mccarthy is insisting that he will have the numbers but the moment he does not because the number of the members simply are not decided. yet they are still reviewing the details is 320 page bill released just yesterday, something that has been the product of negotiations internally among republicans for the past several weeks that would raise the national debt ceiling by $1.5. trillion of debt ceiling already at 31.4 trillion, including in that a range of conservative policy priorities and cuts across the board and domestic programs, including, including a adding a plan to block president biden s loan forgiveness program initiative that rescinding new funding for the internal revenue service was part of the democrats inflation reduction act that was enacted last congress would also boost new provide new work requirements for social safety net programs like medicaid. but even as including some of those provisions intended to appease conservatives, some conservatives are not th
temporarily the execution date of oklahoma death row inmate richard glosser, just for now, they re going to consider whether to take up his case. his conviction, soleilly flimsy, that even oklahoma s current attorney general says he can no longer support it. ask republican or democratic lawmakers in oklahoma it doesn t matter, they list multiple reasons why glossip should in the be executed. he has maintained his innocence all 26 years he has spent in prison, accused of hiring someone to murder his boss, barry van trees, the person who actually murdered van trees by beating him with a baseball bat. nobody questions that, that s justin snead, he s in prison too, not an death row, because snead secured a deal to avoid the death penalty. plead guilty, testify against glossip and you won t be put to death. since then two independent
recall was convicted for hiring someone to kill his boss, even though that witness the actual killer seems rather unconvincing to many observers, including the oklahoma state attorney general . glossip s execution is now set for may 18th. this all comes just two weeks after a special counsel in that state released a report that uncovered new evidence in glossip s case. and suggested that his murder convicted conviction should be vacated. cnn s brynn gingras is always is with us on the story and bring in. what was the evidence uncovered in glossip s case of that evidence is from a box that was finally given to the defense team for richard glossip from the prosecutor s office. and in that box, there was just a lot of paperwork that talked about justin sneed, the person that you just pointed out who actually killed barry van trees. the boss of snead and glossip in this murder decades ago. some of that included justin sneed, actually wanting to recant his testimony to his asking about it,
state s court of criminal appeals to give glossip a new trial. and how did richard glossip react? i ll never forget that look, you know of realization that hey, you know, finally somebody into the state is listening. and you know now he has a chance. glossip was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of his boss, barry van trees. they worked at a motel in oklahoma city, but it was another employee, justin sneed, who admitted to killing van trees. sneed who is serving a life sentence was spared the death penalty in exchange for testifying that glossip offered to pay him for the killing. the oklahoma attorney general says sneed is a compromised witness, though an independent investigation found that prosecutors destroyed and withheld evidence from glossip s defense attorneys. there s also evidence that sneed regretted his testimony in letters, he writes. do i have the choice of recanting my testimony and there
our top stories. oklahoma inmate richard glossip could soon see his murder conviction and death row sentence tossed out and a new trial ordered he has spent a quarter of a century in prison for the death of his boss in 1997, cnn s jake tapper will be all over this story today on the lead, so, jake, you ve been following this case for quite some time. yeah it s really a fascinating case and quite outrageous and a lot of ways because richard glossip was never actually accused of killing the individual victim, barry van trees. it was always established that 19 year old, then 19 year old justin sneed committed the murder. it s just that he claimed, and he did so in a deal that got him off death row and just into life in prison . he claimed that it was a murder for hire, and he blamed richard glossip. now, in addition to accusations that the defense did not get all the information that they were entitled to from the prosecution, it s become very