air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you for joining us this. evening so often plans are up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this state in pan, june 1st. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an important day, and man it is really coming, up really, around the corner. there was some hope that the debt ceiling deadline could be pushed off through financial hocus pocus, but no such luck. today said treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that it was june 1st or we ll go over the cliff. and yes, today is may 16th. and after the type of person who likes to do math in your head, you may look at those two days and say oh no commerce congress only has 15 days to get this sorted out. but he would be wrong. because these are the days
ncaa swimmer and women s rights activist riley gaines is set to testify moments ago about a violent attack on her by left wing protestors. john: she was rushed out of an event at san francisco state university after a hostile crowd took over the venue. sandra: she told us earlier the video was only a snippet of what she endured. three hours of being yelled at, of being assaulted, of being called all kinds of names of these violent vengeful hateful things. sandra: america reports rolls into a new hour. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington. we will listen in to riley s testimony, but first another live event set to begin in washington and it s a fox news alert. sandra: that s the briefing room at the white house on the left, brownsville, texas at the border on the right. john kirby is joining the white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre, in that briefing room today. that is expected to begin in just moments. john: the big focus on the border crisis
address, president biden is expected to present a picture of a nation on the rebound making solid progress, especially in regards to the u.s. economy. republicans will portray the president as largely failing. and they have a boat load of new poll numbers to back them up. perhaps, most striking of all those polls, results showing a majority of americans and most democrats do not want president biden to run for re-election. and after the spy balloon journey across the country and increasing aggressive actions around the world, china is expected to be a major topic tonight as well. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. this speech is widely seen as an anchor to president biden s 2024 announcement. but, looming over it is the fallout from his handling of the chinese spy balloon exposing division within his own party and doubts about his job in office. hours before his speech, the pent
18 months of this campaign and over my, throughout my presidency, will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power. there s a new corporate feudalism in our country. greg: robert f. kennedy jr. is ready to challenge him for the democratic nomination. the media tries to write him off as a fringe candidate, but he already has 14% of joe s voters, no fringe, and 32% would rather have anybody but biden. the president could stop the democrat back stabbing if he was popular, but the white house can t defend that. 50% of those polled have a negative view of the economy. president biden talks about the economy all the time. he talked about the economy all the time because he wants the american people to know he is doing everything he can to make sure that his policies that he has put forward that has shown that he is building an economy that doesn t leave anybody behind. i know you re reading a poll now. that is one poll. greg: there you go, just one poll. dan
on capitol hill, where twoddle middle aged men from california are literall y throwing a temper tantrum. you got eric swalwell and adamrm schiff schif to congenital liar, likely still quivering with rage after learning thatafe their relationship and their membership to the all powerfulte house intelligence committee is no more . house speakellr kevin mccarthy remove them from this committee and for good reason, according w to reports. el congressman swalwell. well, remember, he was once a py a patsy for the chinese government after getting seduced by a woman named fang fang. you can t even make this up in a a novel. an undercover agent for the communist party of china. unfortunately, this was not wasn a one night stand, apparently a full blown relationship. in fact,own the two lovebirds right there together for quitelo some tim fe. ese by e and the chinesven e spy even hec eric raise money for his reelectionise mone. e li adam, the congenital liar.ar, sh schiff well, meanwhil