you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. four, three, two, one. engine s full power. and liftoff. falcon 9, go axiom. [ applause ] together we expand this is a beautiful sight if you just missed it, right now four private astronauts are on the way to the international space station. the axiom 2 mission blasted off from the kennedy space center just minutes ago. we ll go there live in just a few minutes to wrap up some really remarkable developments on the space coast. but on the meantime, here in atlanta and in washington, negotiations are resuming to confront the looming debt crisis. the talks will be at the staff level for the moment but they will set the stage for a high-stakes meeting between the president and kevin mccarthy. they spoke today and this new glimmer of optimism, if we could believe it, comes as the prospect of a quick compromise appears increasingly bleak. are you at all optimistic about what we could accomplish today. could we g
irs. and with less than two yearsd tl to go until the twenty twenty four election, democrats are once again shockingle y playing the race card. this time, they re trying to vilify the entire sunshine. state of florida. but first tonight, all eyes areh on the biden white house where joe is still refusing to come ta to terms on a debt ceiling that is , well, pretty imminent.t ist according to democrats, the sky. is falling. the american economyaccordin, the world s economy is about to collapse. and it s all kevin mccarthy s fault. when in fact, it s anything but kevin mccarthy s fault. so why didn t democrats care so deeply about this issue? over. one hundred days ago whens speaker mccarthy was all but begging the white house, you know, weekly, monthly, dayy after da y to sit down and negotiate this? take a look. we have to negotiatek. overtiat. the debt. our whole government is designed to have compromise. our governrepublican control. the house democrats have a small majo
our dear leader in the beste possible light. e to here you have joe biden going right there to the border i to see what s going on . so i give him a lot of credit for that. visiting the border and making sure that conservatives in those areas know that he reallya isn t listening to their concerns about border security. he doesrd seeer secm to be ws directly this directly on this issue. and he s very aware of what s going on in the border. y coming down and seeing it with the sonar is really madeife a big difference and a bignc difference. who needs comedy with theses? clowns? buo a heck of a job chatting up salvation army volunteers or to say where they have a secret service. same difference. : okay, now, if you re a a democrat, you re still wavings off concerns about joe s age and declining cognition. anddeclininthen you re just in. or maybe you know that although biden is one fall away from the senior center lunchroom, draw still the sharpese ist knie in the democrat
important midterms and viledters personal attacks from the left h are reaching a fever pitch. they can t run on theirn on e record , you know, with absolutely nothing positive to run on democrats, they are now attempting to dehumanize republicans all across the country and senatorial and gubernatorial races. they do so from a glass house. and tonight we will expose two a democratic candidates for senate who dnateo not deservete. the vote in their respective states . we begin iwe b in the great stal georgia tonight.e th while the media mob, they are obsessing over anonymouser ano sources in the new yornyk timess regurgitated by other media and fixated on family drama surrounding republican herschel walker. they have been more than happy to ignore very serious allegations against the democrat senator raphael warnock. according to the washington free beacon, warnock was ordered by a superior court judge to attend mediation after he was accused of neglecting his own children, f
to the committee s probe and it s the first conviction of anyone for the defying the committee. they guilty verdicts are now putting the spotlight on others who have to find the committee subpoenas, including secret service agents who have lawyered up with private counsel. as the probe into the text messages. which are potential evidence turned into a criminal inquiry. all of that is making a blockbuster week for the january six committee. it used a second primetime hearing to show it excruciating detail that trump consistently and repeatedly resisted pleas to condemn that maga mob that was the filing the capitol. the mob was accomplishing president trump s purpose, so of course he did not intervene. here is what will be clear by the end of the hearing, president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home. he chose not to act. joining me, now charles clemente union at msnbc legal analyst and civil rights att