this is america s newsroom. a years long investigation. a grand jury brought an indictment to president trump. the charges are under seal for now. the counts number in the dozens. bill: that s sparking a firestorm of criticism for the manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. known as a soft on crime prosecutor. since he took office in january, he has downgraded more than 50% of felonies in new york to misdemeanors. he appears to be taking the opposite take against the former president. republicans calling it political persecution. manhattan d.a. s office is in contact with the former president s legal team. they re working to coordinate his surrender. a logistic call nightmare. one of the president s attorneys said the d.a. wanted when im to surrender today. the president pushed back on that and expected to happen on tuesday. bill: let s begin now. chad pergram on the hill. andy mccarthy with analysis. bryan llenas joins us outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, new york city.
i m lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters. right now are criminal charges on the horizon for former president donald trump, he s been invited to appear before the manhattan grand jury, investigating a hush money payment to stormy daniels, why legal experts say the move could signal the end is near in this investigation. also this morning, california just cannot catch a breather from this wild weather, right now 16 million are under flood alerts as parts of the state are still buried under mountains of snow and now brace for landslides and heavy rain from an atmospheric river. we re tracking the storm as folks there brace for the rare high risk of flash flooding. plus, in just the last hour and a half, we got our hands on a bigger than expected jobs report. president biden is set to talk about the report and the overall state of our economy this hour, especially as the federal reserve eyes more interest rate hikes to tackle inflation. we re going to get insight from labor s
united states and around the world. i m christine romans. house republicans say they have done their part to avert a national and global financial crisis by passing a bill to lift the debt ceiling. yeas are 217 and nays 215. the bill is passed. the republicans hope the bill they pass odd wednesday to include the deep federal spending cuts they want. speaker kevin mccarthy addressed mr. biden directly in remarks a short time later. you said at the very beginning we had to show you a plan even though the democrats have shown no plan. not only did we show you a plan we are the only ones to pass a plan, so i think it s up to you now whether the economy goes in any trouble, it s you. because the republicans raised the debt limit and you have not. cnn s phil mattingly reports on the prospect for republicans to get what they want. reporter: for weeks, house republican speaker kevin mccarthy made clear he knew the legislation republicans were trying to get through the hou
what kind of support is robert f. kennedy getting. and a major 2024 issue, what s going on at the border right now, where tens of thousands of migrants have been gathering at the mexican side and i believe some as high as 40,000 and all this have is title 42, which has allowed these cases to be adjudicated on the mexican side of the border. all of that goes away in less than three weeks. nate foy is in brownsville, texas keeping an eye on the fast moving developments. secretary mayorkas says details will be coming next week how the biden administration plans to handle the end of title 42 less than three weeks away. we re seeing illegal numbers in the fiscal year of this year and that s expected to skyrocket after title 42 ends. the danger in the communities in southern texas continues. take a look at the video. this is a chase from texas dps in kinney county. the driver in this case was smuggling three illegal migrants. the driver is from galveston in the greater houston area
kayleigh mcenany and he s due back in court wednesday and not entering a plea and authorized retention of national defense and the willful retention of classified documents and 102nd and granted in access and higher level security clearance and new details if the airman semperred government computers. the classified and sensitive information. what general will lose their job? there s only one way to look at this and bipartisan condemnation for what this young man did. they can expose sources and methods of how we spy the incompetence is stunning and it s a massive catastrophic o could your honor please that should have never have happened. one thing with the pentagon briefing and general pat writer and there s procedures and rules and processes in place. take a listen. we are safeguarding classified and in place for each of us signing a non-disclosure agreement and they have a security clearance. look, again, we have proc proces with to belabor the point and safegua