congressional leaders wrap up a new round of talks without a deal on raising the nation s debt limit. the president speaking out about the meeting just a short while ago as he scraps part of his overseas trip to keep the negotiations going. and a very disturbing new security lapse by the u.s. secret service. an intruder entering the home of biden s national security adviser, jake sullivan, undetected. we re taking a closer look at the growing threat to top american officials. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, air raid sirens have been blaring in the ukrainian capital of kyiv a day after a major new air assault by russia. moscow claiming it hit a critical target overnight, a u.s. patriot air defense missile system. cnn s sam kkiley s on the groun. what do we know about the strike by russia and the fate of that patriot system? reporter: tonight, wolf, the ukrainians say that
we begin with a blistering and dangerous heat wave and a stranglehold across the western united states. millions of people are sweltering this weekend. more than 40 million are under heat alerts as temperatures soar 15 to 20 degrees above normal. for the fifth day in a wroe, electric companies in california are asking customers to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances in order to save electricity during the late afternoon and evening hours. cnn s chris winn reports from los angeles. reporter: across the west, the scorching heat is showing no signs of cooling off this holiday weekend. our ac at home can only do so much when we re in these triple digits. reporter: in glendale, california, residents are seeking refuge at the galleria shopping mall, taking advantage of the free air conditioning. getting out to the mall and just getting out of the house to get some sort of cool release is nice. reporter: california is in the midst of its longest heat wave of the yea
cnn speaks with asylum seekers in and out of the country. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we begin with scenes of utter devastation in northern california, where wildfires have burned through more than 9,000 acres. the mill fire has left hundreds of houses ablaze in the small town of weed. firefighters say they re making progress, but the fire is still only 25% contained and the nearby mountain fire is 5% contained. streets are littered with charred remains of cars and cinder blocks where houses once stood. officials say help is on the way, with fire strike teams ready across the state to respond when necessary. now, those wildfires are being fueled by a blistering and dangerous heat wave that continues its stranglehold across the western united states this weekend. more than 40 million people are under heat alerts as temperatures soar 15 to 20 degrees above normal for the fifth day in a row electric companies in california are telling cu
May be more people to come, is the president has to get back on track. K. He has to honor the promises that he made during the campaign. He has to get a legislative agenda passed by 2018, the start of the new year, otherwise were going to be consumed next year with the midterm elections. It will be every man and woman for themselves and theyre going to be running for the hills. The president needs a staff t around him, thats congenial, and believe me, its possible, it happens. I worked with two president s and the staffs had disagreements but they were in the room and once that disagreement was over, and a consensus was had, policy was made and thats what we have to do. You also have to make sure the president understands that you make policy in washington but you sell it on main street. Tucker for sure. I think he already sold it on main street, though. Thats what that campaign was about. He ran out a bunch of Different Things that everybody in d. C. Pa hated but the public kind of li
Home and Hillary Clinton administration. Indeed, he was one of the rare republicans there and the only, or one of the very few, populist conservatives. Thats strange, since Populist Conservatism is the platform his boss ran on. Like trumpet candidate, bannon was willing to criticize big republican donors in their ideological stranglehold in a corrupt g. O. P. Establishment. Hes able to break with orthodoxy and big and Dramatic Ways Con for higher taxes, better infrastructure, fewer pointless wars Around The World, and more. He understood that the countrys greatest crisis isnt robert e lee statues but the steady economic and moral decline of its once robust middleclass. Not surprisingly, traders on wall street cheered when he got fired this afternoon. The dow shut up 100 points on the news. Lobbyists in washington will be celebrating late into the night. The funny thing is, that in some important ways, steve bannon was more traditionally liberal than the liberals who spent the last
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