it s good to be back with you on this second hour. at this hour, president biden s critical next move. he says he has decided on the u.s. response to the drone attack that killed three u.s. soldiers in jordan but what it is, where, and when, he isn t revealing. plus, cori bush confirming she is the target of a justice department probe over her campaign spending. what we know this hour live from washington. plus, homeland security secretary under the microscope as house republicans hold another meeting moving closer to impeachment. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. let s start with keir simons now. president biden has made his decision clear. at least that he s made the decision clear, but what he s going to do against iran is an ongoing question. what s the latest, keir? secretary of state blinken not saying when the response from the u.s. might come, but saying it would likely be sustained over time, multilevel and could come in stages. as quest
good to be with you. we are about to see the president out on the road today working to convince americans he is making their lives better. better jobs. more childcare. affordable healthcare. he is in virginia beach trying to remind voters in that swing congressional district that the districts have their back, but broadly speaking is that he s a blue collar president for blue collar americans. the one the democratic party hemorrhaged in 2016 to donald trump. while president biden has made some of those gains back, a new report by the non-profit american family voices is warning the party and president they are on wobbly ground. we re going to explain what this group of democratic strategists are worried about for 2024 and that right there is not the only tough news. the supreme court is hearing arguments right this moment on president biden s executive order to relieve more than 400 billion in student debts. they have a reporter inside the court with what the justices are as
got hit with a subpoena from house republicans over the afghanistan withdrawal. more on the documents republicans are trying to get their eyes on. hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets of france yet again denouncing president macron s controversial pension reform plan. and nashville police just give an update on monday s school shooting. the details about the guns legally purchased be i the shooter and what law enforcement learned from an interview with the parents. we ll have a live report. our nbc news reporters are following the latest development, but we begin with catie beck in nashville where police say the suspect legally bought the firearms she later used to kill three 9-year-olds and three adults yesterday. what more have we learned? reporter: yeah, the police chief speaking to the media a few minutes ago saying there were actually seven guns purchased at five different stores, purchased legally, and the shooter was in the middle of treated
it s not rocket science. and adding you won t be too surprised. joining me now is nbc legal analyst, lisa ruben. not to guess at what she s talking about there, but it s not so veiled. it s not, katy. and she told the associated press this morning that she had been instructed as had the other grand jurors about what they could and could not say by the fulton county superior court judge. i wonder now and reading the new york times report, the judge believes they overstepped. she was careful with the associated press talking about sketches she made of various witnesses. who was funny, who was unhappy to be there. who might have invoked privilege, but telling the times the grand jury did invoke indictments and it wouldn t be rocket science who they were against. i wonder if she overstepped that line today. she also tells the times they started in the grand jury with that call that donald trump made to secretary of state brad raffensperger where he asked raffensperger to fi
now that there is a speaker and a set of rule, kevin mccarthy is making good on a promise he made two years ago. if you, democrats, kick our people off of committees, we are going to do the same to you. back in february, 2021, democrats and 11 republicans voted to remove marjorie taylor greene from her committee assignments for a laundry list of extreme views and conspiracy theories, including that jewish space lasers actually caused california wildfires, school shootings were staged and her liking social media comments that supported violence against democrat, including one that said a bullet to the head would be a quicker way of removing nancy pelosi. then, in november of that same year, 2021, democrats and two republicans voted to do the same to paul gosar for tweeting a violent animation that depicted him killing aoc. now in january of 2023, two years later, with republicans back in control of the house, they are turning the table. promising to deny adam schiff, eric swal