turkey dropped its year long objection. adding finland and sweden to nato is consequential. i still think that president putin thinks not going to do that. the question now facing nato leaders, should they welcome ukraine next even as russia wages war on that country. also ahead, historic flooding, vermont s capital surrounded by water. take a look at this. there is still danger this flooding could get even worse in the coming hours. and later details of the grand juries being seated today in georgia that could decide whether donald trump will be indicted over 2020 election interference in that state. so a lot to talk about. let s begin with the historic nato summit unfolding across the atlantic. next hour we are expecting a bilateral meeting with president biden and turkish president erdogan there in lithuania. this will be an important one to watch. after turkey dropped its objections allowing sweden to join this alliance. sweden s leader, part of this big group p
hunter biden on capitol hill, pushing back on house republicans aiming to hold him in contempt of congress and calling him out from the committee room. coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed, what are you afraid of? you have no balls. five days from the iowa caucuses, with front-runner donald trump going from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again to potentially speak at his civil fraud trial tomorrow during closing arguments. all as ron desantis and nikki haley go head to head in a gop debate tonight. and our andrea mitchell joining us from tel aviv this hour, with more of her exclusive interview with secretary of state antony blinken. with 90% of gaza s population struggling for food and growing concerns of a broadening conflict. it is 11:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. thank you so much for being here. jose diaz-balart will be up next hour. we begin with breaking news
[national anthem] [national anthem] rachel: good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 a.m. is that too loud? will: you came out of the gates hot. [laughter] rachel: just trying to bring some energy in the here. it s 6:00. a little cold outside, but it s nice and toasty in here. good to see you. i saw will coming up on what i thought was a good health habit, he was eating a baa manna, but then i found out he was drinking last night, so concern. [laughter] pete: yeah. will has, not that you re going on the able to geolocate his hotel, but he has a fancy new piano bar in the lobby of his hotel. which sounds awesome. will: when i old you about it told you about it, i didn t think be into it. rachel: sounds very billy joel. pete: i can go both ways. [laughter] rachel: he s business in the front and party in the back. pete: piano in the front, nascar in the back. boom. let s do it. will: you wake up on a sunday morning, you start your day off healthy with a banana, you get your
director christopher wray confirmed his agency believes the mohawk institute of virology was the likely source. toxic fbi has for quite some time now to assess the origin of the pandemic is the potential lab incident in wuhan. hugs my first guest says the dismissal of the elaborately theory is merely one thing so called covid experts got wrong. dr. marty makary professor with health policy at the johns hopkins bloomberg school of health and fox news medical contributive projection we him to see you again. first, white and here on the covid origin story. where do you come out on mcmoran you think the preponderance of evidence is it where it came from? constantly giddy honest person s identity .9% chance it was elaborately compared in fact to top virologists that were convened by doctor fetching himself in january 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic told him exactly that in notes obtained by fox news. this really a no-brainer. labs leak an assignment that resulted in an epi
set. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. the battle over the nation s debt ceiling is upon us. the united states just hit its borrowing limit of $31.4 trillion. and that means that the treasury department must now begin to use a series of what is called extraordinary measures to avoid default. extraordinary measures that are no longer so extraordinary since they have been they ve had to be used so often. this is a completely avoidable problem that falls entirely on congress to raise the debt limit. something that republicans with right now refusing to do without cutting spending to the actual bills that have come due, by the way. democrats say that is not on the table. if the u.s. defaults, it will cause absolute chaos in the global economy. christine romans is standing by for us with this. kind of saw this one coming, christine. but we have hit the moment. what happens now. so, kate, the clock starts now. once the u.s