the texas border. then, democrats ask republicans finally come to the table to talk debt ceiling and e try to prevent economic catastrophe. but as the high profile meeting with the president gets postponed, are they making any progress behind closed doors? we explicitly asked speaker mccarthy, would he take default off the table. he refused. but i think what we really need is a partner that s willing to work together. shannon: this morning we have two members of the house oversight committee, republican byron donalds of florida and democrat ro khanna of california, to discuss the border, the debt ceiling standoff and the latest on the house republicans investigation into foreign payments made to members of the biden family. then, florida governor ron desantis draws crowds in multiple cities in iowa. it may be that florida s the iowa of the southeast. shannon: we ll can our sunday panel whether he can loosen the former president s grip on the polls in this critical
the texas border. then, democrats ask republicans finally come to the table to talk debt ceiling and e try to prevent economic catastrophe. but as the high profile meeting with the president gets postponed, are they making any progress behind closed doors? we explicitly asked speaker mccarthy, would he take default off the table. he refused. but i think what we really need is a partner that s willing to work together. shannon: this morning we have two members of the house oversight committee, republican byron donalds of florida and democrat ro khanna of california, to discuss the border, the debt ceiling standoff and the latest on the house republicans investigation into foreign payments made to members of the biden family. then, florida governor ron desantis draws crowds in multiple cities in iowa. it may be that florida s the iowa of the southeast. shannon: we ll can our sunday panel whether he can loosen the former president s grip on the polls in this critical
Thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. We are grateful. Beth beet with ari melber start rights now. We start with Breaking News a legal first for President Biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland Upending Washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe bidens office at home. This is a significant legal development. No matter what happens from here. Its also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when former President Trump was clashing with the doj over his handling and alleged mishanding of classified material. Would have felt like a twist in the last couple weeks when bidens team was optimistic after the midterms and then the gops chaotic start to the congress. Garland did not preview plans at all. He announced he would deliver remarks today. Didnt deliver the topic and then said the words that tend to rattle
their own extremists into saying they wouldn t do that. now, this is a big story tonight with a real twist. the president is drawing an treatment on that very important from an unlikely source. donald trump himself who is, of course, running against biden right now, running to be president again. but trump is, as politico reports, tying the entire gop in knots by pushing back on something pretty straightforward, the obviously unpopular plan to cut medicare and social security that some conservatives want. now, that s the view from a candidate, while new reporting shows that veterans in the trump administration are part of the possible push to get medicaid or health care funding slashed. now, in the house republicans have some leverage. they narrowly took the majority there. but democrats see this debate going their way. they re relying on a new magic budget word, that word is woke. call everything woke, and then try to cut its funding seems to be the strategy. housing, wo
president biden is taking the fight to desantis s turf. we have kneel decrass tyson joining me for some wild tech breakthroughs. i m excited to see what he s going to explain about them. our top story right now is president biden s victory lap. joe biden finding his message from the state of the union is landing and he s turning the tables on that safety net fight. basically going to the trump/desantis home turf of florida to double down. now we all know taylor swift ironically suggested once she was a nightmare dressed like a day dream. well, today biden told republicans why he s going to be their nightmare, period. i know that a lot of republicans, your dream is to cut social security/medicare. let me say this, if that s your dream, i m your nightmare because there it is. call it some bad blood between the parties there. biden drawing a little bit of applause and some laughter for what has become, if you re monitoring this,s almost a celebratory mood among some demo