in delaware wrote a letting indicating he won t meet that dea deadline. it is to answer questions from jim jordan and other republicans. the reason according to david weiss on why he can t do this, is because technically the hunter biden investigation is still an ongoing investigation. he has yet to formally enter his plea in front of a federal judge. that will happen at the end of the month. that s one of the ropes weiss said he can t answer those questions. in his letter to jordan weiss quoted a prior letter from june saying i have been granted ultimate authority in this matter including responsibility when, whether to file charges. a few weeks later jordan asked to weiss who told him to sign that letter? he doesn t believe weiss called the shots in the probe. he thinks it was the justice department in washington based off the testimony of i.r.s. whistleblower shapley who investigated the hunter biden probe and he insists he personally saw david weiss in a meeting complain
alliance among them. at one point, a fight almost broke out on the house floor, but perhaps the most telling moment came at the very end. on his way out of the capital, at around two a.m. after finally taking his oath of office as speaker, mccarthy stopped to talk to reporters to give special thanks to a special someone. i do especially think president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning, somebody wrote that out of what he was there, and he was all in. he was all in. kevin mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump s house. built on the backs of trump s republican acolytes whose jobs depend on the support of donald trump s own base. but dynamics that were on display during a four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in the six months since. the chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the cou
helped to slow down the rate of price increases for non food products, which eased injanuary down from over 3% in december. i m joined now by shanti kelemen, chief investment officer at m&g wealth. good morning. this isjust what we want to hear before the bank of england has its first meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday. meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday- on thursday. yes, we will have a decision on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them - on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them on - a decision from them on interest rates, wiley expected to keep rates unchanged and thatis to keep rates unchanged and that is positive news for inflation and a prices, on the other side we do have the economy still not in a recession and wage growth has been pretty strong. there are some factors balancing inflation, thinking it might not be a sharp drop in the next few months. to not be a sharp drop in the
senator lindsey graham relates to something much deeper and more important. tells us about where not only the republican party is but why we have so many problems defending our democracy these days. you may know him. really one of the people who has had kind of a self-defeating obsession of winning over trump even though he initially warned more than many about how bad trump is and that made graham a politically troubled character because the public record shows he knows exactly what he s doing. that may be different from someone who gets caught up in the emotion of it or is a true believer. he was humiliated even though he has tried so hard to win trump back over after warning about him. this was in graham s home state of california. politics matter to him there. even though he has gone on a long, long road trying to win over trump and we ll get into some of that, just watch as this crowd unleashes before he even speaks. thank y all. welcome to pickens. thank y all for com
paul adams reports. the american say the attack happened at abase known as tower 22, right on the syrian jordanian border. it is one of many american bases across the region. there ve been dozens of drone and missile attacks in recent months, but no american personnel had been killed until now. joe biden, seen here attending church this afternoon, was quick to point the finger. we know it was carried out by radical iran backed militant groups operating in syria and iraq, he said. it s not necessarily a tipping point into uncontrolled escalation between the united states and iran, but is a dangerous step because, as i say, the us will have to respond more strongly than it has done to previous attacks. carefully cultivated over years, iran has a wide network of allies and proxies operating in countries across the middle east. they are all opposed to israel and the united states it s sometimes called the axis of resistance. there are pro iranian militias in lebanon, the pal