Unpredictability Factor News Today

steve kornacki will join me from the big board to break it all down. this afternoon, president biden will honor the 19 children and two teachers who lost their lives one year ago today in the horrific uvalde mass shooting. after a moment of silence this hour coming up, in texas, across the state for the victims, their families and the community. good day, everyone. im andrea mitchell in washington where speaker mccarthy just outlined his views about the debt ceiling stalemate, whic...

Thats how his team sees it. as you said, audio only. it denies him the ability to have dramatic announcement pictures, which we try -- his team tried to get into that video that was posted overnight. theres also the unpredictability factor here. elon musk, known as you said to be controversial and unpredictable. who knows how tonight will go? his team, one source telling my colleague dasha burns, they had been in touch with elon musks team for weeks trying to plan this out, for his part former p...

Board with? >> yeah, really thats the big question is whats going to constitute victory? what can vladimir putin feel like he can walk away with? is there anything short of complete domination over ukraine or short of that, a protracted war, sort of like we saw in all the other russian conflicts, whether its check hnya or syri whether that would be significant for him to sell to the russian population and other russian leaders in his inside circle saying, yes, were still doing the right thing. i...

Support this week from a titan of wall street. the former head of goldman sachs who tweeted out this is like a labor strike. everyone feels the pain, but labor sometimes has to go on strike and sacrifice their own salaries in order to change the power dynamic. he said thats partly whats going on here between the united states and china. thats a voice of support from an unlikely quarter. maybe the president is going to be able to rally more of that. >> big picture question for you. the trade war ...

To try and clean up afterwards and survey some of the damages. >> you dont know whats going to happen and to what degree things will be spewing out, the toxic gases and all that. wow. heres a look at that amazing video and sound of the explosion from the most recent lava fissure, listen. so were seeing these images because of the person behind the camera, brandon clement, he is a weather chaser who really crisscrosses the country. and now he is chasing the lava floe and spew right there on the b...

With the republican establishment and whether the base will tolerate that as well. you think about his efforts in the upcoming alabama senate primary runoff. he supported the establishment favorites, luther strange, the election is on tuesday. if that goes in a different way, theres some rconcern inside th white house, will it tilt the president away from his current work with democrats, his allegiance with the current establishment. and theres the unpredictability factor. thats why no one is ma...

Ultimately toothless. but it is a very important thing. the other thing is not to harp on the fast. if we had done something other than 8 years of strategic indifference or strategic patience, would we be at a different point right now. its a good time that we have someone who is listening very incentively to his generals. >> bret: this obviously stretches across administrations. democrats and republicans. a bunch of viewers tweeting in all kinds of questions today. but this is from at speak fro...

Ultimately toothless. but it is a very important thing. the other thing is not to harp on the fast. if we had done something other than 8 years of strategic indifference or strategic patience, would we be at a different point right now. its a good time that we have someone who is listening very incentively to his generals. >> bret: this obviously stretches across administrations. democrats and republicans. a bunch of viewers tweeting in all kinds of questions today. but this is from at speak fro...

49% of the registered voters in north carolina have already voted in the pre-voting? usually its around a third of registered voters. what that suggests is were going to have an avalanche of voters in this campaign, much bigger than anybody predicted. i think thats going to introduce an unpredictability factor. >> one other factor in north carolina, theres a very competitive governors race there right now. >> good point. >> we have lot of energized democrats who want to get out there, beat the r...

Michelle, lets start with you. >> reporter: its all about preparation. people have been talking about this for weeks and the secret service has been planning for months. you could say really the planning for something like this approaches a year in its scope. secret service officers traveling to rome to look at how these kinds of events are handled there. they have their own replica popemobile they use at their own training facility here. well see large numbers of federal and local police. were ...