here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour, president biden today will sign the debt ceiling bill into law. averting a disastrous default two days before that deadline. the president is using his first oval office address to praise the bipartisan agreement, and stressed its importance. it was critical to reach the agreement. and it s very good news for american people. no one got everything they wanted. the american people got what they needed. we averted an economic crisis, an economic collapse. in this debate, i refused to put what was responsible for all of this progress on the chopping block. i ve never been more optimistic about america s future. brand new details today, reports the special counsel has a recording of donald trump talking about a classified document regarding the new york times says the justice department issued a subpoena for that document, trump lawyer say they can t find. it last night msnbc s are allanburg
let s do it. we begin with questions about our 80-year-old president. pres president biden was in colorado to deliver a commencement address at the united states air force academy. his remarks were quickly overshadowed after he tripped and fell over a sand bag on the event center stage. thankfully president biden was quick to get up and later joked about the incident while at the white house. yesterday wasn t the first time we ve seen president biden stumble in public. there was the time he struggled down the stairs at the g7 summit in japan, that was last month. he has fallen several times going up the stairs of air force one, as well as while he has been riding his bicycle. and growing numbers of these moments have many americans revisiting concerns about biden s advanced age and physical well-being. look, emily, i was on with trace gallagher, he mentioned a fall, i assumed a slight fall or trip like we ve seen from before. after i saw the video, i was stunned and saddene
crashes. in defense of this country, of course when we hear that, we think of bunker hill or normandy or the frozen chosen at a chosen watch for. perhaps even the invasion in afghanistan in 2001. we have seen good men and women leave behind wives and husbands, sons and daughters, long life i had to go die in a war. as we should we order them. i have thousands of blood brothers from the war on terror myself not because we still share the same blood but because we spilled our blood fighting for the same cause. for america. for you. so memorial day is a day we recognize that an honor it. again, as we should. but what about our actions? what do we do to honor them? do we think about their sacrifice before we tweet something hateful or before we slap the political bumper sticker on our car? do we have them in our minds when we show up in november and vote for people? most of whom have never served to pick our leaders. to our politicians, of course fancy themselves fighting patriot
that enough would vote yes, but are they sure? house democrats are going to make sure that the country does not default. period. full stop. this caucus will remain unified with the president and most importantly with the american people in this fight. house democrats stand poised to help, stand poised to be the adults in the room, and we will ensure that we put this crisis behind us. we have two house lawmakers starting us off today. a republican in mccarthy s inner circle and a democrat who voted no on the deal in the rules committee last night, and that right there is where we begin. joining me now is pennsylvania democratic congresswoman and members of the rules committee, mary guy scanlan, thank you for being with us. you voted no in the rules committee, will you vote yes later tonight? certainly that s the function of the rules committee is to bring the bills to the floor, and it s the republicans job to bring the bill to the floor. this is mccarthy s deal, mc
new reporting about potential evidence of obstruction in the mar-a-lago documents investigation but what are the chances we see a more serious charge for donald trump, and later, ukraine is on the brink of launching its counter fashion against trump i will ask oksana markarova, what success looks like, and how they hope to achieve it. speaker kevin mccarthy. while the president was able to protect most of his priorities, including medicaid, student debt, relief and funding to fight the climate crisis, he did make clear in a statement last night that he doesn t love everything in it, and a number of democrats aren t going to like what what they see either, mainly, additional work requirements for programs that help poor people people who need it most. the final deal does not include the kind of slash and burn spending cuts that kevin mccarthy promised to the right flank of his caucus, we will see how that goes, so the next few days could still be a rollercoaster, to get th