some tries to cast doubt on the the explosive testimony of former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, he tweeted this, i know her, i don t think she s lying. and here is what he said when he announced his resignation. two things i think caught me as i was watching yesterday. number one, the president had always in the past had sort of thrown a hyperbolic ideas and say why don t we do x and everybody knew that was a bridge too far. you tell him no, mr. president, that is not how this works. and he thinks out loud. that is one ever his mannerisms. i think you saw a different group of advisers inside of the white house instead of saying mr. president, let s talk about that saying that is a great idea mr. president. you have folks like peter navarro and lin wood and rudy giuliani. and there was a large number of people, a large group of people yesterday who were willing to do this, if the president of the united states went on stage and said go march down the street and invade
trump administration officials. details of that new reporting ahead as well. and later on, we don t have the manpower as the doj s january 6th probe expands, sources telling our team resources are at a breaking point. what we re learning about the most wide-ranging investigation in justice department history coming up as well. i m in for hallie jackson. want to get to ali vitali on capitol hill. what i am hearing as we wrap up this incredibly surprising week to say the least is that there is a procedural vote happening in the next couple minutes. walk us through what you know. reporter: yeah. certainly a week with a lot of twists and turns here between the senate and the house. the house leaving town now, at least for the next week or so, and doing it with a flurry of activity before they get there, setting up this vote, this procedural motion in just a few minutes that s going to be a vote on the rule to get onto the actual vote on an assault weapons ban. in talking to
jacking up interest rates, raising bar owing costs. on thursday our first look at u.s. economic growth for the second quarter, another decline in gdp is expected. of course, two quarters of a loss in a row is a sign of a recession, so are we head there had? here is the treasury secretary. the labor market is now extremely strong. we are in a period of transition in which growth is slowly. we re likely to see some slowing of job creation, but i do i don t think that that s a recession. a recession is broad-based weakness in the economy. we re not seeing that now. we re not seeing that now, but here is this from someone who used to have that job, the former treasury secretary larry somers. i think there is a very high likelihood of recession when we ve been in in kind of situation before. recession has essentially always followed when inflation has been high and unemployment has been low. soft landings represent a kind of triumph of hope over experience, i think we re v
boston hits the triple digits. new york city cuts its triathlon in half amid the city s longest heat wave in nine years. when will it all end? the severe weather in the midwest now moving east. rob marciano times it all out. the rising concerns over monkeypox. dr. jha says u.s. health officials are now weighing whether to declare a public health emergency, one day after the w.h.o. sounded a global alarm due to a growing outbreak. the update from the white house. president biden s physician says his condition is improving significantly and he will continue paxlovid as planned. maryalice parks with the latest. pope francis arrives in canada hoping to right a wrong by the church, apologizing for the church s role in what was done to tens of thousands of indigenous children, taking them from their families to religious schools where they were forced to give up their language and cultures. meeting indigenous leaders what those leaders are hoping to hear from the pontiff. a
we re clocking in the surface here over 150 degrees. relief is coming, but so are storms, causing more than 1400 flights to be canceled this weekend president biden s covid symptoms are improving significantly according to his doctor, and new information about the race to create a vaccine targeted at the omicron subvariants by this fall pope francis has landed in north america, why he s apologizing to the people of canada today. gas prices are falling. now 65 cents less than the peak one last fight, the veterans who never gave up the effort to honor their fallen brothers a new memorial open opening this week. and the stunning northern lights over the continental u.s. where you can see this amazing light show this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening from coast to coast, almost all of us are dealing with it. the brutal heatwave that s lasted for days today, some 90 million americans were under severe heat alerts, with multiple states hitting rec