air space and tracking the kids and it is about president xi tracking us with iran and doing for america what joe biden cannot. as president, as president, i will rebuild a military so lethal and so powerful that our adversaries will fear us. and our allies will respect us. my father who is with us today spent 27 years in the air force. my two brothers spent two decades each in the military. three decades for my older better
he s been told he could have the legal authority to go there, this is really unchartered waters when it comes to testing this possibility. so the president has said he s going to keep that option open perhaps for later, but there s nothing about invoking the 14th amendment right now that wouldn t get tied up in the courts or held this june 1st deadline. what we re dealing with here has to be dealt with the president and the white house argue through congress and whether in the near-term they can talk about using the 14th amendment for something down the line when this could become an issue all over again. that s for them to continue to consider. that is what he said in japan, but the treasury secretary, janet yellen has said using that option, that sort after hail mary would trigger a constitutional crisis that they re looking to avoid, jose. monica alba and garrett haake, i thank you both for being with us this morning. take a closer look at how the threat to a u.s. default is aff
competition, but joe biden cannot. as president, as president, i will rebuild a military so lethal and powerful that our adversaies will fear us. and our allies will respect us. my father who s with us today spent 27 years in the air force. myforce. my two brothers spent two decades each in the military. three decades for my older, better-looking brother. 85 years of combined military service between them. when i m president, our service
when i cut your taxes, they call me a prop. when i refunded the police, they called me a token. when i pushed back on president biden, they even called me the n word. i disrupt their narrative. the truth of my life disrupts their lives. i will proclaim these truths from the highest mountain top, and i will proclaim these truths in the deepest valley. i will take our message to the board rooms. but i will also take it to the classrooms. i will take it to a gymnasium filled with friends, but i will
with us now to take a closer look at this, nbc news white house correspondent monica alba and nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. so garrett, what do we know about where things stand at this hour with these talks? reporter: jose, as we speak, the negotiators are meeting once again in the capital trying to grease the wheels ahead of this meeting today, the first one on one meeting between president biden and speaker mccarthy. you just played patrick mchenry there, a close ally of speaker mccarthy describing the state of play. mccarthy spoke to reporters on his way into the capital. they re still far apart on what is the driving issue of this after all. government spending, top line spending. mccarthy wants an agreement that says in 2024, we will spend less money as a country than we did in 2023, perhaps more like what we spent the year before that in 2022. right now they aren t there on that agreement with the white house, and unless and until they