And lots of questions to answer, so lets get started. We begin this hour with Breaking News. The washington post, reporting that House Republicans are preparing a controversial plan. If the debt limit is breached. Ahead of whats expected to be a major showdown with the white house. Plus, talk about uncharted territory. A current and former u. S. President , both under investigation for mishandling classified materials. The difference between the two cases are worlds apart, but could documents found at bidens Office Complicate The Criminal Probe Into donald trump . And later, why liars lie . Is there a Science Behind embattled congressman, George Santos is a mountain of lies, or is gop deception just part of the new normal . All of that and more is coming up. And good saturday morning to you all. I am katie phang. We begin the hour with Breaking News. The washington post, reporting that House Republicans are preparing a controversial plan if the debt limit is breached. They threatened t
come back monday, try again. but at the very last second, there seemed to be a deal reached between gates and mccarthy. and a 15th round again. finally, kevin mccarthy was elected to be the next speaker of the house. let me close with this. i may not know all of you, some of you are new. but i hope one thing is clear after this week. i never give up. joining me now from capital of the hills nbc news capitol correspondent julie circuits. let s talk a little bit about the deal that was made to get mccarthy over the finish line, and what you re hearing about in next epsilon with congress. a lot of concessions were made. some of the moderates are really unhappy about that. because mccarthy was willing to go pretty far in order to secure the speakership gavel. one that he has been trying to get since 2015. so some of the concessions he made to some of those hard-line conservatives, including matt gates, lauren boebert, and others, have to do with the budget, have to do with
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to we begin with breaking news and atlanta. a historic event today, as president biden honors dr. martin luther king junior on what would ve been his 94th birthday. it is the first time, in fact, that a sitting president has delivered a sunday sermon and ebenezer church. here is what he said. on a stay of moran, says we gather here in this cherished of bunnies or, to commemorate what would ve been dr. king s 94th birthday. we gathered to contemplates his moral vision, and to commit ourselves to his path, to his path. hoopa leads to the beloved community, to the sacred place that sacred our, when justice rain down like waters, the righteousness of the mighty stream. back in, washingtonville of in story, the gop led push to escalates and equivocate the finding of around 20 government documents of president biden s possession. to donald trump s fight told under hundreds or government documents. we ll hear arg
and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. we begin this hour with breaking news. the washington post, reporting that house republicans are preparing a controversial plan. if the debt limit is breached. ahead of what s expected to be a major showdown with the white house. plus, talk about uncharted territory. a current and former u.s. president, both under investigation for mishandling classified materials. the difference between the two cases are worlds apart, but could documents found at biden s office complicate the criminal probe into donald trump? and later, why liars lie? is there a science behind embattled congressman, george santos is a mountain of lies, or is gop deception just part of the new normal? all of that and more is coming up. and good saturday morning to you all. i am katie phang. we begin the hour with breaking news. the washington post, reporting that house republicans are preparing a controversial plan if the debt limit is breached. the
white house has really been minimal at best since the discovery of these classified documents. you have president biden yesterday ignoring and shouting questions from reporters. twice at the white house and then for three days in a row this week, press secretary kareen jean pierre referred most of our questions about this topic to the justice department, the special counsel s office. she read statements from the white house counsel s office and reaction to the mishandling of these classified documents earlier this week. that is really essentially the posture that the white house has had since this was discovered. that is really the posture that green chunkier had when my colleague kristen welker asked her whether president biden would be willing to sit down with the special counsel if asked for an interview to be able to fully cooperate with the special counsel probe. take a listen to what she had to say. again, that is something that i do not have a magic wand here. i don