and welcome to cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. today, president biden is going to meet with leaders at the white house. doj signaled that it is going to fight republicans over the committee probes into biden s past. we have a team covering developments. we have phil mattingly at the white house, and manu raja at capitol hill. give us the latest on what the justice department is telling house republicans? well, we didn t expect that the justice department would hand over evidence into the series of ongoing criminal investigations, but in this letter to house chairman jim jordan, the department of justice says that they are not going to comply with a broad request of a broad number of matters, but they believe that oversight is important, and they want to cooperate, but they want to balance it with the ongoing need of ongoing investigations. but jordan made it clear, he wants to find out how they are handling a series of investigations into former president trump and c
boxes retrieved from mar-a-lago in january. quoting page 8 here, the boxes contained newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous printouts, notes, presidential correspondence, presidential records, and quote, a lot of classified records. most significant heerkre, the concern that highly classified records were unfolded and intermixed with the other records, and otherwise inappropriately identified. let s go now to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. investigators listed the kinds of classified documents they thought could still be on premise there at mar-a-lago. right. and this is the reason. this document is the reason why the fbi conducted that extraordinary search and seizure at the former president s mohom more than two weeks ago. it goes to the documents that were found in the initial 15 boxes that were retrieved by the national archives, earlier this year. they were brought back to the national archives and in it, you know, when they s
Start with the Breaking News leaders Around The World are responding after that unprecedented iranian attack on israel. The first time iran has ever launched a direct assault from inside iran on israeli territory in two hours, the United Nations Security Council will hold an Emergency Meeting on the escalating very dramatic tensions that are unfolding this afternoon. Leaders of the g7 met virtually trying to work out a potential diplomatic response to this iranian attack and the israeli war cabinet also has been meeting just a short time ago to wait its response. No decision was made, at least were told that no decision was made at least not yet but work member benny gantz is vowing to exact a prices where its exactly price from iran for the assault present joe biden, pledging ironclad, his word, ironclad us support for israel in a phone call with israeli Prime Minister benjamin, a tiny out, but he also warned that the United States will not participate in any offensive operations agai
it s not just me for things. we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, norad way that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. no lie there, of course, true to form, that republican running against trump did not blame him for the losses. no republican on that debate stage on wednesday dared to really take on the albatross named donald trump, not in front of an audience of republican voters. so that is hopeless. good people who like things like respecting election results and rule of law and not attempting coups, now had to assume that republicans cannot or more likely will not step out the threat of trumpism in their party [interpreter] . a red wave never materialized for republicans, which is good news for democracy in the 2022 midterms and republicans really did get trounced this week, which is even more good news for democracy. the leader of the republican party has recently been posting memes of the u.s. capital on fire with the words, i am coming back to clean up the mes
Im stephen sackur. South sudans first six and a half years as an independent country have been an unmitigated disaster. A brutal civil conflict, a broken economy, famine and epic levels of corruption. On any and every measure, the worlds newest country is failing. And this despite some of the Largest Oil Reserves in sub saharan africa. My guest today is south sudans minister of petroleum, ezekiel lol gatkuoth. Who or what can deliver south sudans people from despair . Ezekiel lol gatkuoth, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me here. As ijust said, south sudan is just over six years old as an independent nation. In your worst nightmares, could you have imagined just how horrible the situation in your country would be today . Well, thank you for having me on this show. The republic of south sudan gained independence in july 2011. On the 9th ofjuly. Of course, we are transitioning from a Liberation Movement to now running a state, and running a state is a serious business. And we a