tru trump s baseless conspiracy theories about voting fraud have devolved into an exercise into delegitimizing the election. chris krebs, the cyber security chief donald trump fired for accurately declaring the 2020 election secured. here he is with our own katy tur begging his party to take a stand. what we re seeing is a coordinated effort to intimidate republicans from speaking up and accepting the outcome. i spoke up. i defended the constitution, i put country over party and i suffered the kwoconsequences, you ll still suffering the consequences on a daily, hourly basis. i d do it over again, though. i don t know why others aren t. i suspect based on my experience in part they are, you know, they don t want to be put in this position but there s also the political implications and political suicide as i ve heard some say by coming to speak up. it s just time to get past this. this has to stop. everyone republicans need to stand up for the country. some of the dang
hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka wit field. we begin with breaking news out of southern california where a major oil spill off the coast is called a potential ecological disaster. the leak three miles off the coast of huntington beach and experts estimate as much as 126,000 gallons of post-production crude spilled out from an offshore oil production site. the imypacts to wildlife are visible. oil has started to wash ashore with dead fish and birds. natasha is live for us at huntington beach. do we know how this happened and has the leak been stopped in any way? a lot of questions that are still unanswered at this time, we don t know how this started and according to orange county supervisor katrina foley who i believe is a guest on your show coming up, will tell you that the responsible party is trying to repair this leak right now. everything is still sort of ongoing and not a whole lot of clarity at this time, but we do know that this i
video campaign offering russians a secure way to safely share secrets about the war in ukraine. inside that strategy, next. and the critical meeting in the next 60 minutes between president biden and kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling. what we just learned from an influential member of congress. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments for us. let s start at the white house where against backdrop of a slightly nervous wall street, that high level, high stakes meeting is about to get underway with the full faith and credit of the u.s. at stake. monica alba joins us with more. so, monica, what is the white house saying ahead of this meeting? well, much like last week when we were in this exact position, chris, when the president had invited the top congressional leaders to come to the oval office for this meeting, remember that white house officials lowered expectations, saying there wouldn t be a major breakthrough as a result of this meeting. we ar