and remembering an icon. tina turner the queen of rock & roll. and we begin this very busy hour with very latest from washington where time is literally running out for negotiators to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling. there s just one week until the treasury secretary s estimated deadline to stave off what could be a devastating debt default. top credit agency has now put the country s aaa credit rating on negative watch. pointing to partisanship as hindering a solution. here is what speaker mccarthy had to say just this morning. everybody is very professional in these meetings. look, i m a total optimist. we will get this done, and we will have a better bill because of it. and joining us this morning with more is garrett haake. also with us, cnbc s dominic chu. garrett, mccarthy seems optimistic about a deal. what are you hearing from the democratic side? no, that s exactly right, jose. on the fitch part of this specifically, democrats are frustrated. t
then, intimidation and bullying. whistleblowers say they are facing the doj s wrath for speaking out. the fbi will crush you. this government will crush you. and your family. if you try to expose the truth about things that they are doing that are wrong. we are all examples of that. maria: coming up, house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan on the weaponnyization of joe biden s government. plus, why did the fbi leadership tell agents to report on trump collusion only orally and not keep a paper trail? the durham report finally released five years after then-intelligence committee chairman kevin none yesterday broke the news first right on this program five years ago. devin nuñes is back with more on the fbi s politics-led investigations. then, he s threatening to hold antony blinken in contempt of congress many in the his investigation of biden s botched afghanistan withdrawal. chairman michael mccaul on afghanistan, china and why joe biden is about to send an additio
general bill barr name john durham to investigate the investigators and predicted he d find the crime of the century. durham didn t have much luck in the courts. now, four years after he started, durham s harshly critical report saying he relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence along with seriously flawed information has plunged us all back into the same old, familiar debate, the story that seemingly will never end. i m howard kurtz and this is the mediabuzz. howard: the report by special counsel john durham exploded like a neutron bomb, and the media are deeply divided over his conclusion that the fbi acted on such flimsy evidence that its investigation of possible collusion between donald trump and the kremlin never should have been launched. first among those claiming vindication, the former president. this was a coup that they were looking at. these are sick people. howard: and many of those on fox news and elsewhere joined in castigating the m
i can t say for every single one. a couple of them probably they got out of control. good day. i m andrea mitchell in new york today. border patrol agents and heavily armed texas national guard troops are bracing for the expiration of title 42, put in place during the coronavirus pandemic to turn away migrants. a shortage of social services and judges to handle the flow. officials expect an increase along the 1,000 miles of the b border, creating a situation the president described as chaotic. joining me guad venegas and julia ainsley, 700 miles to the east in el paso, texas. julia, you have been covering this throughout the biden presidency. you have been there for weeks at the border. take us through the new rules the administration is putting in place and what you are seeing in texas. reporter: right behind me is a wall separating us here in el paso from suarez. they are put into buses here. they are taken to be processed. the chief of the border patrol told us that 17
an fbi tip and a four-day manhunt. the military heads to the border. the biden administration is sending 1,500 unarmed active duty troops to help out at the southern border, not to do law enfo enforcement, ahead of an expected surge next week. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york. u.s. officials are looking into the provocative but unverified russian accusation that ukraine attempted to assassinate vladimir putin overnight. with a drone strike on the kremlin. the kremlin saying that its defense systems destroyed two drones over putin s recollection residence but he was not home. ukraine insists they wage an exclusively defensive war and calling it a trick. some experts agree, cautioning the claims could be a possible false flag used to justify further escalation against ukraine ahead of tomorrow s victory day sell bra celebratio square. u.s. officials tell us the u.s. had no warning. at a world press freedom day, secretary of state blinken expressing his