for shannon bream. report card in for a tumultuous 2023, 2020 for promising to be a year of surprises and a history making election. fireworks usher in the new year down under. america awaits 10 nights, wall street celebrates a hot streak for stockholders. mortgage rates drop, inflation slows. but most americans still feel the pinch. we were less economic council of advisors chair jared bernstein about the disconnect in an exclusive interview. plus spirit clicks are at a time of the year we are seeing more at the border. it is not unusual but this is an immigration system that has been broken for decades request migrant encounters for the year crash records as congress remains split on security talks. we will get reaction from to two border state congressmen. texas democrat henry cuellar texas republican tony gonzalez. then. lexa came to the conclusion that i could not unfortunately or fortunately, wait for the united states supreme court perplexed at main it becomes the se
i m laila harrak. republicans already raising concerns over the agreement in principle on the debt ceiling as both president biden and house speaker mccarthy race to seal the deal with their allies in congress. the gop turns on one of its own in texas in an unprecedented move to impeach the state s attorney general. details and how that official is reacting. and we re live for you in istanbul as voting there gets under way for turkey s presidential runoff election. we begin in washington where congress is drafting new legislation on the u.s. debt limit hours after officials reached a deal to try to avoid a disastrous default. the white house and republicans say they agreed in principle to raise the u.s. debt ceiling and cap government spending. house speaker kevin mccarthy says law maeshls are now expected to vote on that agreement this wednesday. before it can move forward, he must convince hardliners that it s worth it. here s how he characterized the deal. after week
i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. did kevin mccarthy calm a swirling debt deal drama? the speaker saying the agreement to pull the united states back from a crippling default is on track to pass. i don t want to be on the the wrong side of history. every single one of those members who vote no will miss the opportunity to vote for the largest cut in american history. plus ron desantis shows two sides to himself in iowa with the voters, the florida governor keeps donald trump s name out of his speech with reporters, though, he says it s time to give the former president the gold watch. move opt to the next generation. and today, new special counsel threats. jack smith now reportedly looking into the firing of the cybersecurity chief who called the 2020 election secure and why a mar-a-lago employee wanted to know the ins and outs of how the compound s security cameras work. up first for us, kevin mccarthy climbs out of the quick sand. ther
officials about the war in israel. secretary lloyd austin is holding a press conference with the israeli defense minister galov. and so, today, we had great discussion about the goals of the campaign and how to reduce harm to civilians in the battle space. and the need to ensure a sustained flow of humanitarian assistance into gaza. you know, we can offer insight based upon our own experience fighting terrorist groups, and that enabled to us have great discussions. we also have some great thoughts about how to transition from the higher operations to lower intensity and surgical operations. we have great discussions on all of those issues. in lebanon, we want to make sure that we don t expa and this into a larger or regional war in lebanon, and so we are going to call upon hezbollah to make sure they don t do things to provoke a wider conflict. this is to the first question. let me be more precise. it took 70 days before we exposed this tunnel to the public. it was disc
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. we re less than 40 minutes to the launch of axiom two. it s the second mission to the international space station. on board is a former space station commander who has spent more time in space than any other american along with a pilot and two mission specialists from saudi arabia. we ll bring you that launch live in about a half an hour. and negotiations will resume over the debt crisis. they will set the stakge for a high-stakes meeting tomorrow. the president is flying home from the g-7 summit in japan. here s what mccarthy had to say about that conversation. i believe it was a productive phone call. and so at the end of the phone call, what we need to do is, we re going to have patrick mchenry get back together with he s going to ask his team, get back together. so we can walk them through literally what we ve been talking about. i think some of the challenges here they might not completely understand h