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
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
well, they could be, of course. and to charles s point that he is a defense lawyer s worst nightmare, of course because he s never going to keep his mouth closed. there is no evidence of that in the years and years and years of not just politics biden business, every time he faced legal issues he has repeatedly made a point of himself in public. because internally, he cares about is a general electorate. or least not the general electorate perhaps but the republican electorate, for the moment, anyway. so, he s trying to in fact talk that jury, a jury that he is convincing that this is just politics. this is just a hoax. this is not real. don t pay attention to this. that may, of course, change of indictments really do come. a priority at that point is going to be a different one, presumably. but for the moment it is politics for him. and he is trying to influence, in effect, the jury that he sees as being most important at the moment. we will be watching. peter baker and char
convincing that this is just politics. this is just a hoax. this is not real. don t pay attention to this. that may, of course, change of indictments really do come. a priority at that point is going to be a different one, presumably. but for the moment it is politics for him. and he is trying to influence, in effect, the jury that he sees as being most important at the moment. we will be watching. peter baker and charles coleman, thank you so much. when we come back, the war torn african nation leaned on a ruthless group in its time of need. but that help came out a very steep price, we have an almost unbelievable look inside the country one by russian mercer mercenaries, when the 11th hour continues. inues.
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