embracing artificial intelligence. should would he be worried? and in your health, experts are warning of a tripledemic this year. the flu, rsv and covid. bret: but, first, breaking tonight, one of the prosecutors who has worked on the hunter biden investigation gave a deposition today on capitol hill. leslie wolf has been accused of obstructing the fbi probe into the president s son. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie starts us off live tonight on capitol hill. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. that interview lasted about four hours. and, yet, produced very little new information, a lot more frustration. mr. wolf refused to answer most of our questions. house judiciary chairman jim jordan reacting to a closed door interview with former assistant u.s. attorney leslie wolf. jordan s committee bringing her in after irs whistleblowers accused her of obstructing the fbi from investigating president biden during a five-year long probe into his son h
strongest 2024 option. his off the cuff candor in a live interview yesterday sparked instant outrage from trump allies and also a lot of instant intrigue from political observers, surprised that he even said it. cnn s manu raju is live for us on the hill. manu, what s the speaker saying now? reporter: well, he is moving behind the scenes to make up for what he said after getting cross-wise with the former president by suggesting that donald trump was not the strockest candidate here. recall that donald trump believes that kevin mccarthy owes the speakership to him. kevin mccarthy himself after winning the speakership on the 15th ballot came out and thanked former president trump for winning him the gavel. so there s a belief there that he needs to stay in donald trump s good graces. but things changed in the aftermath of mccarthy s comments yesterday, that trump may not be the strongest candidate. could he win an election can he win that election? yeah, he can. you think he c
today at this critical point in this war. thank you. thanks. back here in the united states, the battle between the conservative house freedom caucus and republican leadership is heating up. let s get to capitol hill and manu raju with the latest. an off camera tiff between the two? this is the first backlash we are seeing for the debt limit deal that was cut between speaker mccarthy and the white house last week. remember that was signed into law averting the first ever default on the u.s. debt but that did not go over well with the number of hard line conservatives in the house republican conference some of whom believe it violated the deal mccarthy himself cut with those same members in order to secure the speakership on the 15th ballot back in january. well, today the first retaliation. moments ago a group of the hardliners voted to take down the republican leadership s agenda for this week. they voted against a procedural
to that. a guy that was elected on the 15th ballot as speaker and not having the power of normal speakers do. i think what he s about to do is, since he got that done, he s about to throw the reddest, rice meat to the marjorie taylor greene s, i mean, the matt gaetz and the lauren boebert, let them do other investigations and go off on the crazy stuff. he s going to say, i did this one thing, and now i m going to let you do all these other things. so, i don t think this is a change in what s about to happen. i think for this moment, kevin mccarthy decided to be the adult in the room. joe biden gave, and actually, offended a lot of the progressives in the party, and they were two adults that came together because the economic situation of the united states was on the line. i m not, i m going to throw the last question to you. is that, in fact, how the white house sees it, amna? the white house obviously sees this as a big win and let s be clear. right now, you see a lot of the headl
their own creation. what is, brendan, what is mccarthy s, what do you think, if this does pass, with 8200 democratic votes, 130, i m not doing the math right, if it is bipartisan, what is the lesson for mccarthy and all of this? i think it s going to be bipartisan. the reality is, the honeymoon is over for kevin mccarthy. i think we can accept that. everything that he has done up to this point, to be speaker, was about this moment. this is the biggest thing he is going to do his entire first two years as speaker, get through this moment. the debt limit is the hardest thing that you have to do. she s gonna lose a lot of people. a lot of those people who voted for him on the floor, on the 15th ballot to become speaker said i trust you, you re never gonna let me down, are gonna feel like they let him down. so everything from here on is going to be harder. the president said back in 2011 we had this for a standoff with obama. this is been tried a few times. each time the returns are smal