the negotiations are done. the bill is written. now with just days until the united states runs out of money, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are rushing to sell the debt ceiling deal to their parties. an attack on ukraine s capital city hours after a nighttime assault. schoolchildren forced to run to shelter and cars dodge missile debris on busy city streets. on this memorial day, an emotional reunion as a group of vietnam veterans are reunited for the first time in decades. they recount the story of what bonds them, being prisoners of war being held captive in bamboo tiger cages. welcome to this special edition of the lead. i m bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. we start with the scramble in washington, d.c. to avoid an economic catastrophe, after house speaker kevin mccarthy and president biden struck a deal. republican and democratic leaders are waging a campaign to get as many members on board as possible. both facing revolts. as cnn s jeremy dia
resigned tonight. the robust way he stood up to the trump administration and to trump himself on ethics issues and the president s unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. his name is walter shoeb. he said he was not forced out of the office of government ethics. he basically says he s leaving because the u.s. governmentestics rules are not strong enough to allow him to stand up to what this president and his family are doing so he is leaving his jb at the office of government ethics in order to try to strengthen the rules from the outside. very interesting resignation today. we ve got more on that story ahead. there s a lot going on. we ve got a big show tonight. i said at the very end of last night s show we ve got a scoop to share with you tonight. this is that scoop. in-house on your staff we ve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an inside-out
story. not your typical news story, not your particular scoop. but i think it s important. one of the few times we ve
Leaking a classified nsa document which provided details of a 2016 russian cyberattack on a supplier of u.s. voting software. if this plot point sounds somewhat familiar, it s because the government is still plagued by leaks from inside actors. we recently watched as agents arrested air national guard employee jack teixeira for allegedly posting highly sensitive documents online. of course, their cases are quite different. in the case of reality winner, the transcripts tell a story so engaging that it literally became dialogue for this new film. can you guess how many people might have printed out that article? no. it s not many. that article has made it outside of nsa, okay, obviously, because we re here. the most likely candidate by far and away is you. so now i don t think you re a
Blocked by u.s. prison authorities from speaking to the media for any publication purposes. in may 2017, reality winner leaked a classified nsa document to a media organization, describing a russian cyber attack on a u.s. voting machine company. it was the first time the extent of russia s war on the u.s. s electoral machinery was revealed to the public. winner did little to cover her tracks and was arrested even before the document was published online. she pleaded guilty and is currently serving a sentence of over five years. the prosecutor said winner had leaked top secret information that revealed intelligence sources and methods. reality s mother, billie, invited us along as she went to visit her in jail. today, we are traveling up to ft. worth, which, it s probably about a 7, 7 1/2-hour road trip. reporter: what are you
Aggrieved former employees out there who want people to know that they think that this is bad and shouldn t be going on. this is something that is very closely linked with the government. that was not in the indictment. bob mueller did not allege that this was government-directed. however, the washington post obtained a classified or portions of a classified nsa report that was filed just in december where they concluded that this very operation was almost certainly known about and probably directed by the kremlin. is it your sense this is ongoing? i do believe that it s ongoing, yeah. i ve had some off-the-record conversations with some people who have been claiming to still work there. and, you know, i think that it s still going on, yeah. do you think that it s going to it seems like in some ways it s a remarkably effective model. in so far if you just want to ms. with people, there is this kind of there is this kind of