to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m bianna golodryga. we are following several major stories for you this morning. soon family members and the memphis community will gather for tyre nichols funeral to celebrate the life of the 29-year-old whose brutal death at the hands of police sparked protests across the nation. the families of george floyd and breonna taylor who have experienced similar losses are expected to be there. vice president kamala harris will also attend after an invitation from tyre nichols apartments. we will bring you the funeral live when it begins. right now house republicans say they re talking strategy ahead of president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy s meeting over the debt ceiling this afternoon. both sides are standing firm so far. republicans threatening to bring the country closer to defaulting on its debt as they demand spending cuts. the white house vows there will be no negotiations when it comes to paying the nation s existing bills. p
top of the hour. a busy wednesday morning. we begin with breaking news this morning. cnn has learned that the fbi conducted a search at president biden s home in rehoboth beach, delaware. the search taking place this morning as a special counsel investigation into the president s handling of classified material picks up. mj lee is at the white house. paula, what more can you tell us about this search. was it expected? sfwlr it was absolutely expected. back when the classified documents were discovered in the office, his attorneys went and also searched his two homes. one in will mington. they say they did discover classified materials at his wilmington home, but they did not uncover any at this property. once this baim the subject of a special counsel investigation, ten days ago the fbi conducted its own search of the wilmington house. it lasted 13 hours and did uncover additional classified materials. so it was very much expected that the fbi would also go back to the reho
have been leading this effort to protect women s sports coming up. john: fox news alert, waiting an update in the pentagon after another suspected iranian missile strike targeting a u.s. military base in syria. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, we made it to friday. sandra: we did, the afternoon will hold a lot of news. we ll watch for the pentagon briefing. this is america reports. tensions between the u.s. and iran turning deadly during three separate incidents in syria in the past 24 hours. a suspected iranian drone hit a coalition base in northeast syria, killing an american contractor and wounding five u.s. service members. the pentagon says president biden ordered airstrikes in retaliation, going after iranian-backed forces in eastern syria. john: and a new wave of missile strikes targeted another u.s. military base. iran s deadly attack on americans comes at the same time president biden faces growing criticism of his handling of the middle east. y
cnn has confirmed multiple contradictions, including claims that nichols grabbed an officer s gun which was heard in one of the body camera recordings released last week by one of the officers talking about it, but it s not visible on the video. you were going for my gun too, so i m, like he grabbed my gun. look. got him out the car and i was, like, hey, bro. you good? he swung and hit me. he reached for my gun and slammed into the car. so far, ten city employees have faced consequences in the wake of nichols killing. of the latest, two emts and a fire department lieutenant have now been fired. that s three in the fire department and a seventh memphis officer has been relieved of duty last week. five of those seven officers were charged with second-degree murder and assault for nichols death. cnn s ryan young has the latest from memphis. also here, cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, john miller. ryan, first, the discrepancies between the video and t
leader predicting the deaths of human beings from starvation. it was casualness. he could of been describing the weather or a trip to the dry cleaners it will be real. then recounting a conversation with european allies he told us all about it. he said they spoke about how we can increase and did i seminate more rapidly food shortages. that s what joe biden said, verbatim on tape. here the president of the united states is pledging to increase food shortages at a press conference. that seems like a news worthy event. not a single news organization in this country know it happened or did the white house correct it. that ended up on social media. facebook flagged as false news. strict whraoe speaking there is nothing false about the video. nobody contest pugh that. apparently facebook users were to understand that joe widen is senile and not accountable for his own words. taking joe biden literally qualifies as misinformation. we will leave that episode for you to a