deadline looms. congressional leaders say that they have made some progress. but a deal remains out of reach for now. plus, a win emerges. cnn projects kentucky attorney general daniel cameron will secure the republican nomination for governor. we will look ahead to his face-off with the incumbent democratic governor. and ukrainian officials say they intercepted six russian hypersonic missiles by air defenses over kyiv. but russia insists that that is not the case. more in a live report. thank you for joining us. america s dangerous standoff over the debt ceiling has caused the u.s. president to scrap part of his planned swing through the pacific region. joe biden is leaving later today for the g7 summit in hiroshima japan. he was supposed to visit top under guinea and australia afterwards for a separate set of meetings. but now he will be heading back to washington right after the g7. for debt talks with congressional leaders as the u.s. creeps ever closer to default. the la
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
two big names jumping into the republican field. south carolina senator tim scott is launching his campaign in just about an hour while florida governor ron desantis is expected to make it official within days. can either break through the noise that is donald trump? intensifying negotiations. president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy meeting this afternoon for the latest round of debt talks with just days left to avoid a catastrophic default. where our differences are and how could we solve those, and i felt that part was productive. look, there s no agreement. we re still apart. also today, the man charged with murdering four university of idaho students will appear in court for his arraignment. bryan kohberger faces a judge as new details emerge about the possible murder weapon. later, the new space race. a crew of private astronauts just docked at the international space station. we ll have a live report from cape canaveral, florida, with a look at that and how n
washington. penny is charged with the death of neely. alvin bragg needs the go-ahead from a grand jury before he can prosecute. neely made comments and his attorney describing something the grand jury will have to consider, penny s state of mind when he restrained neely. what was his mindset when he put jordan neely in a choke hold? well, the mindset is pretty simple. he was fearful for the safety of those passengers. so when he acted, his mindset was to keep his fellow passengers safe from attack. dana: nate foye is live with more. the vet says he would do the same thing again in similar circumstances and denies race played any role. he said i judge a person based on their character, i m not a white supremacist. he is charged with second degree manslaughter for this alteration on the subway you see here. he said he was on his way to the gym when he encountered jordan neely. his lawyers say he was protecting others after neely was threatening people on the train. he s
politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. in just hours, a meeting with crippling consequences if it leads to nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house to talk through a debt deal, but democrats already worrying prooid sounds close to caving. plus a picture of fear. new and disturbing video shows a baseball bat-wheeleding attacker. beating two staffers at a congressional office. and ron desantis nears a 2024 launch. he will enter the rain rays with infrastructure and big money, but also with deflated expectation was a months of fierce donald trump attacks. up first for us, time to get serious. debt talks are going nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house at 3:00 p.m. it s clear the principles enter the debt limit showdown in very different head spaces. kspeaker mccarthy seemed sour o striking a deal. team biden sounds far more optimistic about progress towards a com promiez. not exactly welcome