gaffes and a special counsel report highlighting his cognitive struggles. but as per usual, the mob, m the media, they raceedia to defense. take a look. i thought it was a ihot waught s good for him to show who he is. this is not handlers. this is no, thist pollsters. this was joe biden. you knowsters, t, sort of lettia everybody know kind of where he s coming from and how he feels. nd hows. i think that makes hm more youthful, more engaged, more humanaged, more relatable. do you want to give the age thing? because this is let s call it o what it is. this is ageism. snuck into a report clearing the person of any wrongdoing. if someone says you re too far left, you can tack to the centerfa. 0 year there s not. the man is 80 years old. he rides a bike. let me educate our friends in the mob, in the media, because this sea is very seri. according to the special counsel s reporto ,e bide biden presented was presented as, quote, a sympathetic, well-meaningn esented eld
everyone i m laura ingraham ande this is the ingraham angle. still in des moines tonight. we go straight to new hampshire where there is big news from vivek ramaswamy and president trump. we cannot let it happen. we cannot let it continue. we are going down and we cannot let it continue last night. i was honored to receive an endorsement of a man whoatio isb true leader and earned admiration of so maneeiendy adr. i ve been a friend even thoughid we were competing against each other.ing but i was a friend of his and we got along and he was saying he has a great president and why is he running if he calls me auy great president?very but he is a fantastic guy san gnomic guy, smart guy, tremendous ideas. he has some young ideas, too, that is a good thing. so he has a big, beautiful bright future ahead. vivek ramaswamy. [cheers and applause] come on out, vivek. [cheers and applause] let s do this, guys. it is good to see you. it is good to be back to new hampshire. we miss y
by less than half a percentage point. it was a ss t landslide. it was a l mandate. w itas was also 40 years ago. and in some ways seems even longer than that. since reagan the positivistre puregu tonight, we will examine today . republican party on the eve of yet anotheblicr presidential election. what does the party believe, what is the republican position on foreign policy, cultural issues. how if the party has changed, where is it going? california and new york, will be popular vote be in play againag for a nominee or does winninaig require running the electoral college gauntlets. we are joined tonight by four people who have worked in or around politics for decades. they are very likely to have different views on some issues and may prioritize issuesiz differently. they maye sues represent peopley differensentt orthodoxies withie party but they have come together to discuss policy and politics in the upcoming race for president. as we begin tonight we start with a quoten
$2.1 trillion we ve ever had. if i can parrot to when republicans were in the majority when they had the house, the senate and everything, they didn t cut anything. that s house speaker kevin mccarthy defending the debt limit agreement hours before the bill barely cleared a republican led house committee. we ll have a look at where the vote count stands in the full house as lawmakers from both parties continue to criticize the bill. also ahead, we re learning more about what was reportedly happening inside mar-a-lago as the justice department ramped up the pressure on donald trump to turn over classified documents. plus we ll have an update from eastern europe following another drone strike inside russian territory. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning on capitol hill where the house rules committee voted in favor of advancing the debt ceiling bill to a
i have never been so scared like i was on this trip in washington the debt limit deal and the major new test for president biden and house speaker mccarthy can they get enough votes for their breakthrough agreement to pass congress and avoid default? a warning about infant loungers tonight with more than two dozen deaths linked to various brands one family s heartbreaking story and what parents need to know. and on this memorial day the emotional reunion of vietnam veterans after 50 years how they survived prisoner of war camps. and across the country remembering all members of the military who ve made the ultimate sacrifice. and the rockets re glare announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening i m tom llamas, in for lester tonight we begin with that breaking news out of davenport, iowa. at this partially collapsed apartment building look at that a chunk of the structure crumbling to the ground as residents were inside. the gap now