politicsnation, tonight s lead, compromise in congress. we start tonight with breaking news out of washington, house and senate negotiations have hammered out a spending deal, just 12 days before another shutdown deadline. house speaker, mike johnson, is laying out the details in a letter to his republican colleagues. more than one and a half trillion dollar plan includes nearly 900 billion for defense and more than 700 billion for other programs. meanwhile, in less than 24 hours, president biden will hold his second campaign event of 2024 in the state that made his 2020 nomination and presidency possible. hill returned to the historic in charleston, the scene of a racially motivated mass shooting nine years ago that left nine black worshippers dead. coming up, we ll talk to the pastor, the reverend eric manning, about how his congregation has healed and what president biden s return means for charleston s black community. the president spent his weekend, the th
ahead. i ll speak with the family of paul weiland, another american, the kremlin has locked up on espionage charges and a group of military families gets the tragic news. nine service members killed when two black hawk choppers crashed. cnn has a crew right near that save. plus tension in the house from paper tossing to hallway shouting in your face. debates are getting heated on the hill. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead. top u . s. officials are strongly criticizing russia after an american reporter was detained on charges of spying. evan gersh covic appeared in a moscow court today accused of trying to steal russian state secrets. his employer, the wall street journal, says it quote vehemently denies those claims. but now gorshkov itch faces up to 20 years in prison. and today , lawmakers on capitol hill are accusing russia of using this journalist as leverage, and the white house is dismissing the charges.
hi, everyone we start with the fireworks in washington, d.c., today. emanating from the committee set up by the housegop. it took republicans 15 votes now in the days and months that fod followed, the house gop has done nothing except projecting the rest of their colleagues and us to the grievance of lies and conspiracies that animate life over on earth 2 where they live. today a hearing by the so-called weaponization commit presumably focused on censorship on social media and a lawsuit brought by the then-republican attorney general of missouri, he has to be an attorney from missouri, pushing back against efforts by social media to fight disinformation schmidt was one of two witnesses brought forward by republicans, but republican majority on this committee who testified and was dismissed, sent away before democrats could ask one single question so much for a functioning committee in which the free exchange of ideas and sharing of witnesses prevails democrats were justifiabl
we have lots of news to, cover and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. the u.s. military shoots a mystery object out of the sky for the second time in less than a week. now the races on to figure out exactly what was in the sky over alaska. what we know so far, plus new details about what that chinese spy balloon was truly capable of. plus, trump s legal team reportedly hands over additional items with classified markings and a laptop. it comes as an fbi search of mike pence s home turns out another classified document, and pence himself faces a subpoena in the january six special counsel probe. when all of these developments tell us about where these investigations are headed. and later, michael cohen, trump s former personal attorney, meets with the manhattan district attorney for the 15th time, will join us live this morning to discuss that and everything else circling around trump world as these probes heat up. all of that more is coming up. good satu
A judge rejecting Donald Trumps former chief of staff, citing his own words on the witness stand. You see, when meadows told the judge that he worked with the Trump Campaign on so many things, including selling out that infamous call when trump asked to find vote, that was not in the scope of his duties as a federal employee. The judge says that if he were to agree with meadows, quote, the court would have to turn a blind eye to express constitutional power, grant it to the states to determine their election procedures. As well as limitations on political activities, of Executive Branch firs. That comment light it in has some major implications for donald trump and also potentially for his codefendants. Joining me now is clint rucker, a former prosecutor for Fulton County, georgia, who worked with District Attorney fony willis. Now, meadows is appealing tonight this ruling, but it is significant that the judge pretty clearly and firmly knocked down a lot of the arguments that he and hi