Special counsels investigation. The big question is how much will a judge allow him to say about his case . And those dangerous wildfires raging across hawaii right now. The coast guard says its already rescued multiple people who jumped into the ocean as an escape from those wild flames. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments, but i want to start right there, talking about maui, dealing with those terrifying wildfires. Maura barrett is following this story. What more can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, its really a dire situation. Just about 8 00 a. M. Right now in hawaii, so were finally starting to get some updates from officials, but unfortunately because were seeing thousands of people without power, down power lines on the roads, downed trees, theres a lot of issues with communication, in terms of firm details about how many injured there might be, and rescue efforts and Fire Fighting efforts is limited, due in big part to a massive category 4 Hur
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
katy tur, welcome to katy tur reports at 3:00 p.m. eastern. we know that three more objects were shot down over american and canadian airspace over the weekend. what we do know not know is what exactly all of those objects were, what they were doing, and who sent them. we also don t know if we re just seeing more of them because we re looking more closely. these are answerable questions and the white house just tried to fill in some of those blanks, speaking from the podium and the white house briefing room a moment ago, national security council spokesperson john kirby told reporters the intel community is assessing. as of now, it does not look like these additional objects were conducting surveillance. they weren t maneuverable. there was no propulsion, and they were not manned. as to who sent them, that is still unclear. but kirby did begin the briefing by calling out china. china has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection that s connected to the peo
the ground. people literally escaping into the ocean to get away from the smoke and flames. officials are warning that they will have the red flag evacuation order. there s emergency orders in effect for early morning hours tomorrow, chris. what a terrifying situation. maura barrett, thank you, and by the way, we ve got much more on that catastrophic scene in maui. we will be speaking with someone driving through the island. that s ahead. now to nbc s garrett headache, following donald trump s trial, and his promise to keep talking about it publicly. this is going to be a key issue, i would say, in friday s hearing about the protective order, garrett. what more can you tell us? well, chris, whether on purpose or because he doesn t fully understand it, donald trump has been misrepresenting what this order would allow him to say or not say about his pending case, and he s making it a key point in his campaign speeches. once again, we re seeing this cross over between donald trump s
address this issue in this speech. without exaggeration, american debt is a ticking time bomb that will detonation unless we take serious responsible action yet, how is president biden reacted to this issue? he has done nothing. reporter: now, chris, i was just over in a press conference with chuck schumer, the democratic leader, the democratic controlled senate who would agree with the second part of that, it s time to do some action here. they re not satisfied with what they have seen from mccarthy with both chambers coming back into session after a few weeks off, there s a new sense of urgency starting to address this issue hopefully before we get too close to the deadline. garrett headache,aake, thank that the white house responded arguing that it s mccarthy holding the u.s. economy hostage. i want to bring in nbc s allie