default on january 1st, if a deal is not reached on the debt ceiling. the pressure weighing on president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy ahead of their next meeting which is now just hours away. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to go to first nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill ahead of the critical meeting between biden and mccarthy. we just heard from mccarthy moments ago. what did he have to say? reporter: this comes after negotiators from the white house had been meeting for three hours this morning. mccarthy took some questions from reporters about the outlines of these negotiations and i asked him specifically what he would need to see to feel like there was real progress today in his meeting with the president. here s what he told me. decisions have to start being made. it s been days now. the president has to be serious. i have been very clear from the very beginning, we are in this problem because when the democra
and then we ll know the perimeter because we ll know the sides. i m ending my day where it started at the port authority. i locked up the office, and i ll be receiving the evening buses and helping those families and young people get acclimated in new york and signed up for the services that they want and deserve. i think about my family coming to america, seeking a new life after the holocaust. i think about so many people from so many parts of the world who have come to call america home, it s a privilege to be part of their lives and think about the bravery that they have and the extraordinary resilience that they bring to everything that they do. project rousseau executive director andrew heinrich, thank you for coming in. can i ask you a personal question, how many hours a week do you work? thank you for having me, it s a pleasure to be here. a lot would be the right answer. i work 14 hour plus a day for sure. every time i see you on the video, you are smiling. these are dif
essential supplies for folks so they can get their lives started in new york off on a good foot. my name is andrew heinrich and i m the founder and executive director of project rousseau. when i think of the things that people need right when they get off the bus in port authority, of course they need food and water, medical attention, access to immigration legal services, but also, and perhaps most importantly, they need dignity. have someone who just sees you as an equal for a few minutes and sits and chats with you one on one is really really important. you have what i think is a strong case for asylum. in our office today, we are providing some screenings for folks who are at the early stages of the immigration legal services process. i ask a variety of questions related to why they left their home country, why they fear returning to their country, to understand whether they might have a strong claim to asylum or
what i m more concerned about as a form investigator is, bombers rarely make one bomb. so whether he made multiple devices and has that at his residence or someone else s residence i m sure investigators are trying to determine now if there were other people involved where those other devices are, because there is invariably another device out there somewhere. we just got this video in, that shows the moment of all of this in port authority to times square. can you walk us through what we re seeing in the video? this is going to give you a good idea, poppy, of what we were talking about throughout the morning which is that narrow area, that narrow passage way where this detonation took off. this is coming from a surveillance camera somewhere within the port authority and right there, is when you see the explosion and you can see that there are still even people walking toward the right, running to the right but you see that person that s lying there on the ground. now, i can only a
of the most i have met. at least one in the top thousand. i put you between this dude i met in port authority and his buddy. carrot top. i love carrot top. you are a legendary musician with the vandals. the guitar player for the circle jerks said he voted for me already. that s fantastic. you know what is great? i think we can say the title of that band. i used to love that band. now that guy is in a band called off, keith morris? the guitar player is in bad religion. i got a vote out of that band too. i am like a sub substitute teacher in l.a. if you go to court sometimes you see me. i do traffic and small claims and landlord tenant stuff. i am already doing it.