Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new warnings on Coronavirus Variants rapidly spreading across the country. Lets begin with manu raju on the hill. John harwood joins us from the white house. Manu, it is really interesting, Jared Bernstein said, no, were still negotiating but still full steam ahead into not needing a single republican vote. It is unlikely that this bill will win over any republicans, certainly not any Senate Republicans based on the size and scope of the legislation. They are pursuing this morning, early this mornin
couldn t believe what i read. the journal reports that instagram has been connecting and promoting a vast network of pedophilia. researchers within the wall street journal investigation found the flat form enabled users to search for hash tags and recommended accounts to related to buying and selling child sex material. one shocking example was a hash tag involving preteen sex. sensorineural spite the platform s algorithms promoting this type of content o other users, it s unclear how this slipped under the nose of meta and ceo mark zuckerberg. meta is responding to the wall street journal findings saying between 2020 and 2022, these teams dismantled 27 abusive networks in a january 2023, we disabled more than 490,000 accounts for violating our child safety policies. emily, you and i were on this couch when there was another explosive wall street journal report about effect of instagram and social media on teens. i ll never forget it, senator richard bl blumenthal and cr
house. the limit is suppose expected to be breached the first of next month. jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. big headline here, no movement toward a deal happening today at least but we did learn that the big four congressional leaders will huddle with the president again on friday. the republicans emerged from this meeting feeling frustrated saying biden stalled on having this meeting in the first place and then brought to it no ideas or proposals even though the votes just aren t there to get him what he is asking for and the president, we re told, continued to reject republican proposals to bring the budget back to last year s levels calling that draconian. we re not going to take any questions now. we re going to get started. we re going to solve all the world s problems. treasury secretary s warning the u.s. could run out of money as soon as june 1st got the president to open the oval office door to congressional leadership. but the
e. jean carroll. we re getting new reaction to the jury s verdict and the order for trump to pay $5 million in damages. cnn has learned that federal criminal charges have been filed against republican congressman george santos amid investigations into his astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications. stand by for details on our exclusive reporting. and president biden and congressional leaders just wrapped up critical talks at the white house, and there is no sign of any breakthrough on raising the nation s debt limit as the clock ticks forward a potentially very very dangerous default. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in new york with the bomb shell verdict in e. jean carroll s civil case against donald trump. the former president found liable for sexually abusing carroll and defaming her. cnn s jean ka satellite and radar genjean casaras is joig us. gi
thanks, ari. thank you. we re tracking these two big legal breaking news stories. we have just learned the controversial new york republican congressman george santos has been indicted by the justice department. that s a federal indictment. we re tracking the story, as you heard nicolle just say in the handoff. this is as breaking as it gets. we don t have exact details, don t have the paper, but we do have reporting that that very controversial member of congress known, if nothing else, for his many lies that he was busted for, is now indicted. indeed, this is a fast moving story because he s expected to appear in court as soon as tomorrow. we re tracking that story as well as the other big legal development a jury finding donald trump liable for sexual abuse and lies the defamation this jury says he found he committed against e. jean carroll. that s a huge story, an important one. we have been covering that trial continuously, and i have two essential experts to lea