in the words of one republican senator tonight, quote, i m just pissed off. lisa murkowski is hardly the only one in her party that feels that way right now and is completely exasperated what s been happening on capitol hill. in just the last 24 hours her party lined up to sink the border bill one of their own negotiated for months. you can hear the frustration in that senator s voice, james lankford, of oklahoma how he lamented the politics have overtaken the policy. this is the pen that i was handed at that desk when i was sworn in to the united states senate. there s no reason for me to have this pen if we re just going to do press conferences. i can do press conferences from anywhere, but we can only make law from this room. no law s being made right now. senator mitch mcconnell was even among the no votes today even after he helped craft this bill, but that was after it was made clear it was not going anywhere. tonight many in the republican conference are sounding t
about their reporter evan gershkovich, who has now been detained in russia for over 300 days. a very good evening. for the first time in nearly two years, it looks like northern ireland will have a devolved government and an assembly up and running by the end of next week. last night, there was a long meeting of the dup executive, the unionist party that collapsed power sharing in february 2022 in protest at the post brexit trading rules and checks which they said undermined northern ireland s place within the united kingdom. they now believe they have the assurances they need from westminster to return to government with the nationalists, sinn fein. our ireland correspondent sara girvin has this report. across northern ireland today, people woke up to news of a political breakthrough that s been nearly two years in the making. the lack of a functioning executive for so long has caused many issues for the lives of people here. public sector workers were out on strike earlier
conference at the capitol. i just got off the phone with the president, i talk to him twice today, and after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement and principle that is worthy of the american people. i expect to finish the writing of the bill, checking with the white house and speaking to the president again tomorrow afternoon, and then posting the text of it tomorrow, and then voting on it on wednesday. thank you for your time, and i think this is very worthy of the american public. we do not have the full scope of the agreement, as the speaker, noted the bill is still being written as we speak, with the intention of completing it by later today. now, from what nbc news has gathered so far, the deal will to raise the debt limit until 2020, five it will keep it roughly flat while giving a slight boost of funding to defense, and if we are providing a new controversial work r
inning spending, consequential reforms that will rein in government overreach. there are no new taxes, no new government programs. jason: here is what we mow is in the deal: it suspends the debt ceiling until after 2024 election, no increase in non-defense spending for the next fiscal year, and it caps it at 1% the following fiscal year. it also increases defense spending and money for veterans. we re also learning it claws back some unspent covid-19 pandemic funds and cuts nearly $2 the billion in money used to hire new irs agents. it also reportedly expands work requirements for some adults receiving food stamps but no work requirement changes for medicaid. the house republicans are expected to come back to the washington on tuesday and and vote on the bill on wednesday. we ll take it up with congressman brian mast and congresswoman beth van duyne. meanwhile, china has spent the week courting african countries like the democratic republic of congo for rare either minerals
he s back in delaware for another weekend of rest and relaxation. we have full coverage of his latest cognitive malfunction. it was pretty bad. that s coming up tonight. also, england s own piers morgan will weigh in on meghan and harry. [applause] the royal couple are reportedly struggling to cope with a cartoon that made fun of them. these are people who say they want privacy, but they show up on oprah, on netflix, they write books. didn t want privacy, they want money. they are just lying to us. anyway, first we begin tonight with something really deadly serious, and america is now suffering from what is a severe violence and murder crisis. in fact, countrywide, the murder rate is at the highest point in more than 20 years and it s going higher, it seems, every day, with a 4.3% increase in 2021 alone. now, of course, you won t see any of these statistics on other networks, because they hide for example, in 2020 we had 574 riots, and they refused to call riots riots. we h