fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements, just some of the charges against congressman george santos. after spending the day in federal custody, he just pleaded not guilty to 13 counts. so what will speaker mckcarthy do? a major test at the southern border. patrols encountered more than 10,000 migrants on tuesday alone as pandemic restrictions come to an end, our reporters are speaking live with those families desperate to get cross. plus president biden hitting the road to sell his debt ceiling message saying america is not a dead beat nation. new details on ongoing negotiations with republicans as we close in on a crucial default deadline. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. new york republican congressman george santos has pleaded not guilty to the 13 federal charges hes faces in court. prosecutors say his bond is set at $500,000, though his travel will be limite
the capitol police, d.c. metropolitan police, other law enforcement agencies were attacked and assaulted before our very eyes, spirit, sprained, stomped on, brutalized and lives were lost. for three hours, the defeated former president of the united states watched it all happen. he sat in the comfort of a private diner next to the office. while he was doing that, brave law enforcement officer subject to for three hours. they were dripping in blood and surrounded by carnage. face-to-face to believe the lives of the defeated president. the police were there that day. donald trump lacked the courage to act. the brave women and men in blue all across this nation should never forget that. you can t be pro-insurrection and pro-cop. you can t be pro-democracy. you can t be pro-insurrection and pro-american. president biden doesn t talk about january 6 often nor does he talk about his predecessor often. we ve heard him use the phrase defeated former president, but he used donald tr
been indict ed while in office. at least two dozen since 1980. talk to us about the challenges of investigating a suting member of congress. exactly. there are a lot of challenges. the number one challenge is the political challenge. the media challenge, because it s going to be argued in the media this is political to try to get him out of office. but the facts and the evidence will speak for themselves. at the time there is a trial and by the release and also another challenge is you have the challenge of witnesses coming forward because they are scare ed of retaliation. that s one issue when you re dealing with people that are in office and prosecutoring them while they are in office. but here s the thing. this is a paper case. so your main witness in this case is going to be the documents. so you don t have that fear. thank you so much. evan perez, manu, mark at the
than one mile away from the west wing. this continues the former president s steps back to the political arena. there s a lot of speculation he s going to be running for president again and may be declaring that campaign even ahead of this kbheer year s midterms. i assume your message to that would be run, donald, run? yeah, bring it on. i think if he s running early, it s because he s running scare ed. he s hearing footsteps coming up behind him because his fear is many of them are in his own party, and he s smart enough to know that. if we can just pull the lens back a little bit. i don t know about all of you, but the revelations that have come out of the january 6th committee are far more serious than even some of us on the floor and experienced it firsthand could have imagined. the direct involvement, document under oath of people at the highest levels including the president. these are very serious, probably
he s now speaking out, telling the wall street journal, i felt the rules were being changed to hurt the president, president trump, and i thought it was damaging to the presidency over the long haul. if you destroy the presidency, and make it an errand boy for congress, we re going to be a much weaker, moret divided nation. democrats don t seem to care.ed they re still fuming. and don t forget, clinton aide brian pagliano, hillary s aide, server, he totally ignored his 2016 congressional subpoena related to the hillary e-mail scandal investigation. at the time, democrats, they could have cared less. again, selective moral outrage. we are now witnessing this selective outrage at its worst. meanwhile, jerry nadler s circus is eager to feature, oh, they want robert mueller to come in. democrats hope for oneatwa last ground of baseless trump conspiracy theories and hoaxes