the l or barista coffee and espresso system. a masterpiece in taste it s opium in washington. there is still no deal to raise the debt ceiling, and at this hour, house republicans are holding a wig meeting to discuss what the process will be over the next few days, if in fact a deal is reached. president biden told reporters today that he is optimistic that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yes
that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yesterday. i want to be progress again today, and i want to be able to solve this problem. now speaker mccarthy has been given more time to solve this problem. treasury secretary janet yellen said today the protected debt ceiling deadline is now june 5th. in a letter to congressional leaders, secretary yellen wrote, during the week of june 5th, treasury is schedul
chairman jim jordan has gavelled in an entire subcommittee on this issue. he s touted allegations from dozens of whistleblowers who he said came to him with stories of the discrimination and bias they face, the problem is that was pretty much all we knew about them until now. before we break down what is in this new report, i want to bring you back to an exchange between jim major dan and congressman dan goldman between the first and so far only weaponization of the federal government hearing last month on the quote unquote evidence that republicans claim to have had. take a listen. you talk about dozens of whistleblowers, when are we going to get that information? when they testify. i ll work with the ranking member on that issue. you don t have any transcriptions of their interviews? we have the first one and the dozens who have come and talked to our office. they talked to your office privately. republican staff, right. and they re not transcribed, no notes,
delayed his election as speaker. in brazil hundreds of arrests an insurrectionists stormed the capitol over the weekend, including the presidential palace, parliament and the supreme court. fueled by false claims by trump allies in the u.s. and others over the country s election results. imitating what happened here on january 6th. also this hour, i will be speaking to arms services committee chairman jack reed and former u.s. ambassador to russia john sullivan about the u.s. support for ukraine as house republicans threaten to cut aid to ukraine. and nbc news can chief white house correspondent kristen welker is at the border as president biden makes his first trip to mexico since inauguration. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. kevin mccarthy s long list of concessions to that faction of far-right lawmakers who put him through the public humiliation of 14 failed speaker votes last week could cause problems for his conference today and the next two years
has many powerful allies in congress who have signaled that they are willing to take up his grievances both for his benefit, and perhaps for their own. when the gop took back control of the house of representatives in the 2022 midterms, they gained it with control of congressional committees that could launch investigations. ohio congressman jim jordan caught the most attention when he took over as the chair of the judiciary committee, and soon launch the subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government. he converted schools to the church committee, which was a renowned government oversight committee that was led by the late congressman frank church. the church committee uncovered government abuses like cointelpro, the counterintelligence program created the 1950s by fbi director j edgar hoover designed to spy on, disrupt, and discredit key anti-war and civil rights figures deemed radical by the administration at the time. that story committee s work is