Im david culver. We start you off with news out of the white house which says that jill biden has tested positive for covid19. The first lady spokesperson adding that she is currently experiencing only mild symptoms she will remain at their home in rehoboth beach. The president tested negative. And mr. Biden who is 80 will be tested regularly this week and monitored for symptoms. U. S. Officials say north Korean Leader kim jungun expected to meet facetoface with Vladimir Putin to discuss possibly selling weapons to help russia in its war in ukraine. You are looking at footage from previous meetings they have had. A National Security Council Spokesperson urged pyongyang to cease arms talks and stick to its promises not to sell arms to russia. Kristie lu stout is live in hong kong this morning. Good to see you. So do we have a sense of when or where this inperson meeting between kim and putin might actually take place . Reporter we do. According to reports it could take place sometime th
civil fraud trial in new york. what she told the court about his money. house republicans subpoenaing the president s son hunter and brother james as they escalate their impeachment inquiry. how the white house is firing back. the u.s. drone shot down off yemen. rebels taking responsibility. and just in the, the new u.s. strike in syria. what the pentagon is saying tonight. the massive explosion add a texas chemical plant. a plume of smoke rising into the sky. the nearby evacuations. the major manhunt for a former national guardsman. what he s accused of doing on january 6th. and the national zoo saying farewell to its three biggest stars. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight live from the republican presidential debate in miami. good evening, everyone, from miami. and the stage of tonight s debate where a narrowed field of five republican hopefuls will make their case. each trying to gain more traction against former presiden
ramifications of this are, sarah. i think politically, you know, this is very far from the first time that bill clinton has been accused of wrong doing when it comes to women so i m not sure that his public image in the women department can take much more of a hit at this point after all these decades, but it s bad timing for his wife. hillary clinton had started to emerge back on the national stage, she was set to campaign for joe biden. this is not what the clintons want in the headlines when hillary clinton was said to be becoming, you know, a top surrogate for joe biden back on the campaign trail especially when he needs his foreign policy credentials and she was going to be the one to do that. i m interested to see if the biden campaign will want her front and center if this is a slowly unfolding story focusing on bill clinton s history with epstein. meantime aaron rodgers made mention of jimmy kimmel of possibly being on this list we have seen no indication of jimmy kimmel s
saw marine come down and land, we should see the president coming off marine one shortly. behind trees, with he won t be able to see him disembark from the helicopter. president running for reelection, a major geopolitical moment as well given the fact that the ukraine war is still ongoing, about to head to a consequential nato summit. joe biden if you want to follow the trajectory here he is president because of his stature on the world stage throughout his career. it s why barack obama put him on the ticket in 2008 as vice president was because barack obama was had no experience in that area really of world affairs and needed he felt to bolster the ticket. joe biden becomes vice president largely because of his foreign policy credentials and his ability to work around the globe with a whole host of global leaders. so there s no doubt this is one of his favorite pieces of the job. i wonder, you know, when he used
politics, drawing too close to the republicans. he was famously extremely close to donald trump, and he really defied president obama back in 2015 going to congress to speak out against his plan to enter into a nuclear agreement with iran. and it was interesting, florida governor ron desantis was here in israel last week, burnishing his foreign policy credentials. netanyahu really kept it on the down low, didn t release a lot in the way of pictures, which was a possible sign he was trying to stay out of the melee of american politics, at least for now. that is very interesting. all right. garrett, let s talk about the debt ceiling. while mccarthy is there in israel, the debt ceiling and the negotiations around it are hanging over everyone s head. the white house is now strategizing about what they re going to do. what can you tell us about the next steps? mccarthy actually made a joke out of this in his press conference in israel claiming like benjamin netanyahu he s just waiting t