democrat, congressman brendan boyle joins me shortly. more than 11,000 film and television writers are on strike. they go on strike after talks over pay and job security in the face of new challenges from streaming and ai collapse overnight. what luke russert has learned about dealing with grief after the loss of his father tim. do you have advice for other millennials, other young people dealing with loss? it s never easy. i realize why there s this voice in my head speaking to me about discomfort or uncomfortable feelings. when i realized that was the processing of my father s death, that i had never fully done, once i turned to it, gave it the attention it needed, it made me a better person. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the president and the speaker meet face to face for the first time in months over the debt ceiling next week, when house members return to washington as the markets are dropping today. they say the nation s cash will run out
and it wasn t. it was his assistant saying your father fainted. i knew right away something was seriously wrong because tim russert didn t faint and the horrific news was confirmed and everything went into a roll after that. at a very young age, to a point where i don t think i was able to process it at the time, for some years afterwards. you were enormously successful. yeah. as a young correspondent at nbc. you were you had the dna of a great writer, you knew politics. you were really good at that. how did you walk away from it and why in. i had this chance encounter in a conversation with john boehner of all people, the speaker of the house he called you into his office. yes. in a really fatherly way. extraordinary. he sits me down and asks me what are you doing here? i said, you invited me here. he said, no, what are you doing here. you can spend decades here on