the l or barista coffee and espresso system. a masterpiece in taste it s opium in washington. there is still no deal to raise the debt ceiling, and at this hour, house republicans are holding a wig meeting to discuss what the process will be over the next few days, if in fact a deal is reached. president biden told reporters today that he is optimistic that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yes
that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yesterday. i want to be progress again today, and i want to be able to solve this problem. now speaker mccarthy has been given more time to solve this problem. treasury secretary janet yellen said today the protected debt ceiling deadline is now june 5th. in a letter to congressional leaders, secretary yellen wrote, during the week of june 5th, treasury is schedul
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lying to congress about a potential moscow real estate deal as well. now cohen knew about many of trump s secrets, and as he told the judge at his sentencing in 2018, he felt it was his duty to cover-up trump s quote, dirty deeds. but cohen has since emerged as trump s key antagonists, billing secrets, trading insults, and warning the american people about he believes his former boss is capable of. cohen has testified against trump at a congressional hearing, cooperating and robert mueller s inquiry into trump s ties to russia, and provided information of a new york attorney general letitia james, and manhattan district attorney alvin bragg in their separate investigations into donald trump. michael cohen s break from trump has been consequential, and cohen can point to the exact moment when he realized there followed had begun. it was the moment that i was watching donald on television,
with any form of media. cohen was, at that time, weeks away from publishing his first book called disloyal. it was a man more about his time working for trump. his lawyers ultimately successfully sued to get him released from prison, and the judge in that case, alvin howler steen, ruled that in barring cohen from speaking out the home confinement agreement violated his constitutional right of free expression. heller s teen also said he had never seen a clause like that in his 21 years as a judge, and he called the move quote, retaliatory. and if you ask michael cohen himself, he has a blunt answer as to why it happened. that is what trump wanted, that s what bill barr wanted. they did not want me out there, they didn t we speaking to the press, to the media, doing any interviews that it when the book to come out, i was not allowed to go on television, i could not do a movie, i couldn t do a podcast, i could do nothing. and that s the way they wanted it. and this is the way that they