there s now a little optimism on a debt ceiling deal following yesterday s meeting at it white house even though president biden is cutting short an overseas trip. we ll have the latest on those negotiations. and also ahead ron desantis goes after donald trump on the issue of abortion. we ll look at how it could impact the 2024 presidential race. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 17th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. moving in today with the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, president biden met with congressional leaders at the white house yesterday, and while both sides say that some progress has been made, no deal has yet been reached. both biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy named top negotiators to take part in talks and continue daily. and while democrats continue to insist that they will not negotiate over the debt ceiling, they are reportedly in talks about spending cuts working on a parallel track. the
be on the record when it comes to george santos. they will still have to cast a vote about santos, face the scrutiny and face the criticism head on that santos is receiving, so regardless of what kind of vote it will be, it will be a significant one because of the content of it. we ll certainly stay on this story in the days ahead. thank you. one more med line before we go to break, the ceo of the company behind chatgpt is urging lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence. sam altman testified before a senate judiciary cut subcommittee yesterday. lawmakers asked him about the popular tool that can produce human-like text and the risks associated with it. altman in return pitched his own ideas on how legislation can help improve the industry as well as protect consumers. my worst fears are it s going
there are so many checks and balances built in from the field office level through the general counsel, the national security law review branch and comes up through the highest levels of the organization. and i can tell you having signed off on hundreds and hundreds of fisa, they never make it up the first time. they don t make it up the second time. there s numerous reviews before they even go across the street to be signed off by the deputy attorney general and attorney general. i ve testified in fisa court many times. some of these testimonies take hours and there s a rigorous review. so i think people need to understand that. it s not the rubber stamp that you hear some people say. thank you for that. the last time we had how on the broadcast i was reminded because you had just written an article about how robert mueller writes a case, for time magazine. let me take you back to your med line and tell me how do you think he s working this case?
hours and there s a rigorous review. so i think people need to understand that. it s not the rubber stamp that you hear some people say. thank you for that. the last time we had how on the broadcast i was reminded because you had just written an article about how robert mueller writes a case, for magazine. let me take you back to your med line and tell me how do you think he s working this case? what do you think is going on? i think he s going to keep doing exactly what he s doing. this memo is not going to slow him down one bit. what i read today further stanchiates the investigation that mueller is conducting is reicherous and forthright investigation which actually stanchiates the allegations written in the fisa package merchandise so i think the memo does nothing but strength that case, and i think mueller is going to drive straight ahmed. what if the man before him is in peril? what do you think he d do? i think, first of all, you