it is saturday, may 27th, i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. good to have you. you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin with debt ceiling negotiations getting down to the wire, as the white house and gop lawmakers are racing against the clock to try to prevent a first-ever u.s. default. congress now has fewer than nine days to pass a deal after treasury secretary janet yellen warned yesterday that the country could hit the debt ceiling by june 5th. sources say negotiators are hoping to announce an agreement as soon as today. but major sticking points remain. on everything from spending caps to work requirements. earlier, i spoke with congresswoman debbie ding whole called for an ent to the back and forth. we cannot be cutting a deal for conservatives, far right conservatives, that are never going to vote for this bill. we need to do something so that we stop this drama, this kabookie dance of going down to the wire on our debt ceiling. cnn is live on the hill this
i would say the crib bars are too high for the grandpa. that was adorable. we ve been ending the show with a lot of singing this morning. that sounded on tune. the next morning of cnn this morning starts now. good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it s sunday, december 17th. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. hello, omar, good to be with you. i m amara walker. here is what we re watching this morning. immigration is front and center on the campaign trail and on capitol hill. the biden campaign is condemning the former president s newest comments while trying to secure funding for ukraine. severe weather is set to impact millions, especially along the east coast. we re tracking who can expect the worst of it and when. and in israel the idf is facing new scrutiny after soldiers accidentally killed israeli hostages in gaza. we have latest on efforts to free the hostages still in captivity. a man is canada is charged with murder over suicide kits
believe the fbi possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicatin the current president of the united states those are the words of the senate budget committee ranking member chuck grassley who is tapping his proverbial watches as time runs out for the fbi to put up or shut up and produce the documents that congressional leaders are looking for. it s mcconnell and house oversight committee chair james comber working together demanding the bureau to produce an unclassified record alleging a criminal scheme involving the vice president joe biden and a foreign national. document and ftb i generated form allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions. it s going to be interesting to see what joe biden has to sa and he lied about the laptop he lied about his knowledge of his family s and business dealings and he lied about his involvement in his families shady business dealings and he
shutdown s. so why has andrew weingarten filed? 34 investigative authors wrote this 350-page report, lessons from the covid war. authors said they took the covid into their own hands because the biden administration never conducted a game plan for the next pandemic. i think really the biggest criticism you can make is they never really did the after-direction report that we have had to do. so we ve had to shoulder that burden, and we ve done it. in interviews today, that man, co-author, professor, phillip belacore say the greatest piece they can offer is to center on preparedness and sharing. the biggest mistakes of the pandemic were a failure to warn the public in time, a failure to release emergency funds in time and a failure to make, and it needs to be better situational awareness. what else the threat and how do we share that early? they felt liberated because they were not bound by a certain political party. for example, they criticized the trump administration s
[national anthem] will: good morning and welcome to to fox & friends on this beautiful sunday morning with your photos adorned over the national anthem. we love it. please keep sending your epo toes to friendsth the foxnews.com. friends@fox news come. rachel: so many all american cuties as that little girl s shirt said throughout the photos, young and old. keep sending them in. joey: those pictures are the coolest thing on any tv show to really bring the audience into our conversation. and what it does,es it reminds us every morning why we re sitting here talking about things, sometimes mad about some things, sometimes laughing, but it s those people at home, the 300 million americans that i had the honor of serving and we get the honor of august to. will: glad to have joey in for pete hegseth, i stayed up way too late last night, past my morning show bedtime to watch the texas longhorns take down the penn state nittany lions. rachel: was it worth it? will: yeah, it w