nation s debt limit after a last-minute rewrite. and we re tracking the speaker s efforts to get gop holdouts to get in line. joe biden strikes a landmark deal to send a nuclear submarine to south korea for the first time in 40 years. the president and his south korean kocounterpart going to n lengths to deter kim jong-un and his escalating nuclear threats. and oath, testimony by the woman who alleges that donald trump assaulted her decades ago. cnn was there as e. jean carroll took the stand. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to capitol hill for the latest on the very high stakes showdown over raising the nation s federal debt limit. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is following all this. republicans have been scrambling to hold a vote today on their plan to raise the debt ceiling. where do things stand right now? reporter: wolf, the chamber is just here to m
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crimea. and that s perhaps what the russians are reacting to. it s not clear. we talked to a lot of ukrainian officials here, military intelligence, foreign ministry diplomats. no one is giving any clues about where that potential offensive might come. but the russians seem to be giving clues about where they think it might come. it might be along the southern coast. nick robertson, reporting from kyiv. thank you very much. in russia, the jailed putin critic, alexei navalny, is potentially facing decades of additional prison time, as prosecutors unveiled new charges, accusing him of terrorism and extremism. our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is joining us with new information. fred, what can you tell us about these new accusations against navalny? reporter: these terrorism accusations certainly is something that seems to have caught alexei navalny by surprise. he had a hearing today, which
and examine whether or not that was the way the path that was taken in this case. and quickly, what is the egyptian interest here? how much can the united states and international community trust intelligence services to investigate this thoroughly? the egyptian intelligence service is a very good intelligen intelligence service. they work in concert with western agencies to provide information not only in what is going in egypt, but the middle east. so there are elements of the egyptian intelligence service that can be trusted, but other elements working for someone else. colonel, thank you. the security enhanced at sharm el sheikh airport, but what now at this hour are officials saying about the terrorism accusations? we are live with that right after this break.