find a little grace. katie beck, nbc news, tampa. safe travels little grace kelly. and on that very beautiful note, i wish you all a very good night. thinking about chris murphy and that spiritual renaissance we all needed. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. d of tomorrow right, now we are watching the house of representatives, or any moment the bill to avoid catastrophic default is about to face the vote on the house floor. the dynamic here, what you will see unfold tonight, the dynamic, that dynamic, was set earlier today when democrats had to bail out republicans on a procedural vote that republicans claim they could pass on their very own. prior to that, vote political reported when asked if the gop would need democratic help to pass this procedural measure, majority whip tom emmer said republicans are the ones who are running this, place and republicans will pass the bills and t
he is the reason that the oath keepers were in washington, d.c. on january 6th. that was what the judge found today. and he also believes that stewart rhodes poses an ongoing threat to democracy. rhodes made no attempt to try and dissuade the judge of believing that. and the judge certainly did say that explicitly after stewart rhodes expressed no remorse in court today and continued to be very far right in what he said to the judge and not saying that he believed that he had done anything wrong at all. now, the other thing, with kelly meggs, that was the second defendant sentenced today, kelly meggs was much more remorseful. and judge mehta looked at him and reminded him how serious of an offense this is, seditious conspiracy. and then spoke about how he found it so astonishing that american citizens who had been upstanding average americans before january 6th then became criminals. and i want to read for you one of the last things that judge mehta said after this marathon d
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nation s debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global economies and that threat is still looming ominously at this hour. on capitol hill, lawmakers sound like they re unhappy with this deal. so passage is not guaranteed yet. this is unfolding as a june 5th deadline is drawing closer. we re following all of these latest developments. priscilla alvarez is at the white house for us. what are you learning about this phone call? is it going to happen? there s ever expectation that it is going to happen, jim. as you mentioned, president biden had said it wa
a whole lot of bipartisanship is needed to get this deal done. house financial services committee member ways and just moments from now. first, let s go to chad program on capitol hill. good evening. hinging on two things. the persuasive powers of president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. trying to gen up his site geared at reminding the gop his side only controls the house. i think this agreement frames all of that. it does not get everything everybody wanted. that is divided government. it is not 100% what everybody wants. when you look, the country will be stronger. this will be transformational where congress will vote to spend more money this year than we spent last year. some gop members incinerated the speaker on twitter calling the delay deterred sandwich. he also accused the speaker a fake. opposing fake mandates for people to receive benefits. i think that it is really unfortunate that the president open the door to this. not just the progressives,
we ve been waiting for you. glad to have you along. good morning. i m victor blackwell. glad to see you this morning. and i m amara walker. happy to spind the holiday with you. more than 42 million people expected to head out this memorial day weekend. we re going to tell you what to expect if you re going to the airport or driving to your destination. plus lawmakers racing to reach a deal. now treasury secretary janet yellen has more. and a plot to kill the queen? 40 years ago when she was getting ready to visit the u.s. the details ahead. all by myself anymore every time i hear that for all these years, i still get chill bumps. the best 15 minutes of celine dion for any of her songs. now she has canceled her world tour for 2024. she battles health issues. health officials say she may never be able to tourn again. we ll have the latest on her condition. first, travel season. experts say it will be a busy one. aaa expects 42.3 million americans to travel 50