happen. hello, welcome, hello to you. john: john roberts in washington, this is america reports. any moment now the white house will take questions ahead of today s pivotal meeting in the oval office, time running out to avoid the u.s. defaulting on its debt. sandra: coming sooner than many had predicted, charles payne is standing by. john: jacqui heinrich is live, where the briefing is pushed back by 15 minutes or so, and jacqui, the president has touted his ability to reach across the aisle for an agreement. what s changed? jacqui: they are not negotiating leer. the president campaigned on being the uniter in chief refuses to negotiate, even though he always touted how well he worked with the other side during his 50 odd years in washington. and despite his own past votes against raising the debt limit over concerns about too much spending. in 2006, he wrote because this massive accumulation of debt was predicted, because it was foreseeable, because it was unneces
hello and thanks for joining us. i m abby phillip here in washington. now, president biden makes it official. just moments ago, the u.s. is sending abrams tanks to ukraine. that announcement comes just hours after germany revealed that it will send its own leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. germany had been reluctant to do that but ultimately they bent to weeks of intense pressure from western allies. cnn s phil mattingly is over at the white house for us. but let s begin first with our own jim sciutto. jim, can you walk us through what we are talking about here? what are these tanks, and where are they coming from as it relates to what s going into ukraine? reporter: abby, this is a significant move and let s begin with what the capabilities are. this is a german leopard tank then you have the u.s. sending abrams as well. first thing to say about this, highly capable, it s an offensive weapon, not a defensive weapon and the ukrainians hope here, their aim is to use this as a weap
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc head quarters in new york city. if you re watching this from an airplane gate, you already know the headline. more than 8500 flights delayed or cancelled after a key system went down. your flight was supposed to leave at 9:30 this morning? yeah. what time are you going to get to leave? 5:00 p.m. wow. so what are you going to do? just wait. how much more do passengers have to take before something is done to fix the airline system? plus house republicans are staing the first battles of what looks to be an all out political war over the next two years. votes on abortion rights, immigration and the irs are expect anded soon. is it just for show? and somehow the catastrophic situation in continueses to get even worse. relentless rainstorms have led to the deaths of 17 people. hundreds of homes have been damaged. some ripped right off their foundations. i ll speak live to the local sheriff about how they are coping, even
of his teeth. and coming back to vote again because there has not yet been a speaker of the house elected. and it s all right now seemingly about buying time for more negotiations behind closed doors. so the fact the motion to adjourn even passed, well, that s a little bit of good news for kevin mccarthy. he did speak to manu raju just a little while ago saying he still believes that he will become the next speaker of the house, but he wouldn t commit to when that would actually take place or even getting it wrapped up by tomorrow. wrap it up tomorrow? no, no, i m not putting any time line on it. i think we ve got members talking. i think we ve got a little movement so we ll see. we ll have more from manu raju in just a moment. kevin mccarthy has suffered what many are calling five humiliating defeats. well, that was just today, and you can add that to what s happened in the past over the past several days. his own party has told him, nope. that comes of course from con
i am laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. well, here we go again. they will come back and do it all over again a couple of hours. you know exactly what i am talking about because the house voted to adjourn until noon tomorrow, a vote that kevin mccarthy won by a skin of his teeth. and coming back to vote again, because there has not yet been a speaker of the house elected. it s all right now about buying time for more negotiations behind closed doors, so the fact that the motion to adjourn even past, that s a little bit of good news for kevin mccarthy. he did speak to manu raju just a little while ago saying that he still believes that he will become the next speaker of the house, but he would not commit to when that would actually take place or even getting it wrapped up by tomorrow. wrapped up by tomorrow night? no, i am not putting timeline on it. i think we have progress going on, members talking. i think we have a little movement, so we will see. we will have mor