companies. and we re exactly two weeks away from the day the u.s. is expected to run out of money to pay its debts. negotiations are under way in d.c. despite president biden being half a world away in japan. plus, new details about the man who authorities say is behind one of the biggest intelligence leaks in years. court documents are revealing the suspect may have been mishandling classified information months before the leak. new attacks in ukraine. with officials saying russia launched an unprecedented barrage of missiles across the country overnight. we ll talk to ukraine s former president about what appears to be a rise in russian assaults. and more crackdowns on lgbtq rights. texas on the verge of becoming the biggest state of the nation to ban gender transition treatment for children. we begin this very busy hour with breaking news from the nation s highest court. just in the last hour, the supreme court ruled the social media giant twitter is not liable f
default on january 1st, if a deal is not reached on the debt ceiling. the pressure weighing on president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy ahead of their next meeting which is now just hours away. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to go to first nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill ahead of the critical meeting between biden and mccarthy. we just heard from mccarthy moments ago. what did he have to say? reporter: this comes after negotiators from the white house had been meeting for three hours this morning. mccarthy took some questions from reporters about the outlines of these negotiations and i asked him specifically what he would need to see to feel like there was real progress today in his meeting with the president. here s what he told me. decisions have to start being made. it s been days now. the president has to be serious. i have been very clear from the very beginning, we are in this problem because when the democra
bravery to nine public safety officers including two who died in the line of duty. the ceremony is underway, let s listen in. we re incredibly proud of all of you, skpi mean that, incredibly proud of all of you, and we re going to have your back as long as we need to, as long as you re engaged. in just the past two weeks, our nation has observed a national fallen firefighters memorial weekend, national police weekend, national peace memorial officers day. and i ve also hosted this event several times as president and vice president and cosponsored a bill that created the medal of freedom when i was a u.s. senator, the medal of valor when i was a u.s. senator. these are the same these are some of the most meaningful things that i do as president because knowing you, meeting your families, looking in your eyes, seeing your courage gives me so much hope for the country. this is not hyperbole, you represent the very best of us, you represent the best of who we are as american
fighters will withdraw from a high profile battle in ukraine next week. the major blow to russian president vladimir putin and what it could mean for the war if they do retreat. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments here. i want to begin in ukraine with the latest commenting from the leader of russia s wagner group, threatening to withdraw from bakhmut if he s not supplied with more ammunition. this graphic video with the bodies of russian soldiers, he would draw as soon as next wednesday, significantly after victory day celebrations in russia. this is a guy trying to earn putin s good graces, the latest declaration is shocking. reporter: the words in the declaration are not necessarily so surprising because we have heard him in recent days since last week make this claim that he says russia s ministry of defense is not providing his group with enough ammunition in bakhmut. what is surprising here is the tone that he has in these videos and the
ceiling from 7,000 miles away, despite almost no tangible signs of significant progress and the president heading to japan, no one in washington or on wall street seems to be panicking, at least not yet. and significant concerns that the man in charge of protecting the country was apparently left without protection of his own. what we just learned about the late night intrusion at the home of national security adviser jake sullivan, one that his own secret service detail didn t know about until after the sullivan himself found the man wandering around inside. we start with abortion access for millions of women being decided in realtime today. the fate of the so-called abortion pill heads back to court just one hour from now. in north carolina the republicans voted unanimously to override the governor s veto and shrink the window for abortions from 20 weeks to 12. same story in nebraska where the new ban was folded into a bill on transgender care for minors. it s expected