austin johnson with a spot-on impersonation of donald trump, and interrupting the last supper nearly a week after trump s historic arraign marraignment, s showing more americans agree with the charges. up 5% this week. his former attorney general is predicting another indictment for the former president we ll get into that straight ahead. we re also going to dig into the competing rulings from federal judges on a commonly used drug for medical abortions. the impact on women s health care and the political impact on the republican party by the way, mika, you know let s just say, it s not good. based on conversations we ve had with friends and others that have voted for donald trump, this is really it s more bad political news, obviously, for women s rights, but especially for republicans i ve got to say, i was really taken, and i ve been taken over the last week especially, of people who have been trump supporters for a long time. yeah. who you start talk
And lots of questions to answer, so lets get started. We begin this hour with Breaking News. The washington post, reporting that House Republicans are preparing a controversial plan. If the debt limit is breached. Ahead of whats expected to be a major showdown with the white house. Plus, talk about uncharted territory. A current and former u. S. President , both under investigation for mishandling classified materials. The difference between the two cases are worlds apart, but could documents found at bidens Office Complicate The Criminal Probe Into donald trump . And later, why liars lie . Is there a Science Behind embattled congressman, George Santos is a mountain of lies, or is gop deception just part of the new normal . All of that and more is coming up. And good saturday morning to you all. I am katie phang. We begin the hour with Breaking News. The washington post, reporting that House Republicans are preparing a controversial plan if the debt limit is breached. They threatened t
and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. we begin this hour with breaking news. the washington post, reporting that house republicans are preparing a controversial plan. if the debt limit is breached. ahead of what s expected to be a major showdown with the white house. plus, talk about uncharted territory. a current and former u.s. president, both under investigation for mishandling classified materials. the difference between the two cases are worlds apart, but could documents found at biden s office complicate the criminal probe into donald trump? and later, why liars lie? is there a science behind embattled congressman, george santos is a mountain of lies, or is gop deception just part of the new normal? all of that and more is coming up. and good saturday morning to you all. i am katie phang. we begin the hour with breaking news. the washington post, reporting that house republicans are preparing a controversial plan if the debt limit is breached. the
not insignificant. we saw the chinese sim youulate attack in and around taiwan. we saw this graphic out of beijing that seemed to show one of these missiles striking in taipei provocative exercises have been going on the past three days in addition to the fact it was in response to the meeting with president tsai, the house speaker in taiwan, and kevin mccarthy in california last week, just hours after that meeting, a u.s. delegation arrived in taipei and spent three days meeting with high-level officials in taiwan, including on saturday meeting with the president, freshly back from her visit to the u.s. one of the reasons officials believe the intensity of the exercises is slightly muted from where it was last year is because that meeting with kevin mccarthy occurred in california it that is seen by some here as a win, win, win.
happening. for more on all of this, we turn to nbc news correspondent, matt bradley, in venetia. that s right. residents of ukraine s capital up to the sound, once again, of incoming missiles striking, once again, civilian targets mostly. electricity infrastructure. now, this is something that has not happened for the past nearly two weeks, but it is something of a common occurrence in kyiv and throughout the country. there were missile strikes again this morning in other cities throughout ukraine. but what was unusual about the attack this morning was that the alarm, the air raid siren, was not triggered and these missiles were not able to be intercepted. we heard from the spokesperson for the ukrainian air force who said that this might be because russia was using ballistic missiles. these are harder to detect and harder to intercept. that might be why they didn t trigger the alarm and they weren t as easily intercepted by ukrainian anti air defenses. so, this was something that wa