let s do it. cnn news central starts now. he shared photos of guns, targets, ammunition boxes and a tactical vest. this morning the disturbing social media posts from the gunman who murdered eight people at a texas mall. a pivotal meeting today, an attempt to keep the debt ceiling from crashing down. president biden is sitting down with top congressional leaders from both parties, but can they hammer out a deal before the u.s. goes into a catastrophic default? king pinning terrorist, that is who israel said it was targeting in an overnight military strike in gaza. now at least 13 people are dead. these major stories and many more all coming in to cnn news central. we begin with today s high stakes meeting amid a resolving the debt ceiling standoff. if there is no deal it could lead to financial disaster. in just a few hours president biden will meet at the white house with these four congressional leaders, house speaker kevin mccarthy, senate majority leader
congratulating the archives for bringing him down. the archivists has made clear that neither is their goal. earlier this month, the man carrying the long gun tried to enter the fbi cincinnati office. and that real world example is crucial context, as politicians like republican senator lindsey graham, go on fox and say this. i ll say this. if there s a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling classified information after the clinton debacle, which you presided over and did a hell of a good job, there will be riots in the streets. and just so there s no misunderstanding, he said it again. if they try to prosecute donald trump after hillary clinton set up a server in her basement, there literally will be riots in the street. the former president amplified those comments and urged the so-called great agents and others in the fbi to say, we aren t going to take it anymore. this is the same former president who, just weeks ago, reportedly sent a letter to the attorney
chewing on a nthumbnail at that moment, i want to know what the conversation was like after not because i m sympathetic in someway to somebody that would have tortured those families for sandy hook for so long. curiosity is one thing but to catch him in the lie they did, unbelievable. amazing to watch. see you tomorrow. have a good one. good night. this is don lemon tonight. we ll have more on the fallout from the scandal over those other text messages they were talking about, missing secret service texts. sources telling cnn the secret service may temporarily disable texting over the firestorm from around january 6th. we ll have more on that in a moment. let us not forget there are more missing texts from key trump pentagon officials. the season of the missing texts, right? you know i always say it, i ve been saying this for awhile. don t fall for the old okie-doke. they want to bamboozle you, or eddie murphy said banana in the tail pipe. don t let them tell you the
your show, alex jones on the stand today, when he found out, he was like, do you know how we got your text messages? and he was, like what? man that was some you know what. if this script scripted, i would have been like, that s not gonna happen. but then you look back to the lawyers who were sort of like chewing on a thumb nail at that moment. i want to know what that conversation was like after, but not because i m sympathetic in some way to somebody who would torture those families in sandy hook for so long. kyrgios is one thing but to catch him in the lie the way they did unbelievable. amazing to watch. thank you, laura. i ll see you tomorrow. have a good one. goodnight. this is don lemon tonight. we will have more on the fallout from the scandal over those other text messages they were talking about, those missing secret service texts. sources telling cnn the secret service may disable temporarily text messages or the firestorm over missing texts over january
treasury securities first. the thinking there not making good on those commitments could trigger global financial turmoil as investors might start fleeing treasuries and treasuries serve as a building block for the financial system. paying social security benefits, 66 million americans get paid out monthly. also making medicare payments, more than 65 million people are enrolled in that. and the pay in benefits for some 2 million federal workers, 1.4 million active duty military members. and the list, it doesn t end there. now, the treasury secretary actually warns a plan like this, it still isn t a fix, it still means default. we believe i believe that prioritization of payments, as you said, is default by another name. it s simply a recipe for economic and financial catastrophe to think we can pay