are not going to be going anywhere. he says putin thinks he can wait us out. he said that is not possible. they spoke about that. they spoke about artificial intelligence, at the end of the news conference, i did pose a question to him rating now about the situation as it relates to former president trump. i asked him specifically how he s able to convince americans that they should trust the independence and fairness of the department of justice given his predecessor. former president trump has attacked his credibility, his integrity. he has never once as we have witnessed, he said, told the department of justice to do in any form or fashion, and he said, because i am honest. in fact, that s why you can trust me. the biggest take aways in the news conference. pride month is celebrated around the country. the president did speak in support, in backing of the gay and lesbian and transgender community, calling on congress to pass the equality act, which would incorporate protec
us from all around the world. the debt ceiling deal is done. we will take a look at the challenges president biden and house speaker mccarthy face as they sell it to lawmakers. and a colorful mystery authorities want to know why the waters in venice s grand canal turned green. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we begin in washington where there is an urgent push to pass a tentative deal to avert default. they are trying to build support even as they face pushback. while mr. biden says the agreement takes the threat of catastrophic default off the table, the critics will find he did not concede much in the negotiations negotiations. i said i m not going to do all the cuts. you pass the debt ceiling period. i will negotiate with you on the cuts. something totally different was attached before. tried to make it look like i made a compromise. i didn t. i made a compromise on the budget. well mccarthy has released the text of the 99 page bill which includes rai
that elected us. and thes bing i can say or that i think can be said about the current deal on the debt ceiling is that it could have been much worse. that was republican senator mike lee and then independent senator bernie sanders sharing their pretty negative opinions on that debt ceiling deal, which is now headed to their chamber. we ll go through the tight time line the senate now has to get this bill to president biden s desk ahead of default. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis is ramping up up his criticism of donald trump after taking heat from the former president for months, and that comes as two more prominent republicans are ready to jump into the 2024 race. we ll look at the impact chris christie and mike pence may have on the growing field. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 1st. we are in june. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a big deal on capitol hill. the house
former president acknowledging he held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. also the vote that almost did not happen, just hours after it squeaked onto the house floor. and rattling russia. a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results, bringing the war in ukraine onto russian soil. prosecutors investigating the former president s handling of classified material have in their possession a recording from the summer of 2021, in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his resort in bedminster that he has held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn is reporting, this undercuts his argument that he declassified everything. and on the tape, as he spoke, it sounds like he was waving a piece of paper around, raising the question, was he holding the classified document in question. which goes to what kaitlan collins asked him at the town hall earlier this month.
expose the truth about things they re doing that are wrong. the fbi collusion with big tech. to shut down differing viewpoints is the end of any analytical or investigative body. this hearing is a vehicle to legitimize the events of january 6th. the level of corruption, weaponization, politicization that has occurred at the highest levels of the doj and the fbi. this hearing is evidence as if we needed any more that maga republicans are a threat to the rule of law in america. as if you re one of the good employees in our government that come forward to talk about the targeting, you then become a target. martha: two different takes there. so nicole parker is a former fbi special agent. she said she left the bureau because she couldn t be part of what she saw is sadly a politically weaponized arm of the united states government. first, let s go to justice david spunt who lays out for us what they were talking about in there today. hi, david. quite a hearing. two