we start tonight here in washington these are live shots of the capitol building. the biden administration and the republican majority in the us house of representatives have reached an agreement in principle on a new government debt limit. the deal will be put to a vote on wednesday. we ll have more on what we know so far shortly, with our north america correspondent jess pakrker shortly. but first let s hear from the leaders at the centre of these negotiations. house speaker kevin mccarthy said there would be historic reductions in spending and no new taxes. he shared this statement a little earlier. ijust got off i just got off the phone with the president and talk to him twice today and after weeks of negotiations we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do but i believe this is an agreement in principle worthy of the american people. it has historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into
government will crush you and your family. the fbi has not and will not retaliate against whistleblower disclosures. fireworks flew throughout as jim jordan was accused of withholding a whistleblower prior testimony. i m not aware you are able to withhold information from the minority we would need to use to prepare when it comes to whistleblower, we are not. i would remind the gentlemen from new york with the information we had. when you were part of the investigation with anonymous whistleblower. that just one of many tense moments, earlier this morning, kat cammack had this reaction with you guys. i think the most shocking thing was the revelation these whistleblowers gave us and how they had come forward, they had expresed dismay and concern about the tactics and directives of the fbi against american citizens and they were subsequently suspended without pay, their clearance revoked and left to languish. one you can hear more about are claims the fbi scooped
for mccarthy moving ahead. interesting, joel, i want to give you one more last question here, regarding president biden himself, he cut his trip short to asia during that g7 trip, to come back here and what he said, focus on getting a debt deal done. he then took off for camp david and has been making a few phone calls, of course, with mccarthy. what s your sense on the role that the president actually ended up playing in these negotiations? the principle is the principle. and all the team around him are still his staff and he was applied and engaged the whole time. it was very unfortunate that he had to come back from the g7 directly rather than go to papua new guinea and engage our allies in the pacific that we need in the fight in dealing with china in that whole area. he had to come back, he showed his leadership
centerstage at the g7 trip, at home, urging the white house to cut ties with the communist party, including virginia, where they rejected 3.5 million dollar battery plant last year. relationship with the chinese battery maker. virginia lieutenant governor winsome sears joins us to react to that. thank you for making time this morning. i was just in michigan where they were dealing with the same thing and trying to push formers out of their land to build battery plants and if you look at contract they have with china, they have to put the communist party first. how dangerous is this? of course, it is extremely dangerous, china is former adversary, in virginia this past session, we passed legislation that you cannot sell farmland that is surrounding military