you have been robust, the economist said mr wallace at times sounds like an opposition politician attackingt the money you need to get it well spent? yes. struggle to get the money you need to get it well spent?— to get it well spent? yes. all politicians — to get it well spent? yes. all politicians have _ to get it well spent? yes. all politicians have to _ to get it well spent? yes. all politicians have to be - to get it well spent? yes. all i politicians have to be credible. to get it well spent? yes. all. politicians have to be credible. it is not credible to pretend that the last 35 years have not happened in defence funding. i can show you charts from 1991, defence spending under both labour and conservative have declined. some of it was logical but the problem is it was the go to pot to raid when governments want to spend more on health or whatever gimmick they want to do at the time. it used to be described as corporate raiding, we cut defence by 7%. if you want to deter people, you need to have a strong defence offering and if you want to be part of an alliance like alliant —— anal

mr. wallace said the impact of this will will not be like previous contracts that it will prove to be a decisive battle. i have some husband went off from the kora and southern revenue . how's the laws do that for us on the federal established his grooves, argument for the involvement and the war. and because though he said that this group is now completely involved in this war, he was clear about saying that they have been these front is yet aside from, there's a way i know that the, not a look now, yet regarding the lebanese front, we entered the battle on october, 8th, for those who are asking has been that to engage an open warfare. what is happening on the board. it may appear moderates, but that is not the case. what is happening on our front has not been seen since 1948, even during the july 2006. war does not make resistance and 11 on his waging. a real battle is only left by those in the border areas. the fighters and the rest of its southern lebanon, say that we are taking risk. this is true. but this adventure is just last to right now for our last speech, gave an impression that this

mr matheson�*s answers. live now to our political correspondent david wallace lockhart, who is in holyrood.ng the health secretary to say? a lot of political pressure on michael matheson at the moment because there are a lot of questions to answer despite the story rumbling into its eighth day. we do not know how he managed to clock up so much data, enough to watch netflix for 20 hours and why wi—fi was not used to use the ipad and there are obviously complications with the fact there was a point where the taxpayer was going to completely go to a cover of this bill and ted came out and the pressure got so high that mr matheson said he would cover it himself. we now have the scottish conservatives calling for michael matheson to be sacked and do not believe his assurances that the ipad use was used for parliamentary purposes. it came up at first minister questions this afternoon and humza yousaf said he is sticking by the health secretary but when we get the statement that will come in about five minutes from michael matheson there might be some change in the narrative and new developments w

and wallace is asking trump these questions. and the judge says to mr. trump's attorney can you control your client? this is not a political rally, this is a courtroom. i have asked the witness several times to answer the questions. maybe you should have a talk with him right now. trump's attorney says sometimes the questions call for narratives. and that -- hang on one second, okay? got it. so those are the two updates we have and you, my friends at home, are up to date so far on the first 30 minutes of testimony by the president, the former president number 45. >> dana: if you follow former president trump everything you said rings true. you can imagine that would be the way he approaches that today. we have a reporter in the courtroom sending detailed point by point -- >> bill: another one if you want it. we could go on and on. the judge says wallace is being patient, the attorney for new york. i would like to move things faster. please just answer the questions, no speeches. trump's attorney says all the questions are open-ended and require lengthy a

sara b wallace, the denver district court judge overseeing the case ruled that mr.ction three did not apply to him because the clause does not explicitly name the presidency, the question hinged on whether the president was included in the category officer of the united states. so to lay people who are thinking, wait, isn't a president and officer of the united states? what do you make of this ruling? >> it's just not the laypeople. common sense says he's got to be officer of the united states. there is a constitutional argument there, some experts have come out on their side. but most of the weight says he is an officer. i think that's a rather archaic reading of it, outdate. but what she does -- she's a little bit saying -- [inaudible] >> an interesting point to all these trials, this is a lot of trials. a lot of trial-ing in 2024 for donald trump. andrew weissmann, a friend of all of ours, an msnbc fan favorite, posted that fani willis's request for the august 5th date highlights, quote, the pernicious nature of what florida judge aileen cannon is up to. she was

wallace joins me in a moment on the tensions and the biden dull emma. first, i want to bring in israel's deputy chief at israel's u.s. embassy. mr.enjamin, thank you so much for joining us tonight. the repeated strikes on the jabalia refuge camp i think raises some questions for people as israel says that it is trying to avoid civilian casualties. how does that square with repeatedly striking this area where we know that there are civilians? >> well, thank you, abby, for having me. jabalia is a stronghold of hamas. we know this. we knew this. most of the world that was willing to listen to us before the war knew this, but was unwilling to really listen. had where the hamas headquarters are. the fact that they station themselves underneath hospitals, in schools, in residential areas is on their hands. and this is on them alone. the finger should be pointed their direction for identifying in tunnels and creating the tunnels to begin d with, which when we target the tunnels, and we do not target civilian population, we target the tunnels and we target the terrorists themselves, when they collapse, yes, there is some damage because -

wallace. asking about the value of certain properties and how he handled financial statements. trump began to veer off into more political speeches and the judge instructed his lawyer to talk to him. mr questions as instructed. but he is intent on using this legal proceeding for the benefit of his politics. the questions are going to continue for the bulk of the day. the judge saying, you better answer them properly or we're gonna be here all day. robin? >> aaron katersky, thank you. now to the teachers strike in portland oregon. 45,000 students are out of school this morning as the strike enters a second week. and in las vegas, hotel chains are bracing for a possible walkout this week. kayna whitworth has that story for us. >> reporter: robin, good morning. all across the west tens of thousands of workers are voicing demand for better pay and better working conditions starting with teachers in portland, oregon, taking to the picket lines again today. they're asking for a 20% pay increase. they want smaller class sizes and more planning time, among other things. this as las vegas is bracing for what could be the largest hospitality workers strike in u.s. history, as more than 35,000