more harm than good. others have a different opinion, say because of them doing that job, they re able to get out to the front lines and do their jobs more often, or it allows more of them to do the processing of migrants when they re coming across. these numbers keep dipping. they re the lowest point we ve seen during the biden administration. it s really strange timing to be choosing this time to go into texas. it s also the second time the florida governor has helped the texas governor out with immigration in that state. if you remember earlier or actually the end of last year, desantis sent migrants to martha s vineyard, not migrants from florida but migrants from texas. it s interesting and hard to see this out of a political context that perhaps desantis wants these headlines to bring the border back into the conversation as he s looking at running for president because even though the numbers are dropping, it s good for him to keep showing his firm stance on immigration. meant
tunnel. the driver was found to be over the alcohol limit, drunk essentially. harry again, 12 years old. he has said that still haunts him. that s one of the reasons he moved from the uk to california to escape the intensity of the p paparazzi. you heard how the nypd and others have described it as well. ron allen, thank you for that update. much appreciated. meantime right now, president biden is in the air on his way to japan for the g-7 summit, but he leaves a d.c. where the pressure to lift the debt limit is reaching an urgent boiling point with just a couple of weeks until that estimated debt ceiling doomsday clock runs out. this morning the president called his meeting with congressional leaders yesterday productive. i m confident that we ll get the agreement on the budget, that america will not default. we re going to come together because there s no alternative.
mifepristone starts today down in louisiana, where an appeals court will weigh in on whether to ban it nationwide. we ve got a lot to talk about. let me bring in nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett, shaquille brewster joins us with the latest from north carolina, and alencia johnson is a political strategist who served as a senior adviser to the biden campaign in 2020 and also spent six years with planned parenthood. thanks to all of you for being here. laura, i want to start with this legal fight over mifepristone. what are we expecting from this hearing today? i expect to see three judges deeply skeptical of the biden administration s plan. these are three judges who have a history of upholding abortion restrictions in the past, and of course we don t know exactly how they will rule when it comes to mifepristone, but remember what the issue here is that lower court decision from a judge in texas last month who said that the fda did not rightly approve mifepristone 23
consequence. [ laughter ] i don t anything that has consequences. this is a senator who voted for work requirements. listen, i think when you re sitting in the room and you re listening to the american public, why wouldn t he want to help people get out of poverty. reporter: just to unpack that a little bit, this is republicans being asked about the president s statement about not accepting any kind of work requirements with any consequence. they re laughing because of the squishiness of that statement out of the white house, but then mccarthy also turning back around and saying, hey, back in 2011 this is something that the president had previously supported. i think we re going to be hearing a lot, and peter will also i m sure see the similarities here between now and the 2011 debt ceiling negotiations. at that point biden was leading them. now as we turn to this next phase, chris, seeing the white house appoint key veterans of the biden administration who have close ties to the
we have to do the right thing for the country. house speaker kevin mccarthy is also hinting at progress saying it s possible to get a deal by the end of the week. still, no one is really sure, so the president is cutting his foreign trip short returning home on sunday instead of traveling to australia and papua new guinea. nbc s ali vitali is on capitol hill for us. also with me the new york times chief white house correspondent, hiroshima, japan, ahead of the president s visit. we know the white house negotiators and mccarthy aides are meeting again today, but what do we know about where these negotiations stand right now? reporter: look, i guess we ll see, but i can tell you that the tone shift from mccarthy especially between yesterday before that second meeting and now today in light of it is markedly different. it means that the way that president biden and now the speaker are talking about progress is much more in line, it seems like they re in agreement, a, that there cann