with house money. the debt ceiling has been hit and the treasury department is starting to take extraordinary steps to avoid default. the devastating results that could have on our economy. does kevin mccarthy even have a plan? and then, rupert murdoch under oath. the lies told on his network promoting the big lie. his testimony is significant in the case where truth matters. and the george santos saga continues, he is now accused of swindling a disabled veteran and his dying dog as the 11th hour gets underway on this busy thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. buckle up kids, the u.s. just hit it debt limit and the stage is now set for a major partisan battle in washington. today treasury secretary janet yellen told kevin mccarthy extraordinary steps are now underway so that the u.s. can keep paying its debts until early june, but she urged congress to act promptly to protect the full faith and credit of the united states. that means an increase in
the debt ceiling has been hit and the treasury department is starting to take extraordinary steps to avoid default. the devastating results that could have on our economy. does kevin mccarthy even have a plan? and then, rupert murdoch under oath. the lies told on his network promoting the big lie. his testimony is significant in the case where truth matters. and the george santos saga continues, he is now accused of swindling a disabled veteran and his dying dog as the 11th hour gets underway on this busy thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. buckle up kids, the u.s. just hit it debt limit and the stage is now set for a major partisan battle in washington. today treasury secretary janet yellen told kevin mccarthy extraordinary steps are now underway so that the u.s. can keep paying its debts until early june, but she urged congress to act promptly to protect the full faith and credit of the united states. that means an increase in the debt ceiling,
you would catch them. see their demeanor. hear their testimony. look at the surveillance evidence. and make your own determination. and so the fact we could watch this hearing and we have having this discussion talking about how the attorneys are argue, how the judge responded back. that was a win for the justice system and we need more integrity so people can have trust in this trial as it plays out. that s a great point. you think about honing in on the why. why would these two people not want to be tried together? the comment from his lawyer was he was kind of the more intellectual of the two. pining about the electoral count act. he said sydney powell was more hands on. much more thought of as the master mind. she denies all of that. they don t want each other s stink on them. but if you are sydney powell, people know her from the defamation case. maybe if you are chestboro, you want a big ten foot pole. what about the other 17 including donald trump who has no
harder. we did hear from president biden today on the classified documents situation, he is dealing with. i know you have new reporting on how the white house had been handling all on all of it. what can you tell us? well, i think president biden s comments reflected some of what came up in the reporting which is that there is a lot of frustration among some white house aides that when they first discovered these documents at the penn biden center on november 2nd, they reported it to the national archives, which then led to the justice department, and from there they adopted this strategy of caution and deference where they were going to follow the lead of federal investigators. they got this letter from a justice department lawyer asking them to cooperate in the investigation, not to release too much information. and so they feel like they were trying to follow what doj was telling them to do, and still in the end they got a special council appointment and because they were not rele
justice department lawyer asking them to cooperate in the investigation, not to release too much information. and so they feel like they were trying to follow what doj was telling them to do, and still in the end they got a special council appointment and because they were not releasing information as they knew it, even when they concerned what as cbs first reported the existence of these documents at the penn biden center, it also did not disclose that they had fountain of the badge of documents at biden s wilmington home. they have looked less than transparent and they have not been leveling with the american public about what they are finding in realtime. i think in their view they seal like they were trying to do what justice department lawyers were telling them to do, and that strategy maybe has not worked out for them as well because now it looks like they were not revealing information as they had it and there are some questions about why things