the howls we re hearing from some lawmakers, it sounds like we might be. on the right, there s chip roy, congressman from texas. i m going to have some blunt conversations with my colleagues and the leadership team. i don t like the direction they are headed. freedom caucus member bob goode of virginia saying i m concerned about rumors that a deal will raise the limit more than we want. senator mike lee from utah, i will use every procedural tool at my disposal to impede a debt ceiling deal that doesn t contain substantial spending and budgetary reforms. on the left, there s the progressive caucus chair who says i think the backlash were to be significant if we are bullied into a bad deal. cori bush of missouri, it won t be helpful to biden re-election if he slashes funding on things like education. and jim clyburn who says the president should negotiate, negotiate, negotiate and then use the 14th amendment to pay the bills unilaterally if time runs out. it may sound like w
you from los angeles welcome to alex witt report, would be getting this hour o the investigation into donal trump s alleged hush money payments to film star tort stormy daniels he has been launching out on true to media today. he claims he will be arreste on tuesday clay calling th manhattan da office political. and calling for protests the manhattan da is declinin to comment but some spin campaign said th there has been no notification trump is rightly highlightin his innocence. his defenders have rallied mos notably, kevin mccarthy ca called it an outrageous abus of power by the da democrats are concerned that his social media post coul lead to violence i am just so struck b remembering back this mornin to the two impeachments that i was involved and asked unite states senator of donald trump and remembering my republica colleagues, some of my republican colleagues saying oh they believe that donal trump has learned a lesson fro these experiences. and yet, here we have to
ramping up. what our team is just hearing from the doj. plus, in memphis, a sixth officer has been put on leave at the horrific beating and death of tyre nichols, what s happening tonight, what s next in that investigation, and the new development this afternoon on the calls for more accountability on the federal level. we ll take you live to memphis and to capitol hill in just a minute. let s start here in washington. i m hallie jackson, with me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell who s with us. ryan noble, nbc news senior political editor mark murray, and julia ainsley is joins us as well. let me start with you, president biden in baltimore, set to take other trips this week, clearly meant to be a run up to the state of the union. he has a lot he wants to sell. he s also got some that s sort of a shadow hanging over him at this point. we mentioned the classified documents investigation. yes, this is the president, at least today, in a very c
policies that have already t failed and not from appearing on tv to make more bad predictions such as the case with all the smug lugg heads forecasting the political demise of donald trumpndnd. > i do think trump sentiment is waning and he s only been for abouticee 10 months. so you already see his so influence carefully, wayne. you reng going to see that continue in the next three years. ue idonald trump is having a bad morning because he s become irrelevants . never trump or republicans never known for their originality repeated the mantra we are starting to w see some of trump s influence wane that rest on, the republican party is starting to loosen. and we knowub trump s influence is waning. i m confident he would never win. president trump s influence is diminishing now that s whyll it s called wishful thinking, folks, because they desperately wanted trump gone.an they let that cloudon whatever sliver ofe. political judgment they ever had, if they had any topo beginn
motivated violent extremism. we ll bring all the resources of the federal government to bear on this case. this is the number one priority of the department of justice, and i can assure the citizens of this community that anything we can do at the federal level with this case will be done and justice will be served for the victims. on the hate crime issue as well. i asked our hate crime task force to investigate as well. it s absolutely a hate crime. i have been in touch with officials in washington and the white house on the issue of what we are doing here so aggressively as well. i appreciate the fbi investigation as well. reporter: that s the governor of the state of new york, kathy hochul along with the local district attorney from erie county talking about the horrible news out of buffalo. an 18-year-old suspect drove from the binghampton area from the pennsylvania-new york border. drove several hours west and north to the buffalo area and began livestreaming as he got