default on january 1st, if a deal is not reached on the debt ceiling. the pressure weighing on president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy ahead of their next meeting which is now just hours away. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to go to first nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill ahead of the critical meeting between biden and mccarthy. we just heard from mccarthy moments ago. what did he have to say? reporter: this comes after negotiators from the white house had been meeting for three hours this morning. mccarthy took some questions from reporters about the outlines of these negotiations and i asked him specifically what he would need to see to feel like there was real progress today in his meeting with the president. here s what he told me. decisions have to start being made. it s been days now. the president has to be serious. i have been very clear from the very beginning, we are in this problem because when the democra
serve in congress. our panel will share their thoughts on that special number. plus, the case of the ex-buffalo bill player, matt awry sa, a rookie who was cut from the team after ugly accusations went public. now prosecutors have declined to press criminal charges against him. was his career ended prematurely. and the lawsuit by parents and authors against a florida school district that s been removing books from shelves, freedom of speech versus parents rights. which one will win. let s begin with dianne feinstein and questions about her fitness for office. she was out of work for a month fighting a bout of shingles. today we learned she suffered from inflammation of the brain, something she denied to cnn earlier today. she described it as a really bad flu. her staff also confirmed today that she s suffering from a rare neurological disorder called ramsey hunt syndrome, which causes facial paralysis. the pictures of her back at work show a more frail senator than we
disney world in announcing that you re going to run for president. ron desantis, enjoy that ride. alex, i ve got a problem little struggle through here in this program. it is similar to the problem that i have with putting the words fox and news anywhere near each other. if i do, i feel like i m telling a lie. it s just not true. there is a congressional committee now where i cannot bring myself to say the name of the committee and i have to report on it tonight. i bet i know each committee you re talking about. don t say it, i can t take it. it is maybe chaired by somebody call it s fair to call him the jordan committee. the jim jordan committee, the closest i can come to. i simply can t use the name of the committee. i ll explain why in this segment as i report on the committee, while i dare not say his name. and don t forget, lawrence, i know you love the parliamentarian details of the u.s. congress, subcommittee. technically a subcommittee. not even an act
inventory. plus, the future of the most commonly used abortion method in the u.s. remains up in the air. inside the latest legal developments as federal judges could issue a ruling over access to the pill, mifepristone, at any moment. and flooding the streets, thousands of israelis marching through jerusalem s old city in annual parade that raises tensions in a divided city. we ll have a live report on the ground. the fbi revoked security clearances of three agents who took part in the insurrection on january 6th or expressed views that raised serious questions about their allegiance to the u.s. hear what two of them had to say while testifying on the hill today. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that testimony on capitol hill from those two fbi agents who claim the government is being weaponized against conservatives. ryan nobles, you re following the story for us, what did we hear today? reporter: well, we heard a long
safety confirmed this week that the man who murdered eight people at the dallas area mall harbored neo-nazi indications. he had essence wants to get tattoos on his body, posted racist, homophobic and misogynistic streets squeezed online that praise the far-right, and wore patch during his killing spree that red rwds, an acronym that means right-wing death squad. right-wing extremist ideation has become the motivating force behind a lot of violent attacks in this country. in fact, we now know that right wing extremists committed every single ideologically driven mass killing identified in the u.s. in 2022 with an unusually high proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a report by the anti-defamation league. we also know that far-right violence is not limited to senseless attacks like mass shootings. just last week, four members of the proud boys, a designated hate group, were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the deadly january 6th insurr