Coming up in moments. Three hours from now President Biden becomes the first u. S. President to join the workers on the picket line in michigan. He will appear alongside the striking auto workers outside of detroit. Their strike against the Big Three Automakers approaching week two. See what the president has to say about that. The head of the d. E. A. Is about to address families impacted by fentanyl. Devastating epidemic had direct ties to the chaos weve been watching at the u. S. Border. Im bill hemmer live in new york. Dana is in semi valley. A big welcome back to smitty. Good morning. Sandra well all be watching tomorrow night. Great to start the day. Im sandra smith and this is americas newsroom. Eagle pass, texas, the town recently saw more than 2,000 migrants in 24 hours. President bidens Border Patrol chief says the surge forced him to divert resources. Cartels are exploiting that to get more drugs over the border. Bill got a picture getting a lot of attention today. A group o
Who are in it for themselves seeking retribution. Ill ask former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie why trump is still dominating the party. Plus, shutdown risk. House wen wens struggle to agree on spending bills and another govern the shutdown is days away. They want to shut the whole place down. It doesnt work. House republicans continue to be in the midst of a civil war. Will Speaker Mccarthy turn to democrats for help . Ill talk to democratic congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina and transportation secretary pete buttigieg, and taking bribes. Democratic senator bob menendez of new jersey resisting calls to resign. The senator and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. Federal agents found gold bars and cash stuffed in envelopes hidden in the senators clothing. How damaging will this be for senate democrats. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief White House Correspondent peter alexander. Amna nawaz, host of pbs hour. And Leigh Ann Caldwe
Shutdown. Elements not favored by some republicans. Some republicans have pushed back on the idea of reaching out to democrats after a short term ending bill. To start the program, we want to hear from republicans only. We want to know if you support or oppose a Government Shutdown. If you believe in the shutdown, call 202 7488000. If you oppose it, call 202 7488001. Pensionable news. Keeping the government funded before that saturday deadline. House gop leaders have lined up four bills this week. They still have to pass a complicated rule to make things happen. Speaker mccarthy and other leaders made clear they want everyone involved in the process. Mccarthy and his allies have been involved in the process. Garrett graves from louisiana argue that they should focus on Borders Security policy. Representative jim jordan there is deep skepticism that they can pass any spending bill. Passing the partyline spending bill before a living shutdown. Republicans only in this first hour. We want
This open forum. If you want to participate, to a 27488000 four democrats, free democratststext us at 202. Democrats line starts us off in minnesota. This is darrell. Caller yes, thanks for taking my call, pedro. I would like for programs like yourself and other Media Outlets to start articulating the primary votes of the democratic side. You keep showing, for example, trump is up by so many points on his other opponents, but joe biden is up by more points on the other of the ledger pertaining to his lead. I think what happens in that case, you show trump is a winner. You are not showing biden as a winner and has it more substantially compared to the primary of the republicans. Host hen you say primaries, at do you mean by that . Caller for a simple in one poll is up 62 to 68 points over his closest opponent, which would be kennedy at 14 and seven in some cases. It is a higher number than trump is showing over desantis, for example, but the notion is that trump is this winter over his
To wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like powered by cable. We are going to pause to look at what is going on in 2024 politics. Julia manchester is joining us and is our National Politics reporter. Thank you for joining us again. I suppose the starting point might be the recent polls that came out not only from the Washington Post and nbc looking at joe biden and donald trump both, for what the finding what do they mean for the men as they go forward to win the white house . For the men i think it means this is not a given on either side. We have heard for quite some time that joe bidens team has been wanting to run against donald trump and he would be the prime candidate. We are starting to see him perform better with biden leading in some cases but it will be a close race. We are a year out. They both have to get through their own respective primaries. This is something we are watching closely. One of the things that