another act of violence targeting a member of congress. two people in virginia, in democrat jerry connolly s district office, are attacked by a man with a metal baseball bat. this is a gentleman with a long history of mental illness. he has been engaged in bizarre behavior in the past, including violent. he decided today for whatever reason to come to us and inflict more of the same. a trump justice department special prosecutor investigating the fbi over the russia investigation for bias issues. his report after four years. not recommending any indictments. i will speak to andrew weismann about the results. mike pence and florida governor ron desantis making big moves ahead of expected announcements to take on donald trump. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. this afternoon, the second big showdown between president biden and house speaker mccarthy over the debt ceiling. a critical moment says the treasury secretary, as the president is about to leave for a
are investors starting to act on their doubts about a deal? and campaign endorsements and super pacs, they re great. but do they matter if you can t throw a punch? that s the question hanging over ron desantis and mike pence as they try to figure out how to take on donald trump. but we start with new developments surrounding a pair of mass shootings in texas and new mexico, carried out nine days and nearly a thousand miles apart, but sharing a critical heart breaking detail. both targeting people doing absolutely nothing out of the ordinary turning what should have been a normal day into a nightmare. in new mexico, three people are dead, along with a teenage suspect, after police say he opened fire on a residential street yesterday. apparently just shooting at random. it was the 225th mass shooting of the year in this country. roughly one every 15 hours. and in just about one hour in texas, we re expecting an update on surviving victims of the shooting at an outlet mall.
that wraps it up for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. chris jansing reports starts right now. good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. imagine you re inside your home with your child and someone randomly opens fire on your house with an ar-15, shooting through the walls. it happened to a mom in new mexico. her terrifying story coming up, along with chilling new 911 calls released from that mall attack in texas. they are among the latest victims on the seemingly endless list of americans who have come face to face with gun violence. plus, as the clock ticks down, the stakes go up. president biden ready to sit down with speaker mccarthy again today, trying to keep the u.s. economy from default. but the stock market may already be feeling the heat. it is down this afternoon.
current president has. i m running on an agenda that s about saying we need new leadership that sees these issues through the lens of the lives americans live every day. and quickly, did you speak to vice president biden after the debate? no, i didn t see him after the debate. thank you, ma am. congratulations. thank you guys so much. anderson, that was kamala harris making her way back down. kyung, thanks very much. seeming very, very pleased about how she did. yeah, clearly. thanks very much. i want to get everyone s take on what we just heard from senator harris. obviously she knows she had a good night on that on that platform. and she was carrying through some of the talking points that we heard from that platform. i think she took a big step forward tonight. the nature of this process is so interesting to me, you know, because it is a long, long test, and every time you do better, every time you clear a bar, the scrutiny gets more intense. stakes go up. th