all right. so in just a few minutes they re going to try again. president biden, speaker mccarthy will continue their debt standdown face to face at the white house. biden is hosting mccarthy and three other congressional leaders to once again try to get closer at least to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, as has been done dozens of times. they have just over two weeks to do it before a potential u.s. default. somehow it is looking like the two sides have dug in even more since last week s meeting. we go to capitol hill. melanie, we ve seen this before, right? we re making progress, we re not making progress, it s sort of the definition of a game of chicken. the trouble is the economy hangs in the balance here. what s really happening? is there any real progress? do we expect any real probably in the white house? reporter: i will tell you, jim, staff have been working behind the scenes to come up with a potential number of policy options for a potential deal but there has b
A purge. Jessica schneider has been working on this. What are you learning . The president has phoned two u. S. Attorneys tonight telling them hes declining to accept their resignation. Those are the two acting Deputy Attorney general dana bente and rod rosenstein, up for Deputy Attorney general. We saw his confirmation hearings this week. As for the firings of the other 44, those came swiftly and abruptly. The people i talked with said they were flabbergasted this happen sod suddenly, no notice. It is normani for a president to want his own u. S. Attorney appointees but in this case the remaining 44 u. S. Attorneys who had been appointed by president obama, they had no notice and some like you mentioned found out through media reports. Others just from a department of Justice Press release. One source saying this could not have been handled any worse. Another one saying you dont just tell people to clean out their desks effective at midnight tonight, especially since some of those u.
President trump announce his Supreme Court pick coming up. Well be announcing a Supreme Court justice who i think everybodys going to be very, very impressed with. Cnn has learned that the top two candidates, neil gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, both were summon Todd Washington today. Hardiman driving himself from pennsylvania. This drama oshg straighted by trump resembling an apprenticestyle announcement tonight, not tipping his hand on who hes saying youre hired to. The reason, one person says, trump likes a contest. As for the one who isnt chosen, its not a youre fired, apparently. Trump doesnt see second place as a bad thing. This source telling cnn there will be other openings on the court so the person not picked will be runnerup, all in an attempt to distract perhaps from the growing controversy surrounding the travel ban. Today the Trump Administration tried to deny that it even is a ban. It cant be a ban if youre letting 325,000 people in. This is not a travel ban, not a ban on m
We know in retrospect that that inauguration took place against the backdrop of an open and active fbi counterintelligence investigation into the russian attack on the election that made that inauguration possible. And on the key question of whether the new president s campaign had been in on the russian attack somehow. We know looking back that it was happening in the background. That wearing happened on a friday, january 20th. The very next week, though, the whole thing started to shake and rattle within the first week we now know. The inauguration is friday. Theres the weekend. Then the first tuesday after the inauguration, the National Security adviser got interviewed by the fbi. When the fbi does that kind of interview, the agents who conduct the interview produce a written report about it. Its called a 302. Swearing in was on friday, then theres the weekend, then the following tuesday National Security adviser gets interviewed by the fbi. The consequences of that interview are st
Then the first tuesday after the inauguration, the National Security adviser got interviewed by the fbi. When the fbi does that kind of interview, the agents who conduct the interview produce a written report about it. Its called a 302. Swearing in was on friday, then theres the week, then the following tuesday National Security adviser gets interviewed by the fbi. The consequences of that interview are still ringing out like i mean, church bells, air raid sirens, depending on your mfrlt adjustment towards these things. All these weeks and months later, what happened in that fbi interview still resent resident nating. It set off alarms so much so they didnt even wait for the agents who had interviewed mike flynn to write up their 302. They didnt wait for those toogts write their report. Did you have the 302 with you when you were in the white house . Did you show it to white House Counsel and had you seen it at the time you went up to the white house . No. The fbi had deducted intervie