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Speaker Johnson says Democrats are ‘not serious’ about negotiating end to shutdown: Full interview

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) joins Meet the Press as lawmakers leave Washington with no end to the government shutdown in sight.



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Oct. 6, 2025, 5:35 AM EDTBy Mithil Aggarwal and Larissa GaoChinese rescuers were on Monday rushing to evacuate hundreds of hikers stranded on the eastern slope of the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, after heavy snowfall blanketed campsites over the weekend.Nearly 350 hikers have already traveled to safety at a rendezvous point in the small township of Qudang, according to state broadcaster CCTV, with rescuers also in contact with the remaining over 200 hikers who “will gradually arrive at the rendezvous point.”Local news outlets had initially reported that nearly 1,000 people had been affected by the blizzard. Local rescue officials were not immediately available for comment on the discrepancy in numbers.No casualties were reported, according to local media. Trekkers leaving their campsite as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummeled the Himalayas on Sunday.Geshuang Chen / via Reuters“About one-third into the trek, it began to rain and the rain kept getting heavier,” Chen Geshuang, a 28-year-old astrophotographer who began climbing Saturday afternoon but decided to retreat Sunday, told NBC News in an online video interview. “Later, it turned into sleet, and eventually a full-on blizzard.”Some hikers shoveled snow out of their tents amid the blizzard, while others waded in a line through the snowstorm in poor visibility, social media videos verified by NBC News showed.The hikers had been trapped at nearly 16,000 feet, according to a report in Jimu News, which added that local villagers and rescue teams had been deployed to clear the roads blocked by snow. Everest Base Camp.Yulia Y / Getty ImagesAt 29,000 feet, Mount Everest is considered the world’s tallest mountain when measured from sea level.The unusually intense snowfall began Friday night and continued through Saturday in the Gama Valley of Tingri County in the autonomous region of Tibet, “disrupting the itineraries of some tourists hiking in the area,” CCTV said.Within hours, some of Chen’s team were exhibiting signs of mild hypothermia and cold stress, she said. By Saturday night, the storm intensified with lightning almost every minute. “It was a nerve-wracking night,” she said. “When we woke up this morning, the snow was extremely deep— about one meter, reaching up to our thighs.”The group decided to retreat, arriving at the foot of the mountain Sunday evening. Neighboring Nepal was also hit with heavy rainfall, where at least 44 people were killed from landslides and floods. The severe weather event occurred as more than 299 million people were expected to travel regionally on Sunday due to a weeklong national holiday that included China’s National Day last week and the Mid-Autumn Festival on Monday, CCTV said in a separate report.Ticket sales and entry to the Everest Scenic Area was suspended late Saturday, according to notices on the official WeChat accounts of the local Tingri County Tourism Company.Mount Everest is called Mount Qomolangma in Chinese, and it stretches along the border of Tibet and Nepal, and climbers from both countries attempt to scale the peak along different slopes.While the Nepalese side has seen a boom in Everest-related tourism and significant investment, the Tibetan side is especially remote. Mithil AggarwalMithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.Larissa GaoLarissa Gao is an associate social newsgathering reporter based in London.Reuters and Peter Guo contributed.
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 29, 2025, 5:00 AM EDTBy Rohan NadkarniWhile the United States has largely dominated the Summer Olympics — topping the overall medal table 19 times — the Winter Olympics are a slightly different story. Norway is the all-time medal leader in winter competition, and at the 2022 Games in Beijing, the U.S. finished third in the medal count, behind first-place Norway and second-place Germany.For the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, here are the events in which Americans are most likely to take home some hardware.Freestyle skiingFreestyle skiing was the event most kind to Americans in 2022, as the United States won a total of eight medals across the competitions.Alex Hall will be defending his gold medal in the men’s slopestyle, while the U.S. will also be looking to repeat gold in mixed team aerials.There were also four silver medalists, including Jaelin Kauf in women’s moguls, Colby Stevenson in men’s big air and David Wise in men’s halfpipe. Kauf, Stevenson and Wise are all set to return to the Games next year.Nick Goepper also won silver in men’s slopestyle, but he has retired from that competition and will switch to halfpipe in Italy.SnowboardingSnowboarding was arguably the U.S.’ best event in Beijing, as the country took home three gold medals, the most of any discipline.The headliner will be Chloe Kim, who in 2018 became the youngest woman to win a snowboarding gold medal when she won at 17 years old in the women’s halfpipe. Lindsey Jacobellis won two golds: a solo one in snowboard cross and a team win with Nick Baumgartner in mixed snowboard cross. Baumgartner, 43, and Jacobellis, 40, are the elder statespeople of the group. While Baumgartner is training for his fifth Olympics, Jacobellis’ participation is up in the air after she had a child earlier this year.Figure skatingThe U.S. won three medals in figure skating in 2022, but one of its most decorated skaters won’t be defending his title in Italy.Nathan Chen, who won gold in both men’s singles and the team event, won’t compete in 2026 as he has decided to pursue medical school instead.“I just want to open doors to kind of see what’s the best sort of approach for me,” Chen told the Los Angeles Times in August. “And frankly, at this point in time in my life, I’ve already accomplished enough in skating that I’m quite satisfied with my career.”The States will still be looking to defend its team title, which includes wife and husband Madison Chock and Evan Bates.The ice dance team of Zachary Donohue and Madison Hubbell, who won bronze and participated in the team event, won’t be returning after retiring from competition in 2022.Some youthful faces should be in their skating prime, however: Alysa Liu and Amber Glenn will both be coming off championships in 2025, while Ilia Malinin — the only skater to land a fully rotated quadruple axel — will be participating in his first Olympics.BobsleighOr as you probably know it, bobsled, was responsible for three American medals in Beijing. Two women took home hardware in monobob. Elana Meyers Taylor won silver, while Kaillie Humphries — who competed for Canada in 2010, 2014 and 2018 — won gold.Humphries became a naturalized American citizen shortly before the 2022 Games. She stopped competing for Canada after filing a harassment complaint in 2018. Meyers Taylor, who will be participating in her fifth Olympics in 2026, also won bronze in the two-woman with Sylvia Hoffman.Cross-country skiing, Alpine skiing and ice hockeyThe U.S. won four medals across these three disciplines, though they should receive a boost in 2026.Lindsey Vonn, who has three Olympic medals, is returning to Alpine skiing. She retired from competition in 2019 after suffering several injuries, but resumed her career late last year. Mikaela Shiffrin, Alpine skiing’s most decorated athlete, is looking to return to the podium in 2026. She won golds in 2014 and 2018 but uncharacteristically struggled in Beijing. Shiffrin is still working her way back to her athletic peak after suffering a serious injury last November.In ice hockey, the United States women will be looking for redemption after winning silver in 2022. The men, who did not make the podium in Beijing, will have some reinforcements next year as NHL players will be returning to the Games for the first time since 2014.Rohan NadkarniRohan Nadkarni is a sports reporter for NBC News. 
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Nov. 23, 2025, 10:33 AM EST / Updated Nov. 23, 2025, 12:09 PM ESTBy Alexandra MarquezTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said “no” when asked whether the U.S. was at risk of entering a recession in 2026, telling NBC News’ “Meet the Press” he’s confident Americans will feel economic relief next year stemming from President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda and trade deals.“I am very, very optimistic on 2026. We have set the table for a very strong, noninflationary growth economy,” Bessent told moderator Kristen Welker.He also said, “We believe health care is going to come down,” adding that the Trump administration would have news on that front this week.Bessent says inflation ‘has nothing to do with tariffs’ as U.S. rolls them back: Full interview12:52The treasury secretary acknowledged that there is some pressure on the economy in certain sectors like housing, responding to comments from National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett earlier this month that “we’re starting to see pockets of the economy that look like they might be in a recession.”“Clearly, housing has been struggling, and interest rate-sensitive sectors have been in a recession,” Bessent said Sunday. He added that the recent government shutdown, which was the longest in history, also squeezed the economy.An NBC News poll earlier this month found that about two-thirds of registered voters say the Trump administration has fallen short on the economy and the cost of living.Still, the treasury secretary pointed to the GOP’s landmark domestic policy package that Trump signed into law over the summer — the president’s “big, beautiful bill” — and to the Trump’s tariff and trade agenda as signs that 2026 will yield a stronger economy for Americans.“I am very confident about 2026, because what we are going to see is the president has done peace deals, tax deals and trade deals [and] the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill,’” Bessent said, adding that the various components of that legislation are “all kicking in.”In a separate interview on Fox, Hassett also predicted that “it’s going to be an absolute blockbuster year ahead.””The good news for the next year is that the factories are going to be in place, and then people are going to start getting the jobs next to the machines and everything else. And so it really, really is a very, very promising set of data,” he added.Also Sunday, the treasury secretary published an opinion piece in The Washington Post calling for an end to the Senate filibuster.“It’s time for Republicans to acknowledge that the filibuster no longer serves the country — and to be prepared to end it,” he wrote in the piece, later telling Welker that it was meant “to put the Senate on notice.”“The Democrats haven’t been able to stop President Trump in the courts. They haven’t been able to stop him in the media, so they had to harm the American people — 1.5% hit to GDP,” Bessent said, referencing the recent shutdown. “They don’t care. So I believe that Senate Democrats — if Senate Democrats close the government again, that Senate Republicans should immediately abrogate the filibuster.”Bessent also blasted several Democratic lawmakers who are former military and intelligence officers after they released a video telling current military and intelligence officers that they “must refuse” any illegal orders given by the Trump administration.“What I am confident of is that this was a display of gross, gross negligence,” he said, not answering a question about whether the Trump administration is issuing illegal orders.He added, “There is one commander in chief, and when you step outside of the chain of command and try to create the noise and chaos, that only helps our enemies.”He also spoke about the ongoing peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, voicing support for a 28-point peace deal backed by the U.S. that has drawn concern from Ukrainians, European leaders and a bipartisan group of senators who say the peace proposal favors Russia.“At the end of the day, it’s going to be a decision with the Ukrainians. President Trump is a president of peace,” Bessent said before blasting European leaders who are planning more sanctions on Russia.“The Europeans tell me, ‘Oh, we are doing our 19th sanctions package.’ In my mind … if you’re going to do something 19 times, you failed,” the treasury secretary said, instead praising Trump’s economic sanctions package on India, which targeted Russian oil.He added that he has not spoken to the president about an alleged timeline for negotiating this peace proposal, including whether Trump is pushing for the deal to be signed by Thanksgiving.Alexandra MarquezAlexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.Megan Shannon contributed.
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