crisis looms. i want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can take control of this runaway spending. all of these officers failed their oath. we need a national conversation about policing. the question is where do we go from here? parents send their kids back to school tomorrow for the first time since that shooting in early january. am i 100% comfortable sending him back? no. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are live in the cnn newsroom. the fate of the u.s. economy may hinge on a meeting this wednesday between president biden and newly elected gop house speaker kevin mccarthy. it has been a little more than a week since the treasury department announced the u.s. government has reached its borrowing limit. if the the debt ceiling isn t raised, the u.s. could start defaulting on its loans. i know the president said he didn t want to have any discussions, but i think it s very important that our whole government s designed to find compro
mike pence admits that he too had classified material at his house. will the justice department appoint another special counsel as lawmakers react now to the pence news? and california s three mass shootings in three days. the latest, a case of workplace violence. what led a gunman to allegedly target his co-workers as we learn the identities of 19 killed in less than a week. plus reversing course. sources tell cnn the u.s. is now ready to send its abrams tanks to ukraine as germany also softens its opposition. so what changed? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown. jake tapper is on assignment. we start in our politics lead with a story first reported by cnn. roughly a dozen classified documents found at former vice president mike pence s house. a lawyer for pence found the papers at pence s indiana home last week, according to sources, and turned them over to the fbi. the documents were not stored in a secure area of pence s home and the discovery directly contradic
Wondering, after biden and now after pence have your views on this issue evolved? because i think it really puts it under the spotlight what a big issue this is. lindsey graham for his part, he said that the pence revelations may have upended gop efforts to tarnish biden. you re even hearing from republicans saying yeah, this is clearly a bigger issue. no. nothing s changed. we ve got to reform the way, as i said earlier, that documents leave the president and vice president s offices and follow them to the private sector. now, what s different with joe biden is we re investigating the biden family for influence peddling. we have a strong suspicion that people around joe biden, mainly in his family, have been peddling access to the biden family with our adversaries around the world. and when we find out that they have multiple classified documents scattered throughout
He do with them over that six-year period? it is a fair question for president biden, and i said that. also it has been six years for pence, but are we going to see republicans asking those same questions for pence? i suspect there will be a partisan asymmetry on that question. i appreciate your vote of confidence about the designs on your laptop. i think one of the questions that all of this raises and there are a bunch of them. one of them is what were the motives that these leaders had in keeping this classified information? was it just sloppiness? were there different motives for different figures? are we going to find that there are additional officials who have classified information in places they shouldn t be? i would not be shocked if there were other former presidents, former vice presidents who are probably as we speak having their people scour through all of their possessions. i think that s an important point. in a way did the pence revelations take the politics