plus on to the senate now for a big bipartisan breakthrough. a month scramble of meetings, breakdowns and near rebellions leads to 314 yes in the house on a deal to steer the united states around a debt default. from wall street to the whout, one of the most powerful men in corporate america doesn t say no to a future in politics. up first for us, critical new cnn report ing on a special counsel investigation evidence trail that we now know includes a record ing of donald trump admitting he kept a classified record when he left the white house. trump right now is on the campaign trail between iowa. a reminder of the unprecedented place we find ourselves. a state investigation sb n georgia and two tracks of the federal special counsel investigation. and yet, he is at the same time the front runner for the 2024 republican nomination. ask he vows to carry on his campaign no matter what prosecutors allege. this exclusive new cnn reporting is this. special counsel jack smith h
a deal done. talks are at a sensitive points. we have live team coverage from jacqui heinrich and chad pergram. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto. this is your world. we begin with jacqui at the white house. things look like they re going to start happening here? well, sandra, there s a growing expectation we ll hear something from the president and from speaker mccarthy following this meeting set to happen here in 1 1/2 hours. after each side exchanged barbs over the weekend, biden and kevin mccarthy spoke by phone while biden was coming back to the u.s. white house negotiates met this morning on the hill. after the meeting, there was no exchange of fiery rhetoric. meaning it s likely the two sides are closer together rather than further apart. sources familiar with the negotiations tell me this is about where things stand. there s points of agreement on clawing back the unused covid funds and permitting reform. there s way to move forward and pharmacy benefits manager
he defamed her by denying it happened. this is moments away. we will bring it to you live here and stay with it throughout this hour. national correspondent bryan llenas is standing by at the courthouse while we wait for the news that the jurors are about to present this verdict. hi, brian. yes, i m here in new york. we have our producers at the courthouse. we re waiting now what the verdict is. it said that they would be announcing it at 3:00. we re looking to see as soon as we get the verdict what it is. in this case we need to step back here, this is a civil federal case, which means that all nine jurors must come to a unanimous decision on whether or not they believe former president trump committed assault, a battery and whether or not he defamed e. jean carroll. the burden of proof here is lower than a criminal case. you must proved beyond a reasonable doubt in this case. the only thing they have to do is convince the jury that e. jean carroll said the events more tha
welcome to insided in. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing another very busy news day with us. an invitation. prosecutors ask donald trump to testify before a grand jury. it is a big indication they could be close to charging the former president for his role in buy ing asilence of a porn star mistress. do not expect his one-time boss to show. knowing donald as well as i do, understand he doesn t tell the truth. it s one thing to turn around and to lie on social. it s another thing to lie before a grand jury. i don t suspect he s going to be coming. plus iowa today, superpac at the ready. ron desantis sends signals he s running for president. a new report for the biden economy. more people looking for work, bigger paychecks. numbers show more resilience, yet so much good news feeds worry about inflation and rate hikes. up first for us, prosecutors on the doorstep of what would be a history-shattering possibility. a criminal indictment against the former p
nation once again. we re not a free nation right now. we don t have free press. we don t have free anything. just a small sample of donald trump s dark speech at cpac. we ll have more of the former president s maga messaging in just a moment. meanwhile it sure sounds like his former secretary of state is also running for president. mike pompeo is making the rounds, criticizing trump s fiscal record while in the white house. and also ahead, we ll have a look at president joe biden s visit to selma, alabama, to mark the anniversary of bloody sunday. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this week just outside washington, dc, where former president donald trump returned to the stage at cpac over the weekend. for nearly two hours saturday evening trump addressed a smaller than usual crowd at the conservative conference in national harbor, maryland. there the 2024 pre