decision? special counsel jack smith has been aggressive in getting around attorney-client privilege. there are certain pieces of information he believes he needs in order to answer the question about whether classified documents were mishandled and there were efforts to obstruct. he went through the proper channels to get to around attorney-client privilege. you want to speak freely to your attorneys without it coming back to potentially bite you. paula, stick around. i want to bring in tom dupree, former assistant attorney general. what do you make of the contents? it s extraordinary this was allowed to be revealed. what do you make of the contents? the way it s not surprising is the president wants to fight the subpoena. that s what we ve seen, his lawyers often over the course of his time in office would urge cooperation with the justice department. that s not his nature. his nature is to fight. doesn t surprise me. that s the first question, what can we do to battl
and congressional republicans met again on capitol hill. the two sides have untiljune 1st, just over a weeks time, to come to an agreement on raising the govenrment s borrowing limit, or risk the us not being able to pay its bills. some analysts have warned a default could lead to huge job losses here in the us, a plunge on the stock markets, and even a global recession. in fact, stocks on wall street finished sharply lower at the close of trading on tuesday. despite this, optimism among leaders remains. white house press secretary karinejean pierre says a deal both sides can be pleased with is possible. negotiations are very hard, very difficult, both sides have to understand they won t get everything they want. we are trying to get a budget that is reasonable and bipartisan. that democrats and republicans in the house and senate will be able to vote on and agree on. this is the process, that s why we are moving in this way, to make sure it is bipartisan, but also reasonabl
or risk the us not being able to pay its bills. some analysts have warned a default could lead to huge job losses in the us, and even a global recession. stocks on wall street finished sharply lower on tuesday. despite this, optimism among leaders remains. negotiations are very hard, very difficult, both sides have to understand they won t get everything they want. we are trying to get to a budget that is reasonable and bipartisan. that democrats and republicans in the house and senate will be able to vote on and agree on. this is the process, that s why we are moving in this way, to make sure it s bipartisan, but also reasonable. that s what you all can look forward to. for the latest on this story, i spoke to cbs news congressional correspondent nikole killion. has there been any movement in negotiations? not much movement at all. in fact, it seems like talks have once again hit an impasse, although both sides are still at the negotiating table to a certain extent. but as o
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one hour from now, president biden is again going to host the top four members of congress and for potential june default date, and no closer to the deal to have catastrophic outcome, and speaker mccarthy is going to tie the debt ceiling to spending cuts and work requirements and biden is going to call for the debt creeling to be dealing with the condition, and if you are going with what the two sides are saying for the two hours, the forecast gloomy, and arlette seanez is at the white house. at some point, someone has to give up something, and can we find out what the potential concessions are today? well, brianna, in about an hour, we should get a glimpse of where the concessions are headed as the white house is going to be hosting kevin mccarthy and other congressional leader here at the white house. heading into the meeting, the expectations are low that they will come out with a concrete agreement with a default. and you heard house speaker kevin mccarthy who said toda