get every noon everybody i m yasmin vossoughian. president biden arriving at the white house moments ago he has a busy afternoon ahead of him a call with house speaker kevin mccarthy scheduled on the debt deal and briefing calls with house and senate democrats it is coming as congressman on both of the highway for that actual bill coming from that tentative agreement to raise the debt ceiling in avoided default. we did a conference call, our confidence was over 95%. we overwhelmingly clearly excited. did i get with what i want? no today get all of what they want? no. i am very pleased. we are at a good place. now comes the race against time for the president and house speaker mccarthy to sell it to enough for their party members to get it passed ahead of a june default. no two people have more on the line in all of this. president biden just returning to the white house. nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa is there for us. president biden stopped for a moment
deep divides over the u.s. role are growing. house republicans are in chaos. and the former president is preparing to take the stand. i m going to discuss all of that plus new polling on the presidential race with the chair of the congressional republic per mila jayapal. plus, his two adult sons testified in new york last week, and donald trump himself will be under oath to new york tomorrow. the in-house law firm neal katyal is standing by for a full preview. and later, stacey abrams hasn t spoken extensively about the indictments in fulton county until now. i asked her about the strength of the case, the stakes for her home state, and yes, her own political future. okay, i hope you re sitting down for what i m about to say. because you might find it a little disorienting. here it goes. we are exactly one year out from election day of 2024. one year, exactly. look, i know that for the better part of this decade, we ve heard a lot of talk about certain elections being the
debt at the end of the day? absolutely, yasmin. we actually heard a similar message coming from progressive congress chairwoman, mila jayapal, earlier today. essentially saying, look. we need to see the text of the bill. finding out more. a lot of the provisions regarding snap benefits, for example, have been pushback upon by these progressives. i think a lot of them feel that there is some frustration that biden was not able to go farther on this. however. at thought it was interesting, before the break congressman richie torres. another left leading member of the caucus talked about how he s not happy with the deal. but biden did the best he could, ultimately. i am a little more interested in how mccarthy is able to round up and whip is very conservative members. the democrats have this problem on the left. obviously, there are freedom caucus members who really showed their strength earlier this year with kevin mccarthy s
all right, that is gonna do it for us for tonight, i will see you again tomorrow, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. per mila jayapal is here tonight, so fair warning, we might talk about you. it s possible. your name might come up. i was just going to say, it s only fair that you are having her given how much you and i have been talking about her with her not being here for