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at the white house for the third time to discuss the debt ceiling. this comes a little more than a week away from the treasury secretary s so-called hard deadline for default. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. we are expected to hear something each side following this meeting which has happened after every other meeting. it is speaker mccarthy s first solo meeting with the president, after talks fell apart last week and both sides exchanged barbed over the weekend. treasury secretary janet yellen setting the stable for the president s meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy saying again it is highly likely the treasury will no longer be able to satisfy all of the government s obligations if congress has not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit by early june and potentially as early as june 1st. there will be hard choices if that doesn t occur. after exchanging barbs
waste at the department of energy. briton identifies as non-binary and gender fluid. laura: oh, does he? talk about holding the bar really high. you know he would still be there if they didn t have that security footage, by the way. for this administration, it s failure as far as the eye can see yet zero accountability, none. still no senior officials, no cabinet official fired. not alejandro, let em all in, mayorkas at dhs. not leave it to pete buttigieg at the department of transportation. not the queen of transitory inflation janet yellen at treasury. so the only logical conclusion at this point can be that america s decline is their agenda. now biden s balloon fiasco was a national embarrassment for the united states at every turn, and it reminds us that we really don t have military leaders who are looking out for us. even when generals austin and milley blew the afghanistan withdraw which led to the deaths of 13 service members, they still kept their jobs. the inte
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. the fbi is searching for four americans assaulted and kidnapped in mexico. we are getting new video of the attack into cnn but we want to warn you, it is disturbing. you can see people being loaded into the back of a pickup truck by armed men. it is unclear if they are americans. according to the fbi shortly after the group of u.s. citizens drove across the border friday, the car crashed with another vehicle and they were taken at gunpoint. authorities believe that they were not the intended targets. the u.s. ambassador to mexico said an innocent mexican citizen was also killed. cnn rosa flores is following this for us. rosa, what are you learning and make of the mexican president and authorities saying these were not the intended targets? reporter: you know, the president of mexico saying these four americans were actually in mat morore mexico to purchase medicine, which is something peo