ceiling bill. the vote was 63 to 36. it comes some 24 hours after the house passed the same bill. it raises the nation s debt limit while also imposing new caps on spending. and now goes to the presidents desk for his signature, with four days to go before the monday default deadline. let s get straight to nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale, who has been standing by for hours and hours. all, right ali vitale. it happened. how did this whole thing go down tonight? yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes negotiations here in washington covering each and every turn of them, as speaker mccarthy and his top allies huddled with top white house officials over the course of several weeks to hammer out this deal. and now the senate finishing it up in the dead of night, sending it now to the presidents desk, and avoiding default, with the days to go until that ex date deadline on monday. that s good news. an
down tonight? yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes negotiations here in washington covering each and every turn of them, as speaker mccarthy and his top allies huddled with top white house officials over the course of several weeks to hammer out this deal. and now the senate finishing it up in the dead of night, sending it now to the presidents desk, and avoiding default, with the days to go until that ex date deadline on monday. that s good news. and frankly, i have to tell you, that we have seen a lot of these late nights in the senate, having votes that are done within nine or ten or even 11 minutes is real fast by senate standards. so it does give you a sense that even though they did 11 of these amendment votes they were looking to do them as quickly as possible, just trying to get this off their plate here in the senate, and move it on. i also think it was fascinating to watch just how this vote ultimat
rudolph giuliani lives the rest of his life. you just heard rudolph giuliani committing the crime of making false statements to georgia officials. it is also the crime of improperly influencing government officials, which is a separate crime in georgia and because he was soliciting the georgia house of representatives to overturn the presidential election, what rudolph giuliani just said is the crime in georgia of, quote, solicitation to commit election fraud, which carries a mandatory minimum prison sentence of one year. some of the other crimes rudolph giuliani committed in that video carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison. rudolph giuliani wasn t finished. it s a tape earlier in the day of ruby freeman and shaye freeman moss and one other
theory in just a moment. which of giuliani is going to lose that defamation case. he knows that. his lawyer knows that. but it is probably true that one of rudolph giuliani s objectives tonight is to reduce s attorneys fees in that case as he hovers ever closer to complete bankruptcy. in his filing, admitting that his comments were defamatory, rudolph giuliani said his admission is, quote, solely for the purposes of this litigation. and that, also, he is a lie. and it is a lie that much of the moons news media fall for today. he was suggesting that he s only saying under oath, in the legal filing, that he lied, solely for the purpose of that piece of paper in that civil lawsuit. i m sorry. that s not the way it works. and rudolph giuliani knows
calling the job of defending trump against an indictment in the election 2020 case a suicide mission. rolling stone reports that the trump team is bracing for all but certain guilty verdicts in at least some of the criminal cases with the only hope being to win on appeal. rolling stone reports that some of the lawyers who considered accepting the suicide mission dropped out, quote, because of concerns from their peers, partners at their respective firms objected to taking on trump as a client, i during the from would lose other clients as a result. none of the lawyers turning down trump admitted to fear of shunning by mary david or not being invented to the marshes vineyard book festival. the lawyer says suicide mission is all of the more suicidal because of the thumb on on of donald trump not paying people who worked for him and the likelihood of trump troubled criminal defense lawyers become