mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: the american people are deeply concerned about the collapse of law and order in our country. 39% of new york residents say they feel less safe than they did one year ago. last month 63% of likely voters in chicago said they felt personally unsafe from gun violence and crime. and by the way, on tuesday those chicago voters tossed out the incumbent mayor. americans see this problem going from bad to worse. more than 70% of the country expects we'll see crime rates rise even higher this coming year. unfortunately, my fellow kentuckians know this as well as anyone else. in my hometown of louisville, youth homicides tripled between 2018 and 2021. in fact, since the onset of the pandemic, louisville has seen the second worst increase in youth homicides among more than a dozen similar u.s. cities. total homicides have slightly subsided from their record high in 2021, but they're still sitting in the triple digits. one louisville couple whose 19-year-old son was murdered by a convic

mr. mcconnell said after the january 6th insurrection, they quoted him telling aides, don't worry, the democratsare of him for us. that's the desire on the part of a lot of republicans, they would like prosecutions to take care of donald trump for them. mo move him from the table so they can get on with the business of finding somebody who can beat joe biden. they don't want to say that out lout. they are very afraid of that. i think they worry that if they're seen across aligned with donald trump, he has the largest bull important of american politics and can make you uncomfortable. >> after i threw you under the bus, michael steele, i'll say something i think will support your point of view. it is an interesting story on nbcnews.com about ron desantis deciding to jump into the fray and making comments about porn stars, et cetera. it expands the drama that doesn't help him or trump or any republican who is running for office in 2024. let me read from that article. a brawl could open up a lane for an alternative option. that's what the rest of the fight is counting on. if you're a republican run

mr. jeffries: good morning, let me begin by extending on behalf of house democrats best wishes to senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. we are praying for a swift and a full and a speedy recovery. and we stand with him and his family in that regard. president's budget will be released today. it is forward-looking budget that invests in the health and safety and economic well-being of the american people. it's a budget that will protect medicare and social security. president's budget is designed to build an economy from the middle out and bottom up. president's budget will reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over the next 10 years building upon $1.7 trillion in the deficit that has occurred over the previous two years. we continue to get these things done for the american people to strengthen the economy. and to do it in a fiscally responsible way. at the same time, we are waiting for extreme maga republicans in the house to show us your plan. how do you want to invest in filling an economy for every day americans and propose to help the challenges. are you committed to undermining social security, medicare and medicai

mcconnell. but remember what we saw tonight -- mr.lson clearly made a decision a long time ago -- and this is evidence. this is not opinion. publicly decided how he would pursue his audience, and it doesn't involve consistency or facts. it just involves figuring out where he thinks he can get that large audience and along the way, if he is minimizing a sedition, so be it but this is also much larger than mr. carlson with all this exposed, it's all out here fox viewers have been exposed to what happened on january 6th you can say they might be only relying on fox or less informed about certain things but people saw january 6th. it unfolded live we've shown the fox coverage that day people know what happened. the larger question is whether and why this movement appears to affirm this as their number one speaker and leader, affirm this kind of lying and attacks on democracy and a leadership that is clearly documented built on little more than selling out if you're a fox viewer, it would appear mr. carlson is not being honest with you, it

republicans we haven't heard from top republicans, minority leader mitch mcconnell who has a publicly tense relationship with mrtrump, and also those republicans who voted to convict him in the second impeachment trial after january 6th. we haven't heard from senator cassidy, senator romney, senator collins, senator murkowski to name a few, and their offices tell us they're not planning to speak out anytime soon at least until they see the documents and what the charges are. >> julie tsirkin, thank you for that. >>> this morning, the president told reporters he had no comment on the former president's indictment nbc's ron allen is on the ground in rolling fork, mississippi, where the president is touring storm damage ron, president biden is expected to speak soon there. what are we expecting to hear? >> reporter: yeah, nothing about the indictment of president trump, former president trump, and the press secretary underscored that on the flight down here to the press aboard the plane saying no comment again and pointing out that the white house heard about the indictment, just like everybody else, through the m

mr. president, have you spoken to leader mcconnell >> i have spoken to the family i think he's going to be all right. >> reporter: it seems as though even mcconnell's senate colleagues are not getting much information about his recovery they were briefed during their lunch yesterday. the senate is not in session today. they won't be back here in washington until next tuesday. savannah >> ryan nobles on capitol hill, thank you, ryan. >>> meantime, controversial actor robert blake has died. for more than 60 years he starred in tv shows and movies, most notably the popular '70s series "beretta. his legacy was tarnished following the unsolved murder of his second wife in which he was acquitted. nbc's anne thompson has more good morning. >> good morning, hoda. drama marked robert blake's life both on screen and off as a child actor, a tv star, and ultimately a murder suspect in the killing of his wife. it was a life marked by fame and infamy >> don't do the crime if you can't do the time. >> reporter: it is the role that defined robert blake's tv career as the tough street wise police detective

mr. trump declined an invitation to testify calling the democratic district attorney's investigation a, quote, old and rebuked case >>> five days after suffering a concussion in a fall senate republican leader mitch mcconnell was discharged from a washington hospital today. a spokesman says mcconnell will undergo physical therapy at an inpatient rehab facility before returning home his medical team discovered he had a minor rib fracture >>> in san diego today president biden was joined by the leaders of australia and the united kingdom to announce a new phase of a defense agreement meant to counter china's expanding aims in the asia pacific region including providing australia with conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines ahead of that meeting i sat down with uk prime minister rishi sunak for his first u.s. tv interview to talk about his view of china as his own country bounces back from political turmoil. >> britain is back and part of the job that i've got as prime minister is to give people that confidence in our country >> reporter: rishi sunak emerged last fall from a revolving door of british prime ministers. now returning to a state he called home for several years, we fittingly met aboard a

mr. nides: their schedule only overlapped a few hours. the reality is they would have worked together. interestingly enough, both shumer and mcconnell's message to the bipartisan and to the -- and to generally all the administers in the government was basically the same. very little difference between both mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer's trip to israel. it was quite -- it was quite nice to see a bipartisan message coming from the u.s. congress. myron: toria, i wanted to jump back to this motion there are two geopolitical frameworks that have emerged. one that's a trans-atlantic one focused on russia's aggression in ukraine and another one in the indo-pacific that nick will also comment on in terms of managing a more aggressive china. there are also other arrangements. there are quad arrangements that have been set up as well. how do we manage these conflicts and try to deepen these partnerships, also, when inside these trans-atlantic relationships there are countries that are certainly less bullish on being mus could you lahr with china -- muscular with china -- germany is a good example of that -- and countries in asia that are c

mr. president, it seems a little unusual to follow senator schumer, because usually senator mcconnell is next, and we certainly understand why he's not here today. he's in recovery from a fall that he experienced last week. we wish him the very best and hope he's back very soon. mr. president, there's an old saying that there are a lot of -- that there aren't a lot of atheists in foxholes. in my experience, there aren't a lot of unyielding, uncompromising, fiscally conservative, so-called budget hawks when a disaster hits. it gets personal. when tornadoes rip across your state or hurricanes devastate your community, when a cold snap takes down the electric grid in your state, or blazing heat sets off raging wildfires, when a freight train hauling toxic chemicals derails and explodes into a raging fireball, you don't find a platoon of ayn rand quoting ideologues that really come to the scene and want to be heard. people want to see fema and other government agencies on the scene helping as quickly as possible. they want to know their government is there to help when it's needed. when it g

mitch mcconnell immediately after the election and told investigators that it was, quote, probably true that he, quote, urge the republican leader to ask other senior republicans to refuse to endorse mrd baseless claims of fraud. mr. murdaugh was in close contact with the highest levels of the gop, he also privacy privately did not want to, quote, antagonized donald trump. and then the media mogul ran into a big problem. the court filing details how following trump's election loss, the head of fox news brand protection unit, he told fox executives that the network was, quote, underwater, with viewership declining. rupert's son, said that the drop in new or viewership would keep him awake at night. confronted with polling showing fox's drop in favor ability, executives were warned that, quote, clear and decisive action was needed to regain the trust that they were losing with their core audience. and so while fox news chief himself believed trump's claims of election fraud were total bs, the network continued to allow election conspiracy theorists to spread disinformation all over its air. according to pinion's filing, that was motivated in large part by profit. this is nbc news with

mr. president, who's a bigger threat to the country, is it china, is it russia. i say no. i say it's people working inside the government, and this was the list, like mitch mcconnell, nancy pelosiout and said it. who's the biggest threat to our country, it's not china, it's not russia. it's those people. not like some big deep state. he's naming names of people who he says are the most dangerous threat to our way of life. >> exactly. which of course puts those -- >> senate minority later. >> puts their lives in danger. yeah, he says the senate minority leader is more dangerous than xi in china or putin in russia. says nancy pelosi who's no longer the speaker, more dangerous than vladimir putin who's committing war crimes after war crimes every day. it's this glorification, again, of convicts, the glorification of breaking of laws that separates donald trump, might connect him with a shrinking base, but separates him from swing voters all across america. >> some republicans may see ron desantis as like their get away from trump. and trump sees that. here are donald trump's comments on fox news monday night about his previous endorsement of ron desantis for governor. >> ron came

mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. nell: i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: one month ago the biden administration published an official statement opposing republicans s. bill to block -- republicans' bill to block disaster soft on crime bill right here in our nation's capital. the administration was on the record against it. then they overwhelming majority of house democrats voted against our commonsense resolution when it passed the house. the proposition behind our bill is simple -- it goes like this. the answer to skyrocketing violent crime in the district of columbia is not -- not -- to reduce criminal penalties even further. on what planet should this even need to be said in the first place? the murder rate in washington is 34% higher today than it was at this time last year. auto thefts are up 110% right here in the nation's capital. longtime d.c. residents are locking their car doors at every red light

mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the minority leader. mr. mcconnell: there is an unforgettable, regrettable thread that's been woven throughout the whole biden president. he tries to change the subject by fearmongerring and pretending that we're in the 1950's or 1960's. remember early last year when the full impact of democrats' inflation was coming into focus, that's when president biden flew to georgia, screamed that jim crow was coming back, and our democracy was on death's doorstep and compared republicans -- listen to this -- to bull connor and jefferson davis. compared us to bull connor and jefferson davis. well, here he goes again. last weekend down in alabama, the president suggested that the right to vote in america is under assault today, on par with bloody sunday on the edmund pettus bridge nearly 60 years ago. nobody believes this. nobody seriously believes that race relations or voting laws or any of these issues are anywhere near -- anywhere near -- where they were back in the 1960's. this is utter nonsense. president biden agai

mr. president, before i begin, i just want to say that, along with all of my colleagues, that my thoughts and prayers are with leader mcconnell this morning, with his family, with his team, and that along with our colleagues, i look forward to his speedy return to the united states senate. mr. president, later today the president of the united states will release his budget. we haven't seen the details of it yet, so i'm not prepared. i'll have more to say about that next week when we've an opportunity -- when we have an opportunity to drill down. but i can predict this because it's pretty easy to predict, that the president's budget will include a lot more spending, a lot more taxing, and that, after the last two years here where through a budget reconciliation process the president and the democrats here in congress passed almost another $3 trillion in spending, in taxing, and debt outside of the normal appropriations process. and that at a time when revenue last year -- revenue -- was at a 20-year high. in fact, the you revenue coming into the federal government in the last fiscal year as a percentage of our entire economy