the white house and justice is delayed? i could. i don t want to, but i could. i mean, it s a crazy world that donald trump has dragged this country into, but he could be wearing an ankle bracelet while accepting the nomination at the republican convention. former fbi director jim comey describing a very real scenario as trump lawyers meet with the doj. and with the grand jury in the classified documents case set to meet this week. also, if trump is indicted, what are the national security ramifications when trump inevitably asks his maga faithful to avenge him? also tonight, aj owens was a loving mother of four. friday night, she was shot dead in ocala, florida. the sheriff calls it a neighborhood feud. but the family says it was a completely unjustified shooting, and they are demanding justice. members of the owens family join me tonight for their first interview. we begin the reidout tonight with what could prove to be a consequential week in the special counsel s i
ceiling bill. the vote was 63 to 36. it comes some 24 hours after the house passed the same bill. it raises the nation s debt limit while also imposing new caps on spending. and now goes to the presidents desk for his signature, with four days to go before the monday default deadline. let s get straight to nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale, who has been standing by for hours and hours. all, right ali vitale. it happened. how did this whole thing go down tonight? yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes negotiations here in washington covering each and every turn of them, as speaker mccarthy and his top allies huddled with top white house officials over the course of several weeks to hammer out this deal. and now the senate finishing it up in the dead of night, sending it now to the presidents desk, and avoiding default, with the days to go until that ex date deadline on monday. that s good news. an
we can go with the more accurate polish version, or how about the ukrainian spelling and pronunciation? the polish version probably closer to my roots. of course, i m not the only one with name pronunciation on the brain these days. florida governor ron desantis kicked off his presidential run last week, perhaps the only thing more confusing than trying to watch the campaign launch on twitter spaces was hearing the candidate s last name. i m ron desantis and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. come again. the same day that governor desantis released that video, he appeared on fox news and he said this. anybody that s so inclined to help us, i would love to have your support at rondesantis.com. this was low-hanging fruit for the trump campaign. i m ron desantis. this is governor ron desantis. hello, this is governor ron desantis, wishing everyone a merry christmas. who knew the long versus short version of a vowel could cause all this
down tonight? yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes negotiations here in washington covering each and every turn of them, as speaker mccarthy and his top allies huddled with top white house officials over the course of several weeks to hammer out this deal. and now the senate finishing it up in the dead of night, sending it now to the presidents desk, and avoiding default, with the days to go until that ex date deadline on monday. that s good news. and frankly, i have to tell you, that we have seen a lot of these late nights in the senate, having votes that are done within nine or ten or even 11 minutes is real fast by senate standards. so it does give you a sense that even though they did 11 of these amendment votes they were looking to do them as quickly as possible, just trying to get this off their plate here in the senate, and move it on. i also think it was fascinating to watch just how this vote ultimat
show, trump versus desantis. fascism versus fascism. is this what the grand old party has been reduced to in 2024? really? but, congressman jamal bowman, one of the lone defenders of tiktok, will be with me to argue against congress trying to ban it. and filmmaker an activist michael also join me on the show tonight. 20 years off from his famous anti-iraq war oscar speech. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. as we read the tea leaves ahead of the next election, the 2024 presidential election, the week we ve just enjoyed have proven to be most clarifying. well the democratic presidential nominee is almost certainly gonna be joe biden, not a lot of internal party infighting for him incite the republican nominee will be certainly one of two men. donald john trump golf club slash wedding venue mar-a-lago, and ron desantis out of tallahassee. that s it. that s the choice. forget about nikki haley, mike pence, its former president trump versus ron desantis. this week has ser