weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. the big story, of, course we have two hot wars for the president to navigate on the world stage. the republican-controlled house has voted to formally authorize its impeachment inquiry into president biden despite failing to provide any evidence of wrongdoing by the president. the vote was strictly along party lines with all 221 republicans voting yes, all 212 democrats voting no. republicans say the move will grant them the ability to better enforce their subpoenas in the courts. house oversight chair republican james comer has accused hunter biden and other biden family members of engaging in, quote, shady business practices. but as we said, has yet to reveal any evidence of wrongdoing or influence peddling by the president himself. so here is what several house democrats said ahead of the vote. see the biden impeachment investigation isn t a who done it. it s a what is it? it s like an agatha christy novel where the
white house bid official, and the challenge now is to take on trump without making the base turn against him. these stories ahead on cnn news central. so, this just in. we got word that negotiators are meeting right now. this is ahead of the crucial meeting this afternoon between president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. june 1st is now 10 days away, and this is the day that treasury secretary janet yellen says is a hard deadline that is ahead of the economic disaster that going to affect millions of americans like medicare and medicaid benefits and military salaries and other benefits at real risk. and now, many at capitol hill hounding their representatives, and that is the last we heard from house speaker kevin mccarthy. look, there is no agreement on anything. we have all said the peace on where we r and we are trying to find common ground to get this done. so right to manu raja on capitol hill. i understand that the staff level negotiators and members are
next hour, change that. the lead starts right now. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy meeting in a matter of minutes. what s on and what s off the negotiating table as mccarthy insists he needs to see a deal this week to avoid default. plus a new name in the 2024 presidential race. i m running for president of the united states. i m america. tim scott setting his sights on the white house and his gop backers hope the senator from south carolina can be the one to beat trump and then biden. and a not guilty plea in the murders of four idaho college students and the gag order keeping information secret in this case. welcome to the lead 37 i m jake tapper. can they make a deal? in the next hour president biden and. kevin mccarthy will meet face to face at the white house as the united states careens towards an economic ka catastro that only those two can prevent we re ten day was from the u.s. potentially running out of money to pay its bills. that c
the prime minister meets retailers and farmers to work out how to boost production and lower prices. we are live in the newly crowned world surfing reserve of north devon, but elements of surfing are not as wild and natural as you might think. we have been investigating. is it the end of the line for leicester? after defeat to liverpool the former premier league champions look destined for the championship with just two games remaining to save their season. and good morning, quite a cool, fresh start to the day to day but plenty of sunshine in the forecast. still a few showers in scotland, northern ireland, northern and eastern england. all of the details here. it s tuesday the 15th may. a british businessman, whose foreign companies were at the centre of an international money laundering investigation, has been revealed as a major donor to the conservative party, by the bbc. javad marandi has donated more than £750,000 pounds to the party. he isn t subject to criminal actio
republicans are demanding the fbi handover internal documents at noon today. a whistleblower claims those documents will show then vice president biden accepted money for policy decisions and we re waiting to learn whether or not the fbi has indeed met this deadline. republicans also announcing explosive new information about the biden family business dealings during a news conference a short time ago. they say information obtained from a subpoena by the biden family, financial documents show that the family received millions of dollars in foreign cash. and reveals that hunter set up more than 20 different companies, 15 of them after his father became the vice president. watch. instead of being honest with the american people, president biden is claiming since the 2020 election his family has not received money from china. that was a lie. in 2020, and he continues to lie to the american people now. the committee is concerned about a complicated, suspicious network of over 2