and i m max foster. just ahead negotiations still ongoing, still unresolved. stewart rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on thursday. have a good day. next. memorial day weekend is just the start of what will be a busy summer travel season that we re expecting. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, may 26, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where they are moving closer to a day to pay the government s bill. it would reportedly raise the debt ceiling but cap spending levels for two years. and manu raju reports that nothing is final until it is final. reporter: negotiations between the speaker and his top allies and the white house still ongoing, still unresolved, even as the u.s. is considering prospects of the first ever debt default as soon as next week and amid warnings that the u.s. credit rating could be downgraded if the national down limit which now stands at $31.4 trillion
greetings everyone. you are watching symone. this week marks one year since russia launched its brutal assault on ukraine. no end in sight. we are digging into the future of america s support of ukraine. biden prepares to travel to the region and now u.s. officials say china might be considering lethal support of russia s war effort. nikki haley has joined the former president trump and the republican primary for president in 2024. it is shaping up to be crowded, where her former boss is the man who beat. does nikki haley have a chance? we are asking one of her former staffers. plus, in our living black history series, my conversation with brian stevenson, a true champion for justice. he has helped free more than 130 wrongly convicted people from death row and he has not done yet. i am symone sanders johnson and i have something to say. nearly one year ago vladimir putin was saying if russia were to invade ukraine, his troops would take kyiv in 48 hours. of course, putin di
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. guilty a south carolina jury s come convicted former attorney alex murdaugh of killing his wife and son back in june of 2021. we ll have much more on all of that in a moment, but we are also following a key development in the efforts to hold donald trump accountable in the january 6th riot. a new justice department filing says trump can be held liable in a civil court for the actions of rioters at the capitol. doj rejected trump s claim of absolute immunity from civil lawsuits filed by police officers and members of congress. the department lawyers argued that protection goes away if a president uses words that are quote an incitement of imminent private violence. as a reminder, here is just some of what former president donald j trump said on that fateful day. we re gonna walk down to the capitol [applause] and we re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we re probably not gonna be cheering much
that protection goes away if a president uses words that are quote an incitement of imminent private violence. as a reminder, here is just some of what former president donald j trump said on that fateful day. we re gonna walk down to the capitol [applause] and we re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we re probably not gonna be cheering much for some of them. because you ll never take back our country with weakness. we fight like hell, and if you don t fight like hell, you re not gonna have a country anymore. what congresswoman, who is part of this lawsuit against donald trump, of course welcome the doj s decision today, and earlier she described what happened in the house when the capital was under siege. we had to try to put on our gas max and we were told we had to hit the floor we barely got out of the chambers before they came in. we almost did not get out of there. after january six, the officers on the front lines of the attack t
pre-autopsies. sometimes, people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people, working people, who will be voting democratic. i think again, with democrats have got to do is contrasts their economic plan with the republican. tonight, we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican that out of representatives might actually look like. the house gop sees these pending election results as a repudiation of where president biden and democrats are currently leading the country, and that is part of what is driving their legislative agenda. it s important to note that the party that runs the house typically engages in two types of legislation. one is built purely around messaging and firing of the base. democrats, for instance, did that with sweeping gun reform measures, even though they need to build a past would not even get 50 votes in t