Damaging to democracy. Earlier today there were similar sentiments during the president s visit to dayton and el paso. Ray bogan is live in el paso tonight for the president s trip and protests that greeted him there. First to ktvus Debora Villalon live in San Francisco where about 70 people gathered at 24th and mission tonight. Deborah . Reporter this is a somber but determined crowd across the bay, the protest was more political in tone. The overlap of guns, racism and words is weighing heavily on everyone. Its easy because we hear these stories f pasos massacre held aloft. I actually grew up going to the house of these two people. Reporter emotional protest in the heart of the mission. Speakers alarmed about keeping immigrant familys intact and keeping them alive. I never felt so small before. But you know what . Love makes us stronger. Reporter on the other side of the bay, a crowd the same size but louder. [ chanting ] reporter this protest along international boulevard also decri
christine romans. it s memorial day here in the u.s. glad you re with us. let s get going. we begin this morning with president biden defending the deal he made with house speaker kevin mccarthy to raise the debt limit for two years. it takes the threat of catastrophic reform off the table. protects our hard-earned economic recovery. and the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. mccarthy agreed to raise the debt limit in explain for cuts to the budget. even though, the president insisted to reporters he wasn t actually negotiating on the dead limit. want to try to make it look like i made some grow myself in the debt ceiling, i didn t. i made a compro 3450is on the budget. that s what they wanted a compromise on the budget, that s what you ve done, even though you haven t gone as far as you wants, in that right? sure, can you think of an alternative? the president praised mccarthy, although he avoided predicting whethe
were declassified. on that subject overnight, trump offered a, frankly, odd defense. if you re the president of the united states you can declassify by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it and there doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision. so when you send it, it s declassified. i declassified everything. he seems to be creating a new security category. declassified in his mind. more on that in a moment. in new york, trump, his children and empire accused of fraud over the value of his properties for more than a decade. the new york attorney general wants the trump organization dissolved. also trump is facing a new sexual battery lawsuit from eg carroll, who accused him of raping her in a department store in the mid 90s. genie thomas, wife of clarence thomas, has agreed to sit down for an intervi
united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i m christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden s aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration s decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now from cnn s phil mattingly. reporter: president biden and his top economic officials have for several months made trying to do something, anything to dampen skyrocketing gas prices a central priority, if not the top priority both politically and economically for the administration. over the course of the summer they had a pretty good run, three months of consecutive drops. a run that was put into qu
prosecutors revealing his self-described suicide mission. israel s benjamin netanyahu on the verge of remarkable political comeback. the votes still being counted this morning. plus, working hard or hardly working? the biggest drop in worker productivity since truman was president has plenty of bosses wondering this morning, what s going on? good morning to you. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m paulo sandoval in for laura and christine. the man accused of hitting house speaker nancy pelosi on the head with a hammer is behind bars this morning without bail. we have more details. 42-year-old david depape, san francisco district attorney speaking. what is crystal clear to me, he was trying to kill mr. pelosi. why he did that, i can t speak to that. what is very clear to me from viewing that body worn camera, he tried to kill mr. pelosi. depape told police he was, quote, on a suicide mission. san francisco s district attorney said th