thank you for joining us. alex is off tonight. the biden butter of conservative media for years now husband hyping up an investigation into president biden s old son hunter biden. and never seemed to end. the investigation, which was open in 2018, under trump s justice department, has then a black box of sorts by republicans. they use it to create a symmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes, when they speculated was the crime ridden biden family. so long as this case was open, and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. even though that was the case even the republicans have been dining out on the hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it hadn t finished yet. they were aghast that trump was indicted before hunter. they wanted hunters case resolved immediately. today we have closure in that case. today, we have the news that hunter biden is expected to enter a
iowa where the 2024 campaign for the white house is heating up. we re live at grandview university in des moines for cnn s town hall with former vice president mike pence. i m dana bash. tonight we hear from a brand-new candidate in the republican field, former vice president mike pence announced his run for the white house earlier today, a move unprecedented in modern political history. a former vice president running against the president he served under. pence enters a race dominated by that former boss, donald trump, and he will be battling a growing number of rivals for the chance to take on president joe biden. this evening s event is about the voters and the issues that will help them determine who wins the republican nomination. tonight iowa voters will have the opportunity to question the former vice president directly, and i will have some questions of my own. this town hall is part of the republican primary process. and so by design, in the audience tonight are vot
good evening and welcome to iowa the 2024 a campaign for the white house is heating up. we are live at grand view university in des moines for cnn s town hall with former vice president mike pence. i am dana bash. tonight, we hear from a grand brand-new candidate in the republican field, former vice president mike pence, he announced his run for the white house earlier today, a move unprecedented in modern political history, a former vice president running against the president he served under. pence enters a race dominated by that former boss, donald trump, and he will be battling a growing number of rivals for the chance to take on joe biden. this evening s event is about the voters and the issues that will help them determine who wins the republican nomination. tonight iowa voters will have the opportunity to question the former vice president directly and i will have some questions of my own. this town hall is part of a republican primary process, and so by design in th
should be. however, i will say that our team, who is gone it was a go shading on this, is absolutely committed to figuring out how we can reach an agreement. america cannot default. president biden has been keeping an eye on the talks while at the g7 summit in japan, even leaving the dinner to get an update. he will be back in washington on sunday to work on this. meanwhile, progressive democrats say biden should be ready to invoke the 14th amendment to raise the debt limit on his own. also making big headlines tonight, the big reversal from the president on getting f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. biden will support efforts to train ukrainian pilots on the f-16s, though the jets themselves might not necessarily come from the united states. and according to two u.s. officials, president biden plans to announce a 375 million dollar military aid package for ukraine. this all comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is set to join world leaders at the g7 summit later
enforced. and my one-on-one with conversation with actor and comedian rain wilson. where he reveals the secret to happiness. at the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening, once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is friday night. that means our nightcap crew is here to talk about all the big news of the week. but first, we ve got to get to the serious drama in d.c. over efforts to keep the u.s. from default in an economic collapse. which could happen as soon as june 1st. talks between aides for joe biden and kevin mccarthy have been intense, and so far, there is no deal inked. earlier today, mccarthy s aides briefly walked away from negotiations, claiming things were going nowhere. we ve got to get moving by the white house. the white house is just, we can t be spending more money next year. we have to spend less than we did. kamala harris says the white house team is committed to finding a solution to matter what there are differences in terms of where