i m paula reid in washington. jim acosta has the day off. we are following several developing stories on this busy afternoon. the u.s. takes another step closer to running out of money to pay its debts. despite a deadline as close as 12 days away, the high-stakes negotiations between the white house and republicans have broken down. and it s not clear when they will resume. meanwhile, president biden will cut short his asia trip to address the looming debt crisis, but before heading home tomorrow from the g7 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 more help in the war against russia. zelenskyy s plea comes as russia claims a major victory in ukraine. today the head of the mercenary wagner group says his fighters captured bakhmut after months of brutal fighting. ukraine says it still holds a small portion of the city. cnn s phil mattingly is at the g7 summit in hiros
following questions yesterday. what is the white house reaction to special counsel durham s report on how the fbi handled the trump-russia probe. i would leave it to the department of justice to speak to. does he agree with special counsel durham that there needs to be wholesale changes at the fbi. again that s with the department of justice and not something i am going to speak from the podium. as you just stated we believe in an independent department of justice that s what the president said when he was running and what the president said last year. thank you very much see new japan. not exactly shooting down the quote. aid to adam schiff. one of the house permanent select committee on intelligence staffers d.c. speak for the intel committee. their boss adam would soon take over leadership to of the committee. the researcher took the comment as a mild threat. kevin mccarthy questioned schiff s suitability for public office. it really raises the question about a
week five people alone in the tucson sector found to be on the same list. our team on the ground says they have seen people from around the world trying to cross into the u.s., including at least 30 chinese nationals spotted. the biden administration says border crossings are down since the lifting of title 42. we heard from the president about this briefly. here s what he had to say on tuesday. texas governor greg abbott says the situation is far from nationwide. help the lone start state imforeign relation in a new letter in the federal government s absence we as governors must ban together to combat the president s ongoing border crisis and ensure the safety and security that all americans deserve. joining us in the mission to defend our national sovereignty and territorial integrity and send all available law enforcement personnel and resources to the tex-mex co-border. florida governor ron desantis says is he deploys national guardsman: list of resources more than # hu
and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl
newton john has died. olivia has been a symbol of triumph and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. do i expect you to help? yes i do. president biden applauding passage of the senate bill. some g.o.p. members remain skeptical. people in country can t afford everything in their daily lives. this bill does nothing to address that. ainsley: we start with a fox news alert. republican lawmakers are demanding an investigation into the fbi s raid on mar-a-lago. steve: meanwhile former president donald j. trump released a campaign style video on his website, truth social, calling the united states a nation in decline. lawrence: kevin corke joins us live from washington. kevin, what can you tell us? good morning, guys. certainly a day to remember in the nation s capitol. if you ask republicans not for a good reason. president trump s home mar-a-lago comes under siege by the biden administration s department of justice, with the approval of a