president and his fellow democrats first laid out nearly 16 months ago. look, this bill is far from perfect. it s a compromise. but it s often how progress is made, by compromises. and the fact is that my message to congress is this this is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care cost, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security, all the time reducing the burdens facing working class and middle-class families. so pass it. pass it for the american people. pass it for america. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent ali viatali, jason furman served as chair of the economic advisers and is professor of economic policy at harvard. i don t know how much of this you were able to listen to, jason, but if you had to sort of break it down for folks to the basics of what is, as we said, a very complex economic argument that the white house is trying to make, what is it? it s a very complex economic situation. t
between the u.s. and russia and how soon paul whelan and brittney griner could be home as we go one-on-one with national security spokesperson john kirby. i m hallie jackson in washington on this thursday afternoon. carol lee over at the white house, jake ward posted up for us in san francisco, our business reporter. carol, let me start with you. this is time number two we re hearing from the president today on the economic news of the day. reporter: that s right, hallie. what you re seeing is not just the president but across the administration, a number of officials are out talking about the economy today addressing these gdp numbers. this is an effort to try to shape the narrative. part of what you re hearing from the president, you might be hearing bad news about the economy, but it s not that bad. he s also saying this is no surprise, that the economy was always going to slow down as the fed steps in and tries to address inflation. he s pointing to things like a strong
Tonight straight from the source, Breaking News as republican hardliner matt gaetz has made good on his threat to oust House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy from his job, filing the papers tonight to at least try to for the first time in more than a century. Plus new reporting tonight, why a seething donald trump chose to show up in court today to face the judge who found him libel for fraud and the Attorney General who brought that case against him, raging at both of them on day one of his trial. And a 9yearold tonight who vanished on a camping trip has just been found alive after 400 Rescue Workers were out looking for her. A suspect is now in custody, and we have the latest. Im kaitlan collins, and this is the source. Tonight a showdown is underway on capitol hill over whether House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy can keep his job. Matt gaetz of florida, one of the rights most Defiant Hard Liners and one of mccarthys biggest detractors, has just followed through with his threat to remove Kevin Mccart
washington now in a race against the clock to try and stop a shrinking economy with president biden talking about that new gdp report just now for the second time today, hoping congress tosses a lifeline. he might get it. with democrats sprinting toward a vote on a huge bill they say will curb inflation and try to lower the temperature on recession concerns if, if they have the votes. coming in to us now, new comments, kind of, from senator kyrsten sinema. we ll tell you what she s saying or more importantly what she s not saying, as we also talk to senator amy klobuchar. another former trump whous aide, mick mulvaney, speaking with the committee today. our team the only ones to catch up with him on the way in. we re going inside that prisoner swap deal. the latest on any direct talks