the l or barista coffee and espresso system. a masterpiece in taste it s opium in washington. there is still no deal to raise the debt ceiling, and at this hour, house republicans are holding a wig meeting to discuss what the process will be over the next few days, if in fact a deal is reached. president biden told reporters today that he is optimistic that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yes
that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yesterday. i want to be progress again today, and i want to be able to solve this problem. now speaker mccarthy has been given more time to solve this problem. treasury secretary janet yellen said today the protected debt ceiling deadline is now june 5th. in a letter to congressional leaders, secretary yellen wrote, during the week of june 5th, treasury is schedul
russian probe. they said his campaign was colluding with moscow. you would think they would turn in their pulitzer prizes and apologize to the american people. nope. not a chance. the former president predicted that durham s probe would uncover, quote, the crime of the century. doesn t look like it actually did that. the whole thing is predicated on a rabbit hole conspiracy. the conspiracy theory is walking through the fevered swamps of trumpism we well, probably a career ending career reputational damage. a whole lot of nothing. four years, i don t know how many millions of dollars, how many of his friends he hired in his office to do what? the issue of basically the report. durham s report also finding the fbi gave markedly different treatment to the clinton and trump campaigns and ignored hillary s plan to tie trump to putin order to distract from her email scandal. the special counsel uncovering that both barack obama and joe biden knew about hillary s dirty d
school classmate and the powerful connection these girl scouts share that s inspiring america. this nbc news nightly news with lester holt. good evening and thank you for joining us we are on somewhat of a legal watch tonight vo involving former president trump somewhat in that the growing expectation has been fueled mainly by mr. trump himself with his unverified claim over the weekend that we be that he would be arrested on tuesday. the office has not commented on the timing of a decision on whether to prosecute. in the absence of news, key republicans have been rushing to mr. trump s defense and vilifying democrat prosecutor alvin bragg. but tonight even many of his loyalists are discouraging trump supporters from taking up the former president s call to protest. it s where we start tonight, with garrett hake reporter: the manhattan d.a. s office tonight on the verge of a fateful decision, whether to indict a former president for the first time in history, a case c
for the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now trump indicted. the first ever crimina indictment of a former president of the united states the first time in his lif that the guy is actually min held accountable for his own dirty deeds. did you think this day woul actually come with this man? karma is a bench. we don t know what happen in this event. but we do know that th republican party has decided that it s not going to take an off ramp once again. give the president some money to fight this bowl [bleep]. in washington, trump buddies in the house are still demanding that essentially d break hand over all thei evidence to them you have no jurisdictio here it will require them to b pro of money payment to poin stars, pro insurrection, pro classified documents sitting around in mar-a-lago thereafter before so many things oh, those prosecutors. this is a genuine test of how much are we are as a democracy that believes in liberty under law. and i don