with nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. what are you hearing there on the hill? how do the votes look right now? >> reporter: well, chris, that's the question that i tried to ask speaker mccarthy as he was walking by our camera to open the house floor. this is the start of their day technically, even though we have been talking with lawmakers since this morning, and i'm going to keep looking over this way in case mccarthy comes back out and wants to talk to us again. i know you and i got to do that yesterday live on your show, but really, what mccarthy has been saying throughout the day is that he thinks he'll be able to bring along a majority of his majority. we know there have been some vocal detractors, especially in the house freedom caucus. those are the loudest voices, they're not the most numerous. it's what republican leaders are continuing to today. first we'll see them vote on the rule, a procedural step to get to, and of course do the vote later this evening, but democrats, too, have started to be vocal about what they see in this bill. many of them te

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that's not to say, though, there is not still roadblocks, but better than it was. >> and, ali vitali, learning from you as i do every time i get a chance to speak to you, give us a context of, you mentioned 2011, what can we learn from those negotiations and that moment? >> reporter: that was yet another debt ceiling negotiation where we watched then president obama deputize then vice president joe biden to be in these negotiations with mitch mcconnell. we know mcconnell at this point is sort of taking a back seat to speaker kevin mccarthy in large part because mccarthy has the tougher reality is within his republican house conference here of trying to keep everybody and all ideologies on board. never theless, one of the other echoes of 2011 that i'm hearing from progressives is this new debate over work requirements for programs like snap that help people access food, who are food insecure, putting up work requirements is causing some senators on the progressive side of the spectrum, including people like john fetterman and elizabeth warren to start sounding the alarm of adding extra

joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. what are we hearing from lawmakers this morning on the hill about supreme court ethics reform? >> reporter: yeah, ana, this is something we have seen bubbling in the last few weeks since the chairman of that committee, dick durbin, first sent a letter to chief justice roberts asking him to come in and testify because of those new allegations against sitting supreme court justices about undisclosed business dealingings that may run afoul of ethics concerns. they may run afoul of concerns but not actual rules. and that's the point of the committee hearing now, is to start the conversation on capitol hill about potential reforms to the supreme court's code of ethics. so far what we have heard and we're still in the opening phases of this, you see senator kennedy there on the republican side giving his opening statements, he's one of the ranking members on the subcommittee that is also sponsoring this hearing. they should be kicking off the q&a portion in a few minutes. this is why democra

. >>> joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali.with title 42. the numbers could tick back up, but certainly they're not what people expected immediately. as title 42 expired, there's a refocus on the need for immigration reform. have there been talks on the hill? >> not really. who's to say, but probably not. hard to assume anything with this divided congress. if you look at the senate, there's a little more optimism than the house side. eventually those two things will collide. on the house side we're watching them trying to cobble something together to give us a temporary extension, doing it as a new law originated in congress. they've gotten some bipartisan backing and we've seen people that are vulnerable start to sign onto this. that being said f it ever went out of the house, there's no reality to pass it there unless republicans can find other things they like and see it as a win for them. on the other hand, i have talked to some more moderate republicans who say they want to work on some kind of comprehensive immigration re

nbc's ali vitali is on capitol hill for us.h me "the new york times" chief white house correspondent, hiroshima, japan, ahead of the president's visit. we know the white house negotiators and mccarthy aides are meeting again today, but what do we know about where these negotiations stand right now? >> reporter: look, i guess we'll see, but i can tell you that the tone shift from mccarthy especially between yesterday before that second meeting and now today in light of it is markedly different. it means that the way that president biden and now the speaker are talking about progress is much more in line, it seems like they're in agreement, a, that there cannot be a default, which i think to everybody allows us to breathe a little bit of a sigh of relief. how they avoid that default is the open question. we've heard from the president, the white house, other top negotiators that the key points in these negotiations have actually remained pretty the same, chris. they're focused around things like permitting reform, like clawing ba

. >> joining me now is campaign and capitol hill correspondent ali vitali in south carolina. former congressman from florida david jolly, former press secretary robert gibbs, and yoes reporter eugene scott. senator scott is evangelical with a good chance in iowa. he's getting off stage to speak to people face to face. if the backing of senator thune is very popular in the caucus. and he has some democratic support as well. ali, how does he shape up? >> reporter: look, he is beloved back in washington, where you and i generally see him in his role as a senator. certainly, this hometown crowd also felt the same, a speech we expected to go about 20 minutes went doubly as long. in part, you could tell the candidate was just feeding off the energy of the crowd, in a speech that was largely about who he is as a person, who he is as a lawmaker, things he successfully did during the trump era on opportunity zones during the trump tax cuts. but he was also here to pitch himself to the american public. most of the people in this room told me before he got on stage they have known tim s

mike memoli, ali vitali. thank you both. for more on this, we are joined by democratic congressman greg cassar from texas, who serves as whip for the progressive caucus. we just learned that the chair of your caucus is a no on this bill. i know you were leaning no. where are you right now? how will you vote when the bill reaches the house floor? >> thank you, first of all, so much for having me on and i alongside the chair are not planning on voting for this deal, and let me tell you why because it isn't a deal. it's a ransom payment. with all due respect to the reporter that was just here before me who said this can be described in two words as divided government, i think that's a misframing of what's going on this. this can be described in two words, and it is hostage situation. we have been under divided government many times, but this is the first time we're up to the very last day right now you have members of one of the two parties, the republican party advocating for default. you have every single democrat united agai

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. >> joining us now with more is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. good morning.gs go from here? >> reporter: jose, i'm glad you say that this was santos staying in congress for now, because this is really a way to slow walk him to the exit while the doj investigation continues to play out. we saw, of course, democrats try to mount an expulsion vote yesterday and instead of being able to do that because it would require two-thirds of the majority of the body here, instead we saw republicans continue to allow this to work through the ethics committee. this has been speaker mccarthy's preference the entire time. in part because he still needs santos here for political reasons because of the tight margins you and i always end up talking about when we talk about george santos and why republicans are tolerating him up here on capitol hill. nevertheless, what we're seeing out of the ethics committee after they have been referred this expulsion vote is the idea that they're not stepping aside despite the fact that there are criminal investigations going on through the de

. >> joining us now with more is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and also with us susan page, washington bureau chief at "usa today." where are things this morning and how big of a speed bump is it? >> reporter: speed bump implies there was momentum in the forward direction, jose. as far as i can tell at this point, there is a lot being said, but not a lot has changed behind the scenes. the hang-ups that remain, even from the end of last week, remain today. those are specifically around republican desires to cut spending, to take revenue gains off the table. the white house, of course, trying to push on their side, trying to keep the priorities that their caucus needs in order to be able to vote for this eventual deal. but if you listen to speaker mccarthy this morning, he's reiterating the talking point that we have heard from him time and again, that for republicans, this is about spending less. watch. >> we have to spend less than we spent last year. that's the starting point. >> how much less? >> well, that's part of the negotiations. democrats don't want to spend le

nbc's ali vitali is on capitol hill for us.mp, vice president pence, and then president biden. this goes far beyond the scale of what's been publicly reported. what else did the archives say and do they have suggestions about what needs to be done about it? >> reporter: not exactly reassuring, especially when you hear this has been going on since the reagan administration, decades of what one person called systemic mismanagement of classified documents being found not just at the homes or libraries of former presidents and vice presidents, but also from former members of congress themselves. that's because you know what the paper flow tends to look like when folks leave office. they give their documents to libraries. libraries go through them and what these people told congress is that they've had more than 80 instances of calls from archivists as they have been going through paperwork documents, other things from former elected time in office, finding them at libraries and then having to have the national archives go back and

. >> to start off the coverage this hour, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli. where do things stand right now? the congressional progressive caucus chair says no. potentially meaning that others in that caucus could go no. what is it looking like on the house right now? >> reporter: certainly the fact that chairwoman jayapal would come out and say she's a no, that her group is whipping their votes right now and that she thinks many of her fellow progressive nive members will e at no is notable. it is important for us as we watch this process shake out, we have watched people on the far right in the freedom caucus, for example, be very loud in their opposition to this bill, we're now watching house progressives on the democratic side come out and say that they don't like what's in this bill. but there is a lot of room still there in the middle of those two polls for this bill to get passed. that's the place where leadership is relying on to actually get this through several hours from now when they're set to vote later toni

. >> joining me now from north charleston, south carolina, is nbc news correspondent ali vitali.n he says he's the candidate that the far left fears the most, what is he talking about? >> reporter: look, this was tim scott's attempt not just to introduce himself to the american public, but really the first time the biggest stage he's had but also his attempt to set up a binary but not with republicans, but squarely go at the white house, joe biden, those were the names he singled out during this roughly 45-minute address in north charleston instead of going at the people who he has to beat first, katy, which is donald trump and the rest of the republican field. i'm told by senior scott advisers that we shouldn't expect him to go heavily on the contrast front against other republicans. they think that the contrast point will be more of him as a messenger, not on message. if you look at a lot of things he was touting even today during his speech, he talked about the gains he was able to make as a partner with the trump administration, for example, during the trump tax cuts being ab

joining us now are nbc's rehema ellis outside the courthouse in new york, and nbc's ali vitali on capitol hill and catherine christian, former assistant district attorney at the manhattan district attorney's office, she is now an msnbc legal analyst. so, rehema, good morning. what is the latest out of the courthouse? >> reporter: we can tell you, jose, that santos entered this courthouse outside of the view of cameras, we believe through an underground parking garage and is undergoing the processing of what it takes once one is brought into custody. and is facing these federal charges. as you mentioned, this 13-count indictment was unsealed today. it was -- it was returned by the federal grand jury yesterday here in islip, new york. it includes fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and false statements. the hearing will occur later this afternoon. he's expected to enter a not guilty plea, despite the fact that several local representatives asked him to step down so this district could be properly represented. i asked a man who here was leaving the courthouse if he was surprised b

nbc's kelly o and ali vitali as well, thank you. >>> just as summer travel is beginning to heat up, newng proposed to make flying a lot less painful. any moment we're expected to see president biden and transportation secretary pete buttigieg at the white house. the administration announcing a new rule making process, as they put it, that would give airline passengers more rights when it comes to those infuriating flight cancellations and delays. nbc's tom costello is joining us with more on what the rules could mean for you. tom. >> reporter: good day. president biden and secretary of transportation pete buttigieg announcing today this new proposed rule making process which will take months or years to work through. this is not going to happen in time for the summer holiday season. it is, however, in response to the meltdown last summer and, of course, what we saw over the winter with southwest airlines. the administration now wants to require airlines to pay you compensation if you're delayed or your flight canceled because of something within the airline's control. so think of a main

rehema ellis, ali vitali, and ken dilanian, thank you all. cynthia alksne stick with us. >>> e. jean carroll's first comments since a jury found former president donald trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. >>> plus, what donald trump's latest legal troubles and the charges george santos is now facing may say about the state of the republican party. >>> also, we're breaking down a new inflation report out this morning. could your wallets be in for a little relief yet from that red hot inflation ahead of a red hot summer? "ana cabrera reports" is back in just one minute. st one minute. (bobby) my store and my design business? we're exploding. but my old internet, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. hey bud. wow. what's all this? hawaii was too expensive so i brought it here. you know with priceline you could actually take that trip for less than all this. i made a horrible mistake. ♪ go to your happy price ♪ ♪ priceline ♪ >

nbc's ali vitali with republican chip roy. >> don't take an offramp that's five exits too early a deal the sake of a deal is no good. >> reporter: democrats worry the president may be giving away too much to get a deal progressive pramila jayapal telling nbc news i think the backlash will be significant if somehow we were to get bullied into a bad deal. the stakes are high. as early as june 1st, the treasury department could start missing payments, which could trigger a wall street meltdown with 401(k)s losing value. then a potential hike in interest rates, making mortgages and credit card bills more expensive. and within weeks, it could spark a recession and massive job losses >> the american people deserve to know that their social security payments will be there. the veteran hospitals will remain open, and that economic progress will be made, and we're going to continue to make it >> and peter we hear about the deadline, the ticking clock approaching. but both the president and congress are preparing to head out of town. >> lester, that's right. the house is heading home. republican

the power to derail any deal are urging mccarthy to hold out until democrats slash more spending ali vitali with chip roy >> don't take an off ramp that's five exits too early a deal for the sake of a deal is no good. >> reporter: democrats worry the president may be giving away too much to get a deal pramila jayapal saying i think the bash lash will be significant if we were to get bullied into a bad deal. the stakes are high. as early as june 1st, the treasury department could start missing payments, which could trigger a wall street meltdown with 401(k)s losing value. then a potential hike in interest rates, making mortgages and credit card bills more expensive. and within weeks, it could spark a recession and massive job losses >> the american people deserve to know that the social security payments will be there, veterans hospitals remain open, and that economic progress will be made and we're going to continue to make it. >> reporter: heading into the memorial dholiday weekend, house members are heading home and president biden will be in delaware and camp david and can work from ther

. >> ali vitali is on capitol hill and eugene robinson is back. what ethical questions are being raised in this hearing? >> reporter: what we heard this refrain time and again from democratic lawmakers, the highest court in the land should be subjected to the highest ethical rules that govern it. that's not what they feel that they have right now and we know already that chairman dick durbin tried to invite chief justice john roberts to testify at this hearing, roberts, of course, responded in a letter saying he would decline that invitation. and in the wake of him saying no to coming to this, durbin proceeding as i imagine he would have even if the chief justice was there in that he and other democrats are highlighting the ways that ethics reforms need to take place here and that if the court won't do that themselves, congress is happy to step in, even though they're chagrinned to have to do so. but on the other side of this too, we have seen republicans, those who said that roberts should not be there testifying, also playing defense saying that

we want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. agreement that they're going to reach some common ground here? >> reporter: yeah. look, vicky. the stakes are high, but optimism is pretty low. i think at least the fact all these lawmakers are going to be at the table together talking is a good sign, but in terms of optimism that this could be the thing that breaks the log jam, that there's a deal that shakes this whole thing loose, that's not likely to happen, especially because you've got people on both sides of this equation dug in on their positions. republicans saying that they're not up to doing a clean debt ceiling hike without a conversation about spending cuts. democrats says the exact opposite, that it's a clean debt ceiling hike and a separate conversation afterwards about debt spending. hakeem jeffries is effectively saying what's on the table for him and his party. watch. >> we, of course, are open to having a discussion about what type of investments, what type of spending, what type of revenues are appropriate in order

>> ali vitali, i want to ask you about an elephant that is in the room or should be in the. you wrote an entire book about women, power and politics. okay. if an unmarried women with no children was running for president, the media would be focusing on this 20 47. why didn't anybody want to marry her? why doesn't she have children? does she not like children? yet, tim scott, unmarried, no kids. nobody's even mentioned it. what do you make of that? >> would be the first bachelor in the white house since i think you can, so certainly, it's been a, we'll give kudos to our colleague tom giannis, who asked him if he's stating anybody. and it seemed as if the answer was, he might be. so, i think it's important that we asked the question simply because i remember when cory booker was campaigning in iowa during the 2020 cycle. he, at that, point was dating someone but people asked him the same question. why aren't you married? if i flip that question on its head the, as you did step, and applied that to a female candidate, certainly, i don't think i could even fathom it because the

criminal charge for using stolen checks to buy, among other things, a pair of sneakers was nbc's ali vitali joins us from capitol hill. this comes of course just days after he pled not guilty here in the states to 13 felony counts. so what more can you tell us about this non-prosecution agreement he made with brazilian prosecutors? >> reporter: yeah, chris, it comes one day after he pled not guilty in that court in long island for the 13 indictment counts that we've been reporting on all week. santos now in this non-prosecution agreement in brazil for two forged checks, stolen checks in 2008, and you're right, one of the things that he bought at the time with those stolen checks were sneakers as a gift for a friend. now, this is something that's been going on, of course, for several years, in the courts in brazil. initially back in 2013 when he stopped responding to subpoenas trying to get him to come and testify or talk about this case in the courts. eventually the courts dropped it. then when he was elected to congress and all the hubbub began again, the brazilian courts started looking i

nbc's ali vitali joins us with more. this morning's budget committee hearing was titled the default on blackmail, brinkmanship, and billionaire back room deals. how did that go? >> yeah, about how you would expect, especially off of that title, and the moment that we're in right now on capitol hill. the house is out, but we've seen a lot of posturing from senate democrats and republicans in the halls just over the last few days, ahead of the meeting next week between the core four republicans and democrats from both the house and the senate with president biden. ahead of that, the posturing has sounded a lot like what we hear in the halls. for example, take a look at this. >> maga republicans dangerous bill proposes a terrible choice. default on our financial obligations, causing widespread pain and wrecking our economy or gut basic federal programs essentially to our economic strength causing widespread pain and wrecking our economy. it is a false and unnecessary choice. >> the american people expect us to work on a bip

zolan kanno-youngs, and ali vitali. thank you all. second meeting that was originally set for today between president biden and congressional leaders was delayed to next week. what are you hearing from the white house about why it was delayed? zolan: i think it would be normal if everyone got that news and thought are we ready for even more delays in this negotiation, is this going anywhere? when you talk to white house officials, they are framing this as a positive development. for as much as we want to take that with a grain of salt. they did paint a scenario of if they both came out, kevin mccarthy and biden, after a meeting and pretty much had nothing to say or show in terms of progress or meeting a consensus, how would that shape public perception about whether or not they will make a deal? just because they are not meeting doesn't mean the white house is not talking to congressional staffers, which is where a lot of these details are going to get figured out. whether that be reaching a consensus on permitting reform, which is a

joining us now nbc's ali vitali who was at the scott place right now, ali, good morning.so with us is victoria defrancesco soto, dean of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas. victoria is an msnbc analyst and "axios" political reporter alexi mccannon. talk about the significance of this event today. >> yeah, i mean, in some respects it represents a mail stone for the republican party. of course they've never nominated or elected a black president before, and senator scott is reflective of a growing small momentum of black men not only running for office as republicans but winning their races and then finding spaces where they can try to ascend to even the presidency. now, of course he's been registering at like 3% in the polls up until now, but he's not an unserious candidate, and what's interesting to me is in some of his town halls in new hampshire recently, he kind of jokes with the audience and says things like, oh, you know, let me let you all in on a secret, i'm black. he's already leaning into his race, and i think that's something we'l

joining me now, ali vitali on capitol hill and elise jordan. , ali, we caught only the last couple of minutes of that group talking to the speaker. i know you had a question for him. what did we learn from him just moments ago? where is his head now? >> i asked the speaker several questions as they stopped here at our cameras and talked to us. it's the first time we're getting him to react to the idea that ultra conservative members of his conference are not happy with this. he really did sidestep those concerns and instead when i asked him if he had spoken to those members, he told me, yeah, i have, but his question to me was i don't get what they are unhappy about and then continued to go through and tout various piece of the bill he thinks are important, including the idea they are capping certain spending. they are putting work requirements in for certain anti poverty programs. those were key republican priorities for the conference that now he's able to say he got in this long fought negotiation. not to say he got everything. but republican

with us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ali vitali, and has the newe done anything to increase the urgency on capitol hill to reach a deal? >> already there was a sense of urgency around this and concern, frankly, because how difficult it will be for mccarthy to keep his entire conference onboard. nevertheless we are watching in the last day or so as the date seems closer than people thought it was, and lawmakers are getting nervous and wanting everybody to be back at the table. it's why the news about the meeting next week is so well received, but doesn't mean it's changing the posturing here. senate majority leader, chuck schumer, in the last half hour or so saying this on the floor. >> mccarthy is giving us two terrible options, either default on the debt or default on our country with steep, severe, devastating cuts to things like law enforcement, veterans, families, teachers, kids, and even cancer research. the only real option that does not hurt the american people is a clean bipartisan bill to avert default. >> reporter: we know speaker mccarth

ali vitali is in scott's hometown. robert god freed former spokesperson for nikki haley and host of the "what a day podcast" with crooked media. ally, what can we expect from this announcement coming less than an hour from now? >> reporter: this is tim scott stepping into his own. when i'm in my other day job as a capitol hill correspondent, we see him in the halls there. now he's going to be stepping into his own limelight as a presidential candidate. he's joining a field that isn't crowded at this point but is likely to get a lot more crowded over the course of this week. i think what's going to be fascinating about tim scott's candidacy is the way his advisers have told me he's going to try to fit into the race. he's not going to try to lob attacks at his opponents. instead we're going to see a lot of the senator presenting himself to the american public, going heavy on his bio. he's here at his alma mater for this announcement in his home state of south carolina. that's going to factor heavily into his candidacy, i

i want to bring in ali vitali. what the president just had to say was that he has an offer on the table to cut spending by $1 trillion and to freeze spending for two years. how would that fly with republicans on the hill and maybe with democrats? >> it depends on which republicans you ask. certainly the ones i've been talking to specifically in the house freedom caucus are not fans of the way they see these negotiations going at this point. they have not seen the firm contours, probably because those are still actively coming together, but i think you heard mike memoli in the rose garden trying to ask if there would be a deal by the end of the week. the president ignored that question. we asked negotiators if they think a deal can come together by the end of the week, they say they're still actively in these conversations and that would be tough. we know that everyone is going out of town this weekend with the caveat they can be called back at any moment. when you think of the way that mccarthy is trying to balance

nbc's aly vitaly with republican chip roy. >> don't take an off ramp that is five exits too early. a deal for the sake of a deal, is no good. >> democrats worry that the president may be giving away too much to get a deal. progressive, pamela jayapal telling nbc news, i think that the backlash would be significant. if somehow we were to be bullied into a bad deal. the stakes are high, as early as june 1st, the treasury department could start missing payments. which could trigger a wall street meltdown. with 401(k) s losing value. then a potential hike in interest rates. making mortgages, and credit card bills more expensive. and within weeks, it could spark a recession. a massive judge losses. >> the house is not in recess, the speaker says that members will be called back to d. c. if there is an agreement. with that, let's get smarter with our help of our lead off panel tonight. a reporter for the washington post, and coauthor of the morning newsletter, the early 202. former prosecutor, and civil rights attorney, charles coleman. and former democratic new york congressman, max ros

. >> joining me now, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, gabe gutierrez and politico white house editor and phil rucker, editor at "the washington post." ali, to you first about tim scott. how does him jumping into the race change the dynamics? >> reporter: it's not exactly shocking. scott has been teasing this in several days over the last few months. we have done trips with him to the early primary states. he said he is exploring. now, of course, we are seeing in this fec filing that he is fully putting his statement of candidacy out there. it's basically the most you can do before you say the words, i am running for president. we expect him to do that a few days from now on monday when will head to charleston with him where he is expected to do a rally and make it official. at that point, he starts to hit the road. we have seen this many times. candidates announce and they barnstorm the early states. he will go to iowa and new hampshire as part of that early state blitz. what's going to follow him is the air cover and radio cover that you mentioned in your introduction. the fact this

>> nbc's ali vitali is in north charleston, sahil kapur on capitol hill, and michael steele former rnc chair and political analyst. michael, you've said it over and over and over again, the only way to beat trump is to take him on. any evidence that tim scott is the guy to do it? >> nope. >> in a word. >> unless ali can share something from inside the room that i didn't see on tv watching this thing, no, i'm sorry. i get the hope and change. it feels so good. if this were 1984, yeah, i could get into it. our politics inside the party let alone the country have changed dramatically. >> does that include, michael, going after your opponents on the day you announce? >> yes, yes. >> okay. >> yes. stop it, yes. i'm talking to you as a former national chairman. yes. when you're up against someone as all-encompassing and sucks so much energy out of the life of the party, how do you reinvigorate that? you don't sit back and feel good when you're standing over a body and need to apply a defibrillator talking about how you feel about that moment. you've got to get into ak a shun. you've got to m

. >> back with me now, ali vitali, michael, jonathan capehart, matthew dowd, james.rushed off my question about the coronation but he is getting criticize, as former president donald trump is going after him but some people are saying that it is one of our most important allies, city of gone but at the same time should've went a whole host of people would say what is he doing partying at the other end of the pond when there's a debt ceiling crisis. is he damp either way? >> i guess. but all you have to do is look in the history books. it's about protocol, but the protocol is that u.s. presidents typically attend a coronation, it is true that you have to go back to dwight eisenhower, to the period where we had the coronation of the king or queen forgive me, but we don't know about the presidents agenda, so anyone can open the book, page number 625 of u.s. history and they will see that that is the case and i think sending the first lady is the norm, it is interesting that we are kind of a people magazine culture and i don't mean that to disparage people magazine but t

nbc's ali vitali is joining us with that.e santos fellow republicans saying, especially mccarthy to all of this? >> reporter: well, look, what speaker mccarthy is saying does not necessarily track with what santos' own fellow members from the new york delegation are saying. look, that's been true even before the charges came down but certainly in new light now given the fact that he was in court yesterday pleading not guilty and vowing he wasn't going anywhere. santos is not changing his posture, clearly. we expect to see him back in washington at some point today. certainly our eyes are peeled for that. in the meantime, the only posture shift has come from the perspective what could happen in the future. speaker mccarthy not saying he should resign now but he is not going to back his re-election bid. watch. >> santos said he's running for re-election. will you support him? >> i'm not going to support him. >> you're not. >> i think he has other things to focus on. >> you don't plan to support him for re-election? >> that's wh

nbc's ali vitali was on capitol hill. scott has been hinting about a potential 2024 run for a while now. what are we expecting? >> this is sort of the least surprising news ever out of senator tim scott, given the fact that he has been in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, i have been in many those of places with him. he has been road testing a message of optimism that is ultimately going to be leveraged into a presidential campaign. tim scott at an event in charleston said he would be back in his home state at some point in the next two weeks. may 22nd is the day he is going to take the next step in going from exploring a run for president, to officially announcing a run for president, and the message he's had over the course of the last few months says he's considering sounds like this. >> it's time to restore hope in america. time to restore the greatest nation in god's green earth and it's time to get the job done, protect america, set our people free. let's do it together. rise up and defend the greatest nation on

ali vitali. thank you as always. good to talk to you. be with you. i'm katy tur. a supermarket, a church, a school, another school, a bank, a parade, a synagogu

ali vitali is with us now.nd the conditions of those who staffers? >> reporter: we're getting more information by the minute. the police saying they have those two staffers being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at the hospital, and the person who came in and attack them is in police custody. gerry connolly tweeting a statement about what happened here saying, in part, that many morning that individual entered his district office and asked for connolly, but when he wasn't there, this person attacked his staffers with what we've now learned is a metal baseball bat. connolly then went on to say that both members of the team were transferred to the hospital, and right now the office's focus is ensuring that they are receiving the care that they need, but an extremely scary moment as we learned that one of the staffers was a senior staffer and was hit in the head with that metal baseball bat. another staffer was an intern on her first day in the office. she was hit in the side, and again, they're being tre

. >> ali vitali, thank you for that. >>> across the country, nurses are overwork, overloaded and basicallyover it. it's members of gen z who say they're the most frustrated. nbc news spoke with a nurse in portland, maine. 27-year-old emma cooper, who described her job this way. imagine trying your hardest every day at work and you're barely scratching the surface of usefulness and then you get in your car and cry. joining me now, the reporter who wrote the piece. erica, we heard that so much through covid, but it hasn't really gotten better. what are you hearing from nurses who are feeling this impact of the nursing shortage every seng single day? >> it is truly nurses who are on the front lines of patient care. they are physically in hospital rooms 24/7, observing the tiniest changes in patients that can be important to health outcomes. if they have six, eight, 12 patients to care for at any one time, they say they cannot do that job effectively. the biggest issue from the nurses i've spoken with is that nurse to patient ratio. they do not feel they can do their best work when they have t

joining me now is capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and pentagon correspondent courtney kube. can you help us understand what the senator is saying. does he know what he's saying? >> reporter: we have lost the plot here. the part that's more tangible is the way tuberville has been blocking military promotions and nominations, and there's a lot of talk about the blanket ban and the national security implications about that, which of course court is going to get into and knows so well. tuberville says he's not going to be moving on that, until d.o.d. changes the policy on abortion. now he's asking reporters in the hallway to define what a white nationalist is and seemingly airing a political gripe about the way that some trump supporters are supposedly talked about, and again, i have to go back to the idea that i think we have lost the original plot. the fact, though, that he is now in this situation where he's seemingly defending white nationalists as he talks about political wokeness in the military, that's sort of the thread that i'm following here with this. it is easy to ge

like obama and trump, didn't seem as though speaker mccarthy had the same level of optimism when ali vitali caught up with him today. is this a dangerous place for him to be right now? >> in negotiations, you don't have a deal until you have a deal. so you've got to be careful when you express optimism or pessimism. we're still weeks away from the deadline as this treasury department has envisioned it. the moment they can't find other ways of keeping our bills being paid without reaching the debt ceiling. and you rarely see in washington any kind of actual solution these days until you get right up against a deadline when you're looking at that cliff and you're about to fall over it. so i'd be cautious about expecting a breakthrough in a significant way in this next new days. having said that, the fact the president attributed good faith to the other side this weekend, he said they have a desire to come to a deal is interesting because that's something not, that's not been inconsistent with his messaging before. so we'll see where things go. they're so far apart if they're dealing on the sp

ali vitali. thank you as always. good to talk to you. i'm yasmin vossoughian, katy tur picks up our coverage right now. ♪♪ >>> good to be with you. i'm katy tur. a supermarket, a church, a school, another school, a bank, a parade, a synagogue, a neighbor's house, a walmart, and now an outlet mall, this time in allen, texas, this time, eight people are dead. this time, a witness tells us exactly what it looks like when the gunfire from an ar-15 hits the human body. because this time he saw it for himself. might want to warn you, his experience is graphic. . >> i went to the first person i found crouching in the bushes. looked like she was praying, and i felt for a pulse. there was no pulse. so i pulled her head up to look at her face and there wasn't a face. just brain matter. so i went to the next guy, he was already staring straight ahead, eyes were fixed and dilated. no pulse. went to the third guy, he was breathing put my hand on his chest, he chest wentz up and down, he moaned so i started -- i felt for a pulse, didn't feel a pulse,

ali vitali joins us with more. senator feinstein has been absent since february. is she correct there's been no slow down of president biden's judicial nominees? >> reporter: no, she's not. even though the committee has been able to vote on some nominees, advancing them to the senate floor, they haven't been able to advance on others. if you look at the split on the judiciary committee, the important committee where feinstein has sat for years, it is an 11-10 split between democrats and republicans respectively. the fact that feinstein is out makescommittee. the committee has been available to advance nominees that have some republican support. those folks have been able to get on to the senate floor for confirmation. others have not advanced out of committee, and we have seen dick durbin hold nomination votes back because he lacks the vote. they realize there could be a problem with her absence being continued in this fashion. we watched a few weeks ago the idea be floated that someone should replace feinstein on the committee temporarily until she's able to come

joining us now, nbc news correspondent ali vitali in mount pleasant, south carolina, also republicanc strategist aisha mills. we know trump is going after desantis, but we're told desantis doesn't plan to strike back. nbc news is reporting, quote, the governor will mostly ignore the daily trump taunts and will take the former president head on only in specific circumstances, particularly on policy, according to three political advisers to desantis. what do you make of that strategy? >> well, he doesn't need to use trump's name or speak directly to him to literally be racing to the bottom. which is what his campaign is doing at this point. he is in a race for the underbelly, the darkest part of our society, which he thinks if he's going to be able to gin up into his campaign by doing horrible things to the residents of his state, lgbtq people, african american students and on and on and on and on and by picking a fight with disney. so, i think that the strategy, you know, i could care less frankly about the republican strategy against each other, but what i do care about is their stra

let's go to capitol hill and nbc's ali vitali, one of the things we have talked about is whether or not, as time moved on, whether more and more of the republican candidates would start to go after donald trump, would start to break with some of the other people who were running. what are we seeing from nikki haley? >> reporter: we're seeing just that, and it's going to be interesting watching the ways and places that these republican candidates try to differentiate and contrast against the front runner in the field right now, former president donald trump. for nikki haley, she's choosing to do it on the issue of january 6th. here's what she said just this week in iowa. watch. >> you know, what i will say about january 6th, i will continue to say it was a terrible day. it was not a beautiful day. it was a terrible day. and we don't ever want that to happen again. i think any person related to january 6th should be tried fairly. if they broke the law, they should pay the price. i don't know enough about each individual, but that's my role, if you break the law, you pay the price. i think