stephanie ruhle. speaker kevin mccarthy may hav won the battle to pass raising the debt limit, but now he i on a collision course with the urged president biden to make deal to give the u.s. from default, and economic disaster now the president can n longer put this economy in jeopardy, we - we have sent it to the senate. the majority of american overwhelmingly want us to si down and negotiate it is up to them now this afternoon, biden again insisted negotiations were out of the question. i m happy to meet with, mccarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit get extended that is not negotiable the clock is ticking, washington has until early jun to act mccarthy s bill now heads to the senate, but according to senate majority leader chuck schumer, the thing is dead o arrival. we are also following the civi rape trial involving forme president donald trump today e. jean carroll wh accused trump of sexual assaul gave explosive testimony i federal court. and we see t
good morning, it saturday apri 1st. i am ali velshi, this week marked another inflection poin from the state of th democracy. donald, trump the rookie politician who somehow made it into the white house with zero political experience, only t be disgraced as the firs president to be impeached twic while in office. it is now the first current or former president to be criminally indicted in u.s history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud, that s classified a misdemeanors and the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge stemming from the manhatta district attorney, alvin bragg s investigation of the former presidents role in th hush money payments made to th former adult film actress, stormy daniels with whom he allegedly had a affair, donald trump denie that there wasn t a fair and any interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday, daniel sa
tech strategy and trump himsel posted fine messages, many aimed at the manhattan da. his former fixer and sta witness in this case has a different idea of what is goin on with his former boss. it goes way beyondscared. way beyond afraid. he is petrified. he could put on whatever big vibrato that he wants, knowing donald trump as we all do, who s not just forget about th fact that he is a germaphobe and so the fact that he is eve going to be in this area i going to sort of make a skin crawl. trump successor meanwhil taking a hands off approach to the news are you reacting to president trump former president trump s situation? no, i have nothing to say about. that i m not going to talk about. it i will talk about th white house no comment strateg and whether they can keep it going in the face of mor criminal cases but we are going to start with this deadly tornadoes that tor through the south and midwes for you. at least 18, as was mentioned, are now confirmed dead afte
good evening. i m mehdi hasan. picture the scene. a cult leader gathers hi followers in waco, texas, as law enforcement closes in. described as a pathologica liar and comment, the cold later rails against th government, rages against th godless left, and depict himself as the chosen one. his disciples eat it up. they worship him they even vowed to give thei lives for him. now, am i describing david - the infamous leader who wa killed along with 75 of hi cold members in the fbi sieg of his waco compound in 1993 or, i might describing forme president donald trump because trump we ll be hosting his first mccartney of 2023 in waco, next weekend, on the 30t anniversary of the waco siege. and, while of course, trump is not accused of the kind of her horrific crimes and delusion that correct was, he is him choosing waco to host maga rally right now is just a little too on the nose for me. but, will he even be there i waco next saturday he doesn t seem to think so. the former pre
we report with breaking news i california and the deadl weather situation unfoldin there. another atmospheric river is slamming the state, bringing millions under flood alerts. several roads washed away, communities cut off an evacuations ordered. that threat is not over, mor rain is expected this weeken and northern california, eve more snow in fact in the sierra s let s go to nbc steve patterson, he is joining us from sanger california that is in the central part of the state. steve, welcome and what it s like there yes the central part of the state is taken a lot of this water, take a look at this community here one of the communities tha really sort of dodged a bullet here alex, take a look here th river running through rushin water, all of this though was part of that river yesterday this entire communit waterlogged water coming ove this bridge. we just saw workers plot a massive log from the strea here it was clogging things up and they worked to shore thi up but it c