peter alexander at the white house, and the former head of the dea s operations. ken, what can you tell us? what the governor is saying is these americans have been recovered, two dead, two alive, one injured. they are in mexican custody and will be transferred to the u.s. this has not been confirmed by u.s. officials, but u.s. officials saying that they wer
is a monster move again, and they have signaled that they are not done and project nag the interest rates are going to be going significantly higher from here, and the message that the fed is trying to convey is clear. they are serious about trying to get stubbornly high inflation back down, but the moves they are making here have lifted the interest rates to the highest level since 2008, and now the fed was late to this inflation fight. they did not start raising interest rates until earlier this years, and they have been forced to play catchup, and that has forced the interest rates to go rapidly higher, and we have not seen three straight moves of a percentage point and we have not seen anything like that since the modern era, and you have to go back to 1981, and this is not a perfect comparison, because that is before the fed publicly announced the fed moves, and what does it mean? it means the borrowing costs are higher, and interest rates and car loans and mortgage rate
everything you did is not presidential, so to speak. to saying now the supreme court will look at how a case normally goes through to get to the supreme court. this is significant, ian. it is. i think jack smith s being very smart trying to make this move as fast as possible. you don t want a situation where like on october 20th the supreme court throws out a conviction because of some procedural rule that no one anticipated. ordinarily i advocate for the supreme court to do as little as possible. you want narrow that s not because i don t like the supreme court. that s good judging. you don t want judges to overreach, but in this case i think we want the court to give us as much guidance as possible as to how this trial is going to be run. it s an unprecedented case. right. it s a case where the stakes are enormous. the voters need to know if this man is a convicted felon when it comes time for the election and so i am hoping that the supreme court is going to tell t