happening now, joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy can just wrapped up their first high-stakes talks on raising the nation s debt limit. mccarthy telling reporters moments ago that he thinks he and the president can find some common ground. also tonight, mourning in memphis, as tyre nichols is laid to rest three weeks after he was brutally beaten by police. we ll take you inside the emotional funeral and the urgent outcry for police reform. and cnn is in the trenches with ukrainian soldiers on the eastern front, as officials in kyiv warn that russia is gearing up for maximum escalation of the war. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. stories. important developments in the debt limit showdown right now. joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just wrapped up a very high stakes meeting at the white house. their first face-to-face since mccarthy won the gavel. our reporter is on c
of vacancies in adult care. president biden casts his vote in the crucial us mid term elections. how much power will the republicans regain? and tributes to the veteran actor leslie phillips, who has died at the age of 98. and coming up on the bbc news channel, cash injection or complete sale? liverpool s owners say they are considering inviting new shareholders. we ask what that might mean for the premier league club. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. there s been widespread criticism over comments made by one of the ambassadors for qatar s world cup who said fans travelling to the tournament will have to acceppt his country s rule among them a ban on same sex relationships saying homosexuality was a result of damage to the mind. the controversial tournament kicks off in less than a fortnight in the gulf state. the former fifa president sepp blatter now says the decision to award it to qatar was a mistake . our sports correspondent jane dougall has more.
i think this incident is underneath the pile of the insane and number of scandals and legal peril. i recommend finding a persuasive account. yes, having it in front of a court and jury where it is factually litigated. i think one will say justice may finally the wheels of justice may actually be turning. i think we said that to each other multiple nights. it could be happening here. thank you, chris. thanks to you at home for joining us. the one, the only, trevor noel is joining me on set. i m glad he s here tonight. there is something happening in this final stretch of the mid terms that i want to talk to him about. something i think he can help us wrap our heads around. let s start with the great state of louisiana. so every ten years there is a census, right? the last census in 2020 showed the same trend in louisiana that was taking place across several southern states. over the last decade, the white population sh rank shrank. this is louisiana s congressional deleg
carley todd, carley, i didn t have, our stockings hang will with care, and we re going to talk with st. nick in about an hour. we welcome you in here on an amazing christmas morning edition of fox & friends. carley: merry christmas, everybody. i was reminded of a childhood memory where we would open all of our gifts, and then i would fit about the stock isings stockings because all the presents were so exciting. and then my mom and dad would say, oh, but there s more. and that was always funment. griff: and simes you got with gift in the stocking. todd: did you ever leave it until next year? that only happened in the pyro household? carley: that s like finding $20 in your coat. griff: meanwhile, you can sending us photos like this one from the anderson hill family in texas. check out. they re wearing their matching pajamas. todd: looking good. griff: merry christmas to ya. todd: jim shows us this gorgeous photo of their three puppies in front of their christmas tree. ca
calls quote extraordinary measures to avoid defaulting on our debt. which looks a lot more likely now that the most conservative wing of the republican party seems to have a tightening vice around speaker kevin mccarthy. if they can keep the government open, the republican party is gearing up for a series of investigations into president biden. what they just announced a couple of moments ago, in a second. one of the investigations, the president himself, all about hand-delivered to them, wrapped in a shiny bow, the white house is facing hard questions about why it was not more transparent about the discovery of classified documents, and not one, but two locations. especially as the president himself was criticizing the former president for mishandling his own classified documents. white house lawyers say the number of documents found is small and nbc news has just confirmed what one of them was marked with. what we know about that document in a moment. and what exactly is th