in the faulkner focus. americans face real economic consequences as politicians are dug in. more and more lawmakers are saying that the president and the house speaker must find common ground but the house the white house sounds like it is not really interested in doing that. this is not an issue that we will negotiate on. he is not going to negotiate over avoiding default. this is congress s constitutional duty. he will not negotiate on the debt ceiling. very clear. that isn t going the change. congress needs to avoid a default. i ll leave it there without conditions. harris: without conditions. that sounded like a negotiation. for their part, house democrats are now trying to use a procedural scheme to bypass speaker mccarthy s debt bill. republican senator mike lee and senior congressional correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill. let s start with the news with chad. it is called a discharge petition, 218 members can go over the head of the speaker and put a bi
this as new york police are now increasing courthouse security just ahead of a potential trump indictment. also tonight, trump s top gop allies are rushing to his defense and trying to discredit the new york d.a. who s investigating him. trump s legal peril and the political fallout looming over a major gathering of house republicans. and a high stakes handshake, china s president xi jinping ven v strengthens his alliance with vladimir putin, praising him as a dear friend as the russian leader stands charged with war crimes in ukraine. we ll have the latest on their talks in moscow, hours after putin s defiant visit to the war zone. 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 with the latest testimony in the new york grand jury investigation of donald trump amid questions about whether the former president is on the brink of being indicted. let s go right to our senior legal affairs corres
family whether we offer ourself as one of them i think different times call for different leadership. yeah, you know, he tried to kill my family and tried to kill me, but, you know, it remains to be seen, whether i may support him for the republican nomination there you go. scene. we re not here there you go that s he admitted last week, mika, that donald trump put his family in danger and his own life in danger mm-hmm. for i have to say, for me, for everybody that i know, that s the end in an attempt to subvert or democracy. there s that. but let s just keep with the family like, let s go a little john dutton here. you know, you protect your family he admitted last week that somebody tried to kill his family you know, don t go all john dutton on the revenge part, the other side of the boarder. at least you can say, i m not going to support him no, no, jonathan, you know, he tried to have me is and my family killed on january 6th while trying to subvert d
in the faulkner focus. today s hearing comes after the twitter files exposed execs conversations around the hunter biden laptop story and the biden family business dealings. lawmakers looking to those witnesses, among them twitter s former deputy general counsel james baker to explain how the true story on hunter biden s laptop was censored by social mead and dismissed by media outlets including the new york times and washington post as disinformation. the republican and democrat leaders of the committee are already clashing from the jump. america witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies and intelligence community to suppress and delegitimize the existence of hunter biden s laptop and its contents. now mainstream media outlets have verified the laptop. the damage has been done. silly does not begin to capture this obsession. the conspiracy theory have gotten what they want, an apology. what more do they want 57bd why does congress have to be involv
i m michael steele. chris hayes will be back here tomorrow night. but tonight i m your host. normally i m on the other side of the desk as a guest, because you know i ran the republican party and all that and a little bit of political expertise. so tonight i ve got a message for anyone looking that s at this current republican party. if you are waiting for it to get better, it s not going to happen. republican national committees trying to rein in donald trump and missing the point completely. our chair rural knee macdonnell wants press presidential hopefuls to take a loyalty pledge intern for a spot on the 2024 debate stage. now the policies aimed at making sure that donald trump doesn t tank the parties chances by running as a third party spoiler for the loses the primary. but getting donald trump to sign a loyalty pledges a fools errand. donald trump isn t loyal to anyone but himself. this is a man who turned his back on his own office, that led to a deadly insurrection ag