everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. a deal to avoid a debt default is about to be revealed. president biden and speaker mccarthy are finalizing an agreement to raise the debt limit. president biden saying this earlier today. i m about to go in and call mccarthy now at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. i think we re in good shape. house leaders expect the bill to be voted on as soon as wednesday. speaker mccarthy is confident the deal will pass. february 1st i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to be able to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let mark be able to work again, cut red tape, get some work requirements to help people get back into work. i think this agreement frames all that from limit, save, grow. it doesn t get everything we wanted. we did a conference call with our conference and over 95% were overwhelmingly excited about what they see. they re getting a text
you are in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reid in washington. jim acosta is off. a major move today in an attempt to halt a global banking crisis. switzerland s largest banking group ubs just agreed to buy its rival credit suisse in an emergency rescue bid. the purchase is aimed at halting investor panic brought on by two sudden u.s. bank failures this month. the deal comes after shares of the ailing bank lost 25% over the last week. even an emergency loan from the swiss national bank failed to stop the fallout. cnn reporter anna stewart will join us in just a moment, and cnn global economic analyst, rana foroohar joins us now. all right, rana, can you explain to us this deal? yeah, absolutely. so a little bit of con context. credit suisse has been a troubled bank for some time. so this, you know, this is a bank that over the last couple of years has had any number of crises. it s been considered weak in the marketplace. even late last year, it was having its own problems to
tonight on the reidout we ll be back on monday in the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones that you love we ll see you then yeah, no. you will not be seeing tucker carlson tonight or any other night on fox after years of stoking rage, paranoia, and hatred, tucker is off the air. plus, breaking news tonight, a new timeline on when we can expect a decision from fulton county d.a. fani willis on potential criminal charges against donald trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and we have three very special guests fresh from their white house meeting today with president biden. the tennessee three, justin j. pearson, justin jones, and gloria johnson join me right here in the studio we begin tonight with the abrupt and embarrassing end to tucker carlson s reign as the top rated primetime host in cable news this morning, fox announced that the two had agreed to part ways and thanked him for his service to the network that decision apparently
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful the beat starts right now. hi, ary. hi, nicole. welcome to the beat. this is a top story tonight. fox news firing controversial host tucker carlson today. a total earthquake that comed amidst the rockiest period in the history of the conservative fox news channel, which of course recently folded in that record breaking $787 million penalty in the case of defaming a voting machine and lying about the 2020 election as well as heat on the company s wider reporting and errors in work place practices. now, carlson is one of fox s most watched and until now highest paid stars so by all accounts, today s firing surprised him, his own team, and most of his colleagues fox did not allow him a final show the decision and firing clearly came fast. this was his sign off on friday. we ll be back on monday in the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones that you love, and we
station, national public radio positively urging trans people to buy guns, if necessary to use them. the world is dangerous, explained one trans gun owner, you have to be dangerous back. and that seemed strange to us, is united states really a dangerous place for trans people. west baltimore is dangerous, you could easily get murdered there. if you are trans in this country obviously there are many down sides there appear to be some benefits, it s easier to get into harvard. it s easier to get in to citi bank. transgender pentagon will make you an f-35 pilot. identifying as trans again whatever its down sides does convey status in this country which is why so many young people do. not a lot of 19 year olds are preend iting to be car mechanics or linemen for a power company in eastern ohio. prep tee of college freshmen, why wouldn t they? the people in charge despise working class whites but venerate the trans community. people are responding to incentives, it s rationale in