washington where things stand with our chad pergram. hi, chad. neil, good afternoon. the house freedom caucus just took a formal position in the debt ceiling debate. it endorses the bill passed by the house in april. the caucus says there should be no further discussion until the senate passes the legislation. the house bill, we passed it. that is the mechanism right now sitting there that there s 11 democrats in the senate and the democratic president of the united states that stand between that bill and it becoming law. it was thought that house speaker kevin mccarthy would lose a good chunk of republicans who could not accept anything less than the house passed bill. the question is can mccarthy get just enough gop members on board and can democrats provide the rest. speaker mccarthy has limited capacity to really negotiate. he s handcuffed and in leg irons from that 15 votes that it took to get them elected. if he is able to negotiate something, once he tries to
expose the truth about things they re doing that are wrong. the fbi collusion with big tech. to shut down differing viewpoints is the end of any analytical or investigative body. this hearing is a vehicle to legitimize the events of january 6th. the level of corruption, weaponization, politicization that has occurred at the highest levels of the doj and the fbi. this hearing is evidence as if we needed any more that maga republicans are a threat to the rule of law in america. as if you re one of the good employees in our government that come forward to talk about the targeting, you then become a target. martha: two different takes there. so nicole parker is a former fbi special agent. she said she left the bureau because she couldn t be part of what she saw is sadly a politically weaponized arm of the united states government. first, let s go to justice david spunt who lays out for us what they were talking about in there today. hi, david. quite a hearing. two
doesn t face any prison time. for has the jury found him guilty of raping miss carroll but found he defamed her and sexually abused her. for that, the jury has ordered him the pay $5 million in damages. we ll take you through these two stories and indeed how they link up in a political sense a little later this hour. let s first get the latest on this e. jean carroll case. bryan llenas in new york with the latest. good afternoon. in less than three hours, this jury came to their decision remarkably quick considering that they were considering ten different issues whether former president trump was liable. this jury found that former president trump was and is liable of battery, more specifically of sexually abusing and forcibly touching e. jean carroll in a new york city department store in 1996. they also found him liable for defamation founding that he maliciously smeared carroll s reputation. that did harm to her professionally and personally and asked to award her with
good afternoon. i heard that karine jean-pierre, the spokes woman at the white house says she doesn t know what title 42 will look like when it lifts may 11th. let me help and give you an idea. we re here at ground zero at camp monument in brownsville. there s over 2,000 migrants a day coming to this location. nearly 15,000 in the week i ve been here. they re getting better at screening, processing and transporting these migrants out. that is the problem that we re dealing with now. this is the calm before the storm. it s already overwhelming agents on the ground. let me show you also some of the humanitarian crisis. we can show you video. the migrants are in the water on flotation devices. many struggling with trying to deal with the river. some of them can t swim. that s why you have border patrol agents along with texas dps and texas national guard down on the river literally saving lives around the clock as well. we talk though to some brownsville residents, neil. the
it s their constitutional obligation to do that. we re talking about programs when they talk about medicare, social security, we re talking about programs that they want to take hostage that will affect taxpayers, that will affect seniors and veterans. again, it s their constitutional duty. they should do this without conditions. trying to address market-related chatters. jerome powell was asked about the debt ceiling. there s only one option. for congress to pass the increase. is that the crew here, there s one option, there s no off ramps to consider? congress is the only option here? on any of the coins that s come up before. that s something that the treasury deals with and answers on. so i m not going to comment there. i think we ve been very clear from here that this should be done without conditions. and it is their basic job, congress, right? it s their basic duty to lift the debt ceiling. it s something that has been consistently done over the years. that s how