attack on the capitol city. president biden right now in mexico for the first time as president, getting ready to go one-on-one with the mexican leader as the politics over immigration top headlines. we re live in mexico city. also this hour, you ve got the house getting ready to come into session. kevin mccarthy now officially in charge. trying to set the rules and set the tone for his term with the gavel. this hour, not all republicans on board for today s vote. even with some of the concessions mccarthy made. with our new reporting on what is being called an aggressive pace of gop-led investigations. plus, hundreds of people under arrest under violent protests of brazil s congress. supporters have recently ousted jir bolsonaro, storming the capitol building and why presidential extradition could be part of the conversation. i m talking with a top national security official about that later on in the show. we have a ton to get to in the next hour. let s get startsed wit
attack on the capitol city. president biden right now in mexico for the first time as president, getting ready to go one-on-one with the mexican leader as the politics over immigration top headlines. we re live in mexico city. also this hour, you ve got the house getting ready to come into session. kevin mccarthy now officially in charge. trying to set the rules and set the tone for his term with the gavel. this hour, not all republicans on board for today s vote. even with some of the concessions mccarthy made. with our new reporting on what is being called an aggressive pace of gop-led investigations. plus, hundreds of people under arrest under violent protests of brazil s congress. supporters have recently ousted jir bolsonaro, storming the capitol building and why presidential extradition could be part of the conversation. i m talking with a top national security official about that later on in the show. we have a ton to get to in the next hour. let s get startsed with nbc news
mexico and canada and it is possible he could face pressure to do more with lawmakers calling on president biden to extradite bolsonaro back to brazil. he is expected to be in florida on a special visa for heads of state. mike memmoli is in mexico. there are threads to what is going on in the u.s. and brazil. and bolsonaro believed to be outside orlando essentially, the influence of far right figures that we know, domestically, people like steve bannon, et cetera on politics in brazil, give us the white house fuel and what we should expect to see as this moves forward. well, you have some discrete issues in the here and now, especially involving the visa issue, potential extradition with the white house, and for the most part, at least putting these questions off, for instance jake sullivan the national security adviser telling reporters in mexico city that he expects president biden will speak with president lula, that the u.s. stands ready to do whatever it can to help president lu
visa hold ser no longer engaged in official business on behalf of their government, it is incumbent on that visa holder to depart the u.s., or to request a change to another immigration status within 30 days. i want to bring in now from mexico city, john kirby, coordination for strategic communications at the national security council. admiral kirby, good to see you back on the show. thank you you for being with us. i have some questions for you obviously about your trip to mexico and everything the president is doing there, but let me start with what is going on in brazil and the questions it that are surrounding us here. first of all, his wife has said that her husband bolsonaro is in the hospital and is the u.s. monitoring his condition and his whereabouts and what can you share? well, we re aware of the reports certainly that his spouse has put out there. we re not in a position where we can independently verify the veracity of those reports or his exact whereabouts.
shore up democratic institutions, they said they believe those democratic institutions in brazil remain strong. we heard just in the last hour, from the state department briefing, a confirmation that yes, former president bolsonaro is here, in the u.s., on that special visa reserve for heads of government, and that as they laid it out there, is a process and n-place for individuals who come here with one visa, having about 30 days for instance to request a different immigration status or leave the country. and those are the granular issues that the white house has to confront and if you step back, this is an administration as you know halle, that is focused very significantly, we saw just on friday about, the threats to democracy, at home, and abroad and the president really guided his foreign policy about autocracies versus democracies and the importance of shoring up democracies around the world. and it is important to note, too, that the white house was watching the brfl brazilian e