hello and thanks so much for joining us. i m ana cabrera in new york. it is 10:00 eastern. this morning president biden is overseas for a high stakes summit in japan. it s a delicate balancing act for the president touting the u.s. as an economic power house to the allies while simultaneously working to stop the u.s. from teetering on the brink of default. back in washington, the president s team is furiously negotiating with congressional republicans. now just two weeks left until our country runs out of money. plus, tiktok going viral, but not in montana. the state becoming the first in the u.s. to ban the popular social media app, but will it actually work? so now we re just going to start banning tiktok on a state by state basis, huh? speaking from my own page in montana here, i am going to keep posting. we ll have a live report coming up on the legal fight over the ban and on the other states that may follow suit. and new reporting this morning about how s
very good day to all of you. i m alex witt in new york. here are the top stories in the final days of 2022. we have breaking news from law enforcement officials. a person in pennsylvania has been taken into custody in connection to the gruesome murders of four idaho college students back in november. this is huge news. we will get to that. former president trump s federal tax returns made public with redactions by house democrats days before losing their majority. we will have the latest on this huge news with analysis as well. also this hour, southwest airlines trying to end a disastrous week on a high note by helping frustrated customers reach their destinations and locate their luggage. we have major developments. the new developments in the murder case involving four university of idaho students. a suspect has been arrested in monroe county, pennsylvania. taken into custody now in connection with the homicides. four law enforcement officials are telling this to nbc
getting regular updates on those negotiations as his team huddles can capitol hill negotiators in d.c. traveling with the president in japan, nbc news white house and peter baker. also with us nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake in washington and, mike, let me start with you because i m wondering what s the president hoping to accomplish on this trip, and how much is that being overshadowed by what s happening at home? reporter: well, ana, of course it s being overshadowed very clearly in the sense that the president s itinerary had to be cut short. we recall the president calling the prime minister of australia earlier this week to apologize for the fact he will not be able to stop there. he also of course we just learned in the last few hours, called the prime minister of papua new guinea to inform him that he would not be attending. he s going to be sending secretary of state tony blinken in his place. white house officials emphasizing that the president
and further to the right, when you look at desantis and trump you brought up the issue of abortion. yesterday trump was sort of doing a victory lap on the end of roe v. wade, taking credit for it. desantis is one of the governors in a republican state that issued the six week or signed the six-week abortion law into law, the bill, and he did that kind of in the middle of the night, no fanfare, he must not think that s actually really popular in a general election. the polling shows in a general election that most of the general public looks at from 12 weeks to 15 to 16 weeks. that s where the center of america is, but the two bases are either all or nothing, and right now even the republicans aren t wanting to talk about it, including donald trump doesn t want to get into specifics of where he stands on the issue of abortion. so they re looking at the polls on that and also the gender identity issue. and if i may to symone s point there, asa hutchinson is the candidate i come back
social media app, governor greg gianforte calling the new law the most decisive action of any state, adding it will protect montanans personal and private data from the chinese communist party. tiktok firing back saying the law infringes on first amendment rights promising montana residents can continue using the app as we continue working to defend the rights of our use e. the law would not only make it illegal for tiktok to operate in montana but banning app stores from making it available to download with possible fines up to $10,000 daily for each violation. it doesn t criminalize actual users conduct, it criminalizes the sale, so it targets the app sellers. that might be the app store or that might be tiktok itself. tiktok with some 150 million american users is owned by the chinese company bytedance. some critics fear that could give the chinese government