g7 in japan. we re going to begin right now with nbc s julia tsirkin on capitol hill force. julie, i know that you have no information about a phone call with the president and the house speaker. presumably this took place on board air force one. what do we know? yes, it. debt that s exactly right. i just got done out of the 20, nearly 20 minutes with the speaker. he walked out, along with their graves top ally in these negotiations. you had a conversation with president biden on air force one, as the president, of course, makes his way back to the united states from g7. the big picture here is a from mccarthy, from when we talk to him just a few minutes before that phone call. he said it was a productive discussion, he said the two leaders agreed to meet in person, sometime tomorrow afternoon. this is after the president is able to recover from his travels. it s still the top line number, here how long the that limitless will last, what the spending cap situation is, h
meanwhile, president biden cuts a foreign trip short as time runs out to strike a deal on the debt limit. one of the senators urging biden to consider going around his republican house speaker s joins me live. later, a jog in the park with senator cory booker, we talk about his message of positivity amid so much cynicism and washington and his friendship with one of those republicans running for president. well, florida governor ron desantis is said to officially enter the race for president this week. let s be honest, he is a work in progress when it comes to retail politics. i saw, that you have, like, a 1955 portion there. that once nice. how much is that worth? oh, we won t even talk about that. so, it s safe to say there is some unknowns when it comes to the type of candidate he ll be the what there is very little doubt about is where he stands on policy issues right now. look no further than the last chapter of his book, he wrote it all there, make america flori
line on spending in this debt ceiling issue. they re pushing for a work for welfare program. that was an issue that tim scott get behind today. he announced some very big ned. joe biden and the left are attacking every ladder that i m trying to climb. that s why i m announcing today that i m running for president of the united states. of america! a lot of energy in that crowd today for tim scott. this is going to be a very big week, folks. we expect ron desantis will also get in the race within days. so what do gop voters think? they look over these candidates. let s ask them. jeremy slagle is from ohio. donna sharp is from georgia and johnny gardner is also an ohio voter. great to have you with us today. thank you very much for being with us. jeremy, let s start with you. what did you think of tim scott s announcement today. i think it s the first time i ve been moved to tears by a president somebody coming out and announcing. it was very emotional for me. his faith,
leaves in disgrace. then, breaking news on the debt ceiling. and progressive congressman mark joins me to call out kevin mccarthy s dangerous game. i am charles blow in for mehdi hasan. let s get started. tonight we begin with a surprising allegation from a former member of donald trump s legal team. tim peloton is now publicly blasting a current trump lawyer just days after the advising the former president on the special counsel s classified documents investigation. peloton longtime legal association boris epstein attempted to enter fear with searches for quote, in my opinion he has not been very honest with us or the cline on certain things. there were certain things like the searches that he had attempted to interfere with. parlatore, who said he had left the trump team due to infighting, may defending trump more difficult. a trump campaign spokesman said that his assertions were categorically false. it is also worth noting that parlatore hasn t just served on t
at the white house for the third time to discuss the debt ceiling. this comes a little more than a week away from the treasury secretary s so-called hard deadline for default. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. we are expected to hear something each side following this meeting which has happened after every other meeting. it is speaker mccarthy s first solo meeting with the president, after talks fell apart last week and both sides exchanged barbed over the weekend. treasury secretary janet yellen setting the stable for the president s meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy saying again it is highly likely the treasury will no longer be able to satisfy all of the government s obligations if congress has not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit by early june and potentially as early as june 1st. there will be hard choices if that doesn t occur. after exchanging barbs