yes, he s running fo reelection, for the same reasons he ran against donal trump in 2020, because republican extremists are stil threatening american democracy - that s been the work of my first term to fight for our democracy it shouldn t be a revolution t protect our rights, to mak sure that everyone in this country is treated equally i that everyone is given a fai shot at making it. but, yo know, around the country, maga extremists are lining up t take away those bedroc freedoms, cutting social security that you paid for you entire life while cutting taxe for the very wealthy, dictatin what health care decisions whe can make, banning books an telling people who they ca love all while making it mor difficult for you to be able t vote now, polls show donald trump, the twice impeached and no indicted former presiden remains the front runner for the republican nomination. president biden s announcement video eludes to the former guy with images of the capitol insurrection
stephanie s one-on-one with two time winner of rupaul drag race james monsoon. her message for those attackin members of her community 11th hour gets underway on thi friday night good evening. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we might be just days away fro finding out whether donald trump will be indicted by grand jury in manhattan. tonight, nbc news has learne exclusive state and federal la enforcement are preparing for possible indictment as early a next week. five senior officials tell nbc this involves conducting preliminary security assessments and discussing potential security plans nbc s laura jarrett has more no charges have bee announced but behind the scene officials are focused on how t secure the area around the criminal court building in lower manhattan for what could be an unprecedented moment - a former president in cour arraigned before a judge nbc news reached out to all of the agencies involved. all have declined to comment the crux of the gr
thing. and we don t know who donald trump s opponents are going to be the race against trump wil have surprises, but because it is against trump i think we know the course o that. if ron desantis or som of the other candidates particularly our younger candidate emerges, that s different race i think in many respects because you had th generational difference betwee the democrat and republica nominees - but the issues are largely going to be the same none of these republican candidates really have covered themselves in glory in terms o protecting democracy. they are almost all seem to be okay wit abortion being banned across the entire country so you are going to have those faultlines it will be a very close race but again, listen, bill clinton, ronald reagan, even for a time george w. bush, barack obama - a lot of presidents who went o to win a second term did not exceedingly look exceedingly strong at this time in their election cycle let me ask you about this very wise thing he s
raise the debt limit - that s because we all learne in 2011. no one should play default brinkmanship. playing wit this - except that maybe mccarth is seeing the same moody s report 720,000 jobs by the end of 202 lost and if you calculate that th vast majority of those job will come before election day, there is some brinkmanship there. there is some betting on the fact that the american consume is going to feel gloomy if a whole bunch of jobs have bee lost, and they will vote joe biden out of office. this is the kind of thing that could come back and bite you on th behind if you try it. because, if that happens, if a recession, we are in an uncertain economy at the moment if a recession would happen as a result of a default an people get pointed that, republicans will have to wea that. first of all, i would actually, even with everything we have seen and all the extremism, i would like to think that no political part would seem to throw the united states economy into a receptio