in the faulkner focus. americans face real economic consequences as politicians are dug in. more and more lawmakers are saying that the president and the house speaker must find common ground but the house the white house sounds like it is not really interested in doing that. this is not an issue that we will negotiate on. he is not going to negotiate over avoiding default. this is congress s constitutional duty. he will not negotiate on the debt ceiling. very clear. that isn t going the change. congress needs to avoid a default. i ll leave it there without conditions. harris: without conditions. that sounded like a negotiation. for their part, house democrats are now trying to use a procedural scheme to bypass speaker mccarthy s debt bill. republican senator mike lee and senior congressional correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill. let s start with the news with chad. it is called a discharge petition, 218 members can go over the head of the speaker and put a bi
mid-atlantic states. after leaving florida, ian did make landfall earlier today near myrtle beach, south carolina, as a category one hurricane. it heavily flooded a local street. do you see this? this was a scene a few miles south and nearby pawleys island. the streets are turning into rivers look at this. the power of the storm surge as the hurricane was churning, the atlantic ocean, it sliced a peer into. as ian news northward tonight, a tornado watches now in effect for parts of the carolinas and virginia for at least one more hour until 10 pm eastern. meanwhile, back in florida, the extent of the destruction, well, it s staggering. this, that we re looking at, that is aerial video of fort myers beach. much of the committee has simply been totally obliterated. the result of a hurricane smashing into that part of florida as a massive category four storm. last night, the sheriff s office in lee county what you campuses the fort myers area, is releasing this new video, showin
quadafi raged on for 95 minutes and 8 seconds, a diatribe against the u.n. from a jumble of handwritten notes and waving a copy of the u.n. charter and pretending to rip it up. it should not be called a security council. and he made no mention of the lockerde by scotland plane. and who called him? somebody by the name of lee harvey and jack ruby called lee harvey. whyle did he kill him? mystified the u.n. and the white house i t wouldn t try to begin to explain the actions today. the speech from the libyan dictator was weird. really weird.at he called for the u.n. headquarters to be relocated to libya so that he could avoid jet lag, but remarkably, this was not even the weirdest part of quadafi s visit to the united states. the weirdest part was his attempts to find somewhere to pitch his tent literally. he liked to travel with a tent that we set up wherever he is going and not talking about a small camping tent, a big structure to hang out with entourage and
This concludes the Press Conference. Thanks, everybody. Theyre doing a photo op, but not answering any additional questions being shouted by the press. That was President Biden and the president of kenya. He is the first african leader to be given an official state visit since 2008, three days of it. David ignatius, foreign columnist and Associate Editor of the Washington Post and an msnbc contributor has been watching along with us. Look, obviously very heavily focused on foreign affairs. The 300 million the United States is going to give to fight gangs in haiti, although were going to see kenyan troops there, no american troops. He reiterated again talking about the growing debt, the problems, the Crushing Debt really for developing nations like kenya. A lot of that money owed to china. I thought the toughest question maybe, david, for President Biden was about the icc warrant on benjamin netanyahu, the International Criminal court charging as the reporter said israel of using starva
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Government had informed state Election Officials that russians tried to target Election Systems in 21 states in the leadup to the 2016 election. Of course, the other thing we know the u. S. Deterrence campaign isnt working based on the reporting of the daily beast that russians trying to infiltrate the emails of staffers of senator claire mccaskill. They were sunsuccessful. Thats why they say there need tos to be a coheercherent strategy can i ask you, though, about the mood in that building behind you there, geoff. In terms of the headlines that involve former trump Attorney Michael Cohen and the Trump Tower Meeting and russia and his allegations that President Trump knew about that meeting in advance. Whats the mood there . Reporter well, a source close to the president described
that is a crime. And it also opens up all sorts of possibilities because, if the president knew that the russians were