in the days to come. rich. katie burn live in philly. thank you. jonathan. jonathan: rich, a major escalation in the red sea as the risk to u.s. troops grows by the day. u.s. forces intercepted a barrage of houthi drones and missiles in attack that lasted more than ten hours yesterday and learning a u.s. warship involved in that firefight shot down a ballistic missile, the first time that has ever happened in combat. hello, everyone. i m jonathan hunt in los angeles. rich: rich edson in new york. john and sandra have the day of o. u.s. bases in the middle east remain on high alert after a drone attack injured three service members. biden administration said the strategy is aimed at preventing a widening war, but critics say it could get worse. my fear is one of these days we are going to wake up and one of these missiles has actually gotten through and caused a catastrophic attack on one of our bases, or on one of our ships. and that is going to be squarely on joe bid
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don t say gay education ban to all grades, and inside the debt ceiling show down. house speaker kevin mccarthy is trying to sell his new debt limit that aims to cut major parts of president biden s agenda does he have the votes inside his own party to get it passed our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we start on capitol hill where house speaker kevin mccarthy is trying to sell his new bill to increase the debt limit and cut government spending to avoid defaulting on the country s debt for the first time in american history nbc s capitol hill correspondent ali vitali joins me know first of all, how close are we to the debt ceiling and what s the plan reporter: look, we ve got a few weeks still, chris, but we watched the first meeting happen between speaker kevin mccarthy and president joe biden more than 70 days ago, and since then, it s been pretty party line posturing since then. and that s making some people pretty worried, especially w
but we begin with the white house closing ranks and saying the president meant what he said about the classified documents being no big deal. the white house correspondent kevin corke is live for us in the nation s capital with this. evening, two years and in the white house says it is focused on the battles that it mattered most, both here at home and abroad which is to say nurturing the economy back to full health, responding to the climate crisis, and of course and effort in ukraine to name a few, as we look at the jill biden have time report, we see that it is a mixed bag coming at us, we are two years since he was inaugurated, we have low unemployment, jobs aplenty, high but falling inflation, high but falling gas prices, however, record debt in spending, the border crisis, and don t forget to the crime crisis and many of america s largest cities, the afghanistan debacle, and the document drama, the unfolding classified materials kerfuffle continuing to bubble up to th