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minority leader coming to the cameras, giving his opening statement, trailing off in the middle of a sentence and freezing there for more than ten seconds as senators around him and the press, too, just grew increasingly concerned about the moment. >> all right. ali vitali for us. thank you, we appreciate you jumping on that, and keeping an eye on that story. let's pivot here, everybody, to what took place in new york city today. 11 people have been injured in a fiery crane collapse in manhattan. video showing the moment the crane collapsed and hit a building on the street, and hit another building under construction, really startling and shocking video to watch as it plays out. rehema ellis is reporting from manhattan. good to talk to you. what do we know about the accident, why it happened, and the people that were injured? >> we just got an update, yasmin, the number of injured went from six to nearly a dozen,
welcome back, everybody, we're getting an update on senate minority leader mitch mcconnell from capitol hill. i want to go back to our correspondent on the ground there. ali vitali who has new information for us. what are you hearing? >> news moving really fast this afternoon, yasmin. we are obviously hearing after the minority leader told reporters themselves, i'm fine, when he came back to the cameras, after stepping away, after freezing during his opening remarks. a mcconnell aid telling nbc news, it's because the senate minority leader felt lightheaded, and stepped away for a moment, as senator john barrasso and others helped lead him down the hallway to his office, a few steps away from where we were doing the press availability. the aide also continues to point out what we saw, which is that he came back, he did question an aide, and the in words of the aide, it was very sharp. of course, mcconnell did sound like himself during that question and answer. you played the video in the last few minutes of the senate
happening in new york. there's so much there, and now this gives them hunter biden charges to pursue and try to create some kind of equivalence between the two among voters. see, everyone does it. they want voters to think that. that is what going to the ballot box, if everyone is corrupt, then your guy's corruption isn't that bad. >> and then how do they play it, elise, if, in fact, a deal is struck in four weeks, or six weeks time when they have a u.s. attorney, david weiss, appointed by former president donald trump, which is specifically kept on by the way, the investigation at the time, in which the biden administration took over the white house was ongoing. >> yasmin, i think you're going to see a replay of what happened this last month after we thought that plea deal was struck. you're going to see it called a sweetheart deal, whatever deal is struck, short of maybe
to continue its fight against inflation, which is coming down, but still higher than we would like to see. things like credit cards, mortgage rates, auto loans, those just got a little bit more expensive again today. the flip side of that, yasmin, if you're a saver, this is good news for you. it means you're in a position to make a little bit more money on your money whether it's being held in a savings account with a bank, whether it's in a certificate of deposit or in the bond part, say, of a retirement portfolio. >> right, i mean, it's astounding to think about where we are with interest rates right now. 22 year high, think about that for a moment. good stuff there. morgan brennan for us. thank you. this rate decision is coming as americans are feeling confident about the economy. joined my bloomberg news senior washington correspondent to talk more about that. it's good to have you on. i appreciate it. i want to talk first about the consumer confidence number, what this means.
sexual assault charges after more than 12 hours of deliberation. nbc's ali arouzi is live with the latest. as always, good to talk to you. what more do we know about the verdict and spacey's plans now that he has been acquitted? >> reporter: it was a month long trial, yasmin, and after that month of the prosecution and the defense presenting their case, the jury took 12 1/2 hours to come to their decision, and they found him not guilty on nine charges of varying sexual assault. some of the charges more minor. some of them very serious. kevin spacey steps in the glass dock in the courtroom, and he stood there and listened to nine not guilty verdicts being read out in front of him. he became very emotional. he started crying. he nodded towards the jury as a sort of a thank you for exonerating him. he hugged his manager, his legal team, and then he came out to the waiting press.
there has been a huge press pack here for a month from all over the world, and he made a very short statement. he said he was humbled and he has a lot to process. let's take a listen to what else he had to say. >> i'm enormously grateful to the jury for having taken the time to examine all of the evidence and all of the facts carefully before they reached their decision. and i am humbled by the outcome today. >> reporter: and, yasmin, he left in a cab to start the new chapter of his life, and there was some fans outside. they were whooping, and shouting, kevin, and "house of cards," you ask what's next for him. before he came to this trial, he gave an interview to a german publication, and in that publication, he said there are people willing to hire me the
moment i'm acquitted of all of these charges. the reality is, yasmin, he faced very serious charges. there were still questions about his behavior and conduct while he was in london, while he was the artistic director. so if his career is going to relaunch like it was before, that's going to be really decided by the court of public opinion, whether producers and other people want to see him on the silver screen again. this was a very trying experience, not just for kevin spacey by also for the people that accused him. so there's a long road to rehabilitation. >> ali arouzi for us. thank you, appreciate it. republicans and democrats joining forces, surprising, right, to shine a light on those mysterious objects in the sky. what witnesses are saying under oath about their experiences with u.s. foes. i'm going to ask lawmakers from both sides of the aisle who were in that hearing, coming up next. the american people deserve
is not a good story. and so he is going to have to navigate this. i really think the deflection of it's a personal matter, we don't comment, i don't know how long they're going to get away with that. i think it has been a bit of political malpractice to keep turning to that over and over and over. >> so how do you think the president should have addressed things then? >> i think that, first of all, what's even a bigger issue than all of this is the emotional issue attached to president biden's granddaughter that he doesn't acknowledge that hunter biden does not -- that he pays child support on after many legal battles, and that is -- it cuts against president biden's image as a clean cut loving grandfather, which he by all accounts is but having one child out there who isn't acknowledge ds is going to come up a lot by the trump campaign. imagine what he did during those debates, yasmin, bringing
congresswoman sheila cherfilus-mccormick, thank you very much for your time today. >> thank you so much for having me. >> all signs are pointing to another federal indictment against former president trump, but are we so sure? and if so, one could drop? and how could it impact other investigations? what is really going on, well my legal panel brings it all down, next. but first, our colleague jessica layton is. here and she has a look at the day's other top stories. jessica, what is going on out? there >> thanks, simon. busy weekend today. we are starting with even more extreme heat around the. well temperatures increases expected to resume hundred 13 degrees as wildfires burn out of control for a sixth day. the heat they're so intense, the greek government has announced closures of major major sites, including the acropolis, during the afternoons, to avoid the worst of that heat. more action in the russian war on ukraine, ukrainian fighters attempted a drone attack in russian controlled crimea today. that is according to a russian installed governor. it comes a day after russia launched attacks against the coastal city of odessa for a
so for once, the united states, a powerhouse when it comes to sports, but not soccer, today we have the best player in the world and today the world will be watching what happens in miami, when lionel messi steps onto this field wearing that jersey, yasmin. >> all right, thank you, we will all be watching. after the break everybody, i just mentioned the heat obviously in miami, we know the heat has been very extreme. but at what point it's just too hot to handle? we will look at what the world's increasing temperatures are doing to our bodies coming up next. bodies coming up next. >> can i get you anything? >> water might be nice! >> i'll put these in a vase. >> thank you, take your time. our time