chatbot known as chatgpt is going to be testifying on capitol hill just hours from now. also, in ukraine a top chinese diplomat set to arrive in the capital on a peace mission. his visit comes after russia launched a huge barrage of missiles overnight and drones against the ukrainian capital. and the nba conference finals begin tonight. lebron james and the los angeles lakers will take on two-time mvp nikola jokic and the denver nuggets. cnn this morning starts right now. all right. here is where we begin. president biden will meet with members leaders of congress today trying to get some sort of progress on a debt ceiling teal. treasury secretary janet yellen reiterating the u.s. could default on its debt two weeks from now in a letter to howard liebengood the treasury will no longer be able to satisfy the government s obligations if congress is not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit by june 1. house speaker kevin mccarthy echoed yellen s urgency in the halls o
Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Important meeting because i never even heard that. As far as you know, this is all of it. This is everything. This is everything. All right. So who do you believe . Joining me now to break this down, former state Department Senior adviser. Paul butler, Professor Of Law at georgetown law school. Former fbi agent. Clint watts author of messing with the enemy. David k johnson and former watergate prosecutor. Wow, we just have an embarrassment of riches. Im going to go Around The Horn and talk about. Im going to start with you paul. Just on how this changes the legal case. Trump tower meeting. June 3. Donald trump jr. Gets email from Rob Goldstone saying moscow supports his fathers candidacy. He responded if its what you say it is, i love it. Trump junior and goldstone finalize a date. Same day trump teases this major speech. June 8 russian intelligence
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To cancel his summit in helsinki with Vladimir Putin on monday in the face of this, new charges brought by the Department Of Justice. Whats your take on this . I agree, he never should have taken the meeting to begin with. I mean we have no idea what he would hope to gain from this. What we know quite clearly, these were not lowlevel operatives, ali, who were indicted. These are highlevel people who worked very closely with the Senior Leadership in russia. We know putin knew this. Donald trump is only enabling Vladimir Putin by coming to this meeting, by participating in this meeting. If he does do it, and, you know, it wouldnt surprise me if he did, what he ought to do is hand him over these indictments, demand the immediate prompt extradition of all the defendants involved, and thats what he should be doing. He is playing into the hands of putin right now. The world is turned upside down,
as your prior person said. Yeah. Putin wants to destabilize nato, he wants to sow discord among
campaign. so with that understanding of what the russians were doing, we had the question, the very real and very significant question of whether or not members of a domestic political campaign had conspired with or taken assistance from the russians. we didn t know in they had. we didn t know who that might have been but we knew it was something that had to be investigated. that s the opening of the case that, as i said, the ig and or investigative entities approved of that action in hindsight. he included in the report the disparaging text messages former president trump. i ll highlight this one. this was in august 15, 2016, about two weeks after the investigation was launched between two key team members, peter strzok and lisa page. i want to believe the path you threw at for consideration in andy s office that there is no way, he, trump, gets heelected t
mark: so the lawyer is cautious and says stay out of it. and a couple others. mark: they said you will hurt business.l so this is what i am supposed to do and i don t back down for anything. so august 15, 2016. 10:00 a.m. i walked into mister trump s office and it was just him and i and he said are you a christian? i said yes. i said this is a divine appointment mister trump. ie said that with my foundation and i was recovering to help addicts and he talked about how he would bring jobs back and to the inner-city and made in the usa. it was about 40 minutes. wow. he will be the greatest