freeman and omar jimenez. okay, the u.s. has one week left to southeast that the myth crisis before facing the fall. sources tell cnn that white house officials and gop negotiators are getting closer to an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, and zane is on the story. are we on the verge of a deal? i think that the major disaster that we were talking about on tuesday as more or less been a voted for now. i am some optimistic based on what i am hearing. i think i am getting the impression that if mccarthy want to make a deal at this point, he probably could. and terms that the contours of what we are hearing right now, there is possibly a deal in the works to raise the debt ceiling to years and issue spending cuts for two years. that s good news there. i think that my concern is even if they reach a deal, this is what i was talking about earlier, even at the reach a deal and you have mccarthy and biden come together to reach a deal, mccarthy still has to sell it, right? that
you know, there is an old saying in washington. it s not the crime, but the cover-up. so we already knew that the special counsel was looking into trump s handling of classified documents. we now know that they were looking to how they handled security footage in mar-a-lago, and whether it was tampered, whether was withheld. so that is a sign that the investigators are strongly looking into possible obstruction of justice charges. and then our fabulous colleagues, paul reid, and caitlin polantz found out that there are two senior trump level organization employees who are gonna go before the special counsel tomorrow. that s on the lookout for. and they are expected to be asked about that footage. and that reason why that was just so important, because they can really shed light on how this documents were handled. cnn reported that there is a footage of this other truncated who is running out boxes of documents from a storage closet. and so this is a very significant step in
course, and this is a picture of a guy, i m not saying the guy in the picture is himself cute, honestly, what would i, know not my area expertise. but i think just as a picture, regardless of the guy, i think as a picture this is kind of cute. just in terms of composition. in part because it s kind of got a swirl effects. like on the upper left side of the image, we ve got his eye that s looking kind of whisky, kind of head downstream, but then on the lower right side of the image he s got the biggest mark, heading straight up towards his ear so the whole thing is kind of a swirl you know? just as a picture as a mugshot in particular i think that s not bad. that person is the attorney general of the great state of texas and that is in fact his mugshot. his name is ken who s indicted in booked into the collin county jail in texas on felony securities fraud charges a few years ago, those felony charges are still pending against him, he was still under indictment on multiple fel
be able to have them. you can t tip them on the credit card, it s 2023, why can t i put a tip on my credit card? because the workers at this store decided that they want to be unionized. i was struck today to see the photo of the line to get into this hearing. most hearings happen, there s not a huge thing. this was an enormous time. highly consequential. thanks as always. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. this is the ukrainian city of bakhmut, or what is left of it. prior to russia s invasion last year, it was a small, relatively unremarkable city of about 75,000 people. it is now one of the most important cities in the war. for seven straight months, ukrainian forces have held back move while being attacked by russian forces from three different directions. it s the longest continual battle of the war so far, and thought to be europe s deadliest land battle since world war ii. western intelligence agencies said that russia has taken 20 to 30,000 cas
vietnam that s, you couldn t ask for anything and you better. fulfilling a marine motto, always faithful. harry smith, nbc news, florida. my dad who served in that called me this morning, and ask me to acknowledge this day, and i m grateful that we are. because we are grateful today, and every day for the service and sacrifice of our military and their families. on that note, i wish you all a very good night from washington d.c.. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc, thank you for staying up, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. at the end of tomo thanks to r joining us this, hour i m ali velshi in for alex tonight. this is the ukrainian city of bakhmut, or what is left of it anyway. prior to russia s invasion last year, but was a small relatively unremarkable city of about 75,000 people. now it is one of the most important cities in the war. for seven straight months, ukrainian forces have held back move while being attacked by russian forces from th