happened. china is still the enemy. what now? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. secretary blinken says his talk with china s foreign minister and other officials was constructive. earlier after his meeting with the president of the communist nation, blinken said this. united states is committed to doing that. in the interest of china and unities and the world. we covered a broad range of subjects. i appreciate this opportunity to discuss this with you. harris: i pay way more attention to they do than what china says. the white house said it didn t exist and cleared up last week there is in fact a communist chinese spy base in cuba watching the united states. there are remaining tensions over the chinese spy craft that flew across the continental u.s. sending intelligence back to china realtime. china s ramped up aggression toward taiwan. so was it good to meet now? mixed reaction from republicans. despite our differences and despite the ratcheting
still no deal to extend the united states debt ceiling. but negotiators hope to have an agreement later today. what a possible default could mean. the search for survivors at a medical facility in dnipro. officials say at least two people are dead and 32 are injured after a russian attack. and turkey heads to the polls again. presidential runoff election gets under way later today. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. a deal to raise the u.s. debt ceiling and avert a financial catastrophe appears closer than ever. a source familiar with negotiations said an agreement could be reached as soon as today. we re told it s likely to raise the debt ceiling for two years, but it s not clear how they will resolve the issue of work requirements for social safety net programs. that s been a key sticking point for republicans. listen. if you re really going to fall on the sword for that versus actually negotiating something that changes the
[cheers and applause] thank you, thank you for receiving us with open arms. even if they are covered with black sabbath tattoos and number 77 sunscreen. let s cover some news before we go to the monologue. an american who was trapped in ukraine for eight months says he evaded russian troops by prevpretending to be irish. in other words, he was drunk. comedian gallagher sadly has passed away at age 76. his family scheduled a private ceremony. followed by smashing him with a giant hammer. [laughs] laura: we had to show the picture of the watermelon. amazon s jeff bezos and ncb giving his fortune to charity, earning praise for hunter biden who gave most of his fortune to charity a month and the other girl dancing wednesday night shift. [dracula sanctuary city of philadelphia.- [cheers and applause] sparking outrage from migrants who packed for martha s vineyard. this isn t what i signed up for, said one refugee named beto o rourke. the department of energy is projecting he
the scariest thing that you will ever go through. my whole world crumbled. cara was the kind of teacher students just love. she was a rock star at her school. with the same man for 20 years, enjoying life together by the beach. the balcony was like our second living room, you can hear the waves on the shore. but she was all alone that night when, according to her, an intruder burst into her bedroom. i was scared to death. i didn t have any other choice. you shot him? i shot him. she said the man attacked her. he told me he was going to kill me. she d been assaulted. she defended herself. so why did others call it murder? my very first words were, she set him up. cara s account kept changing. it hit me just how different all of these stories were and how unbelievable they were. lies. it s all lies. what really made cara pull that trigger? the rug was pulled out from underneath her. she was shocked. and she was angry? yes. a jury would
that is his summer residence. he s also about to meet in a few hours with several members of the republican study committee who are essentially rushing there to discuss what s going on. jim banks is the chairman of the rsd. he will be at bedminster. that s an aerial shot of the golf club. we ll keep a eye on the comings and goings and see if we hear anything from donald trump on all of this over the course of the afternoon. we saw a little reaction from him on truth social last night. we may get a public statement from him as we keep a close eye on who comes and goes from bedminster this afternoon. so the fbi, when you think about it, has been investigating donald trump for seven years. from the russia collusion days all the way until now. and this raid is likely just the beginning of the next stage in this story as it fires up the deepest entrenched forces for and against this most fiercely debated american president. he appears to have his eyes on the white house once again