one of us tweets a lot then the other person. i like to three. i m a poster from my veins. to my cellular level, i love to post. and i am s health but, if i may. i think i ve a little more self awareness. then elon musk. a little bit. okay. okay. it is crosstalk, so we can t really get into it. i can t believe you re not agreeing. i support the self awareness. and certainly, the conversation. thank you as always. and thank you for joining us this evening. and thank you so often up in the air. but you can go ahead and you can circle the state in pen. june 1st. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal where the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it is an important day. and man, it is really coming up. it is really around the corner. there was some hope that the debt ceiling deadline could be pushed off through financial hocus pocus. but no such luck. today, treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that yes, i, or we all go over the cliff. and ye
air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you for joining us this. evening so often plans are up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this state in pan, june 1st. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an important day, and man it is really coming, up really, around the corner. there was some hope that the debt ceiling deadline could be pushed off through financial hocus pocus, but no such luck. today said treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that it was june 1st or we ll go over the cliff. and yes, today is may 16th. and after the type of person who likes to do math in your head, you may look at those two days and say oh no commerce congress only has 15 days to get this sorted out. but he would be wrong. because these are the days
duty that day under the constitution and the laws of country. one lawman said if given the chance, members of the proud boys were willing to kill pence on january 6th. in just a few minutes we re expected to hear from former president trump speaking to the faith and freedom coalition in nashville, tennis is. earlier he released a statement that said in part i never suggested to vice president pence that he overturn the election. all this coming, as we said, the latest hearing that provided vivid new details about the former president s pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election and pence s consistent refusal to go along with that. luke is a congressional reporter, elise jordan worked in the george bush administration, and barbara mcquade is a former u.s. attorney and law professor and vaughn hillyard is with me. he will be watching the former president s remarks. he s about an hour late in is the faith and freedom coalition, the ralph reed-led organization that
Smith documents case, where judge Aileen Cannon has a big decision to make, is she going to throw out the testimony of tabarras, the team member whos cooperating with the team. Ken, good to have you. Talk to me about the meadows appeal and the request hes making of the court while the appeal goes forward. Hes requesting that the judge grant a temporary stay of his own order. Which ruled obviously that mark meadows could not have his case removed to Federal Court but that it should go back down to state court. Meadows is saying he could be irreparably harmed by this decision. He wants to appeal and have the judge put a pause on things while he appeals. If this judge doesnt do that, hes going to ask the Appeals Court to do that. Generally you get a stay if you have a chance of winning on appeal, and this judges opinion was pretty resounding that mark meadows didnt meet any of the tests to remove his case to Federal Court, and what the judge said is it was clear that mark meadows, when lo
Smith documents case, where judge Aileen Cannon has a big decision to make, is she going to throw out the testimony of tabarras, the team member whos cooperating with the team. Ken, good to have you. Talk to me about the meadows appeal and the request hes making of the court while the appeal goes forward. Hes requesting that the judge grant a temporary stay of his own order. Which ruled obviously that mark meadows could not have his case removed to Federal Court but that it should go back down to state court. Meadows is saying he could be irreparably harmed by this decision. He wants to appeal and have the judge put a pause on things while he appeals. If this judge doesnt do that, hes going to ask the Appeals Court to do that. Generally you get a stay if you have a chance of winning on appeal, and this judges opinion was pretty resounding that mark meadows didnt meet any of the tests to remove his case to Federal Court, and what the judge said is it was clear that mark meadows, when lo