and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trump s fo
nation s debt limit after a last-minute rewrite. and we re tracking the speaker s efforts to get gop holdouts to get in line. joe biden strikes a landmark deal to send a nuclear submarine to south korea for the first time in 40 years. the president and his south korean kocounterpart going to n lengths to deter kim jong-un and his escalating nuclear threats. and oath, testimony by the woman who alleges that donald trump assaulted her decades ago. cnn was there as e. jean carroll took the stand. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to capitol hill for the latest on the very high stakes showdown over raising the nation s federal debt limit. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is following all this. republicans have been scrambling to hold a vote today on their plan to raise the debt ceiling. where do things stand right now? reporter: wolf, the chamber is just here to m
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you re watching cnn newsroom. and i m rosemary church. just ahead, the u.s. house passes a debt ceiling bill. but there s zero chance it will get through the senate. we ll look at what, if anything, is up for negotiation when it comes to budget cuts. plus, thousands of civilians are caught in the middle of a deadly conflict in sudan. many desperate to leave the country for their safety. we ll look at that. and later, the lawmakers, business leaders and celebrities who gathered at the white house for a state dinner honoring the south korean president. good to have you with us. republicans in the u.s. house have passed a bill to raise the national debt limit and cut spending. they say it will put the country on the path of fiscal responsibility and avoid an economic catastrophe. but democrats are not onboard. they want a stand-alone bill that lets the u.s. pay its debt out spen
Want you to get in touch from home as well. We will answer as many as we possibly can. I will be giving you a bit of a behind the scenes tour. We will return to the tension a few minutes. Tent in a few minutes. Good morning its tuesday sixth june. This mornings headlines. Questions asked as to why police and Security Services downgraded their inquiries into the past of one of the London Bridge attackers. Khuram butt had been under investigation by Counter Terrorism officers and mi5. Thousands of gathered for a vigil to remember the victims of Saturday Nights attack. A minutes silence will be held across the country later this morning. In sport, the former Newcastle United midfielder cheick tiote dies at the age of 30. His old boss Steve Mcclaren said he had the most beautiful smile in football. Good morning from the blue peter garden where it is raining. We have a lot of friends this morning over Central Eastern and Northern Areas and in particular some of that heavy and in particular
A single party fraudulent Impeachment Process deployed against the president like the one being used against donald trump. Thats whats unprecedented here. Its not the claim that a president doesnt want to turn over witnesses or documents. That as we said many times today is actually quite common. By the way, lets remember, noted again, President Trump has consistently cooperated with this congress in fulfilling its oversight and investigation responsibilities. I noticed the statistics this morning when we started, there were 25 Administration Officials that testified before the House Oversight this year and 25 at the House Judiciary Committee. At the start of the Impeachment Inquiry the white house produced more than 100,000 pages of documents to the oversight committee. In spite of their allegations, the democrats know President Trump has a lawful cause to challenge the subpoenas because they involve direct wln are
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