president was in helsinki standing side by side with vladimir putin defending the russian leader. we ll take you there live. also, right now, wild weather coast to coast from tornados in chicago to flooding in the northeast, and more than 100 million americans under the thumb of a historic heat wave. we have your forecast. plus, setting the stage for another hollywood strike, first writers, now actors, what it could mean for all your entertainment. good morning, it s 10:00 eastern. thanks for being here. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin in helsinki where we are just minutes away from a joint press conference with president biden and the president of finland, nato s newest member. let s go there now with nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba. walk us through the presidents day there in finland so far. reporter: well, ana, this is really a historic cap to a week of critical meetings for president biden overseas, and he s here in finland m
from his time as even a senator. but vice a sen, vice president w been made public. that report, it is beyond. e fae biden just tried to save face with the american publicwi. it was a shocking display of his cognitive decline. we re going to play those outrageous remarks in a minute. but let s lay out the details in this report. devastating, according to the report, quote, president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vicey when presidency when he was a private citizen. investigatore was s found classd documents, including notebooks from meetingsifieds regarding hy sensitive material on foreign policy and national security, sy security carelessly stored in what appears to b ie his garage. and while what the special counsel found about biden ss handling of classified documents was alarming , what itsays a says about his cognitive statebo is quite frankly, shocking. and by the way, it should have every single american concerned about the mental
electric, one of the fighters, jumping the cage to shake trump a happened and say hello hand and say hello, he pointed at famed podcast are. joe rogan, and walked to him for a handshake and a brief chat, before fight night, trump threw jabs at his 2024 opponents first ron desantis then joe biden. i m not a big fan of his, he is highly overrated. remember he is the one that wanted to social security to raise the minimum age, you have to remember when a politician comes out with an initial plan, they go into a corner because they get killed. we have a corrupt incompetent leader in biden, we can t be kind any more. the gloves are off, jar has been open, he has been compromised. chris cr chris christie called trump a 3 time loser. on fox news sunday biden is basking inflow the glow of media s on going praise. they think you have been a great president but many people say, they are supporters, the next thing he should do is step aside and let another generation of de
the people who are affected most by high interest rates would tend to be younger households. older people, older house holders, are more likely to have paid off their mortgages they are mortgage free so they don t feel the impact of the increase in mortgage rates. you could spread the pain more broadly, so those households that, perhaps, aren t facing higher mortgage rates currently households that don t hold mortgages would potentially contribute towards the squeeze in demand by paying higher taxation. you could argue for a property tax, for example. yet there are also practical problems with using tax and spending policy to control inflation. history suggests it s hard to get the timing right, and when it comes to tax and spending political considerations often interfere unhelpfully. this is why the practice in recent decades has been to leave inflation control to the independent bank of england. however there is certainly more open thinking going on among respectab
good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart, the long awaited deal from negotiators is here. i know it s not seeming like that with all that s swirling around but this is a historic moment and i feel it. reporter: house speaker mike johnson says it is dead on arrival. life-threatening weather, has crews rescuing people amid flooding, and power outages. a deadly drone attack on a base housing u.s. troops in syria. it s the first since the u.s. launched a wave of strikes over the weekend. and in the race for president, new nbc news polling showing president biden s approval rating sinking to a new low, trailing behind former president donald trump in a general election matchup. we begin this morning on capitol hill where senate negotiators have finally released a text of a bill that would provide aid to ukraine, israel and taiwan in exchange for overhauling the nation s immigration system. after weeks of closed door meetings,