is the crowded gop field playing right into the former president s hands? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the scramble to avoid a historic default on the u.s. debt. president biden and speaker mccarthy are both working the phones tonight as they try to rally support from skeptical lawmakers. cnn is covering the race to pass the agreement from every angle. the stakes right now for the american people and, indeed, the world economic situation are enormous. our correspondents are over at the white house and up on capitol hill. we re getting new details right now and a key democratic leader, congressman james clyburn, is standing by live. we ll get to him in a few moments. first to cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. what is the latest where you are over at the white house. reporter: this entire negotiation process was driven by the understanding this was
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notes tom barrack did with the mueller team in january of 2018. it was a wide-ranging interview that he did with them. the notes covered, like, 19 pages, single spaced. but if you read all the way through it there on page 18 of 19 is tom barrack telling the mueller team s investigators about a campaign speech that trump gave on the issue of energy while he was running for president in may of 2016. tom barrack tells mueller s investigators that he provided his own draft comments, or his own comments on the draft of the speech that he was provided, but before he gave his comments the notes from this fbi interview show that tom barrack, quote, shared the draft with redacted, redacted, redacted. bar rack asked each about the tone and technical aspects of the draft speech.
before he gave his comments the notes from this fbi interview show that tom barrack, quote, shared the draft with redacted, redacted, redacted. bar rack asked each about the tone and technical aspects of the draft speech. before you give comments on a speech that this candidate was going to give on energy, you showed it to blank, blank, blank, blank. why is that still redacted? well, those are the records from the mueller investigation. those parts of it are redacted. we got that through a freedom of information act request. then last excuse me. two summers ago in the summer of 2019 the new york times reported that whatever it was that was behind those redacted boxes, something about the mueller team s interactions with tom barrack during their investigation. something about what he told them when he interviewed with them for their investigation led
up and really challenging incumbents and in stacy abrams place putting reasonable challenge where she came so close. her critics will say though they didn t end up making cuts so why are we putting our bets on someone who lost a race n.stacey abrams race you have factors putting into it where she may have won if and she s still kind of this questionable candidate in terms of people wanting to put their hope in her for something bigger. joe biden among those at the event. i m suspecting from him we ll get a little bit of bar rack that always helps him with references. more next.