you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nation s debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global economies and that threat is still looming ominously at this hour. on capitol hill, lawmakers sound like they re unhappy with this deal. so passage is not guaranteed yet. this is unfolding as a june 5th deadline is drawing closer. we re following all of these latest developments. priscilla alvarez is at the white house for us. what are you learning about this phone call? is it going to happen? there s ever expectation that it is going to happen, jim. as you mentioned, president biden had said it wa
michigan. we do know that object was shot down by an f-16. norad s commander says they aren t calling that object a balloon because they re not able to say right now how that object was able to stay in the air. the uncertainty is escalating the war of words between the united states and china. china claims the united states has been flying balloons over chinese airspace without permission. that s an argument admiral john kirby flatly denied earlier. not true. not doing it. that s absolutely not true. we or not flying balloons over china. also this week, over a week since the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, rescue crews are amazingly still finding survivors in the rubble this morning, but the devastation is immense, spanning the area nearly the size of texas, and the number of people confirmed dead is now more than 35,000. in moments i ll be talking with former arizona senator jeff flake, now the ambassador to turkey about how the u.s. is helping people there.
photographs of her dead husband and daughter after a fatal helicopter crash. and the scottish city returning cultural artefacts looted from india during british rule in the 19th century. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state group has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in virginia. 34 year old el shafee elsheikh was among a group of british is members who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. and then they would ask me to. el shafee elsheikh claimed he was a simple is fighter who wanted to help. but it wasn t true. he was part of the islamic state group which terrorised large swathes of iraq and syria between 2014 and 2017. beatings, electrocutions and mock executions were carried out by the jihadists on western hostages, who called their torturers the beatles due to their english accents. elsheikh
and former white house chief of staff ron mcclain is standing by with reaction to all of it. plus, as the first aid trucks finally get into gaza, president biden s new special envoy to the middle east, david satterfield, joins me here for his very first interview since taking the job. also today, the dominoes start falling as trump idolized plead guilty and agreed to testify against their codefendants. the law firm of it is here, they are back to tell us what it means for the case against a codefendant named donald trump. later, my one-on-one conversation with senator raphael warnock. i will get his view on the war in the middle east and that high profile legal case playing out in his home state. this week felt like a real inflection point in so many ways. because we are all living in a country grappling with growing threats of antisemitism, of islamophobia, and deep, deep divisions over how the united states government should respond to a growing conflict in the midd
very first interview since taking the job. also today, the domino start falling as those trump allies plead guilty and agreed to testify against their codefendants. the law firm of our back to tell us what it means for the case against the codefendant in donald trump. and later, my one-on-one conversation with senator raphael warnock. i got his view on the war in the middle east, and that high profile legal case playing out in his home state. this week felt like a real inflection point in so many ways. because we are all living in a country grappling with growing threats of antisemitism, islamophobia, and deep, deep divisions over how the united states government should respond to a growing conflict in the middle east. and, meanwhile, we have a republican party revealing itself wholly incapable of governing, even amongst themselves. and as we digest all of this and, believe me, this is a lot to digest. i think about something president biden said in his address to the natio