breaking news from the white house, more classified documents were found in president biden s delaware home. we will have the very latest. amid a war, the debt ceiling this coming week, a bombshell exclusive report on a gop plan. it could grind the government to a halt and crush the economy. the washington post reporting, that stories with me next. what could be the next criminal domino to fall against donald trump. a case in georgia reaching a crucial stage this week. we also keeping an eye on a dangerous weather in california. new russian tax in ukraine that hit several cities today. new details released for the funeral of lisa marie presley. all of that is coming up. we re going to start with that news today. the white house says they have found more classified materials at president biden s wilmington home. let s bring in nbc s ali roth as well as msnbc analyst. ali, what are we learning in this new statement from the white house? lindsey, a major development in the sto
here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, october 24th. i m christine romans. we begin with the midterm elections now just 15 days away. early voting already under way with more than 5.8 million ballots cast in 39 states. right now polls and political spending suggests republicans are surging and stand a good chance of retaking the house of representatives with a solid majority. recent surveys show the reason for that surge, the economy. inflation and to a lesser degree crime. early this summer looked like the anger at the supreme court ruling overturning roe versus wade would give democrats a chance to hold back the red tide and keep control of the house. now it looks like that abortion-fueled momentum may have peaked too soon. they have to split their messaging between abortion and the economy are the democrats. nobody said we re doing abortion rather than economy. but it s about both. i can tell you that that issue is ver
position against it. and so the democrats held back a little because they vote for debt ceilings. they want to pay the bills. and there were republicans who voted for it, 149, and it sort of shows you how the conservative freedom caucus is an island in the republican party in the house right now. and i think that most republicans said we have to do this because we are now a party that has to show that it can govern in the house. and that didn t used to be the big concern when it came to debt ceiling fights, which we ve had almost every two to three years for the last decade. when they voted for a two-year suspension of the conversation all together. i think highways interesting is hearing mccarthy there say he is about the negotiation and who came to the table and who didn t come to the table. he s not saying we held strong until we got this, this, and that. because he is trying to show that they are engaging, they are governing.
what have taken ron desantis down a peg in had polling in his unwillingness to swing back. look, donald trump is the favorite and he s most likely the person to be the nominee. you only make people more unpopular by going on the attack. lastly and briefly, you ve been through some of these debt ceiling fights, passed the house last night, moves to the senate now. give us your quick take-aways on what you saw yesterday. remarkable vote as high as it got, a credit to kevin mccarthy, i ve been through a lot of these. i know how hard they are. the fact he was able to get close to 150 republicans to vote, we used to pass the debt limit increases with as few as 60 or 70 republican votes when we were in the majority. these are really hard and got it done. doesn t mean he s in the clear. there are obviously a lot of gripings still from conservatives, perhaps this honeymoon phase is over. i think a lot of those more hard
big concern when it came to debt ceiling fights, which we ve had almost every 23 years for the decades. exactly, when we voted for a two-year suspension of the conversation altogether. i think what s interesting is hearing mccarthy say, he is talking with the negotiations, who came to the table and who didn t come to the table. he is not saying we held strong until we got this and that, because he is trying to show that they are engaging. they are governing. and i think a lesson of the last couple years has been, if you take it to the limits on one of these fights, you don t win with the public. they don t look at you and say, oh, thanks for crushing the economy for a week. there is a kind of political penalty to doing it, and i think they are acknowledging it. and they ve learned that lesson. it is so interesting because some of the polling recently