Viewers joining us in the United States and all around the world. Im lynda kinkade. Welcome to cnn newsroom. Coming up we call it a sham indictment. The man whos doing it, we really believe hes mentally ill. Donald trump continuing his pattern of stunning public statements on his indictment a day after running into legal trouble for comments he posted online. Coup leaders in niger face an ultimatum. Reinstate the president today or face potential Military Intervention. Well have a live report from the region. And were an hour away from the u. S. Facing off against sweden in the womens world cup and the excitement is building. Well take you live to a World Cup Watch Party in New York City. A new deadline and a new legal ruling in the latest indictment of donald trump. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Fraud case has responded to a court filing from Special Counsel jack smith last night. Smith wants the protective order after trump posted this. Quote, if you go after me, im co
saying he feels closer to a deal today than he has before, but not everyone in his party is as optimistic. one top republican negotiator warning the deal is still teetering on the brink and could fall apart entirely. meanwhile, the national deficit continues to soar to new heights and treasury secretary janet yellen says there are only eight days remaining to pay america s bills. is everyone on board? reporter: we ll see about that. he came in to the capitol this morning and told reporters he s feeling optimistic and thinks progress has been made and really they re focused on a few remaining sticking points for this deal. i am told the goal is to have a deal announced by the end of today. we ll see if they can get there. we have new reporting about what the outstanding issues are. one of them is a provision to impose new work requirements on some social safety net programs. i m told they made some progress on that in negotiations last night. we re going to see today wheth
we will get there at the end of the show. all right, a lot to get to this hour but we look ahead to tonight, president biden will deliver the state of the union address in less than nine hours from now. and he certainly will have a lot of explaining to do to the nation. first, there is the growing controversy over the chinese spy balloon that flew over the country for more than a week. before he took action. the record-breaking biden search at the southern border and the scandal surrounding his son hunter. i don t think he will mention that. plus, his address tonight seen as a kickoff for his 2024 campaigns. yes, he is running, i told you he was but he may have a lot of convincing on that front. the poll says majority of democrats don t want him to run again and biden to talk about unity but that may be a tough selling point considering he just said this on friday. judgment till my jobs are up, which is a rub from inflation is down and covid no longer controls our life. the
letting their voices be heard. chief patrol agents in charge of the rio grande valley and tucson sectors in extensive detail why millions have been able to cross the southern border since president biden took office and putting the blame squarely on the policies coming from the white house. sandra: will their testimony put more pressure on president biden to secure the border. that is a huge question. brandon judd is here to weigh in. that s coming up. china is the most challenging national security threat america has faced in 30 years. the prc is a learning machine. xi jinping is watching and learning. hopes for a beneficial relationship is misplaced, culminating with the spy balloon over my community. john: sounding the alarm over the growing national security threat from the chinese communist party and whether the u.s. is truly prepared for conflict with our number one foreign adversary. hello, john roberts in washington on this state of the union day. sandra, we