conference at the capitol. i just got off the phone with the president, i talk to him twice today, and after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement and principle that is worthy of the american people. i expect to finish the writing of the bill, checking with the white house and speaking to the president again tomorrow afternoon, and then posting the text of it tomorrow, and then voting on it on wednesday. thank you for your time, and i think this is very worthy of the american public. we do not have the full scope of the agreement, as the speaker, noted the bill is still being written as we speak, with the intention of completing it by later today. now, from what nbc news has gathered so far, the deal will to raise the debt limit until 2020, five it will keep it roughly flat while giving a slight boost of funding to defense, and if we are providing a new controversial work r
2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham released his findings yesterday, a 300-page report. and in it, durham, who was first appointed by that attorney general william barr in 2019, accuses the bureau of acting negligently but did not reveal any bombshells, as many republicans had long claimed he would. durham found no evidence the justice department and the fbi conspired in a deep state plot to investigate trump s ties to russia in 2016. in addition, durham did not recommend any wholesale changes at the fbi. the special counsel also appears to relitigate two of the cases he lost that went to trial, in which he brought criminal charges. the durham report has been contradicted by two of the reports, including one released in 2020 by the republican-led senate intelligence committee. the committee s report as well as one from the justice department watchdog found the fbi s investigation with some laws but warranted. and said the trump campaign closed a counter inte
in japan. we are live on capitol hill with a look at where the talks stand right now. plus, let it go. for governor ron desantis cost his state a billion dollar project and thousands of jobs all because he is fighting a losing war with disney. how that disney drama and defending diversity will impact his presidential bid with desantis just days away from making it official. and later, tourist trap. america s gun crisis stretching far beyond its borders, a 700 advisories seven countries issue advisories on visiting the united states. what it means for america s seven trillion dollar tourist industry. and a good saturday morning to you all. i am katie phang. we begin overseas in japan at the g7 summit where russia s 15 month war in ukraine takes center stage. just hours ago, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy touchdown and hiroshima to meet with president biden and leaders of some of the world s most powerful democracies. zelenskyy s arrival comes just a day after bide
general bill barr name john durham to investigate the investigators and predicted he d find the crime of the century. durham didn t have much luck in the courts. now, four years after he started, durham s harshly critical report saying he relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence along with seriously flawed information has plunged us all back into the same old, familiar debate, the story that seemingly will never end. i m howard kurtz and this is the mediabuzz. howard: the report by special counsel john durham exploded like a neutron bomb, and the media are deeply divided over his conclusion that the fbi acted on such flimsy evidence that its investigation of possible collusion between donald trump and the kremlin never should have been launched. first among those claiming vindication, the former president. this was a coup that they were looking at. these are sick people. howard: and many of those on fox news and elsewhere joined in castigating the m
negotiations. we re live with where the deal stands less than two weeks before the june 1st deadline. in georgia, new reporting about when former president donald trump could possibly be charged in the investigation into whether he interfered with the 2020 election in that state. and a major development in the disney versus desantis feud. the company pulls the plug on a billion dollar project in florida. we begin this very busy hour in new york city where right now 30-year-old street performer jordan neely is being laid to rest. he died earlier this month on the subway after being held in a chokehold. the president of the national action network and msnbc host reverend al sharpton will deliver neely s eulogy. and at the request of his family. the former marine accused of putting neely in a chokehold, daniel penny, has been charged with second degree manslaughter. he has not yet entered a plea and his lawyers say neely was aggressively threatening passengers and penny ne