against russia this weekend. they are expected to hear in person from president zelenskyy after his appearance today at the arab league summit. we do have truth on our side. we are pushing the occupiers out of our land. the president is monitoring debt ceiling negotiations back home. the white house tries to ward off defections from progressive lawmakers angry about potential cuts in entitlement programs. this hour, disney striking back against ron desantis just days before his expected presidential campaign announcement. they scrapped plans to relocate 2,000 jobs to florida for a billion dollar new development. desantis is expected to announce next week. he told major donors, trump cannot beat biden as he makes a push to post a large campaign war chest the day he announces. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. republican debt ceiling negotiators say they are pressing pause on the talks at a critical stage in the process. in the last hour, a lead neg
thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. a we begin with this ongoing and conservative hunt for some kind of evidence or damning narrative about political opponents and how this keeps coming up empty in revealing ways. this is one a those stories that s crested this week because we had the trump era investigation end. i have new material on that, including how it s playing on the right and why that matters. at the same time, house republicans are struggling with their own investigations into the biden family. but it is telling to watch how people are dealing with the evidence this week, especially evident that was channelled but none other than a trump/barr hand picked prosecutor. part of this is playing out on a platform that s been recently discredited. i m talk about fox news, which was caught lying to their own audience and lying so badly and blatantly they were worried they broke illegal lies and they broke history the bad way work a $787 million settleme
news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, a $3 billion accounting error by the pentagon could mean more military equipment for ukraine. how exactly that happened, next. there are mounting concerns in washington about the health of california senator dianne feinstein as we learn about new details about her rocky road to recovery following multiple health challenges. how her colleagues on both sides of the aisle are responding now. plus, 2024 presidential candidate nikki haley drawing a hard line in the sand with her former boss donald trump over january 6th, pushing back on the former president s claim that it was, quote, a beautiful day, saying that rioters who broke the law should pay the price. and do your jobs, a new poll from the ap could be a wake-up call for congress and the president, with 66% of americans saying they are extremely or very concerned about what happens if leaders in washing
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,
lives to chase the american dream facing a new level of uncertainty today. even with title 42 gone, the government insists the border is not open as u.s. officials try to care for the thousands already here and brace for thousands more. plus, an ex-marine surrenders facing manslaughter charges accused of putting a fellow subway rider in a fatal chokehold. how daniel penny is defending himself about how he felt, quote, entitled to take jordan s life. and fresh off beating former president donald trump in court, e. jean carroll may be ready for another round after trump once again mocked her and called her a whack job during that televised town hall wednesday night, carroll says she s considering hauling trump back into court all over again. so a lot to get to, but right now roughly 13 hours after title 42 expired, dire predictions about a mad rush of thousands of migrants pouring over the border simply haven t come true. now, while officials acknowledge that the situation