law. the district superintendent says the policy is legal and teaches students to conform as a sacrifice, benefiting everyone. all right, so some exciting news ahead. a look into the super bowl in february. it's a long ways off. but usher was asked to perform this year's halftime show. he gave a resounding yeah. in a statement, a 44-year-old said this. it's the honor of a lifetime to finally check the super bowl performance off my bucket list. i can't wait to bring a world a show unlike anything else they've seen from me before. the big game will be heading to las vegas for the first time in its 58 year history. we've got a lot more coming up, folks. you're watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. now. hi, everybody. get this new. i'm yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome. if you are sticking with us, we are thankful for that. speaker mccarthy under pressure,

facing a government shutdown in just six days if he cannot pull off what seems to be the impossible and get the house gop to agree on a plan to move forward. >> right now, it is marjorie taylor greene and matt gaetz who are holding sway over the caucus, literally the plan for this week's i understand it with a c r that would include something like 27% budget cuts and doing now finally individual appropriation bills. it was matt gates who came up with this plan. >> and we've seen this play out over and over again. we know exactly how this is going to go if folks continue holding out. anyone, anyone who says that we are going to finish all 12 appropriations bills between now and next saturday is absolutely hallucinating. >> coming up, i will speak to congressman -- about what is happening and whether democrats could be willing to save the house gop from itself if it comes to that and then you've got these growing calls for --

following the bombshell bribery charges against him. one democrat saying he is ready to run the new jersey senator out of office. we will take you to the campaign trail, where a new nbc news poll is out, showing a growing league for donald trump in the primaries, the troubling signs for the former president when it comes to, you guessed it, the criminal cases against him. we are also on strike watch today. last minute snag after -- hollywood writers back on the job. while the uaw is vowing not to given, as they get ready for president biden to join the picket line this week. all that plus this. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i mean, come. on some tina turner but some by kelly clarkson. the surprise of her life. we will have that story later on this hour. we begin this hour, though, with a looming government shutdown. just six days for house speaker

kevin mccarthy to make a deal to get a spending bill passed, as a handful of republicans continue to dig in their heels. let's go straight to capitol hill, where we find nbc congressional correspondent julie tsirkin joining me now, along with more agile espy, former adviser to congressman john boehner and adam kinzinger, now the founder of blue stacked strategies. juliette, let me just with you on this one. what are you hearing from both republicans and democrats at this point, as we get closer and closer to that saturday night deadline? >> literally, within the last three minutes, speaker mccarthy did end up entering the capital coming through, telling my colleague fiona glisten, basically the same thing he's been saying yesterday. they have this conference call with the members. they are continuing to make progress. however, we did hear from a number of the holdouts today. at least two of them on air, one of them on paper, including marjorie taylor greene, the congresswoman who said she will not vote for anything that includes ukraine eight. some of those appropriations bills mccarthy wants his conference to take up on tuesday will include some of that for training only. this is not the biden

administration's request. but he did not request to the holdouts. i'm planning on pressing him on that in a couple moments if i can. i'm just looking over my shoulder just to make sure he's not walking by me here. but we did hear from senator dick durbin, a democrat, who spoke about what the realities of a shut down and this whole process would mean if it would happen, if it were to go into effect in just six days from now. we also heard from congressman bert -- the congressman from tennessee who said over and over again he will not vote for any short term government funding bill, which they will need to do in conjunction with any process because they don't have time to get all of that done. take a listen to that. >> i will tell you this, there is one clear point that we should remind everyone of. the solution to this problem, finding our government, a critical service, and defense on a barr partisan approach, democrats and republicans working together. >> if speaker mccarthy ultimately allows the deal to pass, the democratic votes, would you support ousting him from the speaker's chair? >> that would be something i

would look strongly at, ma'am. >> of course, that motion, the threat for that motion has been offered by congressman matt gaetz all this time. he could potentially offer it as early as next week. the thing is, though, there is no one in line to replace mccarthy. at least mccarthy is not going for him at this moment. i asked him yesterday what he would do if that motion would hit the floor. he told me what he does with everything else. i said, what's that? he said, we would voted down. i said, what's thainteresting eh mccarthy yesterday. we will see what happens on the floor this week. certainly his holdouts are still holding out. >> you try and go get that answer, julie, from kevin mccarthy. if you get it, let us know. i will let you go and try and track him down. more, let's get into this a little bit, right? you think back to january, when the speaker had to go through 15 rounds of votes before he was actually made speaker of the house.

it was an uphill battle. there was a lot of deals and handshaking that is happening behind the curtain in order to get him over the finish line. is that just kind of what comes with the territory, considering where we are now? and his tough time becoming a leader in the first place. >> one of those ringleaders was matt gaetz. what mr. gaetz has done is create a pretty cushy position for himself by holding kevin mccarthy hostage in a lot of ways in tying his hands to what can be done and impacting his speakership. we saw that with a speaker vote back in january. we are seeing him step up to do that now. really nothing kevin mccarthy can do will sway him to join him and make him avoid the shutdown. matt gaetz wants a shutdown. let's be very clear here. >> it's interesting because you remember back to when those 15 votes were going through and there was a conversational moment between kevin mccarthy before he was elected speaker of the house and matt gaetz, as

he sat back, i believe he was sitting next to lauren boebert at the time. we all remember that pretty distinctly. and now fast forward remembering this moment now as matt gaetz tries to go head to head with kevin mccarthy on this. an op-ed essentially saying mccarthy has changed the rules on this. i want to read for you a que. for example, the rules could member might face removal of a defeated measure brought to the house floor that receive 95% of support from conference members. is this possible even though it is unlikely? and could it come to that? >> it's pretty unlikely that'll happen. kevin mccarthy does need to get creative and how he moves past this moment, because this is not going to be the only hurdle he faces in the speakership. again, you know, matt gaetz having vowed to bring up every single day for the foreseeable future a motion to vacate the chair. it has got to be really

frustrating. i can remember sitting in speaker boehner's office and watching some of these spending fights going down. the difference here is that members on the republican party should want to win. they should want to expand the majority. matt gaetz wants to do is keep a small sliver of the majority so he maintains a semblance of power that he has to hold things hostage. i think that should be pretty telling to the american public about what his priorities are. >> maura gillespie, like you so much. appreciate it. coming up later on this hour, democratic congresswoman mary gay scanlon and joins me with the very latest she's hearing about the potential shutdown, and whether she and other democrats as well are willing to help republicans out if it comes to that. negotiations today in the standoff between the wga and the major film and television studios, this as a a deal to end the strike appears very close. 146 day strike has essentially halted all new production in the film and television business. we want to give -- following this for us.

we are hearing a deal was imminent yesterday, and then something happened. to hold things up. give us a sticking point and where we are today. >>, yeah, yasmin. there was a lot of hope that a deal was going to come yesterday. the good news is there is still a lot of hope because this is day five of these negotiations. they've been working through the weekend and it really did seem like they are inching closer to a deal. the first few days, the ceos were in the room, the main studio executives. now it's been the lawyers going back and forth with each other on some of the legalese here. we are in the real end of these negotiations, it seems like. but that major sticking point we are hearing is artificial intelligence, which has been an issue throughout this entire five month strike. but it continues to be an issue because it is something unprecedented they have not had to deal with before in a contract. it's very complicated, writers obviously have concerns that the studios could use a.i. to replace them, that they could use some of the writers work in the past to then train these

machines, which then will one day maybe be used to write scripts. some rioters have said they are concerned the script will be written by a.i., but then the rioters will be asked to sort of cleanup but not get a full amount of pay. a lot of contentious concerns here back and forth. but again, a lot of hope and a lot of signs that we are moving towards a deal. but of course, as we've been talking about, yasmin, even with a deal with the wga, we still have to wait for actors to get a deal. people waiting on some of their favorite shows, like i don't know, emily in paris, might still have to wait a few moments for that. we will have to see. >> sounds like liz likes some emily in paris, as do i, by the way. i'd love to see that coming back. liz for us, we should mention comcast corporation that owns our parent company, nbc universal, is one of the entertainment companies represented by the alliance of motion picture and television producers. coming up in just 60 seconds, new reaction from lawmakers today on the bribery indictment of senator bob menendez, including more calls for him to

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new reaction today to the bombshell federal indictment in new jersey said under bombing and as an his wife on bribery charges. while some fellow democrats are calling on the senator to resign, when new jersey-ites who also happens to be a gop presidential candidate had this to say about menendez's senate seat. >> would you run against senator menendez if you don't win in the fall? >> no, i have no interest in being in the united states senate. >> you rule it out completely? >> yes, i have. i have throughout my entire career. >> but as for what we are hearing from menendez's colleagues in congress, i do want to bring in nbc's julie

tsirkin once again from capitol hill on this. you are talking a lot of different stories of what is happening on capitol hill. julie, we are thankful for that. what are we hearing from top lawmakers here about the indictment of senator menendez and his wife? we know you actually caught up with george santos today as well. what can you tell us? >> before speaker mccarthy got here, in which we see him vaguely over my shoulder there giving a toward friends and family, george santos was the only lawmaker i saw this building. he happened to walk right by our camera. of course he is facing his own federal charges in the state of new york as well for his own separate problems and his own separate indictment. but i had asked him, what is the make of senator menendez indictment against him? should he resign? at first he told me he has no opinion. take a look at what he said, the. we will talk about it on the other side, including some of the reaction. >> you think senator menendez should resign given his -- >> i don't have an opinion on that. >> why not? >> because i think due process is important. i think he has a right to defend himself. he's innocent until proven guilty.

the media has to stop acting like everybody is guilty before they are even judged by a jury. so, no, i think everybody is innocent until proven guilty. when did we walk away from the fact that our constitution that everybody has a presumption of innocence but before anything else? i don't think he should resign. thank you. >> certainly, he is an outlier, especially among republicans. speaker mccarthy himself yesterday said he thinks menendez should resign. of course, he did not say the same for george santos beforehand. look, other notable democrats were on the sunday shows today talking about this as well. i will tell you, out of his senate colleagues, only senator john fetterman, the only democrat so far that has pointedly and forcefully said that menendez should step down. you should not have an influence on national policy. he said while this trial is ongoing, other democrats we heard from today, though, for example senator dick durbin, the number two senate democrat, he didn't go as far as to say that menendez should resign, but he did say these charges are serious. another democrat was on --

this morning, senator chris murphy, who serves on the relations committee, by the way. he said he wants to meet with his colleagues this week when they return to town tuesday before speaking as to what menendez should do. but certainly, everybody is saying these charges are very, very serious. they are watching them very closely. the new jersey delegation, pretty much every single democrat, republican, everybody that delegation has said he should resign and step down from his seat, certainly as his role in the powerful relations committee. so far, menendez defending these charges and saying he will fight them. saying h will>> certainly not surprised. i don't think anybody is by the reaction from george santos, considering what he is facing as well. julie tsirkin, thank you. as always. still ahead, new abc -- nbc, i should say, polling revealing considerable reservations on both sides of the aisle about the two likely nominees of biden and trump. congresswoman but mary gay scanlon joins me to talk about what she calls the total chaos in the republican party as we

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president trump is extending his national league in the gop presidential race, to more than 40 points over his nearest competitor. that, according to a brand-new poll from nbc news. but when asked for how voters in one key state are viewing this, race i want to bring in nbc news campaign -- emma barnett, live for us from manchester, new hampshire. to talk more about this. emma, trump is wiping his lead as i said. what are you hearing on the ground there in new hampshire from voters about the state of this campaign? >> yeah yasmin, not only is the former president widening his lead. but in a hypothetical matchup between biden and president, former president trump, they are essentially tied at around 46%. it is a dead heat race and two thirds of voters in this poll have concerns before president trump's criminal charges, and three quarters of voters have concerns about biden's age.

but when i speak to voters here, and i asked them about this hypothetical matchup between biden and trump, a lot of them shrugged their shoulders, rolled their, ice and are not excited about that potentially happening. here is what some of them had to say. >> if it's another election between biden and trump, we don't have a good candidate on either side. >> if it's between biden and trump, i cringe. -- if there's -- >> now another thing this poll shows is a hypothetical match between former ambassador nikki haley, and president biden. haley is five points ahead, and she was here in new hampshire on thursday and friday, speaking to packed audiences at different town halls. and the voters i spoke to afterwards are very excited about the prospect of voting for her, and somebody something else nikki haley has been doing here in new hampshire is straddling praising her former

boss, while also criticizing him, yasmin. >> interesting. i want to talk about chris christie, quickly here. you actually wrote a piece about how the former new jersey governor is snubbing iowa, and then of course appearing in new hampshire, where you are. lk us through that. >> yeah yasmin, since july 4th, chris christie has had 11 of events and he hasn't been to iowa he has been the south carolina he has been to florida, but he has completely skipped the first caucus and something that chris christie is doing back in 2015 and 2016, where he spent nearly double the time in new hampshire than he did in iowa. and that's because new hampshire is a little bit more of a moderate state, christy is more of a moderate candidate, and iowa is more of a conservative state. so he believes that his message will take him further in new hampshire than in iowa. i asked him about why he hasn't visited iowa yet, here is what he had to say. >> i've got to decide where to

best spend my time. everyone has a time, i decided that i wanted to spend my time in new hampshire and south carolina. i think those are the places that give me the best opportunity to do well. >> now of course, we are going to be seeing christiana bunch of the other candidates on the stage in california, on wednesday night for the debate. and in some other news we brought this week, is that it appears that governor doug burgum of north dakota qualified for the debate stage, that is according to nbc's analysis. we are waiting for the rnc to confirm back. >> emma barnett, thank you, appreciate it. coming up, democrats teeing off on kevin mccarthy, as he struggles to get his party in line, and avoid a shutdown. >> it's about time that kevin mccarthy cares more about the jobs then people, and not his own job first and foremost. congresswoman mary gates -- joins me next, with where things stand ahead of a

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shutdowns draws, closer some republicans are insistent they are going to not vote for a short term continuing resolution, while democrats react to disarray amongst the republican party. >> the speaker, made a deal, of

what the budget -- democrats agreed to it, and then all of the sudden, mccarthy seemed to be backing away from the deal, because five or six people on his side of the aisle seemed to be calling the shots. the tail wagging the dog is not the way you do. this >> lets passed this -- the resolution -- so that we can stop passing's ers. that's like telling a crack at, it we're going to give you more crack to keep you off of crack, it doesn't work ma'am. >> all right, joining me now, pennsylvania representative mary gates -- who sits on the house rules and judiciary committees, to talk more about this. so we're just getting some sound in, and we don't have it wrapped up yet, congressman. but from kevin mccarthy, who seems to be at the capitol as well. he is saying, he has won -- here that got four more past this week, former rules passed this week, that could feasibly make up for the 73% of the spending in congressional money. that could keep, potentially, the government open by this

saturday night deadline. is that at all realistic? or do you think we are shutting down? >> it is certainly, it certainly doesn't seem realistic right now. but one appropriations bill he passed was back in july. he has brought the defense bill -- appropriations bill up twice, and had it not moved to the floor twice. he's going to try that again, he tried to big bring -- the and that went down. and, it's not just the drastic spending cuts that are in these bills, it's also the poison pills on all kinds of culture war issues. so, i think it is going to be a real struggle for him to get bills to the floor, much less past, when these are not bipartisan bills that they have been negotiating solely with this extreme, far-right majority, or minority. >> so, i feel as if, you didn't answer my second question, but i've got to ask you anyway. >> sorry. >> if in fact he can't get this passed. no no no, it's okay. if in fact he can't get this passed, along party lines, with

republican votes, are democrats willing, are you willing to step into over a shutdown? >> i think the democrats are, there we have been willing. it is really only this far right house republican minority that is holding things up. i mean, the speaker and the president came together back in the spring, and agreed upon spending top line numbers. and the senate has worked in a bipartisan fashion, democrats and republicans, to come in at those levels. it is just this cabal kind of, the chaos caucus on the right, that is holding things up in the house. the rest of washington is ready to move, but the speaker is listening to this one crazy group, and keeps trying to placate them. and we have seen, it just hasn't been successful. >> so, politico has been reporting on this letter that has been circulating around the house and senate, basically to avert shutdowns altogether. let me just read you some of their reporting, this

bipartisan. bill their bill would trigger a two-week stopgap bills, and require congress to focus solely on spending bills, if congress misses its september 30th funding deadline. is that something you, and your house colleagues would support? >> okay, i am not sure whose letter this is. but we have, apparently, reached the point where we are going to need some kind of stopgap manager, or a continued resolution to keep the government open. i came in during the last republican government shutdown, in 2018, 2019, and it is not good for the country. it is not good for our constituents, it is not good for the folks who don't get their s.n.a.p. benefits, or the federal workers who either get furloughed or don't get paid. we know it costs our economy billions, so it is a really stupid idea, to try to shut down the government. but we've got this group that is trying to do, it and mccarthy is not doing enough to

prevent it. >> so amidst all this right, we've got this deadline coming, looming on saturday. also, the launch of the impeachment inquiry into president biden. or going to see that first, hearing i believe on thursday, there could be a potential slowdown, because of what the house is dealing, with when it comes to trying to avert a shutdown. what are democrats plans to deal with this impeachment inquiry, into president biden? >> well, at least we have some experience with what impeachment looks like, and what it is for. it is to redress high crimes and misdemeanors. and of course, there is no evidence that anything like that has happened here. it appears to be pretty much a ploy to try to distract from the dysfunction. i think your reporting, and a number of outlets reporting has been pretty clear, that the only reasons speaker mccarthy announced he was moving forward on his own, with an impeachment inquiry, was because he thought

that price could be paid to his far-right minority, and that then they would pass some spending bills. but, apparently that is not true either. >> and any sense, as to whether or not speaker mccarthy's going to rain speaker after something like this? >> you know, he may have forged a bipartisan agreement on the fact that he is a really bad speaker. i think it is, you know, i don't know what his caucus is going to do, it seems like his unwillingness to put the country first, and make sure that we don't have a shutdown, and that people can work in a bipartisan fashion, he may deserve to lose his speakership. >> representative mary -- , thank you, appreciate it. i want to bring in msnbc's very own symone sanders-townsend, host of symone to talk more about this. jumping off of the conversation we just had with the congresswoman there, the level, simone, of dysfunction that we have been seeing in washington,

to try and avert the shutdown. republicans try to get something across the finish line here, it is astounding to me. but if you think back, because i mentioned earlier, of one of the earlier segments, to how many votes it took for mccarthy either to be come the speaker in the first place, right. so it is not like something we could not have predicted happening, considering how he got to this position. >> oh absolutely yasmin. and i mean, we still don't know how this particular chapter in the book is going to end. you know, in the nbc news poll that came out today, one of the more striking numbers from that poll was about how the american people feel, who should be in charge of congress next year come 2024. is it democrats, or republicans, of those polled. and the numbers were virtually the same, it was about 45, 46 you know, whatever of the other number that equals 100. so, that to me says that they are not distinguishing the people in this poll right now,

between democrats and republicans. and, that does not bode well for democrats. >> so, what do you think democrats should be doing, when it comes to combatting dysfunction that you are seeing in the house or not. are they speaking up enough? are they speaking out, enough about what they are seeing, and the damage that's being done. and by the way, to people not remember what happens with a shutdown, or how many people go unpaid? >> i think people have forgotten, the last shut down. the last shutdown was 35 days, and thousands of people went without pay, hundreds more are, never recouped any back pay. there were problems with air traffic control, everyone remembers the -- right. remember, everybody got sick from the lettuce? well there are no inspectors to inspect the. lattice [laughter] >> the puppy lettuce [laughter] . >> i was concerned about the puppy lettuce, yasmin. democrats need to make sure that we are out there in full force, just like the representative you just had on, much like --

the sister democratic leader -- it is very very important that they are vocal, about what they have been doing, what their position is. you know, democrats have said that they want to fund the government, they are ready to pass a bill. but the republicans have yet to come to them, to work with them. and if i am joe schmo, sitting at home listening. i'm like okay, the democrats are ready to work, kevin mccarthy, what you do? and so that is where democrats need to be, a particular day on this issue, and i think that is where they. are >> i believe that was just my five-year-old and six-year-old son's favorite segment, when you said poop be, let us. and he, that's it, you made their day, symone sanders-townsend, their favorite word on national tv. [laughter] >> i love your voice. >> make sure to catch symone [laughter] every week, and four pm, following our show, and on peacock, new lifted streaming every mondays as well. thank you symone. after the break, -- may have been downgrade to a post-tropical cycle, but risk the felt post -- still continue across the

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post-tropical cyclone, it is still causing a torrential ray rain and flooding on the northeast coast. forecasters warning that areas between virginia and long island could experience coastal, flooding and heavy rains in till monday. a affiliate made landfall -- in with near hurricane-strength winds. i want to bring in now antonia -- in jones beach, long island, to talk more about this. this thing, essentially, has moving up the coast. we knew it was heading towards us, here in new york city, long island as, well where you are. what have you been seeing, give us the latest here, antonio? >> hey awesome. well here in new york, about the worst of it is over, we are still feeling the effects of affiliate. there has been wind all day, still, rain here. and people are still, millions of people in the northeast region, and going down to the south, are under coastal flood alerts here. there were almost nine inches of rain, dumped in parts of north carolina. more than five in parts of virginia. and, so people have seen wind

knocking down power lines, and trees. and one instance in pennsylvania over the weekend, one tree came down on a gas, line actually led to an explosion. thankfully there were no injuries, officials were able to evacuate more than 100 people, elderly people and people living with special needs from a home into a school to safety, from the day. these are the kinds of challenges that you have seen come with this storm. and that are continuing as a campsite right now in parts of the south. and i had some interesting conversations with longtime residents, as well as a director here, of this beach, and of this park. and what they were telling me was that over the years, they are starting to see more and more of these storms, and the intensity and the damage getting worse. take a listen to a conversation that i had with one lifelong resident. >> it seems to me, it is getting more intense. they built this wall up here, that wall is just to keep the water, the water came right up to the -- . it was here last week.

but, yet it seems like things are getting more intense. >> and, that health director that i mentioned told me that about 60% of his job now has become anticipating storms, planning for storms, fortifying sandbars like the one behind me here, to make sure that people are safe. and now, as things calm down here, really, people are keeping their eyes on the next storm, philippe, which is expected to potentially become a hurricane by the end of this coming week. although, projections right now have it just missing us, and staying east of the united states. but we are going to keep an eye on that, yasmin. >> yeah, we certainly will. antonio hilton force, that you antonia. and, let's talk strikes once again. so we are talking to the united auto workers walk out entering its second week. you've got workers in 20 states, they are fighting for better pay, benefits, more paid time off, uaw -- saying that they have made some progress, in their talks with forward, not though with the gm and slant. as the president says that he is going to be in michigan, on

the ground on tuesday, to join the picket lines, standing in solidarity as he put, sit with the uaw workers. the former president says, he's going to visit on wednesday. i want to bring in nbc -- 's in pontiac michigan, outside the picket line, right now with folks there. standing there, as they have been for the last few weeks. talk us through the latest on these negotiations, jesse. >> yes so yasmin, as you mentioned, progress with ford, not with gm or still at this. and that is what we have seen an expansion of this strike, specifically against those two companies. that is the unions perspective on this, that they haven't made real progress, as it was described, that they have made with ford. what they are hitting now are distribution -- facilities for those two companies. and that means that it's going to be harder, potentially, for some parts to reach dealerships, across the country. so if you need a car repair, depending on what you need, something like an engine for example, which was described as something that could be harder to get, by a dealership firm. that may take longer to get

repaired, as opposed to something that is higher demand, like a brake pads. because, dealerships, at least some that i've spoken with, are stocking up -- stuff like -- . so the general maintenance, the typical maintenance may not be at two tricky for now. but if you need a more of an overhaul of your vehicle, that could get more complicated. so we continue to watch, to see how this can expand further. and because the union still is just a fraction of its big free workers on strike at this point, this could still grow substantially. we spoke with a worker here in pontiac yesterday, about what he makes of the current president, and the former president, coming to town this week. his first answer here is something about, how the white house and the union haven't been in lockstep, in recent days, and how that relationship throughout the strike has evolved in recent days, culminating with the president saying he will be on the picket line this week, that is part of what this worker shared with me. >> we are pushing hard on the -- . we want security, and making sure those jobs stay here, and

that expectedly in the parts condition, that we get those parts, and we continue to prosper and grow as a company in the united states. and we don't want to see those jobs disappear. >> i also remember, former president trump saying he wanted to basically ship all the jobs from the big three that were here in the north, down south to teach us a lesson, so, if he wants to come, we will take his support, but i am not really thanking him. >> for so, you're going to hear that workers speak, expressing skepticism of former president trump, but also speaking to the tension in the white house prism -- president has been pushing for evs, but there's also a concern about that, eliminating some jobs, because those vehicles don't take as many workers to build them, so that is something to keep an eye on as well, yasmin. >> jesse -- thank you jesse, appreciate it. we've got some breaking news now, we alluded to a little bit earlier in my conversation with congresswoman -- from speaker mccarthy, on this impending shut down. nbc's julia -- has an interview with the republican leader, just a short

time ago. >> i gotta ask you, the holdouts today, we are saying, are they still holding out on the -- on the bills? what's your reaction to that? >> well that's difficult. this is why we have been trying to pass things, since july. when i took over, i want to make sure there would never be a -- is when it doesn't go through a committee. so in the debt ceiling, we've put a provision, and we came across if -- you don't do all 12 -- bills and that with the seven for the first-time actually, doing the bills. we've gotten hours out of committee, and since july, i've been trying to be able to bring it to the floor individually. but these same people have been blocking the holder, just like they block the whole twice last week. so i'm not quite sure and understanding when i think they are fighting to have -- that's what we've been fighting to do the whole time. so, we've got a new rule up, that could pass for more of our appropriation bills. that would equal about 73% of all discretionary spending already. and, what i've always said is,

i want us to do our jobs, and do it at individual bills. so let's keep government open, while we finish the job. they have delayed, i remember there was a time back where, matt gaetz wouldn't let us bring anything up on the floor, and that took a lot of time away, but we are going to keep working, and i believe we can get it done. >> so, marjorie taylor greene just today, said she is one against that rule. you certainly -- expect >> yeah, i was trying to. well, i was going to try to fix -- and try to voter underway. but it took other ones too, i understand, she has been very clear about that, that's not new. she has a real concern about some issues, and i want to work with her on that. and in her part, she has been very fair, she wants to be able to know that it is vote separate. and it is difficult, inside the rule, but it is on multiple bills. >> but last, week you said that these holdouts were trying to burn the place down, do you still feel that way? >> we'll, if you are holding on, now you are trying to get a person into a shutdown. you have been stopping the bills from ever coming up, i don't know how you stand up and then say well, he hasn't brought them up.

the only reason they haven't come, up they've been out of committee. people have read, and i've been asking for amendment since back in july, so we can bring them up. but if you can't pass the rule, it's hard to bring them up. so it's almost like they want to what lock you into a shut, and then blame you for a shutdown. it doesn't take a lot of sense to me. i think we should show we should govern, and that's what the majority of us all have been doing. i watched what's happening on the border each and every day, because it's the biden administration. i want to secure our border, and i think everybody wants to be able to do that. but you don't bring the bills, up it makes it very difficult for us to be successful. >> i asked you this yesterday, should americans expect each again at this point? >> no, we never give up. >> so don't think is going to be a shutdown? >> well, i think we'll be able to work through this, at the end of the day and get there. >> do you think it is time to work across the aisle? >> look, i'll work with anybody wants to work with us. but, i haven't heard a lot of people across the aisle that want to secure the border. we have to secure that border. you watch what we've said, we've set new records because of this biden administration. biden seems as though he wants a shut down, if he can keep the

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a short time ago, precious space cargo touched down safely in utah. it is the combination of the seven year, multimillion dollar nasa space odyssey. scientists hoping it's got revealed clues with the origin of the solar system, and the inception of life. think of what we actually could find out. joining us now, again, is nbc -- 's with the very latest on the landing --

as a scientist, celebrating. take us there, and the potentially monumental things we could feasibly learn from this. >> hey yasmin. yeah, this is so cool. this is an asteroid, a sample from an asteroid, 200 million miles away from earth, as you mentioned it was a seven-year journey, and mission to get this. it's from an asteroid called -- and i asked a scientist, and they said, why did you choose this asked, where what is so special about this one? they said, well it is actually close to earth, even though his 200 million miles away, it was one of the easiest ones to get to. and they say that contain some of the molecules that could teach us about the origins of earth, the origins of our solar system. it has been a really complicated mission, it started seven years ago in 2016, and when the spacecraft finally touched down on this asteroid, the scientists told me that it was like landing in a pit of balls, the spacecraft just kept sinking into. it so it was really hard to get the sample, eventually they did. it is just half a pound of

rocks, and dust. it made its way back to earth, it took years, again, this mission. and this morning, when it finally entered the atmosphere, it was going 27,000 miles an hour. it looked like a giant ball of fire. it was just 5000 degrees fahrenheit, it made its way over san francisco, and it eventually landed in the utah desert. this precious cargo, scientists were able to go out and retrieve it. they are now going to ship it to the johnson space center in nasa, or they are going to continue to steady, at four years. so, really exciting stuff, and abet all the astronauts were cheering as it landed, yasmin. >> yeah, that is, that is really incredible stuff. -- thank you. all right, we have been teasing it all our. it was such an incredible moment. sometimes, when you are in vegas, things certainly do not stay in vegas, and this is one of them. a street performer got a duet of her life. >> ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ come on, that is kelly clarkson, sharing this video, singing some tina turner tunes for a woman performing on the sidewalk. clarkson says that she was actually tipping this woman, who then asked her to join into the song, without even knowing that it was kelly. you see that the woman gives the best hugs, and then sayings her tail off. that is so incredible, that is such a cool surprise, not only for the woman by the way, but all the bystanders around. oh my gosh, we are getting a live show from kelly clarkson, and an amazing voice that she has. all right, that's it for me, i'm yasmin kosygin. i'll be back in the chair next saturday and sunday, at two pm eastern. symone, starts right now. right now greetings everyone, you are watching symone. it's about to get real for the american people. we are facing a triple whammy. a government shutdown, that now appears inevitable, and