hour of chris jansing reports. i m alex witt. ahead for us, kevin spacey on trial. the oscar award winning actor appears in court on multiple count of sexual assault. we re live in london. plus, a scathing report in the wake of jeffrey epstein s death. the d.a. blasts prisoner workers for multiple failures. a russian missile strike targets a crowded ukrainian restaurant right at dinner time. also, trump s growing legal woes, word that his former lawyer, rudy giuliani, met with the special counsel s office. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments. we will begin with nbc s vaughn hillyard who s following the latest trump legal troubles. what can you tell us about rudy giuliani and the legal team. rudy giuliani is a lynch pin in so many of what is a large web around january 6th and the special counsel s investigation. at this point in time, we know that in fulton county in the district attorney s investigation there, he has already been togethe
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with the most important sales pitch in washington this week selling the deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the call that was scheduled for two hours ago has not happened yet. a default could be disastrous to the u.s. and that threat still looms ominously. up on capitol hill there are lawmakers from both parties grumbling. passage is not guaranteed at this point. let s go to priscilla alvarez. what is there to make of this biden/mccarthy phone call. do we think that s going to happen any time now? any update on that? reporter: there s every expectation that this call will happen. it hasn t happened yet according to a source i spoke with half an hour ago. president biden when he arrived at the white house earlier this afternoon did say that the intent of this call was to, quote, dot the is and cross the ts. when asked weahether there were any sticking point, he said none. throughout the day, w
a deadly chokehold by a stranger on a new york city subway car. why this incident spaurrked a homicide investigation and important conversations about mental illness and vigilantism. and then the fight gets under way to overturn an abortion ban in one state, a ban dating back to 1849. you heard that right. years before the civil war. decades before women could even vote. we re talking to the attorney general who filed the lawsuit. welcome to the lead. we begin in our politics lead. a major milestone in the prosecution of the pro trump rioters who stormed the capitol on january 6, 2021. and an effort to in an effort to forcibly keep trump in power after his resounding and legitimate election defeat. today four members of the far right proud boys militia group were found guilty by a jury of seditious conspiracy in their roles in the teek. these are of course the same extremists donald trump declined to condemn during a presidential debate in september 2020. what do you
trial alex murdaugh visited the scene of the crime. murdaugh s defense will make closing arguments. ma maggie sees what happenedd she comes running over there to her baby. wealthy buckhead neighborhood to break away from the city. murder up 44% in buckhead. time for a change. everybody wants to vote on this. so let us volt. it s the american way. four astronauts into space. 3, 2, 1. full power. and liftoff. go dragon, go falcon. brian: hi, everyone we wake up well it s not good news. straight to a fox news alert. new jersey state trooper is shot during duty. the shooting happened in the town of patterson about 20 miles northwest of new york city. the trooper was hit in the leg and taken to the hospital. two others were also taken to the hospital to be checked out. it s unclear what injuries they sustained right now. law enforcement officers from around the area are searching for the two suspects. one already in custody. we will bring you more on the breaking n
captions by vitac www.vitac.com by this time tomorrow night, kevin mccarthy down the next speaker of the house or he could be the frustrated would-be speaker. house republicans could still be fighting over who the next speaker will be. that s where we could be tomorrow because that s where we are tonight. nothing is certain for republicans right now. what is certain is what gop members tend to do with their majority because they ve said so. they intend to investigate the biden administration. we have details on that now from our randi kaye. we would love to talk to people in the biden family. reporter: republican congressman james comer of kentucky, as the incoming chair of the house oversight and reform committee, he s determined to investigate whether joe biden and his son, hunter, are, as he puts it, compromised. this evidence raises troubling questions about whether president biden is a national security risk and about whether he is compromised by foreign gove