we begin this hour in washington where president biden and speaker mccarthy are rallying support for their tentative deal to extend the nation s debt. the agreement will likely need votes from both republicans and democrats to pass the house. mccarthy says the vote could come as soon as this wednesday before it heads to the senate. just moments ago, president biden said he is confident this will pass both chambers of congress. the speaker and i made it clear from the start that the only way forward was a bipartisan agreement. that agreement now goes to the united states house, and to the senate. i strongly urge both chambers to pass that agreement. let s keep moving forward on meeting our obligations and building the strongest economy in the history of the world. in the meantime, majority leader chuck schumer is alerting his conference they should be prepared for a final vote in the senate as soon as friday. mccarthy also talked with senate republicans this afternoon, tel
0k, time, now, for World Business report, with rachel. Up or down . After the disappointing Growth Outlook the uk received from the imf last week, today we get some real numbers for the british economy. And, after emmissionsgate is a new Scandal Brewing or vw . If so this time its not alone, all the main german car makers are accused of having operated a cartel. But did they . Welcome to World Business report. Im rachel horne. Also in the programme will nintendo continue its comeback . Sharanjit will tell us what to expect from the gamemakers upcoming results. But first, later this morning the uk will unveil its latest Growth Numbers for the three months to the end ofjune. Earlier this week, the International Monetary fund warned that weaker Economic Activity means both the us and uk will expand more slowly than expected this year. However, in the numbers due out this morning, economists are expecting the uks growth rate will have risen slightly in the last three months to 0. 3 . Follo
the pet did not survive the flight. and what the airline is now saying tonight. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. that massive storm hitting at this hour, but first tonight, the storm swirling inside president trump s cabinet. president trump firing secretary of state rex tillerson, and doing so in a tweet. the president firing tillerson, then calling him several hours later from air force one. the president naming cia director mike pompeo as the new secretary of state. and look at the wall tonight. at the top there, tillerson fired. he was not the only one fired at the state department today. the undersecretary of state, steve goldstein, who tweeted that tillerson did not know the firing was coming, he was then fired, too. in addition to all of the vacancies that already exist at the top of the state department. and so, we begin tonight with abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. reporter: president trump is in cali
to deal with immigration. but first the senior senator from arizona has endured insult after insult this week. at one point labelled songbird john, a reference to his time as a p.o.w. and while discussing votes for cia director gina haspel who mccain opposes, white house special assistant kelly sadler said, quote, it doesn t matter, he s dying anyway. here s the white house s apology for those comments. does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks or comments again, i m not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. are you saying she didn t say this? again, i m not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or the other. no, no, sorry, here s the white house apology. i think the remarks are awful, but let s look at this in context. that was said in a private meeting inside the white house. that s not like you might say something really nasty about me off the air, it doesn t have
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think that this is exactly what it is. it s an indictment of 12 russians, which is a very good development. it means they are making progress on the real rush investigation, nothing to do with collusion, there s nothing politicized about it. it s finding people who did try to interfere with our election and hopefully go after them. brian: the president is about to meet with vladimir putin and we know the mueller probe is getting more unpopular. does not have anything to do with the fact that we got this press conference? charles krauthammer used to say you can almost never be too cynical when it comes to things happening in washington but i hope not. this is important stuff. the indictment, what rod rosenstein laid out today reveals they did some very good
alter the results of the election and there is still absolutely zero evidence of that whatsoever and it is bogging down our political process. brian: there s a big call among some leadership on the democratic side to not mee