Impeachment threat. Some House Republicans say an inquiry into the biden Family Business dealings is overdo. Now the Biden Campaign is pushing back. Well take you live to the white house in a few moments where a News Briefing should start soon. Inflation acceleration. It ticks up for a second straight month. Bu but dig into the numbers and there is reason for hope. What it means for the feds upcoming Interest Rate decision. The nightmare is over and an escaped killer is in cuffs. The twoweek man hunt ends with a swarm of Law Enforcement surrounding Danelo Cavalcante. How did he evade hundreds of officers for so long . Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. So were Just Moments Away from the First White House Briefing Since Kevin Mccarthy announced an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. The move comes at a crucial moment in the political calendar. The intense polarization in washington is about to get supercharged.
Insurrection clause which bars officers of the United States who stage Instructional Rebellion from serving again. Democratic congressman adam schiff this week. The 14th amendment section 3 is pretty clear, if you engage in rebellion against the government, or give pain and comfort to those who do, you are disqualified from running. Doesnt require you be convicted of insurrection. It just requires you have engaged in these acts. Its a disqualification from Holding Office again and fits donald trump to a t. Paul joining me is the former Attorney General of the United States, general casey. You wrote about the 14th amendment issue arguing there are problems with the argument one of which is the president may not be an officer under the definition of that amendment. There are three steps to take under the 14th amendment under the 14th amendment. One is the step that he cant serve, he cant serve as senator in the House Of Representatives or an elector, need someone in the electoral college
welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. a high-stakes summit in san francisco this week as president biden met with chinese president xi jinping in an effort to cool tensions with beijing as conflicts rage in ukraine and israel. the president hailed his four hour meeting with xi as productive even as china warned that re unification with taiwan is quote unstoppable. here s president biden on what the two discussed. i reiterated what i have said since i ve become president and what every previous president of late has said, that we maintain the agreement that there is a one-china policy, and i m not going to change that. that s not going to change, and so that s about the extent to which we discussed it. paul: let s bring in seth jones, senior vice president and director of the international security program at the center for strategic and international studies. welcome, seth. so what do you think was accomplished at the xi biden summit? well, paul, i do
look, he is. i mean, he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that s based on a form of government totally different than ours. president biden s last answer there might have been a bit awkward but true after what was otherwise a productive meeting yesterday with chinese president xi jinping. we ll have more from their first face-to-face talks in a year. i will say, mika. yeah? i know i don t interrupt, but i will in this case. that clip is burying the lead. what do we got? oh, well yeah. we had a meeting that i thought went extraordinarily well. fortunately, we have the wise man here who can tell us and the wise woman who can tell us what they think. oh, good. i, for one, loved hearing what was said there, and i love the fact that they understand that the united states and china, whether either side likes it or not, is we re going to be, in effect, running a large part of the planet over the next half century, as far as the economy, the
competitive relationship, china and the united states. but my responsibility is to to make it make this rational management, so it doesn t result in conflict. that s what i m all about. that s president joe biden responding to a question on whether or not he trusts chinese president xi jinping. we ll have much more from the leaders first face-to-face meeting in a year. plus, a bill to prevent a government shutdown is now headed to the president s desk. the stop gap measure is likely to setup another significant spending fight soon into the new year. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest out of gaza following the israeli raid of a hospital that sits atop a command center for hamas. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, november 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with the high stakes meeting between president joe biden and chinese leader xi jinping. arriving at a critical time, the summit was h