at the stores. watch this. we do it right, we know what the it will mean. it will create millions of new jobs and grow the economy. we ll win world economic competition that we re engaged in with china and many other countries around the world. we re going to see ease, yes, ease, lower inflationary pressures on our economy. martha: okay. former speaker of the house, newt gingrich joins me. the author of the new book, beyond biden and a fox news contributor. let s jump off from there from what the president said. he said this build back better program, which is a very large extension of benefits, programs that would be given from childhood to the elderly, he says this will cut inflation and make us more competitive with china. what do you say? well, first of all, biden can say anything he wants to. he doesn t have any relationship to reality. the fact is when you have $50 billion in this bill to amtrak with no reforms, all you re doing is throwing money into a system t
robert costa being outlandish with the final line of their b book, peril they write remains. so tonight, we are focusing on that peril from what continues to be a steady assault on the democratic process and democracy, itself. today, a sign the current president considers the threat serious enough to set aside decades of tradition. in response to a question about invoking executive privilege to shield trump-era records from the house select committee on the insurrection, the white house press secretary said this. we take this matter incredibly seriously. and certainly, we are we have been working closely with with congressional committees and others as they work to get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th. an incredibly dark day in our democracy. well moments later, psaki said that president biden was taking an eye toward not asserting executive privilege but that requests would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. just to underscore, though, this is somethi
of their book, the peril, they write, remains. so tonight, we are focusing on that peril, from what continues to be a steady assault on the democratic process and democracy, itself. today, a sign the current president considers the threat serious enough to set aside decades of tradition. in response to a question about invoking executive privilege to shield trump-era records from the house select committee on the insurrection, the white house press secretary said this. we take this matter incredibly seriously. and certainly, we are we have been working closely with with congressional committees and others as they work to get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th. an incredibly dark day in our democracy. moments later, psaki said that president biden was taking an eye toward not asserting executive privilege but that requests would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. just to underscore, though, this is something few presidents do willingly if at all even when
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video campaign offering russians a secure way to safely share secrets about the war in ukraine. inside that strategy, next. and the critical meeting in the next 60 minutes between president biden and kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling. what we just learned from an influential member of congress. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments for us. let s start at the white house where against backdrop of a slightly nervous wall street, that high level, high stakes meeting is about to get underway with the full faith and credit of the u.s. at stake. monica alba joins us with more. so, monica, what is the white house saying ahead of this meeting? well, much like last week when we were in this exact position, chris, when the president had invited the top congressional leaders to come to the oval office for this meeting, remember that white house officials lowered expectations, saying there wouldn t be a major breakthrough as a result of this meeting. we ar