joining us now is ali vitale, nbc news is capitol hill correspondent.ass the senate tonight, right? >> that is the expectation. if you are -- in a bad thing, because no one anticipates that any of these amendments are going to fast. if they did it would mean that this bill would have to go from the senate back to the house and we would be in a state where everybody is surprised and we are more likely to default on a debt. -- and going in the short term to go faster in the long term. this is an agreement by 100 senators to do these amendment votes and then finally, maybe 30 to 40 minutes from now, is our expectation, a vote on the debt deal that they have in front of them. that's probably going to be at around 11. and, look, i know it does not look like it is happening very fast. but this is pretty fast by senate standards. ten minutes per each of these amendment votes. and we've got senate majority leader chuck schumer chiding his colleagues when they go over ten minutes, and urging them to stay on the floor so this can get done as quickly as possible.

thank you ali vitale, for your time and wisdom. that is our show for tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. and now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, alex. and yes, it is the fastest slow version i've ever seen of the united states senate on one of these things. the key to just how fast this was gonna sail through the senate, and how wired it was is the motion to proceed to the bill, which on almost everything in the senate now, requires 60 votes -- >> 60 votes. >> you know how many votes it got? 100, because they basically did it by unanimous consent. unanimous consent is how everything used to go to the floor, you know, like, 30 years ago, and certainly before the trump era and the mcconnell era. so, that moment earlier tonight, when they just went, unanimous consent meant that every single senator who made the slightest noise about getting in the way of this bill was not really serious about getting in the way of this bill. some of them to have points they really need to make and everyone underst

joining us now is ali vitally and nbc news capitol hill correspondent. this bill seems poised to pass the senate tonight, right? >> yeah, that is the expectation. and you're right if any of these amendments were to pass that would be a pretty big deal and a bad thing because no one anticipates any of these amendments were going to pass. if they did, it would mean this bill would have to go from the senate back to the house, and then we would be in a state where everyone is surprised and we're likely defaulting on our debt. what's happening now, though, is the senate's way of going slow in the short-term to go faster in the long-term. this is an agreement made by all 100 senators to do these amendment votes and then finally maybe 30 to 40 minutes from now is our expectation vote on the fiscal -- on the debt deal that they have in front of them. that's probably going to be at around 11:00. and look, i know it doesn't look like it's happening very fast, but this is pretty fast by senate standards. you know, ten minutes per each of these amendment votes, and

. >> with us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale and mike meniallyickly can we expect the senate to take up this bill? >> it's a good question, but you know the answer is as quickly as they can because they know and chuck schumer said this this morning, time is of the essence for a body that can go as quickly as they want and it tends to go more slowly and here's chuck schumer laying out the stakes. >> time is a luxury the senate does not have if we want to prevent default. june 5th is less than four days away. at this point, any needless delay or any last-minute holdups would be an unnecessary and even dangerous risk and any change to this bill that forces us to send it back to the house would be entirely unacceptable. it would almost guarantee default. >> so what schumer is saying there is that as the senate entertains an amendment process which might be what some of the senators were threatening to slow this process down, want in order to get their agreement that they can go more quickly, any amendment that actually passes means that the bill is f

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 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 late nights in the senate, having votes that are done within nine or ten or even 11 minutes is real fast by senate standards. so it does give you a sense that even though they did 11 of these amendment votes they were looking to do them as quickly as possible, just trying to get this off their plate here in the senate, and move it on. i also think it was fascinating to watch just how this vote ultimately shook out. we have

ali vitally, burning the midnight oil with the rest of the senate, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, thank you, ali, for your time and wisdom. >>> that is our show for tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> demanded a bipartisan solution. we knew we'd need to come together for a solution like the one that passed tonight, and so i'm happy to stand here passing this critical legislation to support our families, observe vital programs and most importantly avoid catastrophic default. >> that was senate majority leader chuck schumer late last night after his chamber passed the debt ceiling bill. we'll have more on that vote and the continuing fallout in the house over the agreement. >>> meanwhile florida governor ron desantis seizes on a potential weakness in donald trump's third presidential bid while both men campaign in iowa. >>> and also ahead a rough moment for president biden at a graduation ceremony, which will fuel more questions about his age as he seeks a second term. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on th

amanda, the plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging texas' abortion ban, speaking to our colleague, nbc's ali vitallyon. this is who we are as americans right now, and this is the republican party's positions on this issue. former president trump avoids talking about abortion entirely. florida governor ron desantis signed a 6-week abortion ban in the middle of innight in april, has barely spoken about it since. tim scott awful waffled on whether he'd support a nationwide ban. former south carolina nikki haley has been vague how she'd handle the issue as president. then there's vice president mike pence more than any other republican candidate, the former vice president has staked his pitch to voters on his unabashed pro-life stance while some republicans including trump and chris christie saying in a post-roe america abortion policy should be left to the states. pence has endorsed a nationwide ban on the medical procedure at 15 weeks. i guess i would say to pence begood luck at the 29%. but it renders all of them unelectable nationally. what do you make of the sort of inability to course correct on t

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vital than ever. joining us now is the democratic congressman lauren underwood from illinois. congresswoman, thank you for joining us, it's good to see you tonight. >> ali is an issue -- it's an entirely -- it's a real issue. but it's one that who people don't know much napoli. because this is america in 2023. and when you look at our maternal mortality statistics, and maternal health statistics it does not hold up well to the rest of the developed world. there are countries in the non developed world that are sometimes safer for you to be pregnant in then in the developed world, then in america. >> that's right. and tragic deaths like tori bowie's are far too common in this country. i want to start of i give my deepest condolences to tori's family, friends, and teammates. but it feels like so often, almost daily, we hear the news of another mom who has lost her life to pregnancy related complications. what we know from the data is that the overwhelming majority of these deaths, over 80% of these deaths are preventable. and we know how to save their lives, we just have to choose, policy makers have to choose to pass comprehensive legislation including t