Calls quote extraordinary measures to avoid defaulting on our debt. Which looks a lot more likely now that the most conservative wing of the Republican Party seems to have a Tightening Vice around speaker Kevin Mccarthy. If they can keep the government open, the Republican Party is gearing up for a series of investigations into President Biden. What they Just Announced a couple of moments ago, in a second. One of the investigations, the president himself, all about handdelivered to them, wrapped in a shiny bow, the white house is facing hard questions about why it was not more transparent about the discovery of classified documents, and not one, but two locations. Especially as the president himself was criticizing the former president for mishandling his own classified documents. White house lawyers say the number of documents found is small and nbc news has just confirmed what one of them was marked with. What we know about that document in a moment. And what exactly is the process b
a fiery field hearing taking place just a block away from progress da alvin bragg s office with absolutely harrowing testimony from new york city crime victims and their families. victims like joseph borgen a jewish man who was brazenly beaten by four men in broaddaylight. his attackers were only give an six-month plea deal. he only punched my son once. . perhaps some of the most dramatic moments came when madeline whose son was brutally stabbed to death nine times for significantly lowering the charges against two of her son s alleged attackers. i was totally disrespected. me, my family, my grand children, we were treated like garbage. like garbage. while republicans say the hearing was intended to highlight just how progressive policies are making america less safe, democrats dismissed it as political payback for bragg s indictment of former president donald trump. they insist the big apple is indeed safe. the chairman says this hearing is about violent crime in m
mariucci video predict what another four years could look like. teacher s union boss randi weingarten expected to get grilled on capitol hill with. a new report out on the response to covid calling it collective national incompetence. many of the schools could have been opened earlier. [applause] high drive center field. it is out of here! this game is over! here we go back this is the moment tonight is the night we ll fight until it s over so we put our hands up like the ceiling can t hold us like the ceiling can t hold us can we go back this is the moment. ainsley: lots of people already on the streets in hot atlanta down there in georgia. it s 58 degrees. feels like it s 56. going to get up into the 60 s. not too bad. 63, going to rain around noon. take your umbrella. actually, 60% chance of chance of rain around noon. steve: right now is probably a pretty good time to go to work. ainsley: beat the traffic. steve: it s a beautiful town but t
Cade of the nations best minds, we begin with gordon chang. Go. Freeman of New York Times he has praised the chinese system. The one party they know how to get things done. While condemning the american system. Has he turned out to be right . What is going on in china . Well, Thomas Friedman has been wrong, so has klaus schwab head of World Economic forum who said that china was a model for the developing world, they are wrong, weve seen the fire on the 24th. Immediately there were protests, they were not coordinated. People were on the streets. They were on Streets Protesting Covid Rules which contributed to deaths in that fire, they said down with xi jinping, and down with the Communist Party. The mood on the streets in china, is they realize the root cause of the problems is the Communist Party, the system does not work. And if they thought about it, they would have said, Thomas Friedman is wrong. Mark yeah, New York Times, and cnn, have both praised the communist chinese handling o
what he said about reports the u.s. spied on south korean officials, rising nuclear tensions and relations with china the slow-moving disaster the severe flooding threat as snow melts much of yosemite park closed, as some areas along the mississippi are already under water. what doctors are calling one of the worst allergy seasons in decades why so many adults are suffering for the first time. and the remarkable life of an american original, singer, actor and civil rights activist, remembering the great harry belafonte. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome, everyone. there are 560 days until the 2024 presidential election, and tonight the ingredients for a potential trump-biden rematch are falling into place following president biden s announcement today that he is in, officially running for a second term in office as he put it in an early morning video release, to finish the job. the president laying out the stakes, taking