monday. john roberts, great to be back after a few days not being able to talk. gillian: and glad to be back with you on the new set, it s awesome. this is america reports, the desperate search for survivors is continuing across maui. john: recovery teams with cadaver dogs going building to building with the 1,000 that remain unaccounted for. gillian: survivors reporting warning sirens never went off and crews say hydrants had no water pressure. no idea what was going on, no siren, nothing. my son was like oh, mom, is this it? what do you tell your kids? right now the government is letting us down, so it s really important that all the people of maui stick together, come together and support one another at this crazy time. some of my friends are saying you know who is missing, so and so, so and so, so and so, and that s when it clicks in my head a bit. we will build back together, find out what we could have done to prevent such loss of life. john: max gordo
derail the special counsel probe of donald trump. president biden tells the dnc and his campaign team to stay quiet about trump s indictment inside his 2024 strategy. plus, fierce fighting in ukraine as vladimir putin tries to claim kyiv s counter offensive is failing. we re live with an update on what s happening on the front lines. and breaking right now, what investors have been waiting for, a key decision from the federal reserve on interest rates. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we do begin this hour with that breaking news from the fed. cnbc s morgan brennan is here for cnbc on msnbc. i think, morgan, we re on a ten-meeting streak by the fed of raising interest rates. what just happened? hold, that is what just happened. so we had ten raises, and now we hold. the federal reserve hitting the pause button on its campaign of interest rate hikes, as i say these words, keeping the federal funds rate unchanged at 5 to 5 1/4%. this a
watching symone. i m charles enforcement sanders-townsend. crisis averted, even though no one got everything they wanted, president biden says americans got what they needed in the debt ceiling bill. today, the president signed the bill into law. we are talking to the democratic lawmaker about why she voted against it, and what happens next. and republican primaries are about to get more crowded. some high-profile republicans are jumping in next week. will that hurt donald trump, or enable donald trump? our political panel ways and. now, trump may be riding high on the campaign trail, but the thing that could be dragging him down, legal troubles. the special counsel in the classified documents case has obtained a recording of trump discussing a document he kept after leaving office. trump s lawyers said they haven t found it. we will unpack what all of that means for the investigation, as you can see, we have a lot to talk about. a resolution to the months-long a debt lim
reaction on the glitches and on desantis himself. good evening. reporter: governor ron desantis remains confident. he did his first tv interview as a presidential candidate tonight on fox news. he explain what his top three priorities would be as pres president. there s a lot you can do, ripping out biden s anti-american energy policy, which you probably could do most of that executive. and then reconstitution leising the administrative state. reporter: also, desantis who was already called ron desantis money is by former president donald trump said he is not fazed by nicknames. he says he is ready to take on his republican challengers. i don t mind being called different things. i have been called everything but a child of god as it is. it does not faze me. make sure you call me a winner because that is what we have done in the state of florida and that is what we would do nationally. reporter: the governor s video on twitter to announce his presidential run during
musk. desantis making light of last night s rocky rollout. we had a huge audience. it did it was the biggest they had had ever had. it did break the twitter space. so we re really excited about the enthusiasm but ultimately about the future of our country. lawrence: okay former president trump campaigned saying, quote: ron desantis botched campaign announcement is another example of why he is just not ready for the job. the stakes are too high in the fight to save america is too critical to gamble on first timer who is clearly not ready readyfor prime time. his re-election donation page with the caption this link works. the king of fumbles is making fun of desantis. i find that interesting. ainsley: good point. he made the announcement last night on this platform that most people don t use a lot. we were all talking about live on air. and lawrence is texting us saying it s basically a conference call. brian: trying to help us on the show yesterday. ainsley: basi