andrea mitchell picks up with news right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, the debt ceiling legislation clears the house with a bipartisan vote. a showdown in the senate starting today. a handful of senators in both parties demanding amendments that could delay final passage past monday s default did the line unless leaders can win agreement to overcome their objections. time is a luxury the senate does not have. if we want to prevent default. any needless delay or last-minute holdups could be an unnecessary and even dangerous risk. i will be joined by a senator who will vote against the bill. former treasury secretary larry summers with his take on the economic fallout. the special prosecutor has an audio recording where former president trump says he kept a classified defense plan related to iran after leaving office, according to a source familiar with the matter. this as mr. trump hits the campaign trail this hour in iowa to continue his unrelenting polit
It was a monday night, just after 8 30 eastern time when news broke that shook the entire country. Political had the once in a lifetime scoop about a draft opinion. Supreme court has voted to overturn Abortion Rights. We hold that roe and casey must be overruled, Justice Alito writes in a draft circulated inside the courtroom. That scoop, that headline changed everything. It certainly changed the course of the Midterm Elections. In that moment, the stakes of the upcoming november election, they skyrocketed. It gave democrats over a month and a half a head start to start campaigning on that issue before the opinion was handed down in late june. And on june 24th, the Supreme Court struck down roe v. Wade. The law of the land for nearly 50 years, they stripped away Reproductive Rights for millions in this country. Just six weeks later, the first test of Abortion Rights at the ballot box came in kansas. Voters in kansas headed to the polls in early august to vote on a constitutional amendm
mistakenly bring his doorbell while trying to pick up his siblings simply ringing a doorbell and being profiled here s shot in the head plus potential deal. the judge and the fox news defamation trial delays the start of the proceedings in order for fox to settle this case. what they have to do is admit wrongdoing. this a sign of a last minute hail mary will have a former fox insider on to discuss and field trip house republicans traveled to new york city to take on the manhattan d a over crime. he s taken his soft on crime approach to the real criminals, but democrats say republicans are covering up for trump not taking on the issue. you are not serious people. if you are serious about doing something about violence, please join us voters see it. cnn prime time starts now. good evening. i m pamela brown, a black teenager shows up to the wrong home by mistake and rings . the doorbell, the homeowner, a white elderly man shoots him twice and tonight, prosecutors are charging th
good evening, everyone. we begin the reid out with breaking news. the newest filing in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems against fox has just been released. we are still combing through it but the more than 1,000 page filing already provides additional evidence that points to fox s intentional disregard for the truth as it continued to spread donald trump s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. and from the very top we have fox corporation chairman rupert mourdock admitting that fox hosts actually endorsed it skk, quote, was it wrong for fox hosts to endorse these lies? rub per the mourdock replied, quote, if they knew they were lies, yes. if they knew they were lies. and the filing does show that some of those hosts knew they were lies. in one of tucker carlson s private texts an unknown individual asks him, do you think there s real evidence of significant voter fraud? carlson replies, i don t think there s evidence of voter fra
trolls, republicans need to stop being so of noxious. and you write about the reasons republicans fared so poorly in the 2022 midterms be on the economy. abortion in the attacks on democracy. could there be more? all of these factors clearly played a role, but don t underweight the impact of formative obnoxious in this that now pervades republican messaging. conservatives have built career paths for young people that start on extremist message boards and lead to jobs and republican campaigns, and then jobs with state and federal offices, then jobs in the conservative media. this pattern of behavior bids fair to repeat itself in 2024. as i write these words, at the beginning of 2023, the conservative world s most excited not by the prospect of big, legislative action from a republican house majority, and not by trump s declared candidacy for president in 2024, or by desantis is yet under crowd won, but by the chance to repeat is 2020 attacks on the personal misconduct of presi