postponing all public facing royal duties. we ll go live to london. the state of emergency in california as crews race to save people and pets from flash floods triggered by a monster storm with up to 8 trillion gallons of rain expected to fall. the dramatic new images just coming in. the growing pr disaster for boeing. first it was a mid flight blow out. now it s misdrilled holes. what the faa is saying today about those 737 max planes. plus, will the fifth time be the charm? secretary of state antony blinken returns to the middle east with hopes for a new gaza truce that could lead to the release of hostages. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with nbc s meagan fitzgerald who is outside buckingham palace with the breaking news on the king s health. what do we know at this hour? reporter: chris, according to buckingham palace, we understand that as the king was undergoing treatment about a week and a half ago for a benign
jordan, before our service members were attacked we would respond. so iran and its militia groups knew we were going to respond. we also said we were going to do it at a time and place of our choosing. we planned the attack, executed the attack, we hit where we wanted to hit when we wanted to hit. of course, there will always be armchair quarterbacks, but we re confident in the steps we have taken so far and we re confident in the course we re on going forward. that s national security adviser jake sullivan responding to criticism of the retaliatory strikes for the drone attacks that killed u.s. troops in jordan. we ll go through that military action in the middle east and what could come next. plus, we ll bring you the details of the long-awaited bipartisan border deal, which is now getting pushback from members on both sides of the aisle. and also ahead, the latest nbc news polling on a biden/trump rematch. the new data is highlighting some of the president s real str
border bill. johnson said it is dead on arrival as he reveals a bill for israel alone without a cent for the war against putin in ukraine or the border. top senate negotiator, chris murphy joining us coming up. plus, the pentagon fires off a weekend barrage of preemptive strikes against houthis in yemen after friday night s strikes for the deaths of three u.s. service members. we intend to take additional strikes and additional action to continue to send a clear message that the united states will respond when our forces are attacked or our people are killed. secretary of state blinken has arrived in saudi arabia today starting his fifth shutting mission to the region since october 7th to promote a halt in the fighting in gaza in exchange for a release of hostages. and donald trump widens his lead over president biden in our new poll. steve kornacki is here to break it all down. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. senate negotiators from both parties prod
conservatives had second thoughts, and what the leaked draft did to any hope for compromise. now a year and a half later, the high court is on clean up duty. agreeing to take on the first major complication from its ruling, this one on the abortion pill. mifepristone. the decision, which could effectively ban the pill nationwide should come next june, meaning the court will keep abortion front and center in the summer before the presidential election. an issue that has repeatedly proven to boost democrats, especially as republicans are still struggling to figure out what to say on it. just listen to senators ted cruz and john cornyn on this week s decision by the texas supreme court to deny kate cox an abortion. senator, are you supportive of the texas supreme court s ruling in the kate cox case that prevented her from getting an abortion after she learned her fetus was not viable. call the press office. i have for two days, and i haven t received an answer. are you w
von hilliard. 2:00 p.m. eastern andrew mitchell picks up the coverage right now. and right now on andrea mitchell reports the white house with a strong message to israel s prime minister. scaled-down, large-scale offensive in gaza after thousands of civilian deaths. all i will say is we had an intent detailed conversation on this transition and i can t share publicly the details of that because again if i laid out for you either what i thought the is really right now or what i am inking that would just give fodder to the enemy. also this hour new hampshire s republican government governor on his decision to back nikki haley for president ahead of his state critical primary contest and on the backlash from president trump. rudy giuliani s financial fate in the hands of a d.c. jury that could award tens of millions of dollars in damages to two georgia election workers who the different disgraced former attorney publicly defamed asus claims about election fraud. go