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
reporter: hi, mike. from whistleblowers to sur styling americans, the fbi has had a lot to answer to this past week, starting on monday with the release of the durham report which concluded the agency did not have sufficient evidence to open investigation into then-candidate trump and, quote, our investigation also revealed that senior fbi personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards or the information they received, especially from politically-affiliated persons and entities. this is an investigation with no basis, and that makes a lot of people mad. that hurt the previous administration for about two years. it is critical the american people understand how their government, their agencies have been turned on them, the taxpayer. reporter: republicans want durham to testify on capitol hill this week. there are democrats downplaying the report, some outright dismissing it. this is an investigation that started in a flawed manner, it was conducted in
on our house in terms of what we will end up doing to our fellow human being. if you think of a scale, on one side of the scale it s like the current situation in venezuela, which is quite dire, as it is in cuba, what would we do to even the scales, to get to a point where what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation. yes. it s unthinkable. a quarter of venezuela s gone. staggering, thank you my friend, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008, america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called senator barack obama to concede the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [crowd chanting] please. to congratulate him. on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. john mccain. gently, but firmly, and managing a crowd of
the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [crowd chanting] please. to congratulate him. on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. john mccain. gently, but firmly, and managing a crowd of republicans for booing the election of our nation s first black president. at the time, this was seen as an important moment, it wasn t as though statesmanship was exactly the norm in the republican party. it was sort of the opposite, actually. remember, john mccain s running mate, sarah palin, who was a proponent of birtherism, that conspiracy theory that unfounded racist fearmongering that undermined the historic election of our nation s first black president, and that turned conservatives against barack obama, that you could probably hear in the booing of senator mccain tried to hush that night. mccain d
off-campus house near that university in a case that gripped the nation and terrorized a small idaho town. was arrested in december at his parents house in pennsylvania. he faces four counts of first-degree murder is expected to enter his appeal plea in court tomorrow let s go to christina coleman live in los angeles. what can we expect in this hearing do we know? quick tight arthel demented 28-year-old bryant kohberger is expected to enter a plea deal tomorrow morning at his arraignment in idaho. the grand jury indictment means kohberger s attorneys will not prosecute that evidence cross-examine any witnesses including two surviving roommates and the preliminary hearing that was scheduled to start on june 26 years legal expert lexi reagan s take on the matter. i think it s a really good idea they did it this way. one of the bruises they might at that at this way is a prosecution has actually asked the names of the witnesses who testified be sealed because apparently they a