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members at a base in jordan. joining us now, nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons joins us from erbil, iraq. we do not have keir yet. we are waiting to get him. we are waiting to get in to you some of our correspondents waiting at the pentagon. help us understand the planning that did or did not go into this attack, the targets of this attack, the significance of this group. again, this is breaking news happening as we come on the air. we have learned that there has been a strike against an iran-backed armed group in iraq. the pentagon suspects led the broad coalit...

and sbc host, jen psaki. that interview coming up in minutes. and a very good day to all of you from nbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news, right, now the senate is holding a sunday session as lawmakers scramble to lockdown a last-minute deal on funding for both ukraine and israel. this comes after republican scrapped a bipartisan border deal that would have finalized that budget for wartime. we have a live report ahead for you. of course, that wartime aid, in the meantime. a second vote on -- all hundred mayorkas impea...

our border since just october 1. almost 8 million since president biden's inaugural. those are all record-breaking numbers. the records have been broken and broken again. so clearly there's a crisis. everyone acknowledges this. congress and the president are not acting to do anything to fix it or to reverse this situation at this point. the huge numbers that we talk about all the time, they are numbers. they're important. they impact american cities. they impact the national security of our country and the bottom line of all of that. no one knows any of this better than border patrol...

code that is washington, d.c., border security is a political issue. but if we leave the 202 area code, everywhere else in the country, this is not a political issue, it's a national security issue. and when you actually go to the border patrol council, those that see the chaos day-to-day, they're saying, "send us some help." >> when you are handed the keys to the, you know, kingdom as it were, when you have the majority, there is an expectation that you will be able to govern. we have just struggled with that over and over again. it's a big leadership challenge that we need to find ...

government classified documents a whole lot different than the treatment afforded to his prede predecessor. let's go to peter doocy with the latest. >> president biden has no issues with his memory, so they think the special counsel must have felt pressure to put that in his report. >> republicans in congress and elsewhere have been attacking prosecutors who aren't doing what republicans want politically. >> here's the thing. that is what democrats are starting to do now as well. >> the comments that were made by that prosecutor gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate. so the way th...