- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news. signs of cautious optimism in the debt ceiling standoff ten days left before the federal government runs out of cash with house republicans trying to extract major budget cuts in exchange for allowing new borrowing to pay the bills. president biden how speaker mccarthy have just wrapped up talks at the white house. i felt we had a productive discussion. i believe we can get it done. here from the white house earlier today, treasury secretary janet yellen reminded lawmakers at the state saying it is quote, highly likely, unquote, the government will default as of june 1st. emily s and anna joins us now with more from the capital. what is the status of negotiations after speaker mccarthy s meeting? the talks are still very much alive, which is a positi
for wednesday. his death obviously comes amid a string of other deaths from other top russian officials, and executives. some of them questionable. cnn s matthew chance joins me now with details. what more do we know about this senior russian official? well, you can see from the picture that he is relatively young. certainly not the age you would expect somebody to suffer heart disease and die, but of course that doesn t really he was a deputy minister for education and science. and he was killed or he died while they re on a government trip. coming back from cuba. he died on the airplane, he was on an official delegation in cuba. he was coming back, he died on the airplane. you mentioned that his family, they re waiting for the outcome of the forensic report, which the russian authorities say is underway. but there has been this sort of telegram journalist who says he knows this minister. he spoke to him for he left the country and said he wasn t
court. joining me now is senate judiciary chairman dick durbin of illinois. thank you so much for being with us on such a critical day here. we watched yesterday the stage was really set for some of these angles that republicans will pursue, some of them questionable. i did want to listen to one from senator marsha blackburn. you have praised the 1619 project, which argues the u.s. is a fundamentally racist country, and you have made clear that you believe judges must consider critical race theory when deciding how to sentence criminal defendants. is it your personal hidden agenda to incorporate critical race theory into our legal system? it was a rhetorical question, not something that brown jackson was able to answer. i want to be clear about that since we did play that. what did you think of that moment? it was a startling moment. senator blackburn said some
something we ve always prioritized as a state, even when we were in our hardest fiscal times, we ve always prioritized education. teachers know about that. and they know about what s needed in the classroom, and they should be able to give input at the table. and i don t disagree that we need to sit down and say what can we do to tighten up how we neesht. we can do that. we can tighten up what issues can they talk about, but the governor has to come to the table to get those suggestions. he shouldn t be doing it through press conferences, he should meet them at the bargaining table. we ll talk about his priorities in the next segment because i find them questionable. state senator lena taylor in illinois. we hope one day we can join you in wisconsin. govr floor scott walker just blasted out of state players for getting involved in wisconsin politic, but he didn t feel that way when the koch brothers helped to get him electriced. i m going to explain all of that to you, what his motiv