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was with the agency for more than a decade has just been indicted in connection with his actions on january 6th. the accusation that his comments encouraged rioters to kill the police. that s next. plus, exclusive new footage of the moment in davenport, iowa, the building suddenly collapsing. what we now know about the three people officials say are likely still trapped in the rubble. also, off the ledge, with the u.s. no longer on the brink of an historic collapse, president biden and washington are breathing a whole lot easier today. we ll hear from the president in just a few hours as he prepares to sign the debt ceiling bill into law. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin right here in washington just five hours away from president biden s speech with nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. monica, what s the goal tonight? reporter: i think for the president, chris, it s really to convey the severity of this i ....
impact on the ground. when the chinese foreign ministry indicated that they would respond in the way they were prepared to. and it turns out the other objects are chinese origin, is there a menu of options prepared for how we deal with that? terrific hypothetical. we re just not there yet. on to the relationship issue, the chinese spy balloon, you got china buying more oil from russia. you got china opening up cases in u.s. technology from u.s. universities. and president xi is going to be meeting with the president. and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. again, let me say here, i know i m running close on time, sorry no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at balanci. at the g20, the whole purpose was to move the relationship. the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that. and he wanted to move that forward. and sec ....
challenges, it will be no easy feat to crack many conservative activists support. last night, donald trump grabbed the harness of the maga base. i m thrilled to be back at cpac. all type of activists he s relying on to catapult him back into the white house. we re going to see this battle through to ultimate victory. we are going to make america great again. at cpac, the annual conservative gatherings, a wild scene of republican enthusiasts and a crowd overwhelmingly supportive of trump s 2024 bid. donald trump. i m a maga guy through and through. there is no stopping him. what are people coming to buy? it s like 30 to 1 trump over desantis. an arena most other possible contenders opted to avoid except for nikki haley, the only major declare challenge to trump. if you re tired of losing, put your trust in a new generation. haley heckled by several on her way out. a straw poll taken at cpac shows attendees favoring trouble for florida governor r ....
the russian leader. democrat saying we have not face the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the missile crisis. i don t think there s an ability to use a nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon. look what you just heard from the president, this is stark language. you do not normally hear this from u.s. presidents. not now. and it comes as the u.s. considers how to response to a range of potential scenarios. for more let s bring in jeremy diamond. has there been any escalation from russia that prompted these remarks? reporter: there s no question there is an elevated risk of nuclear war based on the language we ve heard from the russian president but u.s. officials say there is nothing that has changed that nothing that they have seen that has changed in russia s nuclear posture. last week we heard the russian president talking about any and all means necessary to defend russian territory as he talked about the use of nuclear weapons but what we haven ....
capabilities seized at mar-a-lago. the washington post reports that one of the highly classified documents found in the fbi search last month described a foreign government s nuclear defenses writing, quote, some of the seized documents detailed top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president some members of his cabinet or a near cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to no details of these special access prog programs holding dozens of classified documents in an unsecured location months in many cases after he was asked to return them. we know it s a higher level of sensitivity and does that level of sensitivity increase the likelihood that the doj charges, a legal standard here? more charges, higher charges? more likely to charge given sensitivity? good morning. i m glad to be with all of you. i think that is probably the case. you know? the do ....