thanks for joining us. good evening. if president biden picked a fight with republicans last night, he showed today it s a fight he is happy to have. republicans showed they were just as happy to step in. both sides appear to want this. the president to show voters the gop is in the sway of extremism which res natured during the midterm election, republicans wanted to reinforce their credentials with the base and use their control of the house to amplify that effort. last night, president biden framed what they want the way he wanted. instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i will give you a copy i will give you a copy of the proposal. that means congress doesn t vote i m glad to see i tell you, i enjoy conversion. it means if congress doesn t keep the programs the way they are, they would go away. othe
make a safe return home miguel almaguer, msnbc news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, new details in the growing story coming out of the doj that we just broke on msnbc minutes ago. what we know about the two people arrested for operating an illegal overseas police station of the chinese government right here in lower manhattan. plus, inside a massive prisoner swap in ukraine a live report on the ground where more than 100 prisoners of war were just released as part of the major exchange with russia what kevin mccarthy calls a ticking time bomb. the republican leaders no holds bars speech on the country s debt before the new york stock exchange plus, the white house responds a very different view of the problem by the biden administration and their take on the upcoming debt ceiling battle our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments let s begin with house speaker kevin mc
pre-recorded low-key video announcement to kick off the big campaign. their target date tomorrow april 25th, four years since biden entered the 2020 race. here is that headwind i was telling you about. a huge majority of voters, 70%, say they think biden should not run again. he is already the oldest person to ever hold the office. that s looking like a big factor for them. of democratic voters who say he should not run, 70% of them say age is the reason. most of them say it s a major reason. senate majority whip dick durbin says biden has plenty of time to build up steam. it s about 19 months before there is an election. most people make their decision of the candidate 19 days before the election. so we re far in advance of any decision making. harris: peter doocy live at the white house. time also for others to get into the race like there is a kennedy who is running now. harris, the last biden campaign was all about trump and once again that s being floated by some t
but what about us latinos? we ve been here in this city, and we ve got every kind of latino. you want your puerto ricans? wepa. you want your cubans? dale! dominicans? que lo que tigre. colombianos? todo bien, todo bien. mexicanos? no manches, guey. and this is where i grew up, too. and when i was a kid, i don t know what the streets were paved with, but it damn sure as hell was not gold. but that didn t stop latinx new yorkers from making big contributions. basquiat, rita moreno puerto rican. cardi b dominican. supreme court justice sotomayor, nuyorican from the bx. even the very first non-indigenous person to live and work in the island of manhattan in the 1600s was juan rodriguez, a dominicano. mira eso, right from the start, we ve been here making this city great. now, i don t know what new york would be without latinos, but it sure as hell wouldn t smell as good, it wouldn t taste as good, and it definitely wouldn t sound as good. that s right, cause salsa music was in
mexican cartels are responsible for the surge of deadly fentanyl. the opioid is killing americans by the tens of thousands and it is getting worse by the year. bill: as you can see on the map the gangs have a tight grip on the entire country and the mexican government is unable or unwilling to fight back. dana: a growing number of lawmakers wanting the cartels marked as terrorists opening to military strikes in mexico. here is one of them. senator joe manchin. this is a war. it has become a war. look at the people we lost. we haven t lost this many people in our wars. bill: we action from the former a.g. first news and reporting from the hill with aishah hosni there today. good morning. good morning to you both in new york. look, in just about an hour, members of the house intelligence committee will get to sit down and grill the nation s top intelligence chiefs and they will get to ask them directly about what they are doing with the cartels at the u.s./mexico bord