I just this is such a symbolic moment for this White House. And for this president. Obviously you hit it at the biggest point here. The president has delivered on a Campaign Promise to get the united states out of its longest war despite concerns about what the fallout would be. Despite concerns about repercussions. That has happened. We saw the last flight leave. And now the president has to talk about what happens next. Before he does that, i think he needs to answer several key questions im told will be a key component of the speech today. That is what The American presence or efforts in afghanistan are going forward particularly giveren the fact there are still more than 100 american citizens that want to leave the country that are still on the ground. There are hundreds if not thousands of afghan allies who wanted to leave the country who are on the ground. We heard from the secretary of state. Tony blinken laying out the diplomatic efforts and process the u. S. Is launching and g
plus deepening legal roles with the former president, as amanda alvin bragg turns the screws on trump s former cfo. and later, our conversation with abortion providers here in new york as they prepare for the possible and of mifepristone, and another southern state passes a strict ban on most procedures. plus, the dreamers take on desantis in florida state capital, we will speak with two of them, they went to tallahassee to confront lawmakers face to face and more. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a fight over the nation s debt limit as the deadline to reach a deal is now less than two weeks away. it is a show down the world is closely watching. as house republicans threaten to use our economy as a pawn to force spending cuts. nbc news has learned a, quote, candid discussion on the desk limit house republicans stretched late into the night friday. however, house speaker kevin mccarthy nowsays that negotiations won t resume until president biden retur
manhattan d.a. alvin bragg turns the screws on trump s former cfo. and later, our conversation with abortion providers here in new york as they prepare for the possible and of mifepristone, and another southern state passes a strict ban on most procedures. plus, the dreamers take on desantis in florida state capital, we will speak with two of them, they went to tallahassee to confront lawmakers face to face and more. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a fight over the nation s debt limit as the deadline to reach a deal is now less than two weeks away. it is a show down the world is closely watching. as house republicans threaten to use our economy as a pawn to force spending cuts. nbc news has learned a, quote, candid discussion on the desk that limit between the white house and house republicans stretched late into the night friday. however, house speaker kevin mccarthy now says that negotiations won t resume until president biden returns to the u.s.. bac
anger. could that turn florida blue? it s still a long shot but it does give dems another opportunity to say look, voters, this is what happens when you let the other guys win. and while dems have this opportunity, republicans are hoping for their own opportunity on an issue they think they have the upper hand. let us start with abortion. joining us now, washington post national reporter covering abortion, car caroline kitchened matt dixon. you guys have done a lot of reports on what s happening in florida. matt, this ruling, talk to me about the political underpinnings of it. yeah, it s a huge win for democrats here in florida who haven t had a win in a decade or more. the biden campaign released a memo yesterday first given to nbc news that sort of said they re going to build their florida strategy around the issue of abortion and really tieing it to yesterday s two-part rulings. so democrats are really hoping this is going to sort of put florida s battleground state ag
he is a heck no on trump care. i m a heck no on this. i think they ve got problems with the vote. i ve personally spoken to 29 of my conservative colleagues who are no on this as of today and we re not even counting the moderate republicans who are a no. i think they ve got a lot of arm twisting to do between now and thursday if they re going to pass this bill in the house. does he sound scared to you? because congressman massey was in the room today when donald trump came to the house of representatives to urge republicans to vote for the bill. here is how congressman massey describes tough guy donald trump. threatening and pushing around all those republicans who oppose the bill. he was very charming. there was some light-hearted jabs at his opponents in the room but it was all in good fun. light-hearted jabs. that ought to do it. that s what tough guy trump is delivering to republican opponents of his bill. thomas massey doesn t claim to
be a tough guy the way donald trum