tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we
long-running saga of the ex-president s legal woes, with donald trump taking the stand in a civil lawsuit today and facing the prospect in taking the stand in the congressional investigation into january 6th, as well. and his private club and residence, donald trump sat for a sworn deposition in the defamation lawsuit brought by e.g. carol, who has accused donald trump of rape. the associated press reports this, the deposition will give her lawyers a chance to interrogate trump about the assault allegations, as well as statements he made in 2019, when she told her story publicly for the very first time. trump says the rape allegation is a hoax and a lie. his legal team has worked for years to make this day never come, to delay the deposition that was filed when he was still president. and the january 6th select committee is set to ask for the same thing, trump s testimony as soon as today. the vice chair liz cheney said last night the panel s decision to issue a subpoena to
but concerns this morning about national security after bombshell reporting that the documents of donald trump s florida home contain highly sensitive intel on iran and china. these new revolutions, today increase the odds of trump being criminally charged? we will talk to our experts. plus the january six committee officially issued a subpoena to donald trump. the very same day the steve bannon got four months in prison for contempt of congress. well donald trump comply, or with the set up a historic court battle. and later, we have seen the footage, florida residents visibly shocked by voter fraud arrests, courtesy of governor ron desantis. one of the cases has already been dismissed. will more follow? i will talk to a lawyer representing one of the people arrested. all that and more is coming up. and a happy saturday morning to you. i am katie fang. this morning, new details on the contents of at least some of those roughly 13,000 documents the fbi agents took from donal
would impact their willingness to cooperate with the investigation. that means that someone or more than one person is cooperating with the doj. and number three, disclosure of the government affidavit would chill future cooperation in other high-profile investigations. what are those other investigations? the doj also adds, quote, the government does not object to unsealing other materials filed in connection with the search warrant whose unsealing would not jeopardize the integrity of this national security investigation. mark warner and marco rubio sent a private letter yesterday to the director of national intelligence and attorney general merrick garland to request more information on the records seized. and the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee, mike mccall, made this argument on cnn earlier. the affidavit of probable cause in support of the warrant, we need to see that in congress on the intelligence committee. if it s such a national security thr