today on inside politics, together again. barack obama and joe biden are teaming up to promote one of their biggest accomplishments. we have details on their rare white house reunion and whether the former president can help the current one get reelected. plus a growing divide. the u.s. and israel are no longer in lock step on how to prosecute the war against hamas terrorists. as a top biden official meets with the leader of the palestinian authority in the west bank. republican candidates have one month left to make their case to iowa voters. nikki haley just agreed that the cnn debate stage will be one of her final stops. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start with obama and biden joining forces again. the former president taped a new ad with his former vp on the importance of obamacare. cnn s kevin liptack is at the white house. you broke this story. tell us about this. reporter: it s always interesting to see how this white ho
your life and people need to understand it could happen to me it could happen to you it could happen to any of us and have a great show and weekend. i look forward to sunday 8 p.m. the whole story, 9:00. i m on the west coast. what s happening? i m abby phillips. nice to see you. well you know it turns out there is a price for election lies. and that price is more than $148 million tonight on laura coates live. wow. rudy giuliani, former new york mayor now on the hook for more than $148 million for defaming georgia election workers ruby freeman and andrea shea moss with lies about what they did or did not do after the 2020 election. this number is so astronomical, even the judge seemed shocked when they heard and the scene in that courtroom was dramatic. the mother and daughter election workers hugging each other so tightly hugging members of their legal team. just about the only person frankly who seemed unmoved was rudy giuliani himself. the man who falsely claimed that
hostages as a threat and shot and killed them during combaera. very heavy fighting between israel and hamas over the course of the last week. two of the three hostages have been identified. one of the families of the one of the deceased hostages asked their name not be broadcast, but the two that we can tell you are your time high and the summer is summer who was kidnapped from kibbutz near also on october 7th. israeli military effectively recovered the bodies in gaza, moved them to israel where they were taken to a forensic center, and then subsequently positively identified as the bodies of three hostages who have been kidnapped by hamas on october 7th. we should note amid all of this that it comes as the israeli military had loosened its rules of engagement as it began this war in gaza following the october 7th attacks. allowing israeli soldiers to fire up on suspected terrorists while kidnapped-ing fewer checks than they normally would have. the israeli military we ar
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. we begin this hour with high stakes negotiations starting back up on the nation s looming debt crisis. just minutes ago talks resumed on the staff level in washington. but they will set the stage for a top level meeting tomorrow. president biden is expected to sit down with republican house speaker kevin mccarthy. the two men spoke by phone today as the president was flying back home from the g7 summit in japan. this new glimmer of optimism is a quick compromise appears increasingly bleak. the u.s. could run out of money to pay debts as early as june 1st. experts say that would be disastrous for the u.s. and the global economy. let s go the to white house and arlette saenz. what this what are they saying over there? the president returned to washington much the same when he left it, without any clear resolution in sight to avert a national default on the debts as early as 11 days from now. now, one thing that t
i m paula reid in washington. jim acosta has the day off. we are following several developing stories on this busy afternoon. the u.s. takes another step closer to running out of money to pay its debts. despite a deadline as close as 12 days away, the high-stakes negotiations between the white house and republicans have broken down. and it s not clear when they will resume. meanwhile, president biden will cut short his asia trip to address the looming debt crisis, but before heading home tomorrow from the g7 summit in japan biden will meet with ukraine s president. president zelenskyy is making a dramatic appearance at the gathering to ask world leaders for more help in the war against russia. zelenskyy s plea comes as russia claims a major victory in ukraine. today the head of the mercenary wagner group says his fighters captured bakhmut after months of brutal fighting. ukraine says it still holds a small portion of the city. cnn s phil mattingly is at the g7 summit in hiros