is descending? it is sending a message that we don t believe in democracy, we don t believe in hearing from diverse voices. we don t believe that all people are deserving of the american dream and that one single parent doesn t even have to attend, have a child at attend school in these districts that are having book spend. this is not what a democracy looks like. the american people need to ask themselves if they want the rest of the country to look like a state of florida. okay, daniela shermichael, we re going to let it rest right there. thank you so much, guys. for all of you, we have coming up in this hour vice president harris who is accomplishing something that has never been done before, that is coming up in just a moment. as we give you all a very good day from nbc news in miami, welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news in washington. kevin mccarthy saying just a short time ago that he is optimistic negotiators are closer to a deal on the debt
happy friday it s 4:00 in new york. he has held no press conferences, done no interviews that we know about he is elusive. the inner workings of his highly sensitive assignment a bit of a mystery outside of what some journalists worked to uncover. when it comes to the special counsel jack smith and his federal investigations, plural, into donald j. trump it takes an ear to the ground adept and trained to know when progress is being made this afternoon trusted voices suggest it is time to buckle up. here s why in dates since the federal appeals court in washington rejected the ex-president s bid to block former staffers from testifying in the january 6th investigation, ex-aides have paraded in and out of depositions without fig leaf protections of executive an attorney-client privilege. on tuesday it was stephen miller late yesterday it was former dni john ratcliffe soon it could be the star witness, donald trump s former vice president mike pence himself. last week an advisor
aisle demanding answers for president biden after the united states military shot down a fourth object yesterday raising concerns about the national security of course, fighter jets took out objects whatever they were over alaska, canada, michigan, three of them and just the last three days, boom, boom, boom. the pentagon says it is the first time ever in american aerospace defense command has taken such action within the american airspace. but there is still not an indication from the white house that president biden will address the nation about what happened over the weekend, what does all of this mean? where is it going, meanwhile the pentagon not ruling anything out, and i mean anything including the possibility that these are some things, some objects of perhaps extraterrestrial origin. have you ruled out aliens or extraterrestrials and if so, why? because that s what everybody is asking us right now. i will let the intel community and the counterintelligence commun
they had their squabbles, the sibling squabbles. and yet we watched them whether tragedy after tragedy. i admired the queen so much for her resilience, for her fate, for her integrity, her grace. i am christian. christiane idiot today needs the grace of the queen that she had. that is how she lived her life. the british parliament is still meeting in a rare saturday session as elected officials pay tribute to the queen, after swearing allegiance to the newly declared king. prince edward and princess and we re seeing greeting well wishes at balmoral in scotland. lindsey joins us now. lindsey, this is a ten-day, a highly choreographed period that has been in the planning now for decades. we re just getting some confirmation about what we will see and when we will see it in the coming days. we also just heard from the very news prince of wales-hyder. as i ve just heard in my ear, lindsay, the funeral for queen elizabeth the second will be held a week from monday. that s
god save the king that was an extraordinary moment last hour. the new king, charles iii, shaking hands with the throngs of people that have goth grath gathered to greet himself outside buckingham palace singing the new national anthem god save the king. good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. we re so glad you re with us on this day in particular. i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. they have, in fact, already changed the lyrics, well, less than 24 hours after the passing of queen elizabeth. king charles iii, the new monarch, enters buckingham palace. asked for a period of mourning starting today lasting seven days after the queen s funeral. a sense of loss there. later today st. paul s cathedral in london will hold a service of prayer and reflection. hours from now we will hear from the new king and cnn will bringing that address to his royal subjects when it happens. our reporters and correspondents are covering all of this dev