every year is codified as mandatory mean that there is no review process no checks and balances just a blank check and no balancing the checkbook. we live in a society where laziness and obesity can qualify you for disability check from the government paid for by us working americans. in fact nearly two-thirds of the money spent by government last year went to social welfare programs. oakland the democrats like joe mccormick of florida to even mention challenging these programs is to be heartless and void of empathy empathy. when someone chooses getting high or being the father to his children what p is he owed? when it woman uses her sprained ankle that beyond disability issues and discomfort to scan the system? when the son of a vice president spends his time and money on is he an addict in need? or simply a rotten soul? the left tells us that we should pity everyone might ve been dealt a bad hand okay that s fair enough. but who hasn t? how many hardworking well employed a
plus on to the senate now for a big bipartisan breakthrough. a month scramble of meetings, breakdowns and near rebellions leads to 314 yes in the house on a deal to steer the united states around a debt default. from wall street to the whout, one of the most powerful men in corporate america doesn t say no to a future in politics. up first for us, critical new cnn report ing on a special counsel investigation evidence trail that we now know includes a record ing of donald trump admitting he kept a classified record when he left the white house. trump right now is on the campaign trail between iowa. a reminder of the unprecedented place we find ourselves. a state investigation sb n georgia and two tracks of the federal special counsel investigation. and yet, he is at the same time the front runner for the 2024 republican nomination. ask he vows to carry on his campaign no matter what prosecutors allege. this exclusive new cnn reporting is this. special counsel jack smith h
appreciate your company. coming up on cnn newsroom, an agreement in principle on the debt ceiling. washington has a plan to avoid a catastrophic default, but details still need to be ironned out, then it has to get through congress. also ukraine s top general issues a pointed message for his soldiers, russia, and the world. and we do begin in washington a late night agreement to try to prevent a looming debt crisis. the white house and republicans have reached a deal in principle to raise the debt ceiling and cap government spending. it is meant to avert the first u.s. default in history, which could have disastrous consequences worldwide. here s how u.s. house speaker kevin mccarthy characterized the breakthrough. after weeks of negotiate az we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement in principle. it has historic reductions in spending and lift people out of poverty into the work force, rein in g
senator chris murphy is coming up with a view from congress, and vice president s top economic adviser is stand by as well. plus, all of the technical glitches during his ill-fated announcement, we heard something awfully concerning regarding the kind of conservative ron desantis is. also today, eye-popping reporting on the destruction of the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and later, ukraine is on the brink of launching its counteroffensive against russia. i ll ask the ambassador what success looks like and how they hope to achieve it. so late last night a deal to raise the debt ceiling was struck between the white house and speaker kevin mccarthy. while the president was able to protect most of his priorities including medicaid, student debt relief, around funding to fight the climate crisis, he did make clear in his stand he doesn t love everything in it, and a number of democrats aren t going to like what they see either, work programs that help poor people, peo
Jen psaki said they would approach without labeling, so psaki and other others rushed to say there was no crisis, but some journalists kept pressing the point. 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. Thats a record. That sounds to most folks like a crisis. Well, look, its way down now. Weve now gotten control. Howard and now with the president sending another 1500 troops to the border and pan pandemic era restrictions being lifted this thursday, the expected surge of Illegal Migrants is suddenly drawing far mored media attention, and there are still arguments about basic numbers. When it comes to illegal migration, youve seen it come down by more than 90 , and thats because of the actions that this president has taken. Howard after the pundits pounced, Karine Jeanpierre clarified that that she was talking about one parole program. At this point, i dont care what you call the border situation, but it sure looks like a crisis to me. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz.