. >> joining us now with more is sahel kapur. good morning. what do the next 48 hours look like on capitol hill? >> that sounds more like a tactical optimism for speaker mccarthy than anything reflecting the dynamic on capitol hill, which is bleak at the moment, where a shutdown is concerned. the two chambers moving on opt sit tracks, moving in different directions, i should say, with two days to go before the deadline. the senate is later this hour continuing to vote on a bipartisan bill that keeps the government open through november 17th, and it includes some additional assistance to ukraine and disaster relief funding. they're hoping to wrap that up quickly, but if they have to go through all the procedural motions, it could take until sunday or monday after the deadline just to pass the senate bill. and in the house, the situation is not looking good either. mccarthy is passing republican only appropriation bills on a party line vote that reflects his party's priorities on spending cuts and various conservative policies that have no chanc

. >> i want to bring in nbc's senior national political reporter sahil kapur and stuart stevens is back where do things exactly stand right now? >> reporter: things are in a bad place on capitol hill as far as this debate goes. don't take it from me, take it from the republicans you just heard. any lingering optimism about averting a shutdown has faded and the question has become how is congress going to reopen the government after what appears to be an all but inevitable shutdown. the house failed for the second time to debate an appropriations bill. you have this situation where speaker mccarthy is dealing with a small minority of his small majority that wants to dictate policy for the entirety of washington and the country, even though they don't have the votes in the senate and certainly not a willing president who's -- you know, who's going to sign their bills. nevertheless, after mccarthy adjourned the house yesterday for a long weekend, his leadership team reconvened, tried to negotiate with some of these hard right members who are holding out in terms of finding a path forward o

msnbc's sahil kapur is following more for us. >> reporter: senator mcconnell has bookended the summer recess with two freeze ups on camera. he's back. he insists he's fine. he insists he's not going anywhere, and is telling his republican members privately the same thing he's telling reporters publicly, look at this doctor's note. he is citing a letter by the capitol attending physician who examined him he said after that august 30th incident and said at the time he was examined there's no evidence that he had a seizure disorder or experienced a stroke, tia or movement disorder such as parkinson's disease. mcconnell was peppered with questions about his health yesterday. he had very little to say other than points to that note. have a listen. >> dr. monahan's report addressed concerns people might have in some things that happened to me, did happen. and really, i have nothing to add to that. i think he pretty well covered the subject. i'm going to finish my term as leader, and i'm going to finish my senate term. >> reporter: now his term as leader ends currently in january of 2025. hi

zinhle. >> sahil kapur with the latest. thank you. >>> also breaking right now, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in libya, north africa, where government officials say more than 2,000 people have died from serious flooding. take a look at this, how widespread it is. a mediterranean storm slammed into that country on sunday. rainfall was so intense, it caused two dams to burst. nbc news foreign correspondent josh lederman is following this for us from doha, qatar. this unfolding in a country that has had some tough times oaf the past few years, give us the context. >> reporter: that's right. you think about the challenges in responding to a disaster like this in what is essentially a failed state. a country that has not had one cohesive government that actually controls the entire territory in more than a decade, where it's unclear who's actually the authority in charge. and you can understand why it has been so difficult to even pin down the simple death toll with various estimates, ranging as you mentioned from 2,000 to

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nbc sahel kapur is on capitol hill, brandon buck is a former aide to paul ryan and john boehner and msnbcitical analyst. welcome, guys. sahel, do we have any sense that tommy tuberville is beginning to feel any of this pressure? what is the latest from the hill? >> reporter: the short answer is, no, we have not seen any indication whatsoever that senator tuberville is softening his hard line when it comes to military promotions. if anything, he appears to be doubling down. his office spent the august recess distributing clips and evidence of allies of his who are defending his position and there are several of them. it is unclear whether this pressure from the leaders of the navy and air force and army will impact him. they say this abortion travel policy is important because service members need to be treated equally. they call it unfair military leaders and their families saying it is taking a personal toll and despite what others say, it is jeopardizing national security and damaging the military. now, there are a couple of ways you can imagine tommy tuberville backs off, if he feels p

he sahil kapur is a senior national correspondent and joins me now.arkable moment on the floor today. it was a little procedurally danced, but there's something called the roll that's passed by the party in control of the house. usually by a party line vote, to move to an appropriation. this was the rule for the d.o.d. appropriation. should be safe, what happened? >> that's right, chris. this is a pretty dire situation. we are witnessing a full scale paralysis among house republicans were divisions within the party are fully grinding the chamber to a halt. they are not able to pass long term government funding bills. they're not able to pass a short term government funding bill, even though it is loaded up with conservative priorities at the hard right. and they don't even pass the so-called rule to debate a defense funding bill that they support, and the reason is these hard right republicans want assurances from speaker mccarthy about how this appropriations process is going to end, once it gets to president biden's desk. assurances that speaker mcc

. >> congressman, we've got new nbc news reporting from my colleague, sahil kapur, that he's trying to change strategy and redraw his portrait, president biden, ahead of 2024. this is what he says, during their first showdown, donald trump disparaged joe biden as a sleepy guy in the basement of a house who's barely aware of his surroundings. now facing four criminal indictments and gearing up for a rematch, the former president is changing course to depict his skes sor as a nefarious master mind who's pulling the strings of a complex justice system without leaving any finger prints. will voters buy it? >> not if they spot the projection. we know about donald trump, usually when he makes an accusation, there's some truisms about his own behavior, and personality, but this narrative of the biden crime family, the words of republicans and fox news does hold tight within the republican constituency. i think the intriguing thing is neither one of those takes by donald trump approach policies, and that's where joe biden and democrats are in a favorable position this election cycle. they can

. >> let's bring in nbc news senior national political reporter, sahil kapur.kes up every day an optimist he says, but should he be? is there any movement toward a deal? >> reporter: there is no movement toward a viable deal at this moment, ana. speaker mccarthy likes to project eternal optimism in moments like these. the reality on capitol hill is muchless rosy. you have the senate and house moving on two different tracks. the senate is expected to vote to keep the government open through november 17th. it's got some ukraine aid, some disaster relief funding. the republican-led house is operating in a very different way. they are moving party line appropriation bills that reflect republican priorities, spending cuts, conservative provisions that have no shot at becoming law. mccarthy says he does want to pass a short-term bill this week, ideally tomorrow, if he is able to get the other bills through. that also reflects some conservative priorities. it keeps the government open, border security funding that democrats are not supportive of at this time. where th

and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and nbc news senior national political reporter, sahil kapuror joining us. ken, so menendez, when he talks about prosecutors get it wrong, he has been indicted before. he's been put on trial. he's beaten those charges. this is now the second time. walk us through what is in the indictment, what he addressed today, and also that he did not address the gold bars? >> that's right, katy, and first of all, the previous indictment, it wasn't that prosecutors were wrong. it was that a jury was hung on the question of whether the conduct was criminal. the indictment accused him of accepting a million dollars worth of gifts from a florida eye doctor and a senate ethics committee found he did that, and ruled he brought disrepute on the senate, he wasn't convicted in that case. now he's charged with essentially selling his office and selling the foreign policy of the united states with regard to egypt in exchange for bribes. nearly half a million dollars in cash, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold bars and a $60,000 mercedes for his wife, amon

nbc's sa hill -- sahil kapur is on capitol hill. >> reporter: they're ramping up in anticipation of what one white house aide described as an impeachment based on no evidence whatsoever. this war room will be made up of about two dozen lawyers, legislative staffers, and communications aides. it will be based in the white house counsel's office, in large part because they don't want the rest of the white house bogged down in republican investigations and can focus on the business of governing. the white house has been studying the 1998 republican impeachment of bill clinton, and make the republican opposition pay a price. i'm told that the white house spent much of the august recess digging into past republican statements on the process and substance of impeachment to try to use against them. the white house broadly plans to drive a split screen between a president they will argue is focused on the issues while republicans are focused on political warfare. they are also mindful that a potential impeachment inquiry could coincide with the government funding deadline where a government shut

sahil kapur, thanks so much.ing and how far do they think republicans will push this? >> the white house believes these two things are linked. this is mccarthy needing to placate those on the hard right and are unhappy about the debt ceiling bill. they believe he is going to try to go down this path. he's also receiving a lot of pressure from former president trump, who's nearly on a daily basis suggesting that biden be impeached with no real evidence for that whatsoever. there are about two dozen people in this war room, they slowly built up over the year to deal with the house oversight probes, now gearing up toward impeachment and some of the hunter biden stuff as well. no white house wants to go down this path. impeachment inquiries are time consuming and expensive. this could politically backfire on republicans. this is out of step with what voters want. polls suggest there aren't too many voters who are that concerned about hunter biden. we should note, the far right in the house is extremely powerful. just

let's bring in sahil kapur.about both sides, the unity on the senate side and what's going on in the house. >> reporter: we have a rare situation where the senate is passing appropriations bills overwhelmingly through committee, some unanimously. they're going to start to get vets on the floor next week. this is that stark contrast with the approach in the republican-controlled house where speaker mccarthy is using a slim majority to try to advance conservative priorities like cutting spending and attaching other conservative riders to the bills. even republicans say mccarthy's approach is going nowhere in the senate. mitch mcconnell made that clear that the senate is not going to replicate the house's approach. john thune said that if mccarthy continues to struggle, they should take the senate bills and pass them as is. some other democrats feel that way as well. senator john tester said the best thing they could do is talk all the work the senate does and just pass it because we do better work. we shouldn't be