i m jose diaz ballart. with less than three weeks to the mid-term elections president biden is expected to make another major announcement today addressing gas prices. i also spoke with award winning artist lin manuel miranda and the importance of getting younger voters to the polls. it was really inspiring to hear from the young people, their bodies are on the ballot. gun violence is on the ballot. immigration is on the ballot. also breaking this morning, russia s vladimir putin declares martial law in the four regions illegally annexed last month. new explosions rocked ukraine s capital. we are live in kyiv. today former president trump is set to be deposed in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who alleges he raped her in the 1990s. this morning new york city is opening an emergency relief center that will house migrants seeking asylum. controversial effort meant to ease the overwhelmed shelter system. and with 20 days left until the mid-term elections and president b
The house of representatives the honorable Hakeem Jeffries of new york. Mr. Speaker, you may agree with this. But we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber. Or has this been about Something Else . Has this been a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. A fair question. A fair question. Nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping
Subscribers last quarter further entrenching them in the top spot among streaming services. i m so sorry we are having audio problems there. again, long story short, netflix is gaining millions of subscribers so this whole password sharing is working for that company. that s going to do it for us today. i m going to take a quick break and you ll see jose diaz ballart right now. it s 11 a.m. eastern. right now in washington, d.c., a former trump white house aide
Will have to do everything he can in order to touch as many voters as he possibly can in iowa. he spent a lot of time, he s run for president twice before. he s spent a lot of time in iowa. he s gotten great standing, deep relationships in that state. at the same time, he s got to go oun out there and have real conversations with real caucus goers. i think you ll start to see the campaign strategy shift a little bit as we get into the fall. yes, iowa voters have grown accustomed to a disproportionate amount of attention from candidates. adrienne, thank you so much. thank you, craig. we now know who is going to be moderating the first 2020 presidential debate on june 26th and 27th. my colleagues jose diaz ballart, savannah guthrie, lester holt, chuck todd and rachel maddow. they will be streamed on nbc news digital properties as well.
Through sheer force of personal experience. today bush was married to a woman born in mexico whose children are mexican-americans and sat down with jose diaz ballart in spanish to make his case. he distanced himself from donald trump s most inflammatory statements. translator: speaking in such a vulgar fashion that this makes it more difficult that is to say the problem when we have politicians that talk like this it s not progress. we should say to solve it sh not just say i m on your side. that s what trump does. you re offending millions of people but if you are here illegally it s senseless. it s mad. creating an environment where