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we need to take some action because there should be no other child that should suffer the way my son and all the other parents here have lost their children. we need to get that bill passed. the parents of tyre nichols calling for action as their son is laid to rest. we ll have much more from yesterday s service and the push to pass police reform. plus president joe biden and house leader kevin mccarthy take the first step to finding common ground on the debt ceiling. and also ahead, another day, another scandalous headline for one george santos. this one involves the fbi. we ll tell you what the feds are investigating. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 2nd, ground-hog day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with the investigation into president joe biden s mishandling of classified documents in another consensual search of one of the president s homes by the fbi. a personal atto ....
i m stephanie ruhle. new signs tonight of a legal battle brewing for the special counsel subpoena to former vp mike pence. cbs news reporting that trump s legal team is gearing up to track on the grounds of executive privilege. we learned yesterday that the jack smith subpoenaed the former vp that wants him to testify under oath that his investigation into trump s role in january 6th. jack smith is also overseeing the investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents. tonight, abc news reports his legal team [inaudible] a folder with classification markings found last month at mar-a-lago. they also turned over a laptop belonging to one of trump s current aides. abc says trump s lawyers told agents, the folder had been copied onto the laptop. so far, neither trump s legal team nor the justice department is commenting. nbc news has not confirmed this reporting. meanwhile, fbi found another classified document today at mike pence s house in indiana. disc ....
appease hard right members of his party who want major changes without the u.s. spends its money. this is how some of the same members he had to make deals with in order to win the speakership. joining us now is nbc nbc news correspondent allie raffa live from delaware where the president is spending the weekend. ali, the president is saying he is refusing to negotiate, republicans are saying they want to negotiate. where do things stand right now? yeah, unitia, well, a little bit of a hand yesterday with his remarks and president biden saying he is willing to sit down with speaker kevin mccarthy to talk about raising the debt ceiling to, quote, avoid a calamity that exceeds anything that has ever happened financially in the united states, president biden now saying exactly when and where that meeting will take place, just saying why he wants to have it, and then you have speaker mccarthy who we know has been under pressure from fellow house republicans. saying that t ....
to pay the bills. they will need to reach a deal with the new house republican majority by early june. otherwise, the u.s. will default on debt payments for the first time ever. at the white house yesterday, president kateri discussed a potential meeting between the president and speaker mccarthy. the president is looking forward to meeting with speaker mccarthy. we have been very clear about where we stand when it comes to the debt ceiling. i have been clear, the president has been clear. it should not be used as a political football. we have nbc news correspondent standing by for us. julie, what more can you tell us about this debt ceiling flight? they immediately responded on twitter to that invitation. president biden, i accept your invitation to sit in and discuss the irresponsible government spending. i m told no official meeting date or time has been set. this is for the continued public back and forth between mccarthy in president biden. we will sit down ....
here in the uk, 2022 saw the highest number of excess deaths outside the covid pandemic in half a century. and france tries again to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. it s an unpopular reform that didn t go well last time it tried. we ll be live in paris. we start in ukraine. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine s army is facing an extremely difficult situation as fighting continues in the eastern donbas region. the focus is the salt mining town of soledar. the uk defence ministry says it s likely that russian forces including wagner group mercenaries now control most of the town. we ll be taking a look at why it s become central to this conflict. but first, here s president zelensky. translation: and what did russia want to win there? i everything is completely destroyed. there was almost no life left. thousands of their people are gone, the whole land in soledar is covered with the corpses of the invaders and scarred from the strikes. this is what madne ....