over a key piece of the president s domestic agenda. and plus what a member of the january 6 committee is saying about the s word, subpoenas. why lawmakers might skip asking people to testify and instead try to require them. and just who might be on that list. we have a lot to get to with you. good to be with you. i m hallie jackson in washington and we re joined by our newly minted nbc news senior congressional correspondent garrett haake, tony sporting a new title, congressional economic policy reporter for the washington post. he is also an msnbc cribber. and shannon pettypiece is at the white house. so here is the deal. you have the house possibly as soon as tonight ready to pass a bill that would avoid a shutdown by keeping the government open and running through early december. suspend the debt limit through the end of next year. which means the u.s. wouldn t default on its debts, money that has already been spent, not new spending. and it would provide about $35 bill
white house taking criticism from both sides. joe biden won t go down to the border. kamala harris won t go down to the border of the rio grande valley in del rio. they insist these problems aren t happening. the biden administration must halt all deportation of haitian migrants. of all the president s screw-ups, there is not a single one greater than the crisis at the border. it is a crisis. i m not just unhappy with the cowboys who were running down haitians and using their reins to whip them, i m unhappy with the administration. dana: we re following this from los angeles. good morning, william. story is evolving on tro fronts. the camp is shrinking to under 5,000 thanks to mexico stopping bus loads of haitians from moving north and the biden administration trying to make the nightmare disappear by deporting migrants back to haiti and releasing thousands of others to u.s. streets, bus stations and airports with no more than a piece of paper suggesting they sh
6 million jobs, wipe out $15 trillion in household wealth. nearly doubling the unemployment rate to 9%, and increase borrowing costs for all americans. it would be a catastrophe, and that s don t take it from me. let me quote mitch mcconnell when this came up during the donald trump years. mitch mcconnell said the following. he said much mcconnell stated that not supporting a debt limit suspension this is what he said. assures that congress will not throw this kind of unnecessary wrench into the gear of our job growth and thriving economy. when trump was president, they didn t want to throw a wrench, a wrench, unnecessary wrench into the gear of our job growth. today he s threatening to do just that. we are to stop holding the debt and the economy hostage. we ll do ndaa on the floor today. strengthening our security, honoring our service members, upholding our values and today we will have legislation on the security interests that we have in the middle east by putting ad
out there standing around and i told them i think they re downstairs. so when i went down there and, i get confronted, i think, oh they re actually in the building. i deny honestly didn t know they were that far in the building. they locked arms on me right away and see [inaudible] it was not a matter of leaving them alone. i think they would ve followed me anyway. i ve heard of stories of people being armed. i don t know for fact. i heard that they were actually officers that were a part of this ride group who were emailing them and, they themselves you just never know. it could ve went it could ve easily been a bloodbath. so kudos to everybody who showed a measure of restraint in regards to deadly force because they could ve been bad. really bad. yeah. officer goodman returned to work after the riot. he remains a u.s. capitol police officer. the slow drip of new information coming from investigations into that riot continue today. once significant development concer
investigation into the attack on the capitol. president trump s former attorney general william barr now talking to the january 6th committee, according to the committee s chairman. investigators are now pouring through hundreds of documents from the national archive. what we re learning tonight. an arctic blast targeting millions. bringing bitter cold but for how long? as a rare winter wildfire rages in the west. rob marciano standing by. tonight, with hospitals and staff still feeling the strain, and 80,000 confirmed covid deaths just since thanksgiving, dr. fauci today sounding more optimistic about the weeks ahead, saying omicron could peak in february. testing supplies, a tool in the fight, still hard to come by. new images tonight of that backlogged california warehouse where millions of covid tests are slowly going out for delivery. and overseas tonight, beijing olympics organizers confirming 72 positive cases with the winter games less than two weeks away. a