how conservatives and liberals think this country should raise and spend its money is a very, very valid discussion to have. sadly, that s not the one we re having. thanks to both of you, and solar and political economy in the american enterprise institute. he s the author of a dream is not dead, but populism could kill it. jennifer reuben is an opinion writer at the washington post, and msnbc political analyst host of the new podcast, jen reuben s green room. all right, straight ahead, we ll continue our breaking news coverage of the debt ceiling negotiations, which are ongoing right now. i ll be joined by congressman lloyd doggett, democrat of texas, and a member of the budget committee, as well as congressman adam smith, democrat of washington, and ranking member of the armed services committee. another hour of velshi begins right now. of velshi begin right now. and good morning to you, it is saturday may the 27th, i m ali velshi, the full faith and credit of the united
president biden on the defensive as he faces a growing list of challenges. from inflation to immigration to questions about his age. all dragging down his poll numbers. joe biden s 36%. that is certainly not good. now a showdown with congress over the country s debt limit could lead to a crippling economic crisis. our spending is out of control. it s unfortunate we are where we are. as the president faces this latest task, we turn to one of his key allies on capitol hill, congressman james clyburn, who helped turn around biden s 2020 campaign. toont don t democrats risk that if you nominate joe biden, there s a real chance the country ends up with president trump again? later this hour, actress priyanka chopra jonas. i m sitting here talking to chris wallace. yeah, doesn t get better than then who won, who won? on her buzzy tv series, her new role as mom, and her high-profile marriage. is that part of your superpower? get it done, baby. it was possib
it s historic. we ve never seen anything like this before. let s get the latest now from laura ingle live in new york. good evening, laura. good evening, bret. as you can see, cameras are downtown at the courthouse. fox news can confirm that a manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former president donald trump. the first former u.s. president to be charged criminally. the 23 grand jurors have been listening to ed since january on trump s role in hush money payments to former porn star stormy daniels. trump has denied having an affair with daniels and any wrong doing. but his former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen has testified that he paid stormy daniels $130,000 to not speak about her relationship with the former president. and that trump reimbursed him for that payment. earlier this week, former national inquirer publisher day vick pecker testified for a second time. pecker has played a key role in linking trump to daniels. during a rally waco saturday, trump who is ru
neighbors against neighbors. a fight over who gets to use the river that fuels life. we visit two states that are facing off. hello. welcome to the lead. we begin this hour with our world lead. a pair of escalating international crises. russia and the united states are now indicating they re ready to hold talks about a prisoner swap. just a day after a russian court convicted american basketball star brittney griner of drug smuggling, and sentenced her to nine years in prison. potential prisoner swap talks could include fellow american paul whelan who has been detained in russia since 2018. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first another crisis unfolding. china is taking dramatic new steps of retaliation for house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan including sanctioning pelosi and her family. plus, military escalation. taiwan s defense ministry reports dozens of chinese war planes crossing into its air defense territory today. in return, the white house summon
putting the debt ceiling on the line. that s how things are going to happen. look, i don t see how we get out of this. it is conceivable that president biden and kevin mccarthy cut a deal. but most of the republicans, as charlie dent did an excellent job pointing out, most republicans run from that deal anyway, and they will be relying on democratic votes. and why wouldn t democrats vote for this? it is gonna increase defense spending. it s not gonna do anything about the deficit, and it s gonna cut programs that we, in the country, care about, many of which lloyd outlined. i think they re gonna have a devil of a time in the votes, whatever this deal is in congress. and again, we should just raise the debt ceiling, and then have that debate about how to spend the budget in the appropriate time. so, i think we are going to real trouble here. i hope i m wrong. i just don t see how this convoluted play will unfold. well, that s why we have you two on here, because you are in it. we appr