lying. tucker carlson was one of those hosts, according to court documents. now, a week after that giant payout to dominion, tucker is out at fox news, is he the sacrificial lamb or was there something else going on? fox news didn t give a reason and tucker isn t commenting, but we do have media reporter dylan byers with us to tell us all that he has so far gathered along with an expert in cable news to tell us what this means for viewers of the channel does anything change but that is not all. both cnn and nbc news have also made big media moves today, nbc that is. news cnn fired don lemon, he says he was blind sided. the network says he wasn t and comcast, the parent company of msnbc fired nbc universal ceo jeff shell after an investigation into, quote, inappropriate conduct. in a statement, shell said he deeply regrets an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company. joining me now is nbc news senior reporter jane timm, and puck senior correspondent dylan byers.
described the proud boys on january 6th in their closing argument to jurors today former minnesota police officer kim potter now out of prison after serving time for the de deadly shooting of dawunte wright any minute now we re expecting to hear from pentagon officials after that high risk evacuation of the u.s. embassy in sudan what s left for the 16,000 americans still stranded inside that war-torn country. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we start with the beginning of the end for the historic trial against five former proud boys members in washington, d.c., in connection with the attack on the capitol ryan reilly is outside the courthouse where closing arguments are underway ryan, take us inside that courtroom. what are both sides leaving jurors with? that s right, so the government spend the morning laying out the case for how the proud boys sort of formed after that or how this plan rather sort of formed, starting they start
about donald trump katy, it s important to note that our poll did not test the head to head matchup between president biden and donald trump, and there have been some other polls that have actually shown that head to hed matchup where president biden is doing better among independents and crucially, people who somewhat actually disapprove of the president. that was the key category in the 2022 midterms where democrats overperforming among voters who somewhat disapproved of president biden s job. and that might be an indication that at least in the last election cycle that independents and those key swing voters were breaking a little bit more in the democrats way than the republicans way we need a whole lot more polling. we need to actually do our head to head matchup. independents and those swing voters are down on both men right now. so the generic republican that steve was talking about, the issues is that there s not a generic republican who s currently in a position to win t
laughing at us right now. katy, what you heard from those folks, as well as other republicans, not only here on staten island but nationally is that donald trump is vulnerable, that there are folks who are open to an alternative, but what steve and mark laid out in this national polling here is that donald trump consistently is the one who in the republican primary among the electorate is the individual that folks continue to turn to. and when you re talking about this race, thhe s been in it no for five months, katy, and there s an individual, his name is lee zeldin, he was the republican nominee for governor here just a couple of months ago, katy. and here in staten island, he beat the democratic nominee, kathy hochul by a two to one margin two months ago, lee zeldin was here on staten island at an event for ron desantis, the florida governor well, just in the last half hour, lee zeldin, he came out and endorsed donald trump, yet
what that means for ron desantis and whether he ultimately does announce he s running remains an open question, it might mean he doesn t ever announce. we will see. mark murray, vaughn hillyard, steve kornacki, gentlemen, thank you very much. and the house is set to vote in a $4.5 trillion bill that will raise the debt ceiling and make cuts to federal spending this week. it is a major test of house speaker kevin mccarthy s ability to corral the 218 votes he needs to pressure president biden to negotiate on the debt limit. so far corralling the gop caucus, though, hasn t exactly been easy for mccarthy, but there are rumblings that the party s moderates and conservatives might be moving towards a consensus. joining me now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. remind me, how many votes in the entire republican caucus is mccarthy able to lose yet still able to pass this baill? reporter: he s got a four-vote margin, katy, and a