To exit the 2024 race. While vice president harris newly fueled campaign fuels democratic enthusiasm. In this campaign, i promise you, i will proudly put my record against his any day of the week. And former president trump floats the possibility of more presidential debates. I haven t agreed to anything. I agreed to a debate with joe biden. But i want to debate her and it will be no different because they have the same policies. And israel s prime minister addressing congress, further dividing washington as dozens of democratic lawmakers are skipping the speech in protests over civilian deaths in gaza. And thousands are expected at rallies here in washington, in opposition to american support for weapons that are fuelling the israeli war effort in gaza. Good day. I m andrea mitchell. A very busy day in washington. In prime time this evening, from the oval office, president biden is expected to explain why he decided to end his presidential campaign. Framing it as a decision to put co
The testimony from four police officers who risked their lives to protect our democracy and the members of the house and senate. The leader of the select committee says tuesday was just the first step. Nothing is off limits in this investigation. We are absolutely committed to get to the bottom of what happened. You know, there s a record and in this institution, in a democracy those records are important. We plan to pursue them. And another stunning announcement from olympic superstar simone biles today who is now withdrawing from the women s individual gymnastics allaround competition, keeping the spotlight on athletes mental health on the world s biggest stage. This is an opportunity for us, all of us, to really learn more about mental health. To help each other out. The only way that we re able to be 100% authentic self is to take care of our mental health and our physical health. That s the only way. Shaq brewster in arkansas, morgan in dallas and host of weekend today. Morgan, f
And right now those protests in cuba are expanding. U. S. Officials are warning cubans not to try to make that treacherous journey to the united states. We re going talk to the mayor where they have taken to the streets in sol darety. Nbc garrett haake is at his host on the hill. Garrett, i will start with you. Spending and infrastructure negotiations seem to really splinter off. We re hearing about so many different plans. Make it plain for us. What plan is this and what is in it? there is two bills. The bipartisan one. Roads, bridges, set that aside now. What we re talking about now is a bill that costs $3. 5 trillion that includes all of these other priorities. This new reconciliation bill that is not a bill yet, just a top line number, will include numbers for early childhood education. It will address climate change, it will expand medicare benefits, and it is a huge investment all of these other priorities that democrats ran on and they will need to do it with only democratic vot
Congress on to the desk of the president to rack up a big legislative win before the august recess and september and how can they get both at the same time with different coalitions. Andrea, exactly right. That is what the president and the white house is facing at this time. The president within the next hour will be going behind this effort after going to meet with the senate democratic caucus on capitol hill to focus these $4 trillion in new spending as it relates to the first infrastructure package and that bipartisan deal that has $600 billion in traditional infrastructure roads, bridges and other items beyond that and also this $3. 5 million and while we don t have specifics on $3. 5 trillion and what exactly would be in there, this is what the president has referred to as items that would address child care and elder care and climate change, universal prek, two years of free community college as well here. Fundamentally the challenge for the president here is in order to pass th
Passing restrictive voting measures there. I ll talk to an activist that will be at the capital in an hour rallying around these measures. Meanwhile, president biden meeting with civil rights groups about voting rights. The supreme course just delivered a major move to the white house and they re running out of options. Ly talk to someone who will have the president s ear in just a few hours. We re also going to have an important conversation about gun cull dmur this country. New york state is taking a new approach to tackling it. Coming up i will talk to fred gutenberg. And the tragic shift in surfside, florida, from rescue to recovery. We just learned in the last hour that the death toll has now risen to 60. This morning nbc news posted new reporting that this collapsed tower, that tower, could have fallen faster if the law that was repealed still existing. And a vote for voting rights. Monica alba is there ahead of the meeting. Also with me is damon hewitt. He is the president and t