closing in, the special counsel appears to be wrapping up his investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents as new details emerge about what was going on at mar-a-lago, just before the feds swept in. melissa murray and barbara mcqueen will explain the significance. and, all hail the queen of rock and roll, danielle smith is here to celebrate the life and legacy of tina turner. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. congress is on memorial day recess, but negotiation teams from the white house and house republicans are hard at work trying to seal an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. all signs show that they are inching closer to a deal that would raise the limit on federal borrowing and avert and unprecedented, catastrophic default. treasury secretary janet yellen added new urgency to the negotiations, over the last few months, she has warned congress that the debt limit could be reached in early june, and potentially as early as june 1st.
we start this hour with a shocking incident at our southern border. look right there in that highlighted area. because a human smuggler is dropping a 4-year-old child over that very tall wall to american soil below. pete: this comes nearly two weeks after the expiration of title 42 and highlights the surgent need to stop those cartels and human smugglers. we have been watching, do you see the baby actually fall the 4-year-old. right there they say the child is okay. griff jenkins is live at the white house with the latest for us, griff? good morning, ainsley, pete and steve, these videos are far too common, yesterday the border patrol chief raúl ortiz tweeting that video out. it s hard to watch. it s heart breaking. you see the smuggler dropping the 4-year-old toddler near san diego. near the san ysidro port of entry. he drops. fortunately he was okay. border patrol agents and emsz quickly responded to begin rendering care and first aid to the child who fortunately was
there, but i think what we ve done in florida should inspire people with a sense of hope. american decline is not inextricable. it is a choice, comeback is attainable and freedom is worth fighting for. we begin this hour with the latest in the race for the presidency. senator tim scott launching his campaign yesterday in south carolina. steve: the senators he is the guy to turn around america as president joe biden faces an uphill climb in the polls. ainsley: alexandria hoff has the latest. alexandria: tim scott worked up from humble beginnings and is the candidate with the most cash on hand. under president biden, our nation is retreating away from patriotism and faith. fewest people in 30 years believe their kids will be better off than their parents and radical left is pushing us to culture of grievance instead of greatness. alexandria: he kicked off the campaign at charleston southern university. donald trump tweeted, good luck to senator tim scott, it is rapi
default on january 1st, if a deal is not reached on the debt ceiling. the pressure weighing on president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy ahead of their next meeting which is now just hours away. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to go to first nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill ahead of the critical meeting between biden and mccarthy. we just heard from mccarthy moments ago. what did he have to say? reporter: this comes after negotiators from the white house had been meeting for three hours this morning. mccarthy took some questions from reporters about the outlines of these negotiations and i asked him specifically what he would need to see to feel like there was real progress today in his meeting with the president. here s what he told me. decisions have to start being made. it s been days now. the president has to be serious. i have been very clear from the very beginning, we are in this problem because when the democra
happened the justice department and the fbi failed to follow the law. the establishment beloved miller report was on honest investigation but a partisan cover-up. we now know hillary clinton herself cooked up the entire phony russia collision narrati narrative. july 2016 she approved it as a distraction from her own rotten scandals for special counsel during referring to her scheme as the clinton plan. russian intelligence believing the clinton plan name to type truck to putin and the russian hack of the dmc. we also now know msnbc brazenly dishonest and insufferably pompous appointment then cia director brendan brief to present obama and vice president biden along with an attorney lynch and other officials about the clinton campaign s antidemocratic plot. not one of them said or did the slightest thing about it. allow it this massive scandal to unfold because it suited their partisan interests. yet, the exact people drowned on endlessly with their lectures about protecting o