three narratives at play during this hearing. fbi director wray talked about the good things the fbi are doing. democrats talked about donald trump and republicans talked about what they perceive as weaponization of government. i m curious are you protecting the bidens. absolutely not. hold on you won t answer whether that s a shakedown. he pledged to stay above the frey. fbi dricket christopher wray could not escape the politics. i come from a fairly rural district is weaponization of the fbi and the doj coming after conservative citizens who just simply want to have a voice in the process? the idea that i m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background. wray is a republican. democrats accused the republicans of having an ulterior motive. it is an elaborate show designed with only two purposes in mind to protect donald trump from the consequences of his actions and to return him to the white house in the next election
be that difficult to get to a deal by the end of the week. the president is canceling part of his upcoming overseas trip. returning to the u.s. sunday after the g-7 economic meeting in japan. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has our top story live tonight from the north lawn. kevin mccarthy says there is a gap between the two sides in moving forward but, as the president leaves for japan tomorrow, the white house is appointing senior adviser stevery chety, louise taylor and shah landra young to run point for the white house and talk to will deputies. pressure is on after the treasury secretary put the deadline at june 1st or the days following. we re having a wonderful time everything is going well ha ha ha. message of reassurance convening congressional leaders as the country creeps forward to possibly defaulting on debt with no agreement to cut spending and raise the debt limit. biden canceled plans to visit australia and pap go p&a new guinea he would be out
and defamation case brought by author e. jean carroll. court resumes this hour. and a man accused of a shooting rampage inside a medical center is about to appear in court. what we re learning about the suspect and what his mother is blaming today. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming up right here on cnn news central. this morning the white house is pushing back hard on russia s baseless accusation that the u.s. directed ukraine to carry out an alleged attack on the kremlin. moscow claims it was an attempt to assassinate president vladimir putin. the white house calls the allegation the u.s. was behind that ridiculous, and ukraine is also strongly denying any involvement in that attack. after making that claim with no evidence, russia ramped up its attacks on ukraine. at least 23 people were killed by russian shelling in the kherson region wednesday. and kyiv s military chief said the city was hit by the most intense air strikes so far thi
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good afternoon. With each passing minute the nation is getting closer to a Government Shutdown, but just a short time ago, a possible breakthrough that could help keep The Lights On. The yeas are 335, the nays are 91. Twothird being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended. The bill is passed. And without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The house passed a bipartisan shortterm Spending Bill. The Stopgap Measure would provide 45 days of Government Funding before the next time they have to do this up on capitol hill. It includes federal Disaster Relief assistance as the white house requested, but it does not include aid to ukraine which is a Top White House priority. House democrats overwhelmingly supported the measure and now head the over to the senate. Lets go straight to capitol hill and our manu raju whos been up there all day. Hes going to be going into the evening, i guess. Whats the latest,
Are go for the birth possible thing i can thousands of pieces of debris i wish i couldve done something differently. What i can undo that, you can just make it better, are those that fall hello. Space shuttle columbia, the final flight, two part finale, Sunday At Nine On Cnn you relied with the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good morning. We begin with the latest demand from former President Donald Trump to House Republicans, quote, killed oh fisa, fbi director Christopher Wray is expected to deliver a sobering response to trumps decree. This is no time to mess around with the law known as fisa, the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. Amid the turmoil in the middle east to add, following an isis attack in russia that could inspire acts of terrorism here on us soil, the law allows us to collect the communications of nonamericans overseas. Its up for reauthorization as its due to expire next week. But the continuing chaos up on capitol hill in the house may doom it. 19 con