we ve got lawson uso cover, and lots of questions to answer. so let s get started. that ceiling showdown, house speaker kevin mccarthy not just a win in the house, but his victory lap may run out of gas in the senate. or live on capitol hill with the latest as the nation inches closer to a debt default. plus, telling their side, the same moment a woman suing former president trump for an alleged rape it is giving tearful over price jerry six insurrection in d.c.. we re going in-depth on all those trump troubles ahead. later, desantis drama, florida governor ron desantis arrives at the white house, while the house memos hits him with the federal lawsuit. we go inside the drama and how it will impact his presidential aspirations. all of this and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. we start today s show with the standoff over the debt ceiling. speaker kevin mccarthy is taking a premature victory lap after house republicans narrowly lashed
telling you about. more important than predicted polls is what people are already doing. 32 million people have now voted. this is election week like we told you it would be. it outpaces the early vote number at the same point in the mid-terms of the trump era. president biden delivered an address on the high stakes amidst the maga supporters. not all but some republicans have done to their great disgrace, minimize or joke about an attempted murder at the home of the speaker of the house. this is the era we are living through. this is where i update you about the vote, i have to tell you as part of the news that the husband of the speaker of the house is out of the hospital tonight after the attempted murder now charged at the state and federal level. meanwhile, more information also emerging about republican efforts that many people warn are main lining violence, that go beyond political speech or the zealous political speech. quote, be ready to do hand-to-hand combat with t
hi, it s 4:00 in new york. president joe biden is set tonight to weigh in on the issue that is foundational to every other issue and debate we have in this country, democracy and the threats that loom over our democracy more than a year and a half after the ex-president tried to halt the peaceful transfer of power. it s an issue that would not be an issue if it were not for the fact that one of our country s political parties turned its back on democracy and decided to harness the terms of auto considerates. we are talking about the republicans. days before what could be the most important midterm election in history, president biden is putting concerns front and center with a speech just steps away from the u.s. capitol. nbc news can report, while the topic has been on the president s mind for quite some time, a number of developments have added to the urgency, including the growing suggestion by some republican officials that they may not accept the election results an
disparate impact on black voters in some way. the appeals court says the law, which bans limits use of mail drop boxes and that those things don t violate the united states constitution. what are democrats in florida compared to do to protect voters as we head towards a critical 2024 election? look, desantis, over his time here, has said in the two elections, both the first one that he won, and then even in 2020, and the coming into 22, that was a model state for election integrity and efficiency and we do things right. again, was a national model. here s the reality. especially during covid, and thereafter, democrats became very good at using drop boxes and vote by mail. now, we have yet another voting bill this week, which is titled, resigned to run, that the governor no longer has to do that if he s running for president to clarify
Donald Trump laid the groundwork early in the 2020 election for his possible defeat by attacking voting by mail and ballot drop boxes, insisting they should be illegal while making clear if he lost the White House those proven safe and effective means of voting would be to blame.But now, with a flai.