another week of shows. we re so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. welcome to the booet. joe biden just sat down for an msnbc exclusive. they just if he in the tapes. what you re seeing just happened. and you will only hear this exclusive on msnbc tonight, including starting this hour when stephanie joins us live with the first excerpt. there is no bigger inview in american government or politics. and we and stephanie have you covered with that coming up. i also have more on the expanding scandals, swirling around clarence thomas and his controversial activist wife. new evidence about her secret payments provided from a republican kecked insider. so we re going to get into that and what has become basically a pile of questions for not only clarence thomas but his colleagues on the court. what are they going to do about it. we ll get into that later tonight. it is one of those very newsy fridays. from the supreme court all the way over to the
that they don t want to default. they want to avoid that, but they don t agree on how to do it. mccarthy wants to hold it at hostage in return for massive cuts on discretionary programs meaning basically everything but social security and medicare which along with defense, make up the clear bulk of the budget while president biden has been adamant that no cuts are on the table. none. so what are these guys going to talk about? and how will mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer and hakeem jefferies factor in? they will also be at that may 9th meeting. does it end an agreement to disagree until this fall? in other words, a short-term deal to avoid collapse? because that is what economists are worried about, a default that will send the markets into a freefall, add rocket fuel to inflation, slash millions of jobs, cut off social security payments and veterans benefits and drag the u.s. economy into an ugly and potentially prolonged recession. no one wants that. joining me now is nbc n
the senate will get its own briefing later this morning. bill: the u.s. revealing the spy flight was part of a larger espionage program going on for years. china maintains it with as a weather balloon that drifted off course and traveled over sensitive military sites in the u.s. the pentagon says no chance. i can assure you this was not for civilian purposes. we re 100% clear about that. we are very confident we ll be able to detect these kinds of capabilities as evidenced by the continuing body of knowledge that we ve been able to build up on this. obviously that s something our intelligence community will continue to work closely on for this and any other potential threats. dana: bryan llenas is in myrtle beach, south carolina where crews are still searching for debris. we begin the aishah hosni on capitol hill and more on today s briefings as we get thursday going. hi, aishah. this all-house briefing got underway an hour ago and already seen some of these members e
we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. right now more potential legal trouble for former president donald trump what the fulton county d.a. is saying about charging decisions and her investigation into efforts to overturn the last election plus, new details in the sweet 16 birthday party shooting that left four in alabama dead we hear from a teenager survivor who s still recovering in the hospital also, what former president trump says is inconceivable about president biden s new election bid we ve got new reaction from inside trump world and we just heard from the president for the first time since he made his run for re-election official his central message and what to expect from candidate biden this go-around. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments we begin with president biden kicking off his 2024 campaign at a union event and with a request to let him finish the job. kayla tausche is cnbc s senior white house cor
they respond to tonight s top story. they ll be with us in justn u a minute. st a now, we begin this monday o with a fox news alert. the department of energy, they are now finally admittinge the obvious truth.s covid-19 was apparently developed in that by chinese scientists at the wuhan institute of virology, likely through gain of function research. now, the deadly diseas the somehowlab an leaked out of the lab and aninfe infected the entire world .ct and by the way, china knew at the entire time, side note, a sloppy attempt to cover up.m and then thatht all ensued from communist chinese and of the communist chinese and of course, their corrupt propagandists in part that we fund for china. woul and that would be the h.o. and maybe even dr. and ye fauci himself. and yet no one has been helde wh accountable. they have yet, to this point, even wanted to admit the truth, which was obvious.th mow, a message fro president reagan is more relevant than ever. quote, the nine most t