His investigation into President Joe Biden. Then, bidens soft response to china sparks another smack in the face from the Chinese Communist party, as amazingly janet yellen is served Hallucinogenic Mushrooms by her beijing hosts. The person who arranged our dinner did the order and it was a delicious mushroom dish i was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties. I learned that later. Maria what will it take for Communist China to show any respect to the Biden Administration. Former u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer on taking on china through tariffs and fees. Then the 2024 president ial race officially begins this upcoming week with the first gop debate as Vivek Ramaswamy told me here last week, the republicans are looking at young people and independents. Were bringing them along in droves with us. The difference between a 50. 1 electoral margin this cycle and a landslide is young people and i think this cant be just a 50. 1 democrat versus republican tug
at this hour, breaking news, the senate is now voting on a doomed border deal. can critical aid for ukraine and israel, though, still be saved? democrats will make a move to find out. a stinging defeat for nikki haley in nevada, trump wasn t on the ballot, but she still lost by double digits to an option labeled none of these candidates. fani willis s fight, the new support for the fulton county d.a. as trump tries to have her disqualified from his georgia election case. and a big map costs how much? the growing backlash as fast food prices take a bigger bite out of your wallet. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we want to begin with all of the dysfunction on capitol hill. nbc s ryan nobles is following that. a couple of horrible, terrible votes for the republicans last night. but now another vote. tell us what s happening and how this all fits together? reporter: yeah, chris, what we re expecting is actually a series of votes in
a cnn exclusive, we have a new poll out this hour revealing how voters feel about donald trump s multiple legal battles as the former president s delay tactics appear to be working on several criminal cases. plus kill the bill that s how the house gop are arguing that what needs to happen in the united states senate after leaders there unveiled the most substantial bipartisan border bill we have seen in neckdecade. now the republican who helped make the deal is calling out his republican colleagues for trying to torpedoing it. and the latest from the campaign trail replacing george sor soras. first up, our cnn exclusive poll, david chalian is at the wall to reveal the latest results. david, what are we seeing? we asked folks about trump trials. we said should the federal trials, specifically the jack smith trial about election subversion be resolved before the 2024 election. 48% of americans say yes, it s essential they know a verdict in this case before the electio
The Breaking News out of israel this morning, and we are seeing new israeli air strikes on gaza, and israel is saying that they are targeting the hamas terrorist there, and the new Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is in tel aviv at this moment, and moments ago we saw him really just being mobbed by Grateful Israelis and hugging and consoling survivors of the hamas terror attack, and people thanking him, and sang the Israeli National anthem and chanting usa, usa. We will hear from the Secretary Of State again with a Press Conference shortly. Now, early, Antony Blinken met with Prime Minister neta netanyahu, and you can see him standing there with the Prime Minister, and he pledged unwavering support for tisrael from america. And also, some american hostages are being held as the humanitarian crisis in gaza is deepening by the hour, and the hostages are believed to be kept underground in tunnels. Lets begin this hour with Jeremy Diamond, and you and your team had to take cover, and what
mccarthy as speaker and then we have to win the white house, so we can pushback on these extreme democrats who are trying to punish people for just being part of the political dialogue and that is not good for our country and we have to make sure that we win so we can protect these voters. maria: yeah, no, it s not good, and ordinary people want to know if the rnc is going to protect them. are you going to spend energy and time and money on that? absolutely. we have lawyers on the ground. we ve already been there, and this is part of our protect the vote initiative as well is we re going to have lawyers in every single precinct. we re going to have lawyers involved in every state. we had 19 counselors last cycle. we re going to expand that and we re going to have poll watcher s and workers but that is part of protecting the election and we also have to protect people to make sure they aren t going to be penalized for being part of the political system. maria: and real quick before yo