missing. today an underwater dive team joined the search as we get new clues about the couple s final days together. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. our politics lead today. a white house meeting that could determine the fate of nearly the entire biden domestic agenda. right now president biden is playing host to key democratic moderates in both the house and the senate. and after that he ll meet with a group of progressive democrats who have made it clear, either both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the budget bill will pass in tandem, or neither will. in just moments i ll speak to one of those progressive democrats about what s at stake here. more than $4 trillion worth of biden priorities from investments in roads, bridges and public transportation to child care benefits and expansion of medicare. our teams are covering every angle of the story. we start with phil mattingly with a closer look at why president biden believes he s uniquely situated to strike
shooting this morning. four people were hurt. we are new details. we ll take you live to the scene in a minute. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our nbc news team ready to go as we watch what goes on, leigh ann caldwell at capitol hill, shannon pettypiece at the white house, guys, let me just take a pause here, because we don t want to assume that everybody knows everything about what the plan is moving forward and what the options are. so let s talk about what the options could be as it relates to this debt ceiling showdown. and there are new developments here. five possible outcomes, not all of them with happy endings. option 1, republicans blink and back off on their insistence that they will not join democrats to suspend the debt limit. this option just got kind of real with republicans sort of blinking with our new reporting in the last hour that senator mitch mcconnell is offering up a short term deal, but it s more of a maneuvering. the senate republicans
might not be so sure. she s with us, too. paddy harverson knows the royals secret world he used to work with with the waleses. hejoins us, too. a reminder from the stage of the truth with his new co star, actor brian cox is back. the great thing about the theatre is what we can do in the theatre, which is happening less and less in the world particularly in politics is telling the truth. and we are truth tellers. morning, morning. with me on this busy sunday, armando ianucci, writer, and satirist and of course creator of the thick of it, victoria newton, the editor of the sun, and imran ahmed, who worked for labour but now is boss of the center for countering digital hate. and since armando s here, and as we talk a lot about politics, we couldn t resist a reminder of this. it s a bleep lockdown, right now! oh, come off it! we re not in a prison drama, are we? we are in a prison drama - this is th shawshank redemption, right? but with more tunnelling through bleep- b
too often in this country at another mass shooting in allen, it. just outside of dallas. eight people were killed and 7 were injured. the gunman was shot and killed by a police officer who was at the mall on unrelated call. a witness described the horrific scene. i never imagined in a hundred years i would be thurst into the position of being the first responders on site to be taken care of. the first person was clutched down covering her head in the bushes an i felt for a pulse and pulled her shead to the side an she had no face. no one could not bees effected it. it is just unfathomable to see the carnage. the morning after we are waiting for more information from authorities. but here is more from the mayor of allen, texas, last night. allen is a proud and safe city which makes today s senseless act of violence even more shocking. however i want to commend or police and fire department for their response. their training not the to hesitate to move toward the threat l
weather. he was expected to trot out his own endorsements during that event. alexis mcadams is live in sioux city, iowa force. good evening from iowa but this is a redid expect to see former president donald trump headline with they said was going to be a big rally that was sold out with thousands of people bring medicine one of the case but we did catch up with florida governor desantis. i had a chance to talk with him about what he says is a mess right now from the white house. specifically our southern border, watch. anything you want to say about the southern border what you re skiing out there? it is a disaster. it is a man made disaster that policies pretty obvious they re going to continue to about things happens because they re not going to change. the border should just be shut down. that is what you do. if this were like world war ii era they would ve shut this down in 48 hours. it s a country this not getting things done anymore and that something we are goin