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,. good to go, all right. hello, new york. thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very special edition of why is this happening? he is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. admit it, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbc s chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. hello! thank you. oh, stop. [applause] stop it! [applause] how are you? good? thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down, sit down. thank you, that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. really, really hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, i ve got some family here. tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. in that word, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. even that as a topic seems weird, we ....
Below new york, thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for this very special addition of why is this happening . He is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart, and admit it, he is taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, msnbcs chris hayes. Hey, everybody, hello. [applause] thank you, hey, oh, stop. Stop. [applause] how are you . Good. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. That was a really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here, in my hometown of new york city. I got some family here. Tonight, we are going to talk about democracy, and that word, i think we have probably talked more about democracy than the last four or five years that i had in all of my time as a journalist. Even as a topic seems a longer. We all know, america is a democracy, and there is a history that ....
conversations from the past month. we begin this morning with a discussion about the potential dangers of a second trump presidency. editor in chief of the atlantic, jeffrey goldberg, recently joined us to discuss the publication s special issue, which features 24 writers each outlining the threats they say a second trump term would pose to the united states and the world. we have a lot of writer at the atlantic who spent many years covering different aspects of trump and trumpism, and i wanted just to pull them all together in one, easy to read package. one copy of the print magazine, obviously it s online right now at theatlantic.com. mm-hmm. i wanted our writers to describe, as best as they could, what would happen in their areas of expertise if trump became president again. the next trump presidency will be worse. the restraints will be off. there won t be any quote, unquote, adults in the world. mckay coppins has a piece, who will get jobs in the next tru ....
is descending? it is sending a message that we don t believe in democracy, we don t believe in hearing from diverse voices. we don t believe that all people are deserving of the american dream and that one single parent doesn t even have to attend, have a child at attend school in these districts that are having book spend. this is not what a democracy looks like. the american people need to ask themselves if they want the rest of the country to look like a state of florida. okay, daniela shermichael, we re going to let it rest right there. thank you so much, guys. for all of you, we have coming up in this hour vice president harris who is accomplishing something that has never been done before, that is coming up in just a moment. as we give you all a very good day from nbc news in miami, welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news in washington. kevin mccarthy saying just a short time ago that he is optimistic negotiators are closer to a deal on the ....
on tuesday, representatives of us presidentjoe biden and congressional republicans met again on capitol hill. the two sides have untiljune 1st to come to an agreement on raising the govenrment s borrowing limit, or risk the us not being able to pay its bills. some analysts have warned a default could lead to huge job losses in the us and even a global recession. stocks on wall street finished sharply lower on tuesday. despite this, optimism among leaders remains. negotiations are very hard, very difficult, both sides have to understand they won t get everything they want. we are trying to get to a budget that is reasonable and bipartisan. that democrats and republicans in the house and senate will be able to vote on and agree on. this is the process, that s why we are moving in this way, to make sure it s bipartisan, but also reasonable. that s what you all can look forward to. for the latest on this story, i spoke to cbs news congressional correspondent, nikole killion ....