Matter with their refusal to even consider a short term funding bill known as a continuing resolution. Its a measure which could realistically be brought to the floor of congress over the past few days before funding runs out next saturday at midnight. Instead, republican holdouts want to consider each appropriations bill separately which is a time consuming and extensive process that would take more than a week. Ahead of the call with republicans yesterday afternoon, speaker Kevin Mccarthy expressed a bit of hope, telling reporters he things when it gets down to crunch time the holdouts will, quote, hopefully move off. A few hours later, however, this meant, delusion a congressman garrett grace, a mccarthy ally, you will remember him, he was instrumental in the Debt Ceiling Negotiations of few months back. He had tougher words. He compared the holdouts to arsonists who burned their own houses down than want credit for putting the fire out, he added, quote, anyone who says we are going
moines called urbandale and we are back here in the kitchen, obviously, because i wanted you all to see this. look at these cinnamon rolls. look how massive they are. wow. i cannot wait to dig into one of these. look at these wonderful blueberry pancakes nancy prepared for me. she told me not to eat them. right? we rushed them for this show. thank you for holding the door for me. look at these fine folks in iowa woo! [cheers and applause] ainsley: look at all of you. thank you all so much. i will leave these here. but don t eat them nancy said because we had to rush them. they might not be ready look at these beautiful people in iowa! thank you. do you want a picture? all right. let s do it. there you go. flip it around. here we go. i don t know how to do that? just like. [cheers and applause] he is videoing it. i m going to come back and get a picture a with you, okay? hi, everyone, nice to see you all? hey, thank you all for getting up so early for us? such a good pla
this issue will destroy new york city. destroy new york city. and an nbc news exclusive, what secretary of state antony blinken told our very own richard engel about a possible meeting between putin and kim jong-un. and we begin the hour with the latest on the legal drama surrounding former president donald trump. the judge overseeing the georgia election interference case says he remains very skeptical of a plan by prosecutors to put all 19 defendants, including trump, on trial next month. prosecutors told a judge a trial for all the defendants would take about four months and feature 150 witnesses. two of trump s co-defendants in the georgia election interference case kenneth chesebro and sidney powell will go on trial together on the 23rd of october. they hope to be tried separately, but the judge denied their motions. meantime, the former president told radio host hugh hewitt he would be willing to testify in his own defense, but it was unclear which case he was tal
boosters this week? hurricane lee just forming in the atlantic will it impact the u.s. al roker is here with the latest track the dangerous september heat wave breaking records from the south to the northeast. schools forced to make tough choices. the video of a russian missile strike on a ukraine market happening just as secretary of state tony blinken made a surprise visit to kyiv. and the young americans shining at the u.s. open. they ve already made history. can they win it all? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome, everyone. how did a convicted killer simply walk free from a pennsylvania prison? apparently horizontally that s what just released security video of danelo cavalcante s escape a week ago appears to show the five-foot, 120-pound inmate suspended face down between two walls quickly walking himself to the roof of the chester county prison where he made his getaway, unseen by a guard in a nearby tower. a vul
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