crisis looms. i want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can take control of this runaway spending. all of these officers failed their oath. we need a national conversation about policing. the question is where do we go from here? parents send their kids back to school tomorrow for the first time since that shooting in early january. am i 100% comfortable sending him back? no. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are live in the cnn newsroom. the fate of the u.s. economy may hinge on a meeting this wednesday between president biden and newly elected gop house speaker kevin mccarthy. it has been a little more than a week since the treasury department announced the u.s. government has reached its borrowing limit. if the the debt ceiling isn t raised, the u.s. could start defaulting on its loans. i know the president said he didn t want to have any discussions, but i think it s very important that our whole government s designed to find compro
Nothing we had ever seen before, and that is likely true. and i have to then finally admit as i wrote in the atlantic, that i was surprised they were going to release it on a friday night. some people were arguing, well, they re trying to hide the news. i was a little bit worried that it was nighttime and a weekend. but actually, it gave every national police department, every local police department, the community time to prepare. and i think in the end that ended up benefiting not just the police. it s not about it s about the community that wants no more harm. the longer-term issues have to be addressed of course as the council chairman said. but for the short term less harm occurred. and i think that s success after all of these tragedies. yeah. i too was a little bit concerned about the friday night release. but fortunately, the protests were peaceful. everything worked out. people were able to make their voices heard and we didn t see widespread violence.