all about joe biden essentially making his kind of debut as president on the world stage and kind of renewing america s vows towards multi-lateralism, international institutions and really what they would call the liberal world order, the one that has essentially ensured a lot of global peace since world war ii. that is what joe biden is here to do. he s trying to say diplomacy is back and america is back with a new role in the world. now a lot of this is surrounded by awkward photo opportunities, meetings with the queen who s made her own couple of jokes and tonight there s going to be marshmallows and hot rum, steak and lobster on the beach. so you might be able to see some really important global leaders snacking, chatting with each other, maybe walking around barefoot. so it should be quite a nice one to see and then, like you said, president biden is going to be taking off for london to meet and sip tea with the queen. joshua? well, matt, actually, i m jason. joshua is
news tonight. the government shutdown being pushed by the hard republican right. that and the first strike just scored by a secretive figure in the hillary clinton camp to undercut the candidate some believe could become her number one hazard on the road to nomination. let s go to the story that s fired up the streets of new york. nbc s stephanie gosk is with the protesters in foley square in lower manhattan. stephanie? good evening, chris. these protesters are on the move. if it s anything like last night, they ll continue to be on the move. minimum destruction. it s unclear where they re going to head. early estimates there are about 500,000 people in this crowd right now. so they are moving slowly. there s also a pretty heavy police presence here. one of the things that s angered this crowd particularly is the secrecy of that grand injury process. and they were hopeful that all of that evidence, the same way it was released in the ferguson case would be released in the g