fleeing limitless misery and throwing themselves into a place where they will find great courage and sacrifice. more than 87,000 people tried to to cross through in the first three months of this year. the u.s., column whbia and pana said they would try to open up other ways for people to migrate. next week, we will meet extraordinary people helping the earth to cut down on carbon, includiing a new technology tha relies on the behavior of whales. tonight, the showdown in washington. the president can no longer put the economy in jeopardy. republicans and democrats battle over raising the debt ceiling. this maga wish list has no chance of moving forward. as president biden announces he is running for a second term. let s finish the job. s we will talk with supporter bernie sanders. welcome. about biden s chances, the issue of his age. is age a factor? yeah. the looming x ing economic c. would you let the country go into default. later, carol burnett.
opponent and knew sunow support bernie sanders. and the issue of his age. is it the only factor? and the looming economic crisis. would you be willing to let the country go into default? and later this hour, comedy legend carol burnett. i am honored to be here. thank you, chris. she s just turned 90, but she s still taking people laugh. i still feel like maybe i m 11. is that part of your super power? get it done. it was possible that i may not see the end of the year. i don t know ms. handled. mishandled. good evening, and welcome back to who s talking. we begin a new chapter of our show. a new time slot. friday nights here on cnn. and a renewed focus on what you ll be talking about in the coming days. right now, washington is headed for a showdown over raising the nation s debt ceiling, with the real possibility the government may default on its debt for the first time in history. president biden will have to deal with republicans just as he announ
hurt its investigation. all of this as the former president s fight with the fbi could be on the verge of a new escalation. cnn learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly release surveillance video of that fbi search. i want to get to cnn s jessica snyder. the justice department has warned that make thing affidavit public would cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation. this is high stakes for the doj, alex. this hearing just started. we re seeing that the federal judge has just taken the bench. what we expect is the justice department prosecutors will be arguing to continue to keep this affidavit out of public view, keep it sealed. media organizations on the other hand, including cnn, are asking for the unsealing of this affidavit, saying in their filing it s in the public interest to get more details surrounding the mar-a-lago search. notably, they said it hasn t been since the nixon administration that government use
that looks like a real blunder. and a cabinet minister said to me, you ve got a $100 million bill lying on the floor and you don t pick it up. so it s notjust the mistake, it s also the lost opportunity of the mistake. and laura, last night when we did newscast, you mentioned that text you d had about somebody saying, this is just the worst operation ever. and as i was going to bed last night, i was like, i wish i d asked laura more about that, because that s an amazing quote. not to get you to reveal your sources, but what sort of people are messaging you with that stuff now? is this, like, candidates? is this, like, former friends of rishi sunak? i think it s what. the sense i have, henry, and i don t know if you would agree with this, is that what is happening now, it seems to me almost every day, the group of people who are still really putting their shoulder to the wheel in this campaign is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. and there are more people, including
anyway, so just before we dive into this episode of newscast, just a little moment to explain what we actually do. so, we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day, and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour c