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hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in washington, d.c. with a gap between the reality of our post-january 6th politics and the republican party s alternate reality with its paranoid delusions about the deep state and the glorification of the capitol insurrection has never been wider. today s hearing on capitol hill by the so-called weaponization committee led by ohio republican jim jordan, involved, according to the republicans on that committee, fbi whistleblowers talking about supposed abuses at the bureau. that delusion was undercut by the reality before the hearing began. the washington post reported two fbi agents set to appear before a house subcommittee thursday had their security clearances revoked this morning over security concerns. that is according to a letter sent by the fbi to the house judiciary committee on wednesday and obtained by the washington post. those two witnesses are steven friend and marcus allen, and according to the new york times, quote, m ....
tonight, clashes on capitol hill. at the so-called weaponization hearing, republicans spent the day questioning questionable witnesses. democrats called it a clearinghouse for testing conspiracy theories for donald trump. then, disney raising the stakes in the feud with ron desantis, scrapping a billion dollar development in florida. the impact it could have on his upcoming presidential run. a major settlement between deutsche bank and jeffrey epstein s victims. we will break down what it all means and who could be paying, next, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle. partisan fireworks erupted on capitol hill earlier today, in a hearing for the so-called weaponization of government committee, which of course is led by ohio republican jim jordan. the witnesses were three self-described fbi whistleblowers who jordan and his fellow republicans said would show that the fbi was biased against the right. and we ....
federal government. plus, in the next 30 minutes, president biden takes his political fight to florida, home to his biggest potential rivals. and devastation in syria and turkey, almost unimaginable as the death toll closes in on 20,000. we re live in turkey where one of our reporters just witnessed an incredible rescue. but we start with some explosive moments in those hearings we just mentioned, both democratic and republican lawmakers going hard at the biden administration and its officials for not doing something sooner about that chinese surveillance balloon. the truth is i got a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state. by the administration s logic, we would allow the chinese to fly surveillance balloons over the pentagon or other sensitive sites near populated areas. as an alaskan, i am so angry. i want to use other words, but i m not going to. i want to bring in nbc s ryan nobles who s on capitol hill and michael crowley as the diplom ....
Spacecraft for the benefit of Life On Earth. Space is an integral part of society. Our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. So, we need the satellites for our daily life. The country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth, because of its war in ukraine. If russia doesnt partner up with another nation l or field its own Space Station, which given the current circumstances and sanctions i is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space flight. What became a story of collaboration is now once again one of competition and conflict. China has its own Space Station. India wants one. And private companies are getting in on the act, too, sending up their own rockets. Im pallab ghosh, the bbc s science ....