President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia hitting back after new Ukrainian Drone strikes tarting moscow. Ill get a new assessment from key white house official john kirby. Donald trumps new defendant in the classified documents investigation appears in court for the first time. This as trump could face new charges in other cases very soon. The top prosecutor in the Georgia Election Interference Probe says shes ready to go. In haiti, an american nurse and her child have been abducted. Well have the latest on their fate as the u. S. Orders all u. S. Citizens to leave haiti immediately. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the wo world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. We begin with the escalating attacks and counterattacks in russias war against ukraine. Kremlin forces attempting to hit president Volodymyr Zelenskyy Close To Home as ukraine ramps up strikes inside russian territory. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is on the ground in ukraine. Crews have been digging
i will stay with it until we can get it done. the negotiations we re having with speaker mccarthy is about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not about default. house speaker kevin mccarthy and president joe biden remain on the same page about not letting the u.s. default on its debt, but time is really running out to get a deal in place before the deadline. we ll have much more on the negotiations and that time line in just a moment. plus, a federal judge sends a message to an insurrectionist handing out the longest sentence to a january 6th defendant to date. and also ahead we ve got new details on presidential campaign fund-raising for florida governor ron desantis including some questionable actions by his gubernatorial staff. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 26th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. with less than a week until the united states could default on its debts house lawmakers have left
rolodex. he clenched the record for the longest speaker contest in 164 years. this was the scene after four days and 15 rounds of voting. [ cheering and applause ] mccarthy s journey to the speakership was fraught with drama. it got a little intense. it almost came to blows last night. the 14th vote should have been the clencher as mccarthy and allies thought they had the vote in the bag. but matt gaetz thought they had it in the bag. he waited to the end to vote present even though mccarthy needed just one vote to win. mccarthy appeared stunned and walked up to confront gaetz himself. mike rogers appears to suddenly lunge at gaetz and had to be physically restrained by a fellow republican. i spoke to republican congressman tim burchett who was in the area of the incident when it happened. here is what he saw. realized that both sides have some older members and it was getting late, and i suspect most of them had missed the early bird special at the sizzler and they were
thomas putting the subpoena for lindsey graham on ice for now. new reaction from capitol hill, we want to start with white house correspondent mark memoli, and ali vitali and steve kornacki at the big board. we ve seen the president out with what you can call a presidential pep talk, trying to get everybody rolling in the same direction, ahead of election day, now just 15 days away, even as steve will talk through, some of the environment is changing for democrats, who have seen new polling showing that the anger around abortion, that we saw after dobbs has started to recede. talk us through how the president is navigating this. that s right. the environment is changing fast. the president spoke to some of the whiplash a lot of people are seeing as polls go up and down, the president even saying he s not sure even pollsters are confident in their own numbers at this point. so what is the president doing? 15 days to go, until election day, a lot of people already voting in f
you would look at me and see a nice lady, probably very happy person, very outgoing. an older woman, who has a retired life and goes to church. but my life was not normal. it was a lie. everyone thought that i was just a mom. they never knew what i was actually doing because i lied to everyone about who i was. for almost 32 years. but i didn t do it for the thrill of it. i did it because i had to do it. october 1972, i became a widow. after that, i needed to work. i thought about it and i had spoken foreign languages. i had lived overseas and i had a masters degree. so, i decided to apply for cia. it wasn t that easy, though. they wanted to make me into a secretary. but i said, no, i really wanted to be a case officer. i really wanted to do covert operations. and eventually, i became a cia officers during the cold war. people today don t realize how serious the cold-war threat really was. i don t think it is an exaggeration that our survival was at stake. they were anti