it comes as the cdc s advisory committee held the first day of a two-day meeting to debate the third shot with a vote scheduled for this afternoon. if they issue a recommendation and it is approved by the cdc, booster shots could begin immediately. turning now to capitol hill, six former treasury secretaries are warning congress to raise or suspend the u.s. debt ceiling or else risk, quote, serious economic and national security harm. the officials from the carter, clinton, w. bush, and obama administrations wrote a letter to house speaker nancy pelosi this week, which they also sent to other congressional leaders. they warn if congress does not take action, it could, quote, undermine trust in the full faith and credit of the united states, which they say would be hard to repair. current treasury secretary janet yell season also pushing for congressional action, warning over the weekend of a historic financial crisis. the department estimates it will
yesterday, six former treasury secretaries told congress to raise or suspend the u.s. debt ceiling or risk what they call serious economic and national security harm. george w. bush and obama administration wrote a letter to other congressional leaders if congress does not take action, it could undermine trust. janet yellen is pushing for congressional action warning over the weekend of a quote, historic financial crisis, they will not offer a single vote to do it. my advise to the democratic government, the president, the house, and the senate, don t play russian roulette with our
some others including cnn picked up large parts of it and we were able to confirm it was that the president disclosed what s known as code word information, which is above top secret and a real concern for the national security as well as intelligence communities, john. the white house never denied he shared information and the president confirmed that he shared information. joe johns at the white house. thank you so much. want to bring in evan perez. evan, lay out for us exactly the nature of the information that was shared. why it s important and why some people think it puts others at risk. well, john, the intelligence that we re talking about is considered so highly classified that back in march the u.s. government officials told cnn that the disclosure of it would cause serious national security harm. they asked cnn to withhold some of the key details from a march 31st story on the intelligence behind the restrictions on
leaking highly classified information and put at risk the lives of our troops, diplomats, intelligence officers, allies. caused serious national security harm. what president obama has done today is going to cause harm as well. i m surprised the president took this action i have concerns about what message we send about ultimately repealing sensitive national security documents. chelsea manning went through the military, criminal justice process. was exposed to due process, was found guilty, was sentenced for crimes. and she acknowledged wrongdoing. bret: the commutation of chelsea manning, in jail for leaking classified material to wikileaks that lawmakers say definitively put u.s. troops in danger and may have killed some. this, as you get the number of pardons and commutations by this president, contrasting that with george w. bush and bill clinton.
that these thousands upon thousands of pages of raw intelligence and information from the front lines of iraq, from the front lines of afghanistan, that they would expose our troops, our service members, diplomats and our allies to danger. i ask you this question and you might not have an answer, and i do not think that absence of evidence is evidence of absence. but do you know of any incident where somebody actually through these wikileaks found somebody and caused them harm because of the wikileaks? is there any evidence that that happened? jake, i don t want to speak about specific cases in part because of the classification levels involved. i do want to say that it caused serious national security harm. what president obama has done today is going to cause harm as well. all around the world and virtually every country, there are people trying to decide whether they want to help america, whether they want it help our military, our intelligence agencies and our diplomats. and when