that a deal can be finalized tonight. with regard to the debt limit, i think they re looking good, very optimistic. i hope we will have some cool or evidence tonight before the clock ticks 12, that we have a deal. but it s very close. and i am optimistic. i am hopeful we will know by tonight whether we re going to be able to have a deal. all right, so settle in. this might be a long night for us. white house and house republican negotiators and look closer to a deal in the last 24 hours as we reported last night. this morning republican house speaker kevin mccarthy had this to say. i thought we made progress yesterday. i want to be progress again today, and i want to be able to solve this problem. now speaker mccarthy has been given more time to solve this problem. treasury secretary janet yellen said today the protected debt ceiling deadline is now june 5th. in a letter to congressional leaders, secretary yellen wrote, during the week of june 5th, treasury is schedul
presidential inauguration. at this crucial mile marker it s important to stare into the mirror of who we really are as a country. two years after lies and conspiracies about trump s big loss led to, quote, medieval combat on the steps of the u.s. capitol between law enforcement and trump supporters. those very same lies that inspired that attack two years ago are now deeply embedded in the politics of the gop. they are the single animating principle behind everything that happens in one of the country s two major political parties. it is in large part due to the fact that the man who, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame in the attack as january 6th select committee member liz cheney put it that would be twice impeached president trump himself as well as his top lieutenants remain the dominant force in the gop. and they insist on continuing to gaslight americans on what actually happened on january 6th to this day, to this hour on this day. just yeste
This event was hosted by the association of former Intelligence Officers. Okay. I was appear doing my cap dance. To introduce is the axials chairman and former general counsel. He is going lets do it. I am really delighted to introduce matt olson with advertised over the last weekend shes tied up t permanently for some weeks. We asked who can talk about this topic. Her suggestion and the suggestion of the white house we ask matt olson to do this. I met were really grateful to you for doing this on short notice. Matt is perfect for this topic. He has deep experience in the Intelligence Community. The Insurance Agency in between there they came back to the Justice Department and they have the National Security division. Long and deep experience has been one of the principal advocates for renewing section 702. Why dont i start by asking you, matt, what is the 702 Program Assists audience are intelligent they might not know is much as you are i know they would really like to hear what the
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