major hurdles remain as negotiators resume debt ceiling talks on capitol hill with speaker mccarthy and his top lieutenants refusing to budge on their key budget demands. the president i don t understand why they thought this would never come. these are areas i will not raise taxes. we will bring in more money. i will not pass a clean debt ceiling. won t put that on the floor. we have to spend less than last year. the u.s. surgeon general will join me on his new warning about a youth mental health crisis fuelled by social media. this afternoon, president trump will appear in court virtually connected to a court order that he not discuss evidence in the hush money trial, while there s no reporting from the new york times today that the special counsel investigating trump s handling of classified documents has subpoenaed records of his business dealings with foreign countries while he was president. e. jean carroll is asking for more in damages for what the former pre
major hurdles remain as negotiators resume debt ceiling talks on capitol hill with speaker mccarthy and his top lieutenants refusing to budge on their key budget demands. the president i don t understand why they thought this would never come. these are areas i will not raise taxes. we will bring in more money. i will not pass a clean debt ceiling. won t put that on the floor. we have to spend less than last year. the u.s. surgeon general will join me on his new warning about a youth mental health crisis fuelled by social media. this afternoon, president trump will appear in court virtually connected to a court order that he not discuss evidence in the hush money trial, while there s no reporting from the new york times today that the special counsel investigating trump s handling of classified documents has subpoenaed records of his business dealings with foreign
americans are dead after being shot by a security guard outside an american-run charity hospital in kabul. the three were doctors, we are told. officials tell cnn the security guard tried to turn the gun on himself, but apparently survived, so is now being questioned. another u.s. citizen, a woman, was also shot. she is being treated at this hour for her wounds. doctors killed. such a tragedy. cuts in store for the u.s. army we re learning about this morning. chief of staff general ray odierno telling reporters that the army plans to ask about 20,000 troops, mostly captains and majors, to retire, this as the service trims down to meet budget demands. overall, they plan to slash 30,000 positions by next year. and you can throw jeb bush s name on the list of those officially considering a 2016 presidential bid. the former florida governor and son and brother of two former presidents told people at an event in new york that he is thinking about running. these are his most direct
leadership not to use the debt ceiling anymore as a way to negotiate budget demands? well, we are more or less a budgetary stalemate at the moment. let me first say i believe it would be reckless to default on our nation s obligations, and that s why i felt we had to move forward. the ability for the house republicans to negotiate with the senate democrats and the president is very limited. if we don t have 218 votes on the debt ceiling. and when i say that, we have some members in our conference who have said they will never, ever, never, ever, ever vote for a debting ceiling increase. if we attempt to attach debt policy, we still won t get their vote. that forced us into the position of taking up a clean bill. well, take me inside the room here. the washington post, bob costa reported, when they didn t speak up or clap, boehner stood there for a moment after he finished, eyed the room, walked toward his seat, shook his head, and turned to the nearly mute crowd and