- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. good evening. we begin tonight with new developments on two key questions for this country and the free world. how to prevent a default on the national debt that could destroy global confidence in our economy, and how to ensure russia s ifivation of ukraine is rolled back. president biden at the g7 summit in hiroshima, japan, and grappling with both. on ukraine a milestone with president zelenskyy due to travel from ukraine to japan this weekend. president biden gave his okay for the joint effort to train ukrainian fighter pilots on f-16 fighters and other advanced aircraft. and on debt ceilings it looks like talks the president was updated on remotely are back on again. they resumed tonight hours after house speaker kevin mccarthy s negotiators called a halt to them earlier today. as only cnn can we have co
where they had a tense private discussion at the bench. meanwhile democrats in the white house are pushing back against an fbi memo that some republicans claim prove that joe biden and his son hunter took bribes. senator chuck grassly of iowa released the documents yesterday. it involves claims a confidential informant made in 2020 about hunter s alleged business dealings. he served on the board of a ukrainian energy company burisma, but the claims have never been verified, and even top republicans have acknowledged they cannot confirm whether the information is true, that includes senator grassly who last month admitted it didn t matter if the allegations were true or not. we aren t interested in whether or not the accusations against vice president biden or accurate or not. we re responsible for making sure the fbi does its job. now, congressman jamie raskin
quote, unverified memoranda steele authored about candidate trump and, quote, the impact of the unverified information he had acquired in an effort to undermine the trump campaign. but with all of these claims involving biden, it appears that grassly is playing to an audience of one, and that is the former president. well, i hope he i hope he thinks i m doing good work. i d like to have him think that of my oversight work. and meantime former president barack obama is speaking out now and taking a shot at republicans who he says are not doing enough to acknowledge racial inequality. he says the gop needs to have an honest accounting of our past and present. listen. if somebody s not proposing both acknowledging and proposing elements that say, no, we can t just ignore all that and pretend as if
us are they showing us our work. some republican colleagues in the congress who mostly have been aggressive in going after the bidens, they won t go there on the tapes. do you think they exist? and if yes, how to obtain them. we don t know. and, you know, senator grassly has never said they exist. i m not aware that we have verified those recordings exist. but we don t know for sure these tapes exist. we don t know if they re legit or not. even trump s former attorney general bill barr said that the claims in that report were unverified. and he had forwarded them to investigators during his tenure. so what s noteworthy about all of this republicans were epset over unverified claims in the infamous and now largely discredit steele dossier. republicans like chuck grassly, he wrote a letter to the fbi demanding information about christopher steele citing,
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