house republicans use their first week to score political points and not govern. then the trump org hit with a maximum 1.6 million dollar fine for a tax scheme days after its cfo was sentenced to jail at rikers island. so what now? and from a wild week in congress, including multiple calls for a congressman to resign, to the return of the golden globes, our friday night cap is here on all of it, as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good friday evening. i m stephanie ruhle. new signs tonight the republicans running the house may be setting the stage for the first major showdown in the new congress, one that could have a huge impact on our economy. today treasury secretary janet yellen sounded the alarm telling congress the united states is set reach its debt limit next thursday. yellin said she would have to start taking stormy mitch or s to keep paying the nations bills if lawmakers do not raise that limit. she added, if nothing gets done, the united states could go into
the trump orbit hit with a maximum 1. 6 billion dollar fine for tax keen days after its cfo sentenced to jail at rikers island. so what now? and for a wild week in congress, including multiple calls for a congressman to resign, to the return of the golden globes, our friday night cap is here on all of it, as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good friday evening. i m stephanie ruhle. new signs tonight the republicans running the house may be setting the stage for the first major showdown in the new congress, one that could have a huge impact on our economy. today treasury secretary janet yellen sounded the alarm telling congress the united states is set to reach its debt them and let next thursday. yellin said she would have to start taking stormy mitch or s to keep paying the nations bills if lawmakers do not raise that limit. she added, if nothing gets done, the united states could go into default by early june. the washington post reporting house republican preparing f
i m i very innocent man and we ll fight for our constitution. dana: defiant in defeat. former president trump vowing to fight his conviction for falsifying business records. that begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern when he holds a news conference on trump tower. bill is off today, good morning, brett. bret: good morning, i m bret baier. this is america s newsroom. dana, yesterday in the afternoon we thought judge merchan was going to dismiss the jury, wrap up for the day. suddenly it all came down that they had the verdict and what we have seen over the past few hours, the reaction to that and then now this news conference is going to be something as we go forward. dana: we were getting ready for the five and all of a sudden it changed and it felt you could feel a shift change really in the country and in the election. bret: really is. we don t know the entire fallout yet. unprecedented conviction. further complicating the former president s schedule. sentencing is set
can you guess why? and two families world apart connected over a rare genetic disease in the backdrop of the war in gaza. i am ayman mohyeldin. let s do it. we start this hour with breaking news. today, eight months into israel s war in gaza, the world witnessed two very different realities and regardless of how you view these last few months of death and destruction, what transpired today raises a series of serious questions regarding a collective failure to end the war, bring the hostages home and stop the indiscriminate killing of palestinians. on saturday over 200 palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes. the refugee camp in central gaza. according to the government media office, marking one of the bloodiest single days we have witnessed in eight months of war. videos of the aftermath of the assault show streets littered with debris and dead bodies, many missing limbs. women and children can be seen among the dead. some images are so disturbing, we can t even sh
o donnell. it s nice to see you do these interviews because you are seemingly able to cover the ground you were never able to cover last year. i don t know exactly what the worry would have been from the trump administration about letting senior doctors come on a show that was hosted by somebody who they think is a terrible person. there s no harm that dr. fauci would have done to the trump administration by answering questions from me or from you while they were still here. i don t know what petty thing was driving that, but it was such a relief to be able to ask questions directly of the policymakers at the heart of these things and get real answers. it feels like we re finally doing the real work. of course, there was the constant pretending that covid-19 either wasn t so bad or was getting much better every day when it was getting much worse, so there was just that madness about trump world and the trump white house, and what is odd about it, i agree with you, is th