chinese surveillance balloon that flew over montana. it comes as secretary antony blinken makes his first trip to beijing. plus, a new estimate on the number of russian soldiers who have died in ukraine. it could show how desperate vladimir putin has become in this nearly year-long war. meteorologists are predicting the worst wind chills in decades in the northeast this weekend. look at that. it could get as low as negative 50 in some parts. negative 50? the times said yesterday that the top of mount washington, negative 100, willie. now, you and i, of course, have done that in some of our you know, willie and i, sometimes we ve done the antarctica thing. we do that extreme, like, mountain climbing stuff. i forget what you call it. little rough for you. minus 100, willie. yeah, well, when we summited norway excuse me summited everest, it got close to that cold. thank god there were the sherpas who helped us get up there. it gets breezy up there, too. it
continues to spawn violence across the country. meanwhile on capitol hill, the stalemate over the debt ceiling continues as the country hits its borrowing limit. we ll have the latest on efforts by the white house to find some sort of compromise. plus, the george santos saga takes another really strange turn. now there are questions about where his mother was on 9/11. also ahead, we are hours away from a decision on criminal charges in the deadly shooting on the set of rust. remember that? we ll get you caught up on the case that could come to a major development this morning. and we ll dig into new reporting on an aggressive new proposal from the biden administration as it pertains to the war in ukraine. joe has the morning off but willie and i are here in new york, and we have with us, the former aid to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. former white house communications director under president obama, jennifer
janis mackey frayer, nbc news. can t blame him. that s going to do it for me today. deadline white house starts right now. hey, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m alicia menendez in for nicole wallace. no shortage of news both here at home and abroad. the truce between israel and hamas has come to an end after seven days that saw hostages released by hamas, prisoners released by the israeli government, and a steady flow of humanitarian aid into gaza. on capitol hill, new york republican george santos became the sixth person in american history to be expelled from congress. we begin with a new ruling from a federal appeals court that ex-president donald trump can be sued in relation to the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. rejecting his bid for sweeping presidential immunity against civil claims. trump s team had previously argued that almost all of his conduct was protected while he was still an incumbent esident. including on january 6th. and that this
be diminished if i am not on this committee for one term. reporter: republicans united in voting to remove the minnesota democrat from her committee seat over since deleted tweets and comments seen as anti-semitic, critical of israel and appearing to down play 911. as a new york representative, to hear the representative belittle to try to diminish the worst terrorist attack on united states soil on september 11th, 2021, as some people did something, that is unacceptable. reporter: democrats rallying to omar s defense ahead of the vote. representative omar certainly has made mistakes, but what s going to take place on the floor today is not a public policy debate.
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