Not only is he battling a crime wave but he is also facing an incompetent city council that just slashed nearly $20 million from the police budget. Seems like an odd move for a city that has seen homicides and carjackings nearly double since last year. Luckily these numbers aren t real. According to city council member carol fite. It s just propaganda. So all the hysteria that s been going on through the media and through certain other channels is just that it s hysteria and propaganda. Jesse: even if there was a crime surge wouldn t help they need to be nurtured. Investing in policing will only continue to lock folks up but not give them the nurturing that they have never had. We re attempting to do that. And this budget does not even begin to crack the surface of what is needed to do that. Jesse: just last night two armed robbers held up a tv news crew right in front of city hall as they interviewed oakland s director of violence prevention. You can t make it up. Unfortunately, the s
good evening. it is the way a lot of us have done business these last two years, video chats. but likely not with as much at stake as today s virtual face to face between two of the world s most powerful leaders according to the white house, president biden warned russia s vladimir putin against a military invasion of ukraine, promising strong economic and other measures which include increased supplies and resources to american allies of the region for his part, president putin wants guarantees against nato expansion and u.s. offensive weapons in the region. there was a lot on the agenda for the two-hour meeting but nothing more important than tensions over a build-up of tens of thousands of russian troops near the ukraine border we ll go to richar engle in ukraine in a moment first, kristen welker with the latest from the white house. reporter: tonight, in a high stakes video call the white house described as direct and useful, president biden warned russian president v
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening with the country barreling toward a financial cliff tonight, republicans may be blinking and ready to help avert catastrophe with a new offer to democrats providing an off-ramp in the showdown of raising the $28.4 trillion debt ceiling. tonight the clock is ticking. less than two weeks until the u.s. will either have to raise the borrowing limit to pay past bills or face the chilling prospect of default and potential economic disaster senate minority leader mitch mcconnell now saying he will support an extension of the debt ceiling to allow the country to pay its bills for now, a temporary solution at best. peter alexander now with late details. reporter: tonight, what could be a new short-term solution to the looming fiscal disaster top republican mitch mcconnell offering democrats a deal to allow the government to extend its ability to borrow money to pay its bills for an we view that as a victory. we view th
we ll see you again tomorrow. and now it is time for the last word, with lawrence o donnell. good evening,. lawrence good, evening alex. we re gonna have more of blaine aleksandr s interview with that for a person of the georgia grand jury. it s a 42-minute interview. we used 13 minutes of it last night. that s the most that has been shown anywhere on nbc are msnbc. there is more. there s the pat cipollone part that no one has seen before. we will get to that later in this hour. it is riveting television. i have seen some bits and pieces they did not make it to air, and you really could just screen the whole thing for you the entire hour. you really could. it s really something. and it s going to be irrelevant as soon as the district attorney fani willis makes four decision and goes forward. yes, and so that is why we much feast upon it now. it s all we have. right now it s all we have. and we have a right now, a handful of bread crumbs. i will be watching, lawren
we ll see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. we are going to have more with blayne alexander s interview with that 4% of the jury. we east 14 of eight minutes of it last night. that s the most that has been shown anywhere on nbc are msnbc. there is more. there s the pat cipollone part that no one has seen before. we will get to that later in this hour. it is riveting television. i have seen some bits and pieces that did not make it to air. and you really could just screen the whole thing for the entire hour. you really could. it s really something. and it s going to be irrelevant as soon as the district attorney fani willis makes her decisions and goes forward. yes, and so that is why we much feast upon it now. it s all we have. right now it s all we have. and we have a right now, a handful of bread crumbs. i will be watching, lawrence. thank you, alex wagner. thank you. y