start. but if you are not on twitter, you might have missed it. we will break down how it is all going to play out on the campaign trail. and then, down to the wire, debt ceiling negotiations drag on as a key credit rating agency puts the u.s. on watch. and an important conversation about kids and social media. a new warning from the surgeon general. you are going to want to hear this. the 11th hour just getting underway on this wednesday night good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. we lost an inventor . , first, florida governor ron desantis has officially jumped into the republican race for the white house. he launched his 2024 campaign with an audio only livestream on twitter. along with ceo elon musk. those big rallies or introductions from veteran republican leaders. but before desantis could make his big announcement, there was a major technical mount down, things got off to a very rocky start. now it s quiet. yeah, we want to welcome you to the store tw
good evening, alex. we have beto are joining us tonight on the one year mark since the mass murder in uvalde and andrew weissmann has pulled off a miracle. he s found a way to join us from somewhere across the sea. i don t even know where. you don t need nowhere, all you need to know, if this is gonna be there. so more a lot of time zones from, here in need a passport to be there. but this letter that donald trump s lawyers sent to the attorney general, it andrew can t contain him self. he s good he s gonna get a word in here. about. as he should, i m eager to hear what ginger westman thinks of this letter. thank you, alex. have a good, show. thank you. when your job is making decisions, in the decision to have to make the most important decisions made in the united states of america and you have been making those decisions for a teen years, it seems like the most difficult question you could ever be asked is, what is the hardest decision you ve ever had to ma
[laughter] he s found a way to join us from somewhere across the sea. i don t even know where. you don t need know where, all you need to know, if that he is gonna be there. so more a lot of time zones from, here in need a passport to be there. but this letter that donald trump s lawyers sent to the attorney general, andrew can t contain himself. he s good he s gonna get a word in here. about. as he should, i m eager to hear what ginger westman thinks of this letter. thank you, alex. have a good, show. thank you. when your job is making decisions, in the decision to have to make the most important decisions made in the united states of america and you have been making those decisions for 18 years, it seems like the most difficult question you could ever be asked is, what is the hardest decision you ve ever had to make as chief justice of the united states? where would you begin to answer that question, there must have been so many very, very, very hard decisions
default on january 1st, if a deal is not reached on the debt ceiling. the pressure weighing on president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy ahead of their next meeting which is now just hours away. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to go to first nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill ahead of the critical meeting between biden and mccarthy. we just heard from mccarthy moments ago. what did he have to say? reporter: this comes after negotiators from the white house had been meeting for three hours this morning. mccarthy took some questions from reporters about the outlines of these negotiations and i asked him specifically what he would need to see to feel like there was real progress today in his meeting with the president. here s what he told me. decisions have to start being made. it s been days now. the president has to be serious. i have been very clear from the very beginning, we are in this problem because when the democra
at this hour, you might remember this image of the man behind me, kicking his feet up on then house speaker nancy pelosi s desk during the capitol riots so how many years will he be spending behind bars for his actions on january 6th. that s next. and the horrific words the suspect said at the scene after deliberately crashing into the white house barrier monday night allegedly telling authorities he admired nazis and wanted to quote kill the president. plus, speed bump, with just eight days left before a potential default, one official tells nbc news that house speaker kevin mccarthy and his team refuse to negotiate with the white house, and then another meeting gets scheduled there. so where do things stand right now? we ve got a live report. also, the potential real world fallout if a deal is not reached by june 1st. what one veteran s group says is their primary concern. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right the