you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nation s debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global economies and that threat is still looming ominously at this hour. on capitol hill, lawmakers sound like they re unhappy with this deal. so passage is not guaranteed yet. this is unfolding as a june 5th deadline is drawing closer. we re following all of these latest developments. priscilla alvarez is at the white house for us. what are you learning about this phone call? is it going to happen? there s ever expectation that it is going to happen, jim. as you mentioned, president biden had said it wa
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nation s debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global economies and that threat is still looming ominously at this hour. on capitol hill, lawmakers sound like they re unhappy with this deal. so passage is not guaranteed yet. this is unfolding as a june 5th deadline is drawing closer. we re following all of these latest developments. priscilla alvarez is at the
steps that he would need to take if he was going to invade ukraine and so that is a warning from the pentagon today as jake sullivan, the national security adviser here at white house, was up on capitol hill briefing house member this is morning, briefing senators this afternoon and they emerged saying they were very concerned about the likelihood of an attack. kaitlan, stand by. we re going to have more coming up. there is more news that we re following. but right now i want to go to our correspondents on a key location in this crisis right now. clarissa ward and jim sciutto joining us live from kyiv. and nic robertson is in moscow. what are you learning about this really important decision to close that embassy and the latest intel on how russia might actually attack. reporter: well, wolf, first on the embassy, as you could see tonight, the windows are dark. the american flag is and we
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brennon. i m sure he and other democrats would say he s a former cia director, understands the complicated relationship with iran and the democrats want to get that perspective. yeah, i think the problem is this, that john brennon was really just a willful carrier of vladimir putin s virus that he injected into our political process. john brennon is extraordinary politicized, making unfounded speculative claims about the president which caused partisan friction. if we re interested in building a bipartisan consensus for how we defend ourselves and counter the threat from iran, i don t think this is the right way to do it. in fact, you have an op-ed at foxnews.com about how putin must be laughing about all of this because you ve got not just the fact that brennon is still this powerful force briefing house democrats about big issues like