billions of dollars you can burn a lot of it to turns out. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. i odmean, listen, between th two of us, buddy, one of us tweets a lot less than the other person. i like to tweet. i m a poster to my veins. but t if i may i think i have a little more self-awareness than elon musk. a little bit. okay, okay. it sy, cross talk so we can t really get into it. oh, i can t believe you re not agreeing. i support the self-awareness and certainly the conversation. thank you as always. and thank you for joining us this evening. so summer plans they re often up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this date in pen june 1test. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an importantan day, and, m, it is really coming up, really around the corner. there was some hope the debt ceiling deadline couldth be pusd off through financial hocus-pocus, but no s
headquarters in new york city. call it a perfect political storm. fresh off his headline-grabbing trip through iowa, governor ron desantis is back on his home turf, again throwing shade at donald trump. his pitch to voters just an hour ago, pick me if you want someone who won t spend all their time on cable news and social media. for me it s like okay, what s that true north? you obviously have to win or you don t get a ticket to the dance. once you do that, how are you going to be able to bring about big change to make people s lives better. president biden s surprising new southern state strategy. why his campaign is weighing a big money bid to win states like florida and north carolina. is he nervous his political firewall from 2020 won t hold? the surprising at the stougt earn border. crossings defying expectations for a third straight day, down to less than 5,000 on sunday, the lowest daily rate in two years. we ll go live to texas in just a minute. we start with
have they found a candidate as well who has some qualities of his own that might be appealing to some voters? worth remembering is beshear won that office four years ago and against a personally unpopular republican the margin is just about 5,000 votes. as far as the secretary of state race, we played an ad from michael nipper sorry, steven nipper, who was running in this primary railing against george soros and saying voters outnumbered citizens in the state. he appears to have been beat by michael adams. can you tell me more about michael adams as secretary of state who s the incumbent? yeah, he s the incumbent secretary of state who a number of issues here stood up for the integrity of elections in his state and initially has won this thing it looks like. the last i checked it s close to
opponents, both running on election fraud claims. adams took office in 2020, worked to expanderly voting and mail-in voting. now he s vowed that he won t play ball with election deniers, quote, if you cave and give in to these conspiracy theories, all it does is validate them. nbc s jane timm is with me now. what do we know about these other two candidates? the candidates are running on a lot of conspiracy theories and voter fraud claims. steven nipper said he saw election fraud online, really baseless claims he cannot prove and is arguing this is why he should be put in this position and arguing for specific policy changes, pulling out of a database that helps secretaries of state keep their voter rolls up to date. michael adams was so candid, he