aim at republicans yet again. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: we made it to wednesday, top of the mountain, long slide into the weekend from here. i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. in a rare news conference the president said he felt yesterday s meeting with congressional leadership was productive, but speaker mccarthy proclaimed there was no new movement and warned time is running out to avoid an economic catastrophe. sandra: complete coverage begins now. steve danes is standing by. john: our senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. do democrats really know what republicans would cut? john, not really. congress funded veterans programs and meals on wheels late last year, that s why republicans believe democrats are trying to scare people about potential cuts. are those cuts that you guys talk about with the v.a., that s not real money, because it s not an appropriation.
trump, she s considering picking a fight with the ex president. then, santos circus george santos facing 13 new federal charges the indications of the republicans might finally drop him. plus, the definitive clarence thomas timeline. we take you back almost 20 years to get to the bottom of his serious ethical lapses. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. donald trump might soon be facing e. jean carroll in court yet again. this week the twice impeached and now indicted ex president was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation. a new york jury awarded e. jean carroll $5 million in damages that after she said that trump sexually abused her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and the jury found that trump defamed carroll by saying that her accusations were a hoax and a con job. now, when trump was astonishingly given a public platform to discuss the verdict the very next year, well, he immediately fell back into his old ways. i never met this woman. i n
donald from storms back into the national spotlight with a predictable torrent of lies. new hampshire governor kristen sununu has been a republican critic of the former president. my throw his hat into the ring soon. i sat on with the governor for a wide-ranging sunday foods event that s coming up first. plus, republicans jump to trump s defense after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing e. jean carroll. let s just say i have a few thoughts about some of the so-called defenders of family values. meanwhile, from trump on down, gop white house hopefuls twist themselves into knots trying to explain to their positions on abortion. i think i know why and i ll explain it in just a few minutes. we also have some news to bring today out of planned parenthood. it will reveal that with the organizations president and ceo alexis mcgill johnson. later, i don t know how or bookie producer managed it but we landed a mother s day explosive with my mom. her advice for parents after
the republicans in the house are going to go on record and make a decision if they re going to stand for truth and accountable or if they re going to stand with someone who is an admitted liar. republicans unable to clean up their own george santos mess, so it was left to a democrat to produce a resolution to expel him. i m ask hakeem jeffries about that and his meeting today with the white house on the looming debt ceiling crisis. also tonight, the serious new allegations against rudy giuliani. beyond the really pervy alleged sexual harassment, there s the accusation he and trump were trying to sell pardons and planned to split the cash. plus, keeping it right wing goes wrong. the culture war ron desantis is fighting is not only morally repugnant, it s economically disastrous. case in point, his most recent anti-immigration bi and we be to the brink of financial catastrophe. we are now just 15 days from the united states potentially running out of cash to pay its bi
public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program the coronation of charles iii. how different will his reign be from that of his mother? we will explore. also, the curious case of the alleged attack on the kremlin. china s power play in the asia pacific and the american economy. our talk about all of that and more with an all-star panel. finally, bernard le vie started filming in ukraine just days after the war began. i ll talk to him about his new documentary slafa ukraine and how he thinks this tragic war will e. but first here s my take. we now have a biden doctrine. the biden administration has set it out in a striking, recent address by the national security adviser jake sullivan. sullivan outlines the administration s international economic policy, but it is really the overarching framework for president biden s approach to the world defining in luc