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
and cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. we are following breaking news this hour out of greece. a train full of passengers colliding head on with a freight train. so far at least 36 people have been confirmed dead. we are hearing harrowing stories from survivors who say that the train cars quickly filled with smoke and with flames. worried that the death toll could go up. one of america s prominent mayors, lori lightfoot, defeated. and the price of insulin, that is just moments away. we begin with that devastating train crash that we were talking about in greece. it has killed more than 36 people and injured dozens of others. you can see the images here of the aftermath. it s a passenger train. it was carrying about 350 people at least. it collided head on with a freight train. multiple cars derailed and several caught fire north of athens where this happened. it it left carriages and heaps of debris in the wake. both were traveling on th
welcome to our viewers in the united states and watching around the world. i m jake tapper. the fact she grew up as an immigrant child. her parents emigrated to the united states from india. she grew up in a situation where she did face challenges because she was different in her words in a video she will put out yesterday and talk about her time leading this state of south carolina as the first female governor, two-time governor in this state, what she did to bring people together after the awful shooting at mother emmanuel ame church that happened in 2014 while she was governor. that s just blocks from here. she will likely talk about her time as ambassador to the united nations and told that in the context of having worked with trump in the trump administration, she will raise the former president, but what she s not expected to do is really take him on or criticize him in this speech. that is in line with what we ve seen from her in recent comments where she s talked abou
home. president trump had absolute authority to declassify documents. you do know who doesn t have authority the vice president so when joe biden left the administration he had zero authority or take them with him in a fair country in a safe country, in jeopardy for joe biden here. todd: that was an alexandria hoff in quite a bombshell, alex. when we are learning about anton, these records discovered in washington where biden held private office space between 2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign. the documents found november 2nd by the president s personal attorneys. according to the white house, cooperating with archives and the doj regarding the discovery of what appeared to be obama/biden records with small documents with classified markings. and took possession of the materials. thank you. the document, sir? as you can see the president ignoring questions on the matter but of course it calls to mind criticism with former president trump last year after fb
sandra, great to have you back. sandra: great to be back. far left protestors dismayed as what they view as an ineffective response to the ruling, saying they are out of step with the mainstream of the party. the president is urging the same protestors to fight after access to abortion bills. claims his hands are tied on further action unless the democrats can pick up more seat in the midterms. all of this as the far left offers bounties on the location of supreme court justices in an effort to harass them like we saw last week with justice brett kavanaugh, forced to leave a steakhouse in washington through a back door. john: the white house refusing to condemn them, saying it is part of democracy as long as it remains peaceful. sandra: rich, a lot of the pushback is coming from the left. it is, sandra, good afternoon. look at what progressives are saying, they say more needs to come from the white house when it comes to abortion, when it comes to gun violence in