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he is now running against his former boss for the republican nomination. i have to say, mike pence has always struck me as a somewhat ridiculous figure. he always sounds like he is doing a bad impersonation of a politician. but his biggest obstacle in the republican primary is that voters do not seem to like him very much. despite his real advantage on name recognition, just 7% of republican primary voters say they would vote for pence if the primary election were held today. and this is even more damning. 37% have a negative opinion of the former vice president compared with 33% of ...

>> people -- for your vote. if we would not have joe biden in the white house. >> tonight, the effort to persuade rank and file republicans the former arizona house speaker rusty bowers on his conversations with the special counsel. then, as the ex president's body man is finally arraigned, how walt nada chose to be a defendant instead of a witness. plus, how two democratic governors used a favor republican mnuchin maneuver to turn their agendas into law and how the wildly successful rollout of the threads social media platform kicked off a billionaire battle for the ages. but >> off...

ceiling bill. the vote was 63 to 36. it comes some 24 hours after the house passed the same bill. it raises the nation's debt limit -- while also imposing new caps on spending. and now goes to the presidents desk for his signature, with four days to go before the monday default deadline. let's get straight to nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale, who has been standing by for hours and hours. all, right ali vitale. it happened. how did this whole thing go down tonight? >> yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes n...

down tonight? >> yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes negotiations here in washington covering each and every turn of them, as speaker mccarthy and his top allies huddled with top white house officials over the course of several weeks to hammer out this deal. and now the senate finishing it up in the dead of night, sending it now to the presidents desk, and avoiding default, with the days to go until that ex date deadline on monday. that's good news. and frankly, i have to tell you, that we have seen a lot of these lat...

investigators saying this -- left unchecked, the doj will impugn, leak and publicize selective aspects of their investigation. one of trump's attorneys on fox news last night. >> they don't understand. something could be marked top secret, could be marked classified. the presidential records act, he would have said this is declassified. it doesn't get a new marking all the time. he's left the office. it is a complete public spectacle. >> we should note nowhere does it mention the idea of him declassifying any of these documents. in fact, the former president's team agrees in a specia...