matter most of the american people. issues such as, why can t my tv get the right wing newsmax channel anymore? not joking, the fringe trump channel currently embroiled in a financial dispute with the satellite television carrier, direct tv, which shows it drop newsmax tuesday when the channel demanded more money to be clear, direct tv then replaced it with a new, we are, the far-right channel called the first, featuring conservative media has been like below riley you with me so far do you care of course you don t but republicans are ready to hold hearings. your colleagues took to the floor they had special orders on the deplatforming of newsmax, and i want to ask you sir, if the house would contemplate hearings i think america should have a choice. in the news that they get, in the choice of being able to see it i would hate to see that someone is being kicked off, simply, because they re providing something conservative and i think that s a place we should look at. if
slow start, putting it bluntly, quote, welcome to the seinfeld congress. it is a show about nothing. the vote on congresswoman omar is one of the political squabbles unfolding while the nation ticks a day closer to defaulting on its debts. house speaker kevin mccarthy met with president biden yesterday, but there doesn t appear to have been any progress on the debt limit. the president did strike this optimistic tone while speaking this morning. start treating each other with respect. that s what kevin and i are going to do. not a joke. but a good meeting yesterday. we ll get latest ahead. also this morning, day four of that deadly ice storm across the south. cars are spinning out of control on highways. thousands of flights delayed and canceled. and in texas, nearly half a million people are facing the bone chilling cold without power. it is scary. definitely scary. i can say that. it is very slippery out here. probably one of the worst. we ll get an update from
this doesn t happen very often around here buck the great ari melber is dealing with some technical issues so you get a couple more minutes of me, and i am thrilled to get to show you more of this conversation with rosie perez. she talked about her childhood trauma, about grappling with ptsd and also talked about something my colleague rachel maddow and i talked about last night, and that is the mental stress and pain of what happens in the news. here she is talking about the dobbs decision. whey thought about were all the children that could potentially come into this world that will be unwanted, unloved, and abused. there s such a greater you know, it s such a great sin to do that to a child, because when a parent doesn t want a child, the child knows it. i knew it. i knew it. and i just think about all of that, and it breaks my heart. i even called i even called one of my sisters, i call her, from the children s home when that decision came down. and i was like, oh,
might be worth hearing his side of the story. just liste. so we came out to l.a.,a ando booked a thirty minuteok interview with w, which quicklye morphed into a two hour intervied inw. and we re so grateful that it did because one of the most interesting deep and provocative conversations we ve ever watched, everybody thought that guys operate the cameras thought that it really was fascinating. whether you agree or not, soamoy obam us his assessment of barack obama, whom he knows wells and has known well for many years. for nybefore he became presidene here s what he saidnt.. do you talk to obama?o obama still, i wasst obama s favorite artist. he actually met with me.e obama met with me and my mamaofe to say that he was running for n office back in 2008. and that he wanted the support.o and everybody was sort into this idea of the black president . and we were always you re always cool. and it s also like, you know, how many how many of us are there? you know, obama,
are you concerned about the strength of the economy right now? president biden: i m not concerned about the economy i m concerned about the rest of the world. can you exley that affects. the economy is strong as hell . but the american people feel differently. nearly 78 percent think the economy is in bad shape under biden and 71 percent of people say their family has had to cut back just to afford the necessities braid, new york pos highlighting the pain that they are feeling to $.1 trillion had been wiped this year. all that bad news is dragging democrats down on the campaign trail, but pete buttigieg think the president has been too successful. there have been so many think . the chips act being manufacturing back to the unite states. of course the infrastructure bill, the inflation reduction act great on top of that american rescue plan. in some ways, having achieved s much a legislatively makes it hard to talk about all at once because there are so many compl