economists say this one should not hurt the economy. joining me now is cnbc senior analyst, congressional continue, julie tsirkin, and nbc news white house correspondent, al allie raffa. i want to read a few notable things. jason fuhrman, the former deputy director of obama s national council says the fed will be happy. the economy needs cooling off and this takes pressure off interest rates in accomplishing cooling off. a jpmorgan chase analyst says the agreement could function as the equivalent of a quarter point increase in interest rates in terms of helping to restrain inflation, and ben harris, a former deputy treasury secretary says the most important impact is the stability that comes with having a deal. markets can function knowing that we don t have a cataclysmic debt ceiling crisis looming anymore. so, ron, explain that to us. explain what they re talking about. so katy, i m going to take answer number three as the most accurate one. i just think avoiding a debt
life putin and his reported girlfriend are leading now. plus, breaking news. new court filings in the defamation case against fox news have been released. you ll see the message tucker carlson spent to trump lawyer sidney powell, calling her out for conspiracy theoriestheories. and two americans kidnapped in mexico now back in the u.s. for treatment, the other two killed as the search for the killers ramps up. out front tonight on the run. here s the new video of russian soldiers appearing to abandon their posts just south of bakhmut, a shell of a city, the scene of the most vicious fighting of the past months. ukraine s president made it clear that when it comes to bakhmut, ukraine is not about to retreat. translator: this is tactical for us. we understand that after bakhmut they could go further. they could go to an open road for the russians after bakhmut to other towns in the ukraine in the donetsk direction in the east of ukraine. sticking by that. we ve got ne
good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 11th, we re live in the cnn newsroom, and you don t have to adjust your tv, we re actually in the same set in the same place. no split screen. right. great to be with you as well. up first this hour, president biden ordering an prague to shoot down an unidentified object over alaska, an operation that he is describing as a success, and right now, there are way more questions though about what that thing was that got shot down and actual details about it, and keep in mind, this is the second time in a week that a u.s. fighter jet has taken down an object after the chinese surveillance balloon was brought down last saturday. ten miles off the coast of alaska, the federal aviation administration issuing a temporary flight restriction in the area as the military took action. officials say they don t know what the object is or who it belongs to. the white house says president biden was first briefed on the situation thursday
here. everybody has welcomed us so warmly. we appreciate it. a thought of enthusiasm in the state of south carolina tonight, and we begin with raw paul tblgs. down to the bire. the primary, first in the south is tomorrow. newt gingrich is siurging. mitt romney is admitting that tomorrow end in defeat for him. speaker gingrich has come back, had a strong performance in a debate monday night and a strong performence last night. your ex-wife gave an interview with abc news. in it, she said you came to her in 1999, at a time where you were having an affair, she said you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take time to respond to that. no, but i will. i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i m appalled that you would begin tapresidential debate on a tuppic like that. is that all you want to say, sir? let me
had a strong performance in a debate monday night and a strong performence last night. your ex-wife gave an interview with abc news. in it, she said you came to her in 1999, at a time where you were having an affair, she said you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take time to respond to that. no, but i will. i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i m appalled that you would begin tapresidential debate on a tuppic like that. is that all you want to say, sir? let me finish. please. every person in here knows personal pain. every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. to take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary, a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything i can imagine. last night, our david gergen called t