congress fails to act and the u.s. defaults on its debt will be bad. it s something that looks more possible by the day. the clock is ticking. speaker kevin mccarthy says he wants a deal by this weekend. that it s the only way to give both houses of congress enough time to actually mark up and pass anything on the debt ceiling. but president biden is leaving town tomorrow heading for the g-7 in japan. what punch bowl called a damned if he does, if he doesn t situation for biden with the stakes incredibly high. so with both of those things in mind, the clock and the travel, what is being said inside the white house right now? speaker mccarthy is there meeting with president biden for the third time to avoid a default. look at the background in a second. don t worry. what s on the table and what s even possible. does an acceptable compromise exist? one that actually passes not just the split congress, but this split congress. joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent,
serious. . also this hour, the latest developments from the southern border as homeland security officials report a steady decrease in migrant crossings after days of record setting entries following the elimination of the title 42 policy. it is too early but the numbers we have experienced are markedly down over what they were prior to the end of title 42. and ron desantis takes center stage in iowa over the weekend making the case against another four years of donald trump while the former president postpones his own iowa rally due to severe weather warnings. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. if we focus the election on the past or other side issues, then i think the democrats are going to beat us again. hello and thank you for joining us. i m in for andrea in washington where the white house is juggling major foreign policy challenges to begin a critical week. there is cautious optimism among officials over the sou
the news comes after a string of attacks or threats of violence against lawmakers and federal workers. just yesterday a man waving a bat assaulted staffers at the office of democratic congressman gerry connolly. his father says the suspect s father says he was suffering from skins fren ya. in march, one of republican republican rand paul staffers was stabbed in washington. in february, democratic congresswoman angie craig was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building. and the most severe attack so far occurred in october, a man demanding to see then speaker of the house nancy pelosi broke into her home and attacked her husband with a hammer. joining me now, cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean along with l.a. times columnist l.z. granderson and former trump campaign adviser. thank you all for being here. jessica, i want to start with you. how did this happen? the secret service didn t notice this when it was going on? that s the big question, right? he g
challenger robert kennedy jr. is already pulling and 19 and 20% and 2 separate polls in just a moment by the way he would join us live right here on this program we will ask him about joe biden why he won t debate him we will also ask him about this take a look. do you believe that they murdered or involved in the murder of your uncle? what if you come to personally? yes, they were deftly involved in the murder. robert kennedy jr. will be ahead joe biden s bad week is not because of bad polling or a strong chance of rk jr. it also has doesn t have anything to do with the insanity at the southern border, now said to expire this thursday the situation as we all know is completely out of control. we have waves of illegal immigrants now lined up as far as the eye can see. just waiting to cross over the weekend border patrol they process a whopping 26,000 apprehensions documented 7,400 got a ways arrested a wanted felon, three sex offenders and a gang member and also confisc
biden family, their associates d their companies received over $10 million from foreign nnationals and their companies. some of that money came from a chinese company and went to hunter biden. maria: house oversight committei chairman james comer on his next steps in forcing the fbi to turn over that document he says proves joe biden was part of a bribery scheme in one of many business deals with foreigners m while he was vice president. and congressman mike turner ono his investigation into the spies who lied about the biden laptop right before the election 2020. then is it a calculated lie or just sheer incompetence? e very clear, our borders are not open.pe people whoop cross our border unlawfully and without a legal basis to remain will be promptln processed and removed. maria: then why has border patrol apprehended 10,000 legal migrants a day after title 42 was lifted amidst new calls to impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. d texas are fightingng back