the race is on to avoid a default disaster. minutes from now the first key vote on the debt ceiling bill is set to take place on the house floor. already it s facing pushback from both sides of the aisle. we ll be speaking to one of those lawmakers ahead. officials in iowa trying to decide whether they can keep searching for five people who remain unaccounted for at the site of a partially collapsed apartment building there. rescuers are entering a no-win situation as we learn that what remains in the building is unstable and could come crashing down at any moment. plus the gloves are off. during his first official campaign event, ron desantis taking on donald trump. ahead, see why he thinks the former president s attacks are going to backfire. we are following these developing stories, all coming in right here to cnn news central. right now the house is in session ahead of a key vote to avoid default on the nation s debts. president biden and house speaker kevin mccart
anderson, cnn has obtained this letter that was gotten by the national archives, as you said, informing former president trump that it is set to hand over these 16 presidential records from his administration, which show that trump and his top advisers were aware of the proper declassification process when he was president. our understanding is that the special counsel wants these records for the grand jury, because they may provide critical evidence that despite trump s claims, that he automatically declassified all documents, he was in fact, aware that there was a correct process to safeguard classified material. it didn t just happen with a wave of a hand. in the letter, archivist wall writes to trump, the 16 records in question are in close presidential advisers, some of them directed to you personally, concerning weather why, and how you should declassify certain classified records. anderson, what we don t know exactly what s in these 16 records yet, it certainly sug
his signature sign of always sincere. until next time, take car of yourself and each other miguel, nbc news. well said jerry, we will do our best, rest in peace my friend and on that note i wish you al a very good and safe night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late wit me i will see you at the end of tomorrow it was a big test for the vice president of the united states, a test of hi competence and his fitness t serve as second in command just a heartbeat away from the presidency and in that momen the vice president failed. he failed to spell the wor potato [inaudible [inaudible that was former vic president, dan quayle in 199 adding and e to the end of potato a lesson for all kids and adults everywhere there is n easy at the end of the world potato i myself remember at the tim vowing never to spell potato run again. for a single moment, and yea moments like that and da quayle a reputation as a bumbling vice pr
there were four lives not fatalities, lives, there wer four lives that is one of two new mass shootings overnight happenin right as the nra is ramping up an annual convention featuring donald trump and others vowing to fight any kind of gun reform we re also looking ahead to key wednesday midnight deadlin for a supreme court stay allowing access to a key abortion drug after a texa judge s decision which would ban it everywhere. we do not need judges politicians or governmen telling women about what sor of health care they can have look, what we have in texas is a judge who is not guided by science. but is part of a extreme republican concerted effort to ban abortion nationwide. and we do not need judges, politicians or governmen telling women about what sor of health care they can have all that and a deadly error as police and you must go shoo and kill a man after going t the wrong house. more on that story ahead a well of first happened again in alabama,. four peop
good evening, lawrence lawrence oh, i have pretty bad sound here is alex wagner talking to me there she is i think i just turned on m phone. no, the volume thing was a little low it happens to all of us it s your show now you can do whatever you want with it. thank you for the soundtrack, alex we needed that have a great show, lawrence we have a statement fro president biden on the situation in tennessee tonight it was just released by th white house. the president said a state republican lawmakers calle votes today to expel three democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with the students and families an helped lift their voices today s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protes is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. rather than a debating the merits of the issue of, thes republican lawmakers hav chosen to punish, silence, and expel elected representative of the people of tennessee we had planned to cover severa stories for you in this ho