viewers around the world. max foster has the day off. i m bianca nobilo. this is the third property associated with president biden that the fbi has visited. the president from the very beginning of total cooperation with the justice department. tyre was a beautiful person. and for this to happen to him is unimaginable. legacy of tyre nichols is that we have equal justice swiftly. this time the man many consider the greatest player in nfl history seems to really mean it. it is time. he has proved everything he needs to prove. so go ahead, move forward. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, february 2, 4:00 a.m. in rehoboth beach where fbi agents have wrapped their search for classified documents at the president biden vacation home. mr. biden has repeatedly insisted he did nothing wrong in handling classified material, a claim echoed by the white house. i think that we won t get ahead of potential speculation and steps tha
this issue. and now to the new developments to the role of donald trump in a hush money payment scheme. there will be a manhattan grand jury. and this is as prosecutors ramp up their probe into the scheme to stop porn star stormy daniels from going public about a past alleged affair with trump just before the 2016 election. trump denied the affair. and there is no tangible progress in talks over the debt limit, but kevin mccarthy sounded hopeful that he and president biden can reach an agreement long before the deadline that would trigger a default, possibly as early as june. i thought the meeting today was a good first start. that doesn t mean that it all comes to fruition, but walking out i can see that it could come together.
i was very hopeful. the meeting was better than i thought just like anything else. but each day without a deal brings the u.s. one step closer to default and the consequences would be dire. phil mattingly has the latest on the negotiations. reporter: president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy met for more than an hour in the oval office, there was nothing on camera, no statements by the two leaders at least before the meeting. after the meeting the speaker described the meeting that lasted more than an hour as productive, said it was a good meeting, said markets that are concerned about the potential for a u.s. default, first in the history of the country, should feel better about things. why? that still remains an open question. i think the fact that they had a conversation at all seems to be viewed as progress from mccarthy s side of things. but the two prospectives which are wildly tdivergent are still wildly divergent. and while mccarthy said it was a
online and credit card late fees which officials hope to slash from an average of $31 to $8. president biden said that the bill would give breathing room to american families especially those that are already struggling to pay their bills. and the u.s. will get access to four more military bases in the mill philippines. the announcement came as the u.s. defense chief met with the country s president and foreign secretary. paula hancocks is joining us from seoul. this is very significant. talk to us about the strategic advantage here for the u.s. and the potential ramifications for expansion into a region that is so volatile near the south china sea. reporter: what it does is it does give significant footing to the u.s. military forces in the southeast corner of the south china sea. so it is strategic for the united states. it is part of an existing