will start with paula reid. let me air the bite from kamala harris really quickly. the comments made by the prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated. we will start with paula reid , how is the white house responding to the report today beyond what we heard from vice president harris? what do we know about the interview between president biden and special counsel hur s team. reporter: damage control, spokesperson answered question for the white house press corps. the one shepherding the press through the investigation and knows that well. he fielded questions including a lot of questions about the timing of this interview with the president. was he distracted ? the way the white house is spinning this, no, we did not want to delay it or put up roadblocks, we wanted to give special counsel everything they needed. there
former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things? so for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you re also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process this? i talked about this a minute ago, and i think, you know, when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they re saying it s gratuitous, this isn t appropriate. this is inconsistent with the doj policy and practice. that s them saying it. we agree. you heard the president speak forcefully about this last night. you heard the vice president speak forcefully about this today. we agree that
on midair scares that grounded the boeing 737 max 9s. and later, millions still under flood alerts, los angeles one of the many cities under water as a record-breaking system drenches california. thanks for being with us. a lot to get to. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with the breaking news on capitol hill where we expect to hear soon from the speaker of the house. he s set to take reporters questions as republicans plan to move forward today with a vote to impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. they allege he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors by failing to secure the border. it is unclear whether republicans actually have the votes to succeed. all this comes as gop divisions threaten to sink that new bipartisan border bill. nbc s julie tsirkin is joining us from capitol hill. we ll see the speaker any minute now. what should we expect to hear from him on this impeachment vote we know house republicans have just a razor thin
hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. the next hour starts right now. as i ve been to a very good day from msnbc headquarters of new york, welcome to alex witt reports. breaking news at this hour, we have some new details to share from the biden administration on the u.s. air strikes on iran- backed targets in iraq and syria. a senior administration official told nbc news that the strikes, quote, said the strong signal about the capability that we have and other things that we are going to do. the u.s. striking five targets in seven facilities used by iran s revolutionary guard and the militants they support of the region. this is in retaliation for three american soldiers killed in jordan. a senior administration official also telling nbc news that iraq received prior warning that, of the strikes, contrary to the claims of iraqi government aggression against iraq sovereignty. we go right now to nbc s allie raffa at the white house. ali, what are we hearing from the
and, as a new, hour and you attack on the doj by donald trump. he former president upping his accusations against the department of justice as we learn about threats against individual investigators looking into trump s alleged crimes. plus the freedom caucus votes to oust representative marjorie taylor greene. why is one of the gop s loudest provocateurs this one? i will ask democratic congressman river garcia. and the president will soon leave for the nato summit after announcing new weapons will be sent to ukraine. russia is not happy about it. u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor explains why. and later, hope for millions living with alzheimer s, there is a promising new medication with unprecedented fda approval. this is american voices. reporter: how his choice of words erodes public trust in our institutions, especially because gop base. just this afternoon trump railed against the criminal investigation into his handling of classified information in