Democrats in Congress have sent a letter to the former Prince Andrew calling on him to testify before the House Oversight Committee about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, a foreigner cannot be compelled to comply with any such request. And Andrew has always denied knowing anything about a sex trafficking ring, denies that he ever did anything wrong.But just the request has put the push for release of the Epstein files back in the headlines here and abroad. The ranking Democrat on th ...

President Trump continues to talk about the issue of affordability and its role in last Tuesday's elections. He hit on the topic multiple times yesterday during an Oval Office event on lowering costs for weight loss drugs. He also said several times this week that Walmart's Thanksgiving meal will be cheaper than it was last year. >> So Walmart to me, you know, that's AAA came out that nobody going to influence them. I don't know them, but they just came out with a very powerful statement. and they've done i ...

Uh, you know, I I think Donald Trump finds it difficult to fight for the middle class because he's never been in the middle class. You know, he's never understood what it's like to actually live paycheck to paycheck. He's never understood what it's like to know that you might actually rely or need on some type of support to make sure that your that your family does not go hungry.And, you know, when we first saw that the president was willing to weaponize food to score political points, we immediately spun s ...

Let's bring in CNBC senior contributor Ron Insana for more on this. Ron Musk is already the world's richest man. >> $500 billion.>> Now he could soon become the first trillionaire. Just how unprecedented is this compensation package. >> Well, we've never seen anything like it on it.And and if you look at, you know, what it means if he were to achieve the goals, which are quite lofty, by the way, the market value of Tesla would have to reach $8.5% trillion for him to get the trillion dollars additional. >> S ...

Now, back to the shutdown. Let's dive deeper on the travel trouble uh we're starting to see. David Spiro is joining us, national president of the professional aviation safety specialist, labor union, and also with us, Julian Keel, an aviation expert and CEO of Points Path.Julian, first tell us which markets do you expect to be hit the most uh with these airline flight reductions. What do travelers need to know. So, as you heard in that report we just uh listened to, the reg regional flights are the key.The ...

Well, we absolutely need the House of Representatives back. Uh we need them to be able to vote. We need them right now to negotiate.I mean, the fact that Trump hasn't even sat down with Democratic leaders since this whole shutdown began on October 1st, not not once at all. And Speaker Johnson, I mean, I I'll be honest with you, it's it's painful watching him do his press conference day after day trying to come up with new excuses. Uh but the fact that you know he's now going to be you know he's resi you pre ...

Joining us now is Leah Litman, University of Michigan law professor and co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny, and Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate and the co-host of the Amicus Podcast. Mark, fill in the gaps here. Why is the same-sex marriage issue back before the Supreme Court today.Well, the court will be considering a petition by Kim Davis. Uh, you may remember she was the Kentucky clerk who refused to grant a marriage license to a same-sex couple shortly after the Supreme Court issued its d ...

All right. Well, speaking of the fallout from the elections, conservative columnist Kimberly Stell has a new piece for the Wall Street Journal headlined time to reset the GOP clock. And she writes in part this.The Trump team is moving at a furious pace. And doesn't the country's overloaded brain know it. On any given day, voters are pummeled with 50 non-cohesive headlines about Medicaid fraud, National Guard deployments, college compacts, indictments of Trump adversaries, sovereign wealth funds, DEI, Venezu ...

the 10% reduction in flights seems like a a a kind of a mitigating effort to try to at least not cause severe damage, but let's say in theory they don't uh come to a resolution. They don't open the government in the next two weeks for instance, and it's frankly probably going to end up that way. Uh what are the next steps that you imagine are going to be taken to help uh alleviate some of the issues at the airports.>> Look, they're going to have to keep cutting back. Uh we look at this all the time. when th ...

Fresh off his election win here, New York City Mayor Elect Zoran Mandani is well, he's in Puerto Rico for an annual summit that brings together New York politicians and lobbyists, the infamous Somos. Before arriving, Mandani spoke by phone with outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, who promised that his team will fully cooperate with this transition. Meanwhile, Wall Street is reckoning with Mani's win.As NPR put it, New York City CEOs and other billionaire business leaders spent more than $40 million trying to stop mo ...