welcome to our viewer in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. and we begin with donald trump s arrest and arraignment in the classified documents case. the washington post reports that trump rejected efforts by one of his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to return the documents and avoid indictment. post says chris kise wanted to negotiate with the doj back in the fall after the fbi found more than 100 class filed documents at mar-a-lago. but cnn spoke to sources close to trump s legal team and they cast doubt on whether that was a real opportunity to settle. and merrick garland is depending the special counsel behind the trump indictment, jack smith. paula reid has more. reporter: speaking for the first time since former president trump was indicted mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. reporter: attorney general merrick garland standing by special counsel jack smith who was prosecuting former president trump and ad
a huge win for republicans by on capitol hill by a vote of 217 to 215, house republicansho passed a bilrel to raise the det limit, but they slash federal government spending by a whopping four point eight trillion dollars. the bill will preventthe bilw a federal defaulilt lesson forde senate democrats and joe biden. get in the way. he will toeaker mccarthy will tell w us about it. he will weigh in tonight. alsonight an tonight, a brandd- new whistleblower allegation involving the bidewh n white house and a child traffickingd operation. the housa chile judiciary commie chairman, jim jordan, he will be here tonight.tonigh also, joe biden. all right. joe biden is once again. promoting togetherness and unity. at the very same time, mr. unity is trashing halfth the country. and the couny and e only talking point he seems able to even articulate consists of two words, occasionally. three , the two ar e maga republicans. the three are ultra mega republicans. thso a phrase that he
coy wire looks good in a hat. i wear them. i have fashionable hats. he needs it. mine is to be as suave as i can pull off. the federal appeals court has held up a gag order in trump s subbed a version case. hunter biden is now facing new criminal charges. the legal jeopardy he s now in and what the white house is now saying. dozens of lawmakers are calling for the presidents of three universities to step down after their testimony in an anti-semitism hearing this week. the mounting pressure they re facing despite attempts to walk back some of their comments. convicted murderer ethan crumbley will spend the rest of his life in prison. what he told the court. millions are nafacing storm today. we begin with the run-ups of primary votes of the 2024 election cycle. former president trump is facing his own legal troubles. on friday a federal appeals court ruled a gag order barring trump from attacking certain witnesses and prosecutors will largely remain in place. of
that don t have to deal with volatile categories like food or energy really are not showing much ground. that is part of the reason the fed expects to have to continue to raise rates this year, but a lot of unanswered questions about what will push them over the line to announce another rate hike. and the fed chief himself saying there are uncertainties. you asked him how long it takes for the rate hikes to be felt in the economy. and here is part of his answer. i can t point to the ultimate end point, i can t point to a specific data point. i think that we ll see it when we see inflation, you know, really flattening out, reliably and starting to soften. i think that we ll know when it is working. so we ll know when we know but we don t know now. that s right. and part of the reason that i was curious to ask chair powell the question, because he has been sayinging for a long time interest rates have lags.
thought to me as a former press secretary. i mean, do you think that they submitted to me? e want to ask trump, whyo as are you evil of course, they didn t submit that to me, but to joe bidenth, it sat biden a different ballgame becausemem the press, your members of the administration, you might so well be at the navystration socializing with us back in the west wing because you re not true. members of the presscie you of e you re doing that. that ess.s a great point, charlie. i ve always said you can. s f fine. i ve always said that the mob in the media is an extension of the white house press office.e . does this now finally prove say what we ve been sayinging is t? oh, i think without a doubt, you know, this is the end ofs tf adversarial press relations in the white. pres only going to be for a democrat. that won t happen if a republican wins in twenty four , without a doubt. absolutely. and by the way, going back years, what i usedcove to cover the white house, i used to comp