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that they dont want to default. they want to avoid that, but they dont agree on how to do it. mccarthy wants to hold it at hostage in return for massive cuts on discretionary programs meaning basically everything but social security and medicare which along with defense, make up the clear bulk of the budget while president biden has been adamant that no cuts are on the table. none. so what are these guys going to talk about? and how will mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer and hakeem jeffer...

Conversations in the oval office. Is that legal . Plus, did the president ask former fbi director james comey whether he was under investigation and asked the former fbi director for loyalty . All of this as interviews expected to fill for the vacant position. We will tell you the candidates on the short list. And a deluge on the northeast. We have latest on the forecast ahead. We want to go back to the live pictures of joint base andrews. Air force one is in position with president boarding to ...

Choose which programs get money and which dont and that could impact, medicare, social security, food stamp programs and all situations would be avoided 78 times in the past. >> the problem is weve never been here before and nobody wants to test it out to see what exactly happens in a case like this. brian chung, and aly vitale and joining us is heather boucher. hopefully we wont get interrupted by a settlement. nothing is on the table. lets talk about what the white house is doing. how serious ...

Week in congress. democrats racing to avoid a government shutdown. after advancing the critical $3 ant 5 trillion reconciliation plan this week. house democrats staring down a voting on infrastructure bill. aly vitale is on it for us on capitol hill. lets talk reconciliation first. what are the biggest caveats here first for the reconciliation draft? and what happens if it fails? >> reporter: look. i think the overaveraging message is the summer break is over. lawmakers will be back in washingto...

Make murder illegal and yet people still do it. laws are not going to fix everything. >> the three-day convention wrapping up today with senator sanders, castro and john delaney. nbc news road warrior aly vitale is there for us. >> reporter: over the course of two days we have seen some highs and lows and one of the highs is bernie sanders from the crowd with the pitch for his candidacy and thanking the people with him in 2016 and whose support he is hoping to keep in 2020 but it was also a day ...

Here traveling to lynchburg, virginia. he will give the commencement address two hours from now at liberty university. that is where we find nbcs aly vitale. we have the broader look at the economy and jobs pictures for the college graduates. have we heard more about what he is expected to say? remind us of the connected tissue with the president and liberty university. >> reporter: thomas, we have been here before. january 2016. trump spoken at liberty university. and jerry falwell jr. has been...