will not be the final witness in the civil fraud trial against his business organization. we ll go through the last-minute reversal from the former president. also ahead, we ll bring you the latest from the middle east. israel continues to strike what it calls hamas strongholds in southern gaza. it comes as we are learning more about some of the hostages still held by the terrorist group. plus, a controversial ruling in the state of texas. that state supreme court is blocking an abortion for a woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, december 11th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ll begin here. former president trump will not, after all, testify in his own defense at his$250 million fraud trial. he was scheduled to take the stand today, but in a last-minute reversal, it was announced late yesterday he would not testify i his defense at all. he was previously called to t
it s a reliability question not costs. all costs will be passed on to the ratepayer. they are concerned about their obligation to provide reliable energy and they say we are going to have blackouts. you had it exactly right when you described what is really going on here. basically my response is that fear-mongering by industry is nothing new. i think all of us have heard fear-mongering over the years. and in this case fear-mongering is going to basically not affect the job losses that they are claiming. i don t think any jobs are going to get lost. industry doesn t like regulation they hate it. and any new regulations, it s the sky will be falling and the sky is halfway down right now. megyn: a heritage report suggests that the commerce department itself is estimating that the regulation -gs are going to cost 60,000 jobs, that the administration is forecasting that according to this heritage report. well the two reports that i ve actually been able to look