appease hard right members of his party who want major changes without the u.s. spends its money. this is how some of the same members he had to make deals with in order to win the speakership. joining us now is nbc nbc news correspondent allie raffa live from delaware where the president is spending the weekend. ali, the president is saying he is refusing to negotiate, republicans are saying they want to negotiate. where do things stand right now? yeah, unitia, well, a little bit of a hand yesterday with his remarks and president biden saying he is willing to sit down with speaker kevin mccarthy to talk about raising the debt ceiling to, quote, avoid a calamity that exceeds anything that has ever happened financially in the united states, president biden now saying exactly when and where that meeting will take place, just saying why he wants to have it, and then you have speaker mccarthy who we know has been under pressure from fellow house republicans. saying that they wa
newsroom. i m paula reed in washington in for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a machete attack on three police officers in times square. the attack unfolded outside a security screening zone set up for last night s festivities. police say the man wielding the machete was just 19 years old. fortunately, all three officers injured are in stable condition. cnn s correspondent is following this story from new york city. gloria, what else do we know about this violent attack? reporter: certainly a trosh f terrifying attack for these three officers. one of the officers just graduating the police academy last week. this happened, as you mentioned, outside of a security zone because everyone who goes to times square to watch the new year s eve ball drop has to go through these screening points for this reason. they are being checked for weapons, items not permitted into this event. and that is where police say a 19-year-old male approached these officers completely unprovoke
fromservesn office and disgrace. but for this breaking federal classification rules, some of the stupidest and most dishonest laws congress s hasasn ever passed. it s like arresting el chapoint. for expired plates. it s missing the point, but it looks like that s what s going to happen. it seems like every day when abidance lawyer shows up with more sheaves of classifierd documents, like a dog who se found another dead chipmunk under the house. this bunch was in his office at pen , the one paid for by the communist party of china. ch these were found next to hisinat sad little mid-life crisis. sportscar in a garage in delaware and so on . you keep waiting for the white house physician to announce another document. trove has been discovered after a routinr the colonoscopy. it could happen because at this point, you know exactly where this story is heading. permanent washington does not want joe biden to run for biden president . again, this is how they re t i sending that
And thats us, by the way. Went away but maybe you can see, maybe you cant, this is belle isle, to the top of the screen is you will see it in a moment is going to be canada. Thats, it right there on the horizon. Behind us, is detroit, michigan. And we are right in the middle of the detroit river, 9 am in the, east examine the, west i am ali velshi, coming to 16 days before election day in belle isle state park in detroit michigan and were bringing you a very Special Edition of velshi 2022 on friday. I had an enlightening conversation across the political spectrum, as the election day approaches, im gonna share more of it with you in just a bit. We kick off this hour with breaking news. Brandnew msnbc news polling, showing you the voters recognize that high stakes, next months Midterm Elections, registered voters are expressing high interest in the election. Tied for the highest ever, ever, in the decades long history of this poll, 57 of registered voters say this coming Midterm Electio
in a list that is about the top risks. the founder of that eurasia group. straight ahead, republican mark sanford, former south carolina congressman and governor and presidential candidate, helps us understand what s happening inside the gop following a bitter speaker bottle and what it means for the future of the american democracy. another hour of phil she begins right now. and good morning. it s out of the, january the 7th, ending up in the east, 6 am in the west. i m ali velshi. as the old saying goes, if i don t succeed, try, try 14 more times until you do. that s the attitude kevin mccarthy is bringing with him into the new year as he was finally declared the new speaker of the house after four days and 15 attempts. republicans appeared optimistic as the house reconvened at 10 pm last night for the 14th ballot. things quickly devolved as that vote appeared headed for failure, which led to a lot of scrambling and conversations on the republican side. tensions spilled o