affair heats up as russia announces a new set of sanctions targeting trump critics. and stacey abrams joins me. we begin tonight with the old bait and switch, we re one week away from a potential default on the national debt, every economic expert agrees would be catastrophic for our economy resulting in millions of americans becoming unemployed. interest rates on your homes, cars and credit cards shooting through the roof and a major punishing recession, a meeting between president biden and house speaker mccarthy at the white house is still ongoing as the clock ticks down to find some agreement to avert economic disaster. treasury secretary yellen warned again of an economic default saying it s highly unlikely the u.s. will run out of cash if the debt ceiling isn t solved by this. lyndon johnson was a united states senator for 12 years, quote, if you can convince the lowest white man that he s better than the best colored man, he won t notice you re picking his pocket. th
fans are hoping for another surprises, like taylor s version album releases and after last night a talk of whether travis kelce will pop up on stage again. that is all well and good. but more ian rad nick for me. thank you for letting us end on that happy note. deadline: white house starts right now. howdy friends. aloha and namaste. it is 4:00 p.m. in new york city. i m john heilemann in for nicolle wallace. we re t minus 72 hours and change away from the spectacle of sitting american presidents debating a former american president, the latter of whom just to spice things up, also happened to be a 43 four time criminal, a scoff law, with 34 scarlet f s across his wrap sheet. if donald trump gets his way, the first and maybe only presidential debate of 2024 this thursday in atlanta will be less lincoln douglas or even krend nixon than randy savage versus ricky the dragon steamboat. those are wrestlers for the record. the chain of events that led president biden to fa
truly representative society, if we want diversity to be more more than a tag line we ve got to do the work that sometimes means we don t vote for our friends, one friend over the other in order to make representation real. so, now, let s talk about the book, rogue justice, let me read the synopsis, a high-stakes washington legal thriller, tough as nails avery king. avery is a supreme court clerk who made her first appearance in while justice sleeps. she was so compelling in the first book she got another story. she s a supreme court clerk who finds herself facing a blackmail threat to the fisa court, surveillance court, most people don t know anything about it
that it least since howler, which was a 54 supreme court decision authored by justice scalia in 2008, it s become a much more permissive environment for gun ownership. the second amendment language talks about rail relegated militias at least in the home. from there things have gotten broader. so let s talk, about the supreme court, then. and robert, you re one of our supreme court gurus out there in the washington post, as i like to say. the current supreme court is set to issue a ruling in the case of new york state rifle and versus bruin, that decision is gonna come december. can you talk to us a little bit about the ruling, how could lead to the expansion of second amendment gun rights? this is a case that gun rights advocates have been
your reporting. we will be watching. let s bring in joyce, she s an nbc legal analyst. we also have robert barnes, he s a supreme court correspondent for the washington post. okay y all are gonna break this down for us from a legal perspective. so, joyce, the former president says the democratic lawmakers are using evil day to rally for universal background checks and more restrictive gun laws. even if such lies which is true, that is true. lawmakers are talking about that. even if such laws are passed on the state level, how have, and really how can judges undermine these measures? yeah, well, first it s important to say that what s being activated for common sense measures that make us all safer, nobody is coming for your guns, in the word of the former presidents. the question that you pose is what s going on in the federal courts? how will judges react. the problem that we face is