the debt ceiling deal. then white house officials will be briefing democratic members of congress, as we continue to await the actual text of the bill. the sales job will be crucial as biden and mccarthy both have to convince their members that each side is not happy about it. i do expect the there will be democratic support. once we have the ability to actually be fully briefed by the white house. right now, the democrats are very upset. there is nothing in the bill for them, there is not one thing in the bill for democrats. from what i can say, republicans didn t get any of the big things they were asking for. they didn t get massive long term cuts to programs for the poor or middle class. they didn t get the repeal of the presidents signature for renewable energy. they didn t get big, new requirements pushing people out of the medicaid program. we will take a look at what s on the table, but it s pretty clear the president bone crypto most reckless thing that the democ
you, from nbc news here in miami, welcome everyone to alex reid reports. we begin with breaking news, this just in an update from capitol hill, where negotiators from the white house and house republicans are working through the holiday weekend, inching closer to an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. it comes as after a news of some new breathing room, as the treasury secretary now says the deadline for default is june 5th. moments ago, house speaker kevin mccarthy, giving an update. but. i feel closer to an agreement now than i did before, because i see progress. so this is not easy initiating for me. that does not matter. at one pmi, i will talk with democratic congressman jasmine crockett about the negotiations, as well as renewed calls for police reform after an 11 year old boy is shot by an officer. more breaking news for you, in two hours, the texas house begins debating whether to impeach the states republican attorney general, ken paxton after a republican-led i
good evening rachel, we have michigan state senator mallory mcmorrow joining us tonight. she s one of the big stars who was merged outside of washington in the democratic party, and we are going to be talking about the garden of evil, later in this program, which is the name of the garden owned by harmless billionaire harlan crow, clarence thomas s best friend. i m gonna have an awful lot to say about what harlan crow says is the one thing he has never done in the garden of evil. i i i, my mind went to some very dark places immediately. and rachel, when you kill your back or the garden of evil [laughter] and hey, rachel. i ve got some bad news today about the canoeing trip we have planned for the summer, with stephen colbert, seth myers, and john oliver down the volga river in russia. it turns out the only john oliver i can go, because all of the rest of you have just been sanctioned by vladimir putin. you are not allowed, a more, to enter russia. i know. i mean,
before the u.s. defaults. not everyone is confident a deal can be reached, with at least one top republican negotiator warning a deal could come together as soon as today or fall apart entirely. what is the mood on capitol hill right now? reporter: good afternoon. the mood is more optimistic than we ve heard in days. negotiators here this morning are saying they think they re closing in on a deal and really it s all about having an agreement on the agreement and hashing out the remaining sticking points, which we re told are on work requirements and spending caps. we heard speaker mccarthy came to the capitol shortly before 10:30 a.m. this morning. he says he feels more confident than he has and they ve made progress, but some sticking points remain. i asked him if he thinks he would be able to get his full conference behind whatever deal they re able to strike, and he said he does think that will happen. he also said he thinks a deal could potentially come together as earl
weekend. there s still time for some notes before you get the time to grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. ron desantis has officially entered the 2024 right house race, as we said the live stream events on twitter got off to a rocky start. crashing several times. with the announcement delayed by more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here that i think we are affecting the service. let s say, so yeah. make sense. just to simplify this. so let s say. does it keep crashing? i think rebecca online now. i think we are back online now. well, it s an honor to have governor desantis make this stuck announcement. the technical troubles your mockery on social media. president well then posted a link to his donation page. writing simply this link works. and former president donald trump has a series of posts on truth social calling the announcement, fatal and a disaster. he also had one str