watching the united states and around the world, i am laila harrak ahead on cnn newsroom. running for cover, on a florida beach during memorial day masturbating. one of the victims, a one year old child. a compromise deal has been reached, the bill has been, written but the u.s. debt limit drama is far from over. what a major hurdle needing to be cleared in the hours ahead. plus, a political showdown in texas the. republican-led house has impeached the states republican attorney general. well, now all eyes are on the lawmaker that will help decide his fate. his wife. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with leyla iraq. we begin in florida where a u.s. national holiday has ended in gun violence and bloodshed. at least nine people were wounded, including three children and hollywood beach as the country marked memorial day. police say shots were fired during an altercation between two groups of people. they have detained one person of interest and are searching for ano
non-defense discretionary spending for the next two years. that s not going to have very large macroeconomic impacts because, out of the entire federal budget, only about a third of its discretionary spending, only about half of that it s non-defense discretionary spending, so it s that one sixth of a federal budget that we ve got freeze on. so that is not going to be large enough to create a recession or prevent one. let s do a cost-benefit analysis then. was the situation worth it when you look at that and result from an economic vantage point? well, vote for joe biden and the white house, no. let me go back. for anyone who cares about the u.s. economy, which i hope is all of us, it is absolutely worth it because the alternative of defaulting on the debt would have yielded a great, big, ugly unknown rate at a point when our recovery is feeling a little bit fragile.
putin, sergei lavrov and at that time it was the secretary of state rex tillerson. rex tillerson gave us a brief. he said out of this came an agreement. it was an agreement on a cease-fire, a freeze on in the area of southwest syria. then we found out more on there was the four safe zones that were agreed around syria. this became what is essentially an old play from the russian sort of playbook, if you will, which is you declare a safe zone and you freeze the fighting there. then you marshal your forces to attack one of the safe zones, because you don t have enough to go after them all at the same time, and you go after the safe zones one at a time. what is happening right now is that they are going after that safe zone in the southwest of syria. ass assad s forces backed by president putin s forces have been forcing refugees out of their homes and basically taking
and he ll improve it with the first official act yesterday was to lift this hiring freeze on family members overseas of american diplomats. it sounds like something very small, but it was something that secretary tillerson put a freeze on, and it was something very important to diplomats overseas. already people are saying he s saying the right things and he has the ear of the president. those close to the secretary told me that the idea of president trump coming here and swearing in secretary pompeo officially today was a joint decision for the president to come and show the support for the diplomatic corps. so i think now that president trump has a relationship with secretary pompeo has his ear, trust him. i think it s going to go a long way to improving the relevance of the state department, and i think that s what the secretary was getting at yesterday. i think he s sending the right sig will nahs.
those two covers, this trifecta, a cozy christmas cover about the cooling of america. rival newsweek ominous signs of the cooling world including, if the climatic change is as profund as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. so now i m freezing and i m starving. no yodels, ring dings, anything it. food gone, freeze on. nobody questioned it. the entire scientific community in lockstep with it. and doubters, they were idiots if they dared deny it. governments had better get cracking or humans would all but frozing in their evolutionary tracks. well, not quite. so maybe that s why me and my parents didn t look so panicked back then. do you see any sense of alarm in this picture? maybe that s why you didn t see