appease hard right members of his party who want major changes without the u.s. spends its money. this is how some of the same members he had to make deals with in order to win the speakership. joining us now is nbc nbc news correspondent allie raffa live from delaware where the president is spending the weekend. ali, the president is saying he is refusing to negotiate, republicans are saying they want to negotiate. where do things stand right now? yeah, unitia, well, a little bit of a hand yesterday with his remarks and president biden saying he is willing to sit down with speaker kevin mccarthy to talk about raising the debt ceiling to, quote, avoid a calamity that exceeds anything that has ever happened financially in the united states, president biden now saying exactly when and where that meeting will take place, just saying why he wants to have it, and then you have speaker mccarthy who we know has been under pressure from fellow house republicans. saying that they wa
orders that donald trump gave employees before the fbi searched his florida country club. plus, what we re learning about today s january 6 hearing and whether it will be the final one for the committee. and a massive verdict against conspiracy theorist alex jones for the lies that he told about the sandy hook shooting. good morning. welcome to way too early. thanks for starting your day with us. an employee of donald trump has told federal agents that the former president specifically directed workers to move boxes of documents at mar-a-lago after receiving a subpoena from the fbi earlier this year before federal agents searched the property. it was according to a source familiar with the matter. federal agents have security camera footage corroborating the account showing people moving boxes out of storage room at the ex-president s palm beach club. the story first reported by the washington post. this witness account suggests that the boxes were moved to trump s priv
welcome back to morning joe. it is 6:00 a.m. on the west coast and 9 a.m. here in washington, d.c. we have breaking news on the economy. it is bad news for consumers, it is bad news for working-class americans. it is bad news for middle-class americans. it is bad news for people invested in the stock market. it is bad news if you have retirement accounts because they will be going down. but it is good news if you re a republican running for office in four weeks. the year-over-year inflation rate barely slowed last month from 8.3% in august to 8.2% in september, the last report before november s midterm elections and the last report. a key federal reserve meeting early next month on how much they re going to raise interest rates. let s bring in cnbc s dom chu. dom, wall street s going to be partying like it s 1981, which means they re not going to be partying. going to be ugly out there. take us through it all. all right. so, joe, mika, to your point here, there s no easy
plus, breaking news. a trump employee told federal agents about personally moving documents at mar-a-lago, the order to that employee came directly from donald j. trump himself. and that is after he got the subpoena. oregon hasn t voted for a republican governor in 40 years, so why is president biden worried enough to go there in the final days of this campaign? let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin wants revenge. russian authorities tonight announcing they ve arrested eight people in connection with the bombing of that crucial bridge linking crimea to russia. the only way to get from crimea to russia is that bridge. that blast cutting off a crucial supply route for russian troops inside ukraine. the eight people we know to be in custody are these, five russian citizens, two ukrainians, and a national of armenia. the fsb is claiming that all these individuals helped ukrainian spies to transport 25 tons of explosives to the bridge
the other officials heard on the tape. the shootout in philadelphia. three s.w.a.t. team members injured. what we re learning about the 19-year-old suspect who was killed. russia arresting eight people it says are connected to that bridge explosion in crimea, and our correspondent in moscow talking exclusively with a top russian official. how he s responding to president biden saying vladimir putin miscalculated significantly in ukraine. with energy prices rising the new alert on how much it will cost to heat your home this winter. and the teacher showing his students a fun alternative to the school bus that s inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. fire brand conspiracy promoter and talk show host alex jones today once again learned there can be a steep price to pay for false and painfully cruel claims. a connecticut jury today putting that price at a stunning $965 million. ordering jones who was not in the courtro