susan caruana waited six long years for this message from her grandson, alex batty. their first direct contact since he failed to return from a holiday in spain with his mother and grandfather. now back in the uk, alex and his grandma have been speaking to the sun newspaper, describing the last time they spoke over the phone in 2017 from a beach in spain. i said to him, you are coming home on saturday, aren t you? and then i heard in the background his mother telling him to put down the phone. all the phones had been switched off, all communications were cut. and ifelt so betrayed. and i was absolutely devastated. alex spent the next few years living a nomadic lifestyle in france and spain with his mother and grandfather. during the whole six years, susan told the sun, i never knew if they were dead or alive. with no school or formal education, alex said he resorted to books. i used to read harry potter, gosh, i ve probably read it about 20 times in complete order. i used
the u.s. inching closer to running out of money to pay its debts. a deadline is as close as 12 days away, but the high-stakes negotiations between the white house and republicans have collapsed and it is not clear when face to face talks will resume. meanwhile, president biden will cut short his asia trip to address the debt crisis. before heading home tomorrow from the g-7 summit in japan, biden will meet with ukraine s president. president zelenskyy is making a dramatic appearance at the gathering to ask world leaders for help in the war against russia. russia claims a major victory in ukraine. today the head of the mercenary wagner group says his fighters have captured bakhmut after months of brutal fighting, but ukraine says it still holds a small portion of the city. cnn s phil mattingly is at the summit in japan. let s begin with the debt crisis. a u.s. default would of course hurt economies around the world. so what is the level of concern there and where do things sta
the financial crisis, there were investors and owners of systemic large banks that were bailed out, and we re certainly not looking at the reforms that we put in place means that we re not going to do that again, but we are concerned about depositors and we re focused trying to meet their needs treasury secretary janet yellen commenting on one aspect of the biggest bank collapse since 2008 we ll break down what s happening with silicon bank in just a moment. plus, we ll bring you mining pence s strongest criticism yet of former president donald trump. those comments came off camera we ll have them for you. and my new reporting on the growing differences behind the scenes between washington and kyiv and the growing of the war and how and when the conflict may end. good morning and welcome to weathe way too early on this monday i m jonathan lemire. president joe biden will address the nation following the second largest bank failure new state history. at 9:00 this morni
trace: we re getting a new look at the seized documents. some marked secret and top secret. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has more from the d.c. newsroom. good morning. a 36-page filing from federal prosecutors meeting a federal judge s late night deadline. they argue the motion for a special master in the case fails for multiple independent reasons. in this filing prosecutors write the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the government also released this photo which contains a number of files with bright yellow or red cover sheets signifying top secret material. they appear spread out over a carpet. the court filing said they were recovered inside a container in the former president s office. prosecutors write three classified documents that were not located in boxes but rather were located in the desk
for their own lives. guess you heard this morning i tested positive for covid. but i ve been double vaccinated, double boosted, symptoms are mild. it is friday, july 22, 9:00 a.m. in the morning here in london, 4:00 a.m. this washington where the january 6 committee has just provided its most revealing look yet into the trump white house as the capitol riot took place. former aides testified that trump watched the riot on tv but ignored all pleas from his family and top advisers to intervene. and while vice president mike pence was whisked to a secure location inside the capitol, the committee presented chilling testimony that pence s security detail feared they might not make it out alive. members were starting to fear for their own lives. there were a lot of there was a lot of yelling, a lot of a lot of very personal calls over the radio. it was disturbing. i don t like talking about it. but there were calls to say good-bye to family members. for whatever the reas