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Another term, and basically getting trump back in office by hook or by crook, and this is essentially conditioning the republican party that throw out votes that dont go their way, and intimidating republican office holders so a few of them will stand up to the trump coup that occurred after the last election. so i think that is a real danger signal for the democracy, the fact that trump is still out there pushing the big lie, that he is conditioning the republican party to go along with him, an...

Shoved out of office right now. what this is really about is setting the stage for 2024 and preventing biden from winning another term or any other democrat from winning another term and basically getting trump back into office by hook or by crook. and this is essentially conditioning the republican party to throw out votes that dont go their way and intimidating republican officeholders so that fewer of them will stand up to the trump coup next time than occurred after the last election. so i t...

An up or down vote. and so let me tell you this. theres a tendency when you have these kind of stories to just go right through them. okay, raise the debt ceiling so lets move on, right? its not the most fun thing to talk about in the news let alone in your real life. but its all related. did the democrats just live through, this week, going into tonights vote, an example where you could actually see the blinking and actually beat the narrative and actually change the rules to have omg, its poss...

Was positive. thats why the linking with tests will be important. the other thing thats going to be interesting is whether there will be further data either from this product from merck and the two other oral anti-virals, if any of those may also be used as a post exposure, which means you could give it to people after a high risk exposure so you dont have to wait until the test is positive. that might be another layer of how we make an impact. well have to wait and see what the data shows. >> t...

Iowa rally and mcconnell is getting slammed by fellow republicans for cooperating on a temporary fix to the debt ceiling. a congressional reporter daniella diaz joins us live from capitol hill. theres been some tension between donald trump and mitch mcconnell before. these attacks seemed a little bit sharper than theyve been in the past. have we heard from the minority leaders office on this? >> we have not yet, boris. but look this is not the first time that former president donald trump has sl...

Headed up by mitch mcconnell. can you believe that? mitch mcconnell. >> so youre hearing him slam not only mcconnell but the 11 republicans that voted to advance this bill that would suspend the debt ceiling until december. hes not the only republican leader to have criticized mcconnell. some conservatives in the senate also criticized mcconnell for blinking that includes lindsey graham, rand paul, ted cruz. they were really disappointed that mcconnell decided after weeks of saying he wasnt goin...

Because there is a lot of criticism with the gop from mcconnell waving and blinking on raising the debt ceiling. unclear how this is going to go. there is criticism against what schumer said on the senate floor this week where he slammed republicans for not helping with the debt ceiling. in the end, they did. >> all right. daniella diaz, thank you. power grab. snarky tweets and bizarre feud between leaders in idaho when governor brad went to the border. we have the latest from boise. >> report...

-- permanently. some in this party criticizing the leader something for for mcconnell whos normally tactful and careful. they accused him of blinking first in this staredown with democrats after raising the debt limit. he sent a letter to president biden saying in part, i will not be a party to any future effort to mitigate the consequences of democratic mismanagement. your lieutenants on capitol hill now have the time they claimed they lacked to address the debt ceiling. were told the two also ...

Shooting this morning. four people were hurt. we are new details. well take you live to the scene in a minute. im hallie jackson in washington along with our nbc news team ready to go as we watch what goes on, leigh ann caldwell at capitol hill, shannon pettypiece at the white house, guys, let me just take a pause here, because we dont want to assume that everybody knows everything about what the plan is moving forward and what the options are. so lets talk about what the options could be as it ...

>> its not a default that the president would see the secretary of state. although, blinken did meet with macron on his last visit. i think if there is a meeting, it would be perceived as a clear sign the french are signaling we can move past this. if not, i think the french is holding out. i think they want concessions. they want some kind of payback for the harm they say theyve suffered. to some degree, they might be trying to leverage more out of the administration. well see what blinking is ...