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house. the country is now just ten days out from a potentially historic default on its debt. joe biden and kevin mccarthy is still not reached a deal that would break this -- over the debt limit. tonight, they did meet one-on-one in the oval office, hours after the treasury secretary janet yellen issued a another stark warning. yellen says it is, quote, highly likely the treasury were no longer be able to satisfy all the governments obligations if there is no resolution by june 1st, me...

still quite dangerous. rescue crews are looking for survivors now five days later and the death toll is climbing. officials have confirmed 76 people have died. most in lee county where ian stormed ashore as a category 4. it is feared there had be more victims. now the power is slowly being restored in florida. more than 6,000 homes and businesses still in the dark this morning and it could be months before many are back on the grid. many dont have clean tap water, that makes the overwh...

to the un. tonight with the context, victoria coates a former advisor to the us energy secretary and long term trump staffer and anand menon, director of the thinktank uk in the changing europe. hello. welcome to the programme. it is a crucial night for the january 6th committee. this will be their eighth hearing, maybe the final televised hearing before the report is pubished in the autumn. and this is the point at which the committee mustjoin the dots for their prime time audience. t...

because this is a night where you are going to remember where you were. yes. wylie coyote, thanks. you finally caught the roadrunner. me. well, the search warrant served our mar a lago this morning, had donald trumps name on it. but the real target of this investigation isnt trump the real target of this investigation is you or anyone who dares to call out and take the rank corruption of the dc establishment. this is the deep states revenge. theyre trying to show all of us that well be...

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Justices, a moment in history. the supreme court begins its newest term with the new justice, ketanji brown jackson. what do you think is the most important thing to watch here? and what kind of influence do you think justice ketanji brown jackson will have here? >> you have to remember, this is still a 6-3 court. but in her dissents, thats where she makes a difference, or in her opinions, thats where she makes a difference for the future. its not necessarily going to move the needle at this mom...

Congress. but, you know, i dont think anybody knows what the rules are after the democrats leave power. do you does the speaker is the speaker of the house going to tear up a democratic state of the union or we have this president now that if youre a two term going to be a two term president, youre going to impeach as soon as you lose the house and youre first term is not going to be boomeranged on the democrats. does the speaker of the house have the right to remove anybody off a committee he w...

Should bring formal investigation into this when the congress returns in the fall? >> among the many other things, yes, congress should make inquiries. we should not allow the president to make these kinds of statements if he is making them to his subordinates, and then let that go unchallenged. this is what congress is here for. and we should not allow the belief that the senate may not find the president guilty and remove him from office to prevent us from doing our job. we have a mandate. we ...

Setting precedents that are going to follow us for the rest of our lives probably because you dont know what the next president will do. and he will then point to the ineffective congress that did not take action. we cannot be feckless. we have to be efficacious. >> congressman al green, thank you very much. >> thank you. for more on the presidents lawless behavior, ian bascom, and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama. she is now an msnbc legal analyst. first,...

Interpret the law? >> i think i am with him when he is setting precedents and sending a message at a moment when we have both the left and the right calling on judges to fall in line. he is telling every lower-level judge that their job is to interpret the law and to not get involved in all of the parts that is taking over the rest of the country. lets remember, roberts has pushed back, but in 2010, one president obama snubs the supreme court during the state of the union, it was roberts who sai...