inflation to a. i. and the impact on the economy. and bidenomics. we will break it all down as if he 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. a very big breakthrough for special counsel jack smith s investigation into the plot to keep joe biden out of the white house. smith prosecutors have now met with trump s former lawyer and dear, dear friend rudy giuliani. as of the 2020 election, of course, giuliani led the effort to push voter fraud conspiracy to state legislatures in an attempt to get them to send false electors to congress. here is what he told georgia lawmakers back in december of 2020. you are the final arbiter of who the elector should be, and whether the process is fair or not. and the other way to look at it is your responsibility if a false and fraudulent count is submitted to the united states government. today, giuliani s political advisor described the interview with jack smith s team as, quo
joe biden and kevin mccarthy have still not reached a deal that would break the stalemate over the debt limit. tonight, they did meet one-on-one in the oval office hours after the treasury secretary janet yellen issued a another stark warning. yellen says it is quote, highly likely the treasury will no longer be able to satisfy all of the governments obligations if there is no resolution by june 1st. meaning, we cannot pay our bills, even though they was some agreement, kevin mccarthy says the sides are going to keep talking. i think the productive part was who was in the room, narrowing what we re talking about, we re not talking over each other we re not saying, oh let s bring something new into the discussion, let s not oval raising taxes that s been off for a long time. we literally talked about where we are having disagreements and ideas, so to me that is productive, not progress but productive. so we re asking the staff to get back to run through those ideas to see if
comcast business. powering possibilities™. this hour, new details about the teenager now charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president. this is after a u-haul, crashing a u-haul into the barriers very near the white house. new details coming in, and we are live at the scene. we received an update from house speaker kevin mccarthy on where he thinks that the negotiations stand on avoiding the u.s. default. he says they are, quote, nowhere close to a deal. this is cnn news central. all right. we have new video into cnn today and this is really the video that you want to see. it appears to show the moment that a man rammed a u-haul into the barrier outside of the white house. the national parks service has identified who they think is behind this. a 19-year-old from missouri. this all started around 10:00 p.m. last night, and the truck drove into the security barriers on the backside of lafayette park, and it is right across from white house c
house. the country is now just ten days out from a potentially historic default on its debt. joe biden and kevin mccarthy is still not reached a deal that would break this over the debt limit. tonight, they did meet one-on-one in the oval office, hours after the treasury secretary janet yellen issued a another stark warning. yellen says it is, quote, highly likely the treasury were no longer be able to satisfy all the governments obligations if there is no resolution by june 1st, meaning we cannot pay our bills. even though there is still no agreement, kevin mccarthy says the sides are going to keep talking. i think the productive part was who was in the room, narrowing what we re talking. we re not talking over each other. we re not saying, oh, let s bring something new into the discussion, let s not talk about raising taxes. that s been off for a long time. we literally talked about where we re having disagreements and ideas. so, to me, that s productive, not progress,
at the white house for the third time to discuss the debt ceiling. this comes a little more than a week away from the treasury secretary s so-called hard deadline for default. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. we are expected to hear something each side following this meeting which has happened after every other meeting. it is speaker mccarthy s first solo meeting with the president, after talks fell apart last week and both sides exchanged barbed over the weekend. treasury secretary janet yellen setting the stable for the president s meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy saying again it is highly likely the treasury will no longer be able to satisfy all of the government s obligations if congress has not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit by early june and potentially as early as june 1st. there will be hard choices if that doesn t occur. after exchanging barbs