imminent? i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. after weeks of high stick negotiations, the united states is back from the brink. in just a few hours, president biden is expected to sign the bipartisan budget agreement into law. less than 48 hours after he cleared the senate with a final vote of 63 to 36. just last night, the president abused his first ever oval office address to take it well deserved victory lap, delivering a 12-minute speech flame throwing to champion the bipartisanship that got the deal done, including commanding republican house speaker, kevin mccarthy, for his role in negotiating the bill that averted financial disaster. still, the debt ceiling has global creditors on edge. see nbc reported yesterday, the nations aaa credit rating will remain on negative watch by providence agencies like fish, when they consider the full implications and overall outlook of the united states. 31 trillion dollar debt. but, to silver linings appeared yesterday
false sense of security. right now it s under control. how? a thousand americans are dying a day. that s true. it is what it is. but that doesn t mean we aren t doing everything we can. it s under control as much as you can control it. this is a horrible plague that beset us. not under control when you compare us, as jonathan swann did, to many other countries doing far better. those comments, stunning, frankly, and with the u.s. topping 150,000 deaths so far from this virus, here is another remarkable number. in a new poll out this morning, just 13% of americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the u.s. right now. that is down a remarkable 32%, just since february. let s get to cnn s joe johns, he is at the white house where we expect to hear from the president in just minutes. joe, i think denial is a word that comes across from that interview, but also some enabling going on, right? because you have a staff there willing to supply him with gr
rocks at police officers there. meanwhile, a chaotic scene in austin, texas. an armed man shot and killed after approaching a car that drove into a crowd of demonstrators. and more violence in chicago where at least 51 people were shot just over the weekend. let s bring in byron york. teresa? trace: s chief political correspondent for the washington examiner. always good to see you, thanks for joining us this morning. you saw the pictures and images, wwe had violence over the weeked in at least a dozen cities. they say byron that there a lot of them are really in solidarity with the protesters in portland, but then you have congress members like louie gohmert saying, the real goal he believes in this situation is for these protests keep on going and eventually tried to push the president out of office. what are your thoughts on that? while the situation certainly escalated over the weekend and you had seen before that a number of democrats, commentators in the press,
prison. we will go to that courthouse live as we learn some new information from inside the courtroom. but we start, we start on this wednesday with a major turning point in the 2020 race. joe biden opening up his delegate lead against bernie sanders now. our nbc politics team put it this way. voters showed they want joe biden s restoration over bernie sander s revolution. we are getting a bit of a clearer picture of precisely how he did it, especially in key states like michigan. no one can explain how big of a blow that it all was to bernie sanders and nbc steve kornacki standing by at his trustee big board to break it down. in mississippi, this is a very simple story for joe biden and bernie sanders. we ve been talking about bernie sanders struggling with african-american voters, especially in the south. we talked about it in 2016 and talked about it earlier in this cycle and certainly saw this last night. mississippi no state will have a higher concentration of black vo