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don't come to me, i'll come to you. the president makes the trip up pennsylvania avenue as democrats set their priority list. senate majority leader chuck schumer was in the room, and now he will be here on "the lead". a plot to kill foiled in michigan as authorities arrest a man they say wanted to kill jewish lawmakers including fwf michigan's attorney general. after six weeks of testimony and more than 70 witnesses, now the jury gets the case in the double murder trial for alex murdaugh. ♪ welcome to "the lead." i'm john berman in for jake tapper. we start with our national l...

doors to get the gavel. those holdouts who were keeping the the speakership from him now have some plush committee assignments. lauren boebert, scott perry, and where they got assign and why the white house is watching so closely. our congressional reporters are here to explain what those members will now be able to do. they also learned about, more about why congressman marjorie taylor greene might have gotten so close to mccarthy, becoming one of the loudest supporters for him to get the gavel, she got two top committee assignments making past statements like this one from 2018 all...

That's a euph fix, it's -- euph fix, it's apt but it is not pretty that they can't let the country default they know that so the stronger hand for democrats, many republicans want to raise the debt limit without concessions and this fight is not going to be joined, katy, until the late string or early summer some of the i'm not surprised that there isn't a position yet. and again, there is no tenable position because the majority, the president, the senate republicans, some senate republicans, senate democrats and some house republicans, all say, no, no, no we're not going to do this. so on to...

Whom are suffering the attacks of donald trump because of that, stands up and do the right thing. but, no, it is not at all clear that one party, abiding by the norms and the rules -- i have got to tell you, this is really hard for me to say. because i am kind of a norms and rules guy. i am sort of a traditions guy. but when you have a president who is willing the violate every norm and every tradition and to continue to do so after the -- after his presidency is over, you really have to scratch your head and say, wait a minute, does that mean we need to do things that we had never contemplate...

Yamiche is reporting about the pressure from corporate leaders. it's interesting, aside from all the political posturing, at the end of the day senate republicans, mitch mcconnell, i'm sure they're getting calls from corporate donors who are saying, don't let this country default. >> yeah, they are. i think that obviously lawmakers are very sensitive to that. everybody understands a debt default would be a cataclysmic event, i don't think anybody wants to see it. but everybody was stuck in their own corners. joe manchin today suggested that he would not be open to a carve-out of the -- a filib...