centering around free speech and real edge religious liberty and other things. dana: not many days left. bill: stand by. dana: did you see this? former president obama stirring up a battle over race relations in america. obama taking aim at presidential contender tim scott criticizing his approach to race in america. i think there is a long history of african-american or other minority candidates within the republican party who will validate america and say everything is great. and we can all make it. nikki haley has a similar approach. i m not being cynical about tim scott individually. i am maybe suggesting that the rhetoric of can t we all get along. that has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present. dana: now senator scott is pushing back saying president obama is the one who failed to bring the country together. trey gowdy the host of sunday sunday night in america. if president obama is going to try to attack tim scott as he sa
congress fails to act and the u.s. defaults on its debt will be bad. it s something that looks more possible by the day. the clock is ticking. speaker kevin mccarthy says he wants a deal by this weekend. that it s the only way to give both houses of congress enough time to actually mark up and pass anything on the debt ceiling. but president biden is leaving town tomorrow heading for the g-7 in japan. what punch bowl called a damned if he does, if he doesn t situation for biden with the stakes incredibly high. so with both of those things in mind, the clock and the travel, what is being said inside the white house right now? speaker mccarthy is there meeting with president biden for the third time to avoid a default. look at the background in a second. don t worry. what s on the table and what s even possible. does an acceptable compromise exist? one that actually passes not just the split congress, but this split congress. joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent,
time magazine for their article on pediatricians who serve trans youth facing increasing harassment. in the daily beast article, alabama trying to raise the legal driving age for trans people to 19. president and ceo glad sarah kate ellis took some time to address the increase in laws against the community. watch this. there is one thing that extremist politicians and activists can never ban, and that is our joy. we are not going to let them anyone tell our stories or villainize who we are. when the truth is, everyone deserves to live a life happily ever after. yes, so raise your voices [applause] so raise your voices, take action with glaad, get loud, and stay proud. and we are loud and proud to have the glaad awards take us off the air tonight. on that note, i wish a very good night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, state thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow thanks for being with us tonight, it s go
in the head with the bat, the intern hit b as well, although each of them was hospitalized after the attack tonight, today they ve both been released from the hospital. north of them has injuries believed to be life threatening. thank god. police have the alleged assailant in custody. he s a 49-year-old man reportedly from the congressman s district in northern virginia. police say he s being charged with felony aggravated malicious wounding but not saying anything about his potential motives at this time or anything about even the a extent to which he d had them. the man is i should tell you on record as having last year filed a lawsuit against the cia alleging the cia was somehow torturing him from the fourth dimension. the new york times reports there was a hand written lawsuit and the man was representing himself as his own lawyer in this case, so read into that what you will. there s that. republican house speaker kevin mccarthy said he reached out to congressman conol
i everyone, thank you for tuning in to this hour we bring you tomorrow s news tonight. we have our great lineup of reporters to share their scoops. we have melanie zanona, danny freeman, diane gallagher, and omar hernandez. great to have all of you back here tonight. tonight, new information about the chokehold incident in new york city subway that killed a 30 year old man. graphic video shows the 24-year-old suspect with his arm wrapped around jordan a least neck after one witness said that he had been, quote, acting erratically and ranting about being fed up and hungry. he was taken after this to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. omar has been covering the story all day. so omar, where do things stand? there are new charges right for the suspect. so what is going to happen? now people are calling for charges, that is why we have seen some protests, that video has obviously circulated pretty widely and i think people see that chokehold happening for an extend