announced by his predecessor, kwasi kwarteng, in last month s mini budgetjust three weeks ago. in an emergency statement this morning, he abandoned indefinitely the planned ip cut in the basic income tax that was due to come next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april. instead of for two years, and then that will be reviewed. today, jeremy hunt claimed all of those announcements will save £32 billion a year, but he also warned that there are going to be more difficult decisions ahead on tax and spending to cut government debt. he will be addressing mps in the commons later this afternoon, some time after lipm. before then, there will be an urgent question in there will be an urgent question in the commons asked by sir keir starmer. it will not be liz truss responding to that, it will instead be penny mordaunt. so plenty ahead in the commons. in terms of the market reaction, jeremy hunt said that he had sought to reassure the markets this morning and
me. thank you, as always. and thanks to you at home, for joining us this hour. this week, bloomberg news publishes story about the documents donald trump had sent down to mar-a-lago at the end of his presidency. the story went to some detail about who packed the boxes containing those documents. i m going to spoil the ending here by telling you that it was the white house not the general services administration the gsa, that pack those boxes, which is counter to what donald trump has insisted for several months now. but it is maybe not surprising, given the other wild claims he has made in the course of this whole mar-a-lago saga. but a complaining that bloomberg story was a picture of the document boxes that were sent down to trump s beach club. this is it right here. look at that. i don t know about you wet the first thing i thought when i saw that photo was, wow. that is a lot of documents. i mean, we have seen some of the documents that were found in the fbi search of
that i m fit to be serving and that s what i believe is where i m standing. democrats are seizing on dr. oz already on defense for criticism of discredited theories he promoted on television saying this when asked whether aside from exceptions should abortion be banned in america. i ve been in the room when there s some difficult conversations happening. i don t want the federal government involved with that at all. i want women, doctors, local political leaders leading the democracy that s allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. we ll get reaction here as well as reports from other key contests across the nation. and we ll take a closer look at threats to election workers undermining access to the vote and election security in georgia, two years after former president trump tried to change the 2020 results. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell here in pittsburgh and the big question in pennsylvania this morning
we asked republican governor ron desantis and val demings to come on as well they declined. first up tonight be though, president biden is taking part in a rally for new mexico governor, michelle lujan grist ham and other democrats in albuquerque. the president is trying to frame the election as crucial to the democracy. peter doocy has the story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. president biden is suggesting the american experiment could fail if certain republican candidates are elected. and despite that heavy warning, he is also campaigning in new mexico trying to remind young people that he is the one trying to cancel some student loan debt. remember, this is not a referendum. this is a choice. pete: biden is backing incumbent new mexico governor believed to be v.p. short-lister. michelle grisham. he is not here to discuss the issues that new mexicans care about that is skyrocketing crisis, a border where we have mor
material seriously. i also said we re cooperating fully and completely with the justice department s review. the other epresident of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. two distinctly different approaches to two completely different situations. but why is attorney general merrick garland moving so quickly to appoint a special counsel for the biden documents when it took forever to do the same for trump? also tonight, the quote of the day coming from george santos who said with a straight face, i have lived an honest life. and now, there s new reporting on the multiple investigations into his questionable finances. and did you hear? joe biden s coming for your gas stove. no, not really, but two weeks into the new year, it s a top republican priority to talk about it along with ending so-called wokeness and crt and counting fetuses in the hov lanes. we begin tonight just a little over two months since president