find a little grace. katie beck, nbc news, tampa. safe travels little grace kelly. and on that very beautiful note, i wish you all a very good night. thinking about chris murphy and that spiritual renaissance we all needed. 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. d of tomorrow right, now we are watching the house of representatives, or any moment the bill to avoid catastrophic default is about to face the vote on the house floor. the dynamic here, what you will see unfold tonight, the dynamic, that dynamic, was set earlier today when democrats had to bail out republicans on a procedural vote that republicans claim they could pass on their very own. prior to that, vote political reported when asked if the gop would need democratic help to pass this procedural measure, majority whip tom emmer said republicans are the ones who are running this, place and republicans will pass the bills and t
the l or barista coffee and espresso system. a masterpiece in taste it s opium in washington. there is still no deal to raise the debt ceiling, and at this hour, house republicans are holding a wig meeting to discuss what the process will be over the next few days, if in fact a deal is reached. president biden told reporters today that he is optimistic that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yes
that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yesterday. i want to be progress again today, and i want to be able to solve this problem. now speaker mccarthy has been given more time to solve this problem. treasury secretary janet yellen said today the protected debt ceiling deadline is now june 5th. in a letter to congressional leaders, secretary yellen wrote, during the week of june 5th, treasury is schedul
ticking time bomb, only 18 days until u.s. possibly default on its debt. the ripple effects across the global economy. congress leaves town without striking a deal. we re live on capitol hill with the latest. plus, a new dubious distinction for the twice impeached indicted ex president donald trump, he s the only former president of the united states to be held liable in civil court for sexual abuse. how the controversial cnn town hall where heat trump s repeated lies, could it get him more legal travel, that is ahead. and, exposing extremism, texas idaho murders online live revealed neo-nazi and white supremacy ideologies. later, who has infiltrated these far-right hate groups takes us inside these concerning surge of hispanic white nationalists. all of that is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. we re gonna start today s show with the hourglass quickly running out for congress to take action on the debt ceiling. lawmakers left capitol hill t
arrested another suspect who is on the terror watch list. he came in south of san diego. he was from afghanistan. the fbi is investigating him. he s one of dozens of terror watch list names who have crossed in to the country over the last several months. president biden though was pretty sanguin on how things are going. he s pleased since the end of title 42 last week. watch. how you think things are going at the border, sir? much better than you all expected. do you have any plans to visit the border? not in the near term, no. just be disruptive. not anything else. when i went to bo s bench at the four miles up, i met two people come up to me, a bunch of people. that s why i was late. i was taking a lot of pictures. came up and said, we want to st. paul s in scranton. martha: never know who you run into from scranton as the public changes the subject from the border to folks he ran in to on the bike path. let s go to joe concha, a fox news contributor and brandon