politicsnation. tonight s lead, law and order. but for who? right now, president biden is flexing the legal powers of his office to address the country s deepening problems. and an exclusive interview with nbc news, the president talked about the difficult decision to send 1500 troops to the border to help is a refugee crisis. he also spoke about the possibility that he might invoke his 14th amendment authority to raise the debt limit. if he cannot convince some of the gop to back off threats to push the country, and to an economic crisis. here s the deal. i think that first of all, this is not your father s republican party. this is a different group. and i think that we have to make it clear to the american people that i am prepared to negotiate in detail with her budget. in the meantime, here in new york city, there is outrage after an alleged act of vigilante justice. a young black man s life is snuffed out on the subway. prompting tough questions about who has the ri
what happens next and how will vladimir putin use this in the war? the alleged shooter of a hospital building here in atlanta is captured hours after he killed one woman and wounded four others. authorities are trying to figure out what set him off. and the special counsel investigating possible obstruction of justice charge against donald trump issues a flurry of subpoenas to some of trump s closest allies, including two men in charge of surveillance videos at mar-a-lago. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom we kim brunhuber. it is nine a.m. in kyiv, where authorities are reporting the most intense air attacks since the beginning of the year. military official says a ukrainian air defense intercepted all incoming russian missiles. it s likely retaliation for what russia claims is a pair of ukrainian drone strikes on the kremlin, an attempt to assassinate president vladimir putin. he was not at the building at the time. and ukraine strongly denies any such involveme
president biden s focus today on the fight to raise the debt limit and the dress of consequences that could be in store for the country have no actions taken. not a single solitary has this data is not that i accumulated. but that is not that occurred of the last several years. it is 200 years of debt. 200 years. the idea that we wouldn t pay our debt is bizarre. it s estimated that we didn t pay the debt, we lose 750,000 jobs, we have a recession, would be a disaster. the idea is for the first time saying, unless you can approve this ridiculous budget what the republican mega budget is, if you pass this budget, we re not going to increase the debt limit. then we re going to go bankrupt. the white house has also warning that if the white house default, it would result in severe damage. a default according to the white house would result in hud to thousands of job losses, which could increase to millions the longer it goes on. joining me now is nbc s correspondent, a
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for energy because of the rise of renewable energy. hello and welcome to the programme. it s eight o clock in the morning here in singapore and 5pm in san francisco where the bbc s technology correspondence sat down in an unexpected interview with elon musk. the billionaire, tesla car boss and new owner of twitters in running the social media site has been painful and a rollercoaster. it s one of his first interviews since he ought twitter. it s not every day you get invited by one of the world s richest and most influential people to a sit down interview. earlier on tuesday, i d received a response to an e mailfrom mr musk let s do an interview tonight, it read. just a few short hours later, we were setting up in twitter s headquarters in san francisco. hello, how you doing? we re about to go live, very surprisingly, we onlyjust found this out, on twitter. but that is elon musk. we didn t know about that. but you never know with elon musk. when he sat down, he was in the