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at this hour, the usual suspect, the federal arrest made possible by an unlikely source, the dna left on a partially eaten burrito. the senate just voted to repeal authorization for the gulf and iraq wars, but how likely is it to pass the republican-led house. also, home prices are cooling for the 7th straight month. we ll dig into latest numbers. and gun safety bills were just introduced in the last couple of hours. we have an exclusive interview with the congresswoman behind them, and two gun violence survivors from her district. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. let s start in d.c. where congressional lawmakers are deadlocked when it comes to gun laws. that doesn t mean they aren t doing anything. nbc s julie tsirkin is on the hill with new action this afternoon. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, that s right, chris. i actually just sat down with congresswoman slotkin, who was in a press conference with two students from her di ....
jake. it is unfounded. for several reasons. firstly, the banking sector overall is much better capitalized than it was in 2008. there have been huge changes. a full-scale banking meltdown crisis, is it possible? maybe. is it likely? absolutely not, so the experts say. i was talking to one such expert here in israel where i am. the tech sector which has been so badly hit by all of this. i spoke to the venture capitalist of the viola group. he said it s not a system at risk, but when it comes to runs on banks, today they can be much faster than you think. run on the bank of the world of internet is very quick. but i do believe it s an isolated, specific event. i don t think it will have huge impact. this is not 2008. reporter: putting that into wider view, it s certainly going to hit the technology sector because tech borrowed from these institutions, but the speed at which the regulators moved shoring up the depositor savings making it clear investors won t be bailed ....
the president absolute was involved in this decision. he ordered it at the recommendation of pentagon leaders. he wanted it taken down and they did that. space i would try to glean the low down the chute on second object taken down over our airspace in less than a week for this time our reaction is a whole lot different whole lot quicker. here s at least we know for the time being. the threat to civilian flight was pretty clear given the altitude the thing was flying at. that is why the president ordered it shot down. but, this is what we still do not know, where did it come from and why did it take a reporter asking about it for us to hear about it fully 11 minutes into a white house press conference. questions will be asked of the top republican on the armed services committee. key democrat on the senate foreign relations committee tim kaine. they are both here and how will our relationship would try to play out in the 2024 campaign? maybe it already is. new hampshire ....
Authorizations. it s been in place for decades. garrett, i understand this just passed the senate in the last 90 minutes or so. what about the house? the repeals of two war authorizations of the first iraq war both passed in the senate. a fairly comfortable margin after a long debate and an amendment process, and that process may be key to their future in the house. i say that because when the bills have been on the floor in the house, we have seen enough republicans to join democrats to vote in favor of those repeals that this could be done. speaker mccarthy has made it clear, he wants to see the repeals go through a committee process in the house. go through kind of the old fashioned legislative process before they come to the floor. there may not be the majority of house republicans in favor of repealing these two aumfs. if they would have enough votes to come to the floor, the speaker himself may choose not to put them there. he hasn t been asked about this ....