now. thanks, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we start with breaking news out of the new york times. special counsel jack smith has interviewed donald trump s son-in-law and former top white house aide jared kushner. the times reports in an interview last month the special counsel focused on whether trump had privately acknowledged that he had lost the 2020 election. in other words, when trump claimed the election was rigged, did he know he was lying? did trump have corrupt intent when he allegedly tried to subvert the election? also today jack smith s senior assistant special counsel, a lawyer named tom wyndham, was spotted leaving the d.c. federal courthouse for a second time this week. mr. wyndham is one of the top prosecutors working on special counsel january 6th s probe, a role he played before jack smith was appointed special council. and this afternoon he was back in court indicating the grand jury is meeting. so with all these new deta
mr. trump s falsehoods kept coming fast and furious. did you ever show the classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right to. a jury of nine people found you libel of sexual abuse. the do you think that will deter women from voting for you? no, i don t think so. i would be salivating if i were the attorneys for e. jean carroll, if i were jack smith. kevin mccarthy says he ll not support george santos re-election. after being indicted on 13 criminal counts. the reality is it s a witchunt. if they find that santos broke the law, would you call on him to resign? they said yes. the biden administration is hours away from the end of title 42. they ll go undetected if they have to to get into the united states. we re making it very clear that our border is not open. crossing through regularly is against the law. the prime suspect in the disappearance, natalee holloway headed to the u.s. to face charges. vander sleuth has been serving t
jenkins in washington on the search for common ground. peter doocy on a pitch to force a deal and a patriotic millionaire, what they re pitching to get a deal. how we make ends meet. because we re far from doing that, aren t we? let s get the very latest from griff jenkins in washington with more on this spending show down. griff? happy tax day, neil. it appears a dangerous game of chicken is being played with the world s largest economy. speaker mccarthy has outlined a proposal to raise the debt limit for one year in exchange for caps on future spending, clawing back unused covid funds. the devil is in the details. the legislation is still being crafted as note all of mccarthy s members of his own party are on board yet. watch. i think we ve got a lot of specifics to work out. but directionally, we re getting closer as a team to a proposal to the senate. i m encouraged by the discussions we ve had today. ultimately it s about the math. mccarthy has 222 republicans and
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with incidents in the weeks leading up to her death. and one month since the devastating earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria conditions are still desperate. we begin with the war in ukraine. the country s president, volodymyr zelensky, says military commanders support digging in further, and continuing to defend the eastern city of bakhmut. it follows reports ukrainian troops may have been preparing to withdraw from the city, which russia has been trying to capture for months. fierce fighting is seeing battles happening from street to street. this is where bakhmut is located. the all out assault here by russia has led to the loss of many thousands of men, that s despite the us pentagon saying victory is of little strategic importance. lets dive deeper, here s a detailed picture of the current situation from the think tank, the institute for the study of war. you can see bakhmut in the large circle in the top right of the screen. the red shaded a