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You from the nbc news center here in los angeles. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We begin with the Breaking News, Tropical Storm hilary has begun lashing the pacific coast. Live pictures from san diego in the direct path of the storm we are heavy rain is beginning to fall in parts of california, and now under a State Of Emergency. Moving to las vegas, preparations for the orders are underway there. Storm drains are being tested, and potential for historic flooding there. Heavy rain could...

latest from the front lines. plus a new search has just been announced in the missing toddler madeline mcgahn. were following these major developing stories and more all coming in right here to "cnn news central." in just a couple of hours president biden and speaker mccarthy will give it another try. they will meet face-to-face again in the ongoing staredown over the debt ceiling. so far neither leader has blinked. because of that the u.s. could default if no agreement by june 1st...

making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what weve seen in this chamber is tough. its tough to watch. its tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? thats why its important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of...

continued special coverage of todays unanimous guilty on all counts verdict in the new york criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow joined by nicole wallace and joy reid and katie phang and chris hayes. also lawrence odonnell is with us. were about to be joined by the star witness for the prosecution in this trial. michael cohen is going to speak with us exclusively giving us his first reaction to this verdict tonight. michael cohen will be joining us here i...

Hundreds of people go to work to protect the sources and methods that are inherent or embedded in the documents the president wants to declassify. so that process didnt happen. quite frankly, i dont know for sure, but i would be very surprised if donald trump at any point in his presidency said these documents are declassified. >> yeah, look, i want to get at this one caveat. in the various reporting, it has been said mark meadows recalls him trying to declassify or saying he declassified one si...

Additional changes. youre right. weve made a lot. this process didnt start this week. it started months ago. and a lot of those changes, again, have been very positive, and i support them. and there are those who want some additional changes. but there are definitely those that this is personal about him. and i dont feel that we bring personal agendas or animosities into this. we figure out a way to govern as we were elected to do in a republican majority. >> and let me just note for our viewers...

It seems to me its a very early draft, probably didnt go through coordination in the white house. it references irrelevant authorities. and it actually is a very clear violation of the posse comitatus act which means the department of defense cannot -- you cant use federal troops for domestic law enforcement. by asking dod to seize these machines is a clear violation of the law. so its pretty crazy. now, all that said, had it cleared the process and been signed out by the president, because we k...

Violation of the act which means the department of defense cannot use federal troops for domestic law enforcement. by asking dod to seize these machines is a clear violation of the law. so its pretty crazy. now, all that said, had it cleared the process and been signed out by the president, because we know the process didnt always work at the tail end of the last administration, i assume it would have been immediately, you know, several states including michigan, which was likely a target of the...

To write a assessment of the 2020 election. that couldve been a gambit to keep trump in office until at least mid february of 2021. nbcs not reviewed documents earlier on this threat -- that recalled the 2020 election, the most secure in history, had this reaction about politicals report. >> there is a very clear violation of the -- act, which means that the -- you can use federal troops for law enforcement. asking d.o.d. to seize these machines is a clear violation of the law. it is pretty craz...

That, yeah, our party has finally become what we wanted it to be, which is what donald trump represented, and, therefore, we support the republican party. thats what i think is happened. it has become the trump party without the trump name and they no longer need the trump name to brand themselves. >> victoria, that of us a real gloomy spin on something i thought might have been indicated something else. what do you make of it? thats a hell of an argument that trump has transformed the party and...