affair heats up as russia announces a new set of sanctions targeting trump critics. and stacey abrams joins me. we begin tonight with the old bait and switch, we re one week away from a potential default on the national debt, every economic expert agrees would be catastrophic for our economy resulting in millions of americans becoming unemployed. interest rates on your homes, cars and credit cards shooting through the roof and a major punishing recession, a meeting between president biden and house speaker mccarthy at the white house is still ongoing as the clock ticks down to find some agreement to avert economic disaster. treasury secretary yellen warned again of an economic default saying it s highly unlikely the u.s. will run out of cash if the debt ceiling isn t solved by this. lyndon johnson was a united states senator for 12 years, quote, if you can convince the lowest white man that he s better than the best colored man, he won t notice you re picking his pocket. th
the hall, that secret service was unaware of, seems like a real breach in the protocol they are, and is quite surprising. as you can imagine, secret service is now trying to get to the bottom of this to figure out exactly how this happened. i think it s important to note too that we are not sure that this intruder even knew that it was jake sullivan s house. and when we are talking about these different incidents i think we have to kind of, appreciate that they are on the spectrum. right. some people may have known who they were targeting, as it appears, at this moment, maybe just an intoxicated person running around. but, again, how did they get in the house without secret service noticing? it s terrifying. and in so doing, is there a movement towards getting more security for some of these lawmakers and potentially even their offices and their specific states? right. so, that s where we are at this moment in time. and i do you think that that really underscores, a
keeping his economic commitments abroad while managing a debt crisis at home, president biden says the best use of his time was to cut shows h histropy asia. we ll have the latest on that search. and the governor of montana thinking there s enough threat from china to ban tiktok, but how will he force it out of the hands of teenagers. all these stories are coming in to cnn news central. today in hiroshima, president biden was peppered with questions did the debt default, which really want supposed to be on the agenda. he s already cut his trip short, so he can get back to finalize a deal. leaders in washington have about two weeks to avert a potential disaster. let s take the live to japan for marc stewart . reporter: i cannot stress enough if there s a u.s. daylight, not only likely would it put the u.s. economy into recession, it could create global financial shockwaves. that s relevant for the g7. policy decisions, positions relating to the war in ukraine. money i
andrew weissmann joins us to. he would have been great on that stage. it is not his normal form, but, it needed a courtroom approach. a more persei s, targeted question, then many of the questions we got. so, we will try to see, and we might have some suggestions. i would like to see andrew weissmann versus trump, but i would like to see it in a courtroom. that is another matter, for another day. i will be watching, lawrence. i think cnn did the best they could, it using conventional tools, and we kind of knew ahead of time that conventional tools don t work. i only hope that they are, honestly, privately, i m not asking them to admit any mistakes, publicly, but just privately, watch the game film, try to figure out what you did right, because you did two things right, and try to do time. trump is coming back to cnn. he has found a new home, he will be back. let s just hope that cnn is watching the game, film trying to figure out how to do it better. here s to fingers c
then many of the questions we got. so, we will try to see, and we might have some suggestions. i would like to see andrew weissmann versus trump, but i would like to see it in a courtroom. that is another matter, for another day. i will be watching, lawrence. i think cnn did the best they could, it using conventional tools, and we kind of knew ahead of time that conventional tools don t work. i only hope that they are, honestly, privately, i m not asking them to admit any mistakes, publicly, but just privately, watch the game film, try to figure out what you did right, because you did two things right, and try to do better than next time. you know there will be a next time. trump is coming back to cnn. he has found a new home, he will be back. let s just hope that cnn is watching the game, film trying to figure out how to do it better. here s to fingers crossed. have a good show, lawrence. thank you alex. thank you. well, donald trump, only submitting to interviews wi