general bill barr name john durham to investigate the investigators and predicted he d find the crime of the century. durham didn t have much luck in the courts. now, four years after he started, durham s harshly critical report saying he relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence along with seriously flawed information has plunged us all back into the same old, familiar debate, the story that seemingly will never end. i m howard kurtz and this is the mediabuzz. howard: the report by special counsel john durham exploded like a neutron bomb, and the media are deeply divided over his conclusion that the fbi acted on such flimsy evidence that its investigation of possible collusion between donald trump and the kremlin never should have been launched. first among those claiming vindication, the former president. this was a coup that they were looking at. these are sick people. howard: and many of those on fox news and elsewhere joined in castigating the m
anything, that is why i m so concerned. default must be taken off the table. i predict you will see things that you don t even believe, the level of corruption. the fbi moved quickly to investigate the allegations of connections of collusion between the trump campaign and russia and that they did so by ignoring a lot of evidence. i think the party has developed a culture of losing. governor desantis is the mos electable most conservative who can win the general election and govern effectively. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, may 16, 4:00 a.m. in washington where in the coming hours u.s. president biden will meet with top congressional leaders at the white house to once again try to increase an increase in the u.s. debt ceiling. a deal has to be reached by june 1 to avoid defaulting. but with the current stalemate americans are starting to get nervous. i get calls about the debt ceiling now more so than
showdown. president biden set to meet with congressional leaders again, in an effort to step back from the brink of default. john durham releases his findings on the origins of the trump/russia probe. his reactions ahead to it. russia launches a barrage of missiles from the sea, air and land. we ll have a live report on that. thanks for joining us. all eyes on washington, as the u.s. government could start to run out of money within weeks unless it allows itself to borrow more. in the coming hours, president joe biden is set to meet with congressional leaders at the white house, to try to get on the same page about raising the u.s. debt ceiling. the president and senate leader kevin mccar are at odds before the country falls into debt. democrats and republican leaders have yet to find common ground. there is no movement. we re only a couple of weeks away. if you look at the timeline to pass something in the house and pass something in the senate, we have to have a dea
coverage and we ll start with david spunt tracking president biden and his reaction to the border crisis from wilmington, delaware. we ve got griff jenkins tracking conditions on the ground from the southern border and we ll turn to griff first, a closer look from mission, texas. hi, griff. hey, gillian and kristin. we re down on the border in mission, texas, part of the rio grande sector. what s happening at this moment see this white bus coming through the border wall in the distance about a mile is the rio grande river where we re apprehending record number of migrants. this is the 13th bus i ve seen since i ve been here today. it s full of migrants that have been processed and we have exclusive photos, i want to show you where that bus just came from. these photos from here show that the processing center, a temporary processing center has been set up outdoors, you can see in the photo, the white buses, you can see migrants all over the place, they ve had to set up a po
has a limited tolerance for how far to the left they push. and i think that will be reflected in this fight with i don t know how well he ll do in court. it sounds like this obama-appointed judge may be favoring disney in this battle over the free speech issue. so desantis could end up looking like a loser if that goes the other way in court. howard: in a call with coe nors, and a new york times reporter 457 to be able to listen to it, he made his pitch. he said there s three people who can be president, me, trump or joe biden. but, of course, he hasn t said that publicly and he hasn t said publicly that that trump lost in 20 to, because in the gop you re not allowed to say that. [laughter] you aren t allowed to say that if you re a member of the gop. where i disagree with susan, i think this disney issue has turned into something bigger for desantis. we saw a story that really speaks to where the desantis policies are taking the country. there was a teacher who showed a movie, rig