block everything because they re 0 hard right wing people want chaos like donald trump. it s the old way of thinking that you only put things on the floor when you have the votes. sometimes you have to smoke out the no votes. may be that our gop colleagues get off the impeachment train and refocus on matters of policy where we can get something done. it s like this every year. so somehow america is still the greatest play to be on earth. it s a sunny day. a little optimism. neil: everyone could use that. the grand old party suffering grand misses. now a grand old reassessment going on. alejandro mayorkas is still standing after republicans felt sure they had the votes to take him down. they did. the border bill is collapsing with no fix in sight. all of that and that stand alone israeli aid bill going down in defeat. that is giving mike johnson another black eye when he doesn t need it. why chairman mark green says don t count republicans out and democratic senator mi
Spanish language service. It had ended the Afternoon Service. And then suddenly what walked into that church, that is what began the events. I want us to listen to the chief of police of houston, texas. He will explain it from the beginning. Take a listen. All right. It looks like we dont have that sound yet. So, what he said was about 1 53 this afternoon, that there were two offduty Law Enforcement officers, one being from the alcohol and beverage commission, but obviously they were armed. And they were in what we believe was the foyer. And they saw someone come in. It was a female, 30 to 35 years old. She had a trench coat. She had a backpack. And she had a rifle, a long gun. According to the chief of police, she started shooting her rifle. At that point, they engaged the shooter. They killed the shooter, but she accompanying her, with her, they say, was a 5yearold child, 4 to 5yearold child. And during the exchange of gunfire, we do know that this 5yearold child was shot, taken to t
agent found a white powdery substance during a patrol of the west wing. this prompted a shutdown of some of the white house campus and. the d.c. fire department s hazmat team identified it as cocaine. and their dispatch initially said it was found in the library. then on tuesday afternoon, a secret service spokesman confirmed the details, but clarified the initial reports that it was found inside the library were incorrect. and then also on tuesday afternoon to law enforcement, officials told the associated press that the cocaine was found in area accessible to tour groups. but on wednesday, karine jean-pierre clearly appeared flummoxed when describing where the cocaine was discovered, where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing. i should be even more specific ,a west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the secret service. and yesterday, the story ch
around yevgeny prigozhin and his army of mercenaries who were until now believed to be exiled to belarus after the armed revolt in russia. keir simmons is in belarus. according to belarus s president, this is not the case after all. bring us up to speed here. reporter: well, that s right. there are two things happening right now. kind of twin track, if you like. one what we heard today. nbc news was one of the few international news organizations invited to the presidential palace in belarus. we have heard from the president of belarus. the other is those images that you showed of gold bars, stacks of dollars, of wigs, of fake passports, during a police raid on yevgeny prigozhin s home in st. petersburg. nbc news not able to verify those images, but they are all over russian media, suggesting an effort to discredit yevgeny prigozhin, just as here in belarus, as i mentioned, the president of belarus, aleksandr lukashenko asked about where he is, where this man, who he had do
a delay or cancellation. it happens quite often. they are too many flights in and out. newark is terrible. i agree. charles watson is live from atlanta at the airport. you aren t in newark. look on the bright side. that s true, julie. hopefully today is the day that flyers can avoid the chaos and the nightmares that they ve experienced for days now here in atlanta things seem to be moving along pretty smoothly. we see a lot of people moving in and out of this airport pretty smoothly this morning. light crowds when you talk about one of the world s busiest airport. the folks here tell us that operations for the most part have been moving along smoothly. that has largely been the case despite all the disruptions for a record number of folks flying during the fourth of july travel period. aaa estimating more than 4.1 million holiday flyers. that seems to be in line with the massive tsa checkpoint numbers. the agency is averaging 2.6 million screenings a day over the last f