counsel jack smith s other big investigation into former president trump as federal grand jurors hear more testimony that could possibly lead to new indictments. good day. i m garrett haake in washington. andrea is traveling to lithuania to cover the nato summit where russia s invasion of ukraine will continue to dominate the conversation for our allies. united states has made it clear going into this summit that a fast track for ukraine s entry into the alliance is off the table for now as the president and his diplomatic team work to sell turkey on agreeing to allow sweden to become the next nato member. the president may have to cruise use some of the nato meetings about his decision to provide ukraine with the deadly cluster munitions that his own administration has denounced. mr. biden spent the first leg of his trip solidifying the relationship betweening first with the british prime minister when traveling to windsor castle to meet with king charles where they met with
Prompting new retaliation from u. S. Forces and new fears that the violence could spread. Lets bring in Aaron Gillcrist whos covering todays diplomatic meetings in washington at the white house and Nbcs Jay Gray whos in tel aviv. Jay, starting with you. What is the latest on the ground in israel and gaza as we talk about last hour the war Cabinet Meeting last night and what may have come from that. Day 81 of the war and as intense the u. N. Says it has been since the start and as deadly. They are saying the intensity of the battles on the ground as well as the air strikes has ramped up over the last 48 hours. We know that the attacks have been targeting from the air control and command centers according to the idf. They have been working also to identify and target some of the senior hamas leaders saying that one of their air strikes did kill a leader but not saying to this point who that may be. On the ground, they are continuing to try and expose and then eliminate the Tunnel Network
prompting new retaliation from u.s. forces and new fears that the violence could spread. let s bring in aaron gillcrist who s covering today s diplomatic meetings in washington at the white house and nbc s jay gray who s in tel aviv. jay, starting with you. what is the latest on the ground in israel and gaza as we talk about last hour the war cabinet meeting last night and what may have come from that. day 81 of the war and as intense the u.n. says it has been since the start and as deadly. they are saying the intensity of the battles on the ground as well as the air strikes has ramped up over the last 48 hours. we know that the attacks have been targeting from the air control and command centers according to the idf. they have been working also to identify and target some of the senior hamas leaders saying that one of their air strikes did kill a leader but not saying to this point who that may be. on the ground, they are continuing to try and expose and then eliminate the
i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. i rise for election into the speaker of the house of representatives, the esteemed and leader of house democrats, mr. hakeem jeffries. the honorable kevin mccarthy from the state of california votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheers and applause] . neil: it s over. our long national nightmare is over. all right, which wasn t a national nightmare, i mean, it wasn t that long in the scheme of things, a few days, it just seemed like a few centuries, but it is over. kevin mccarthy at 1:39 a.m. formally getting the gavel to become speaker of the house, but it s what s left after all of that that has a lot of people wondering. alexandria hoff followed this from the beginning with how it ended. what a great compilation it was. it showed how much back and forth has happened in four days. there were moments last night where i felt like i was watching the u.k. house of commons rather
shot. you re seeing desantis change his strategy a bit. where he said he might not join the gop debate in august if trump did it. now he s saying he will because he realizes he s at risk of losing relevancy. he holds a juggernaut of a campaign. well financed, orchestrated, digital, mail, door knocking campaign. he s doing all the things right. but what will it take? a change to donald trump s status that we have not seen. so you have to look to only one thing right now. if donald trump has to go to trial before the gop nomination is secured in say march, maybe that impacts it but short of a trial, there is nothing that is in donald trump s way right now and that includes ron desantis. it s interesting because that seems to be the strategy of a lot of these candidates maybe kind of say the right things but hope the doj does their work for them and somehow gets trump out of the way but chris christie