yet i need to have his allies have followed him to the exit. maybe it s not so much a master or an epic strop. that fan all five, boris johnson has defined our times. a man with an enormous ability to create and to destroy. his enemies can never truly be sure he is gone. so what his does his decision to walk me now for the conservatives? and does really matter to the country any? grant shapps is live with us along with labours david lammy who wants boris s old job as foreign secretary. we hear also with nigel barrage who pushed the tories further and further on brexit and ourfirst big interview further and further on brexit and our first big interview with the first minister of scotland after a rocky start in charge. and who make sense of this bout of madness? alan cumming performer and presenter of the new smash hit who swapped broadway for our big desk. michael howard once sacked boris johnson for lying. morning to all of you. you are very welcome to be with us. we were cha
politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. in just hours, a meeting with crippling consequences if it leads to nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house to talk through a debt deal, but democrats already worrying prooid sounds close to caving. plus a picture of fear. new and disturbing video shows a baseball bat-wheeleding attacker. beating two staffers at a congressional office. and ron desantis nears a 2024 launch. he will enter the rain rays with infrastructure and big money, but also with deflated expectation was a months of fierce donald trump attacks. up first for us, time to get serious. debt talks are going nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house at 3:00 p.m. it s clear the principles enter the debt limit showdown in very different head spaces. kspeaker mccarthy seemed sour o striking a deal. team biden sounds far more optimistic about progress towards a com promiez. not exactly welcome
they ll pack they ll get on every single slice. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re expecting a vote in the house of representatives. the house oversight committee at any moment now on whether to hold the attorney general of the united states, eric holder, in contempt of congress. at issue, his refusal to turn over documents about the botched gun-running sting operation called fast and furious. the republican-led panel going forward even after president obama today invoked executive privilege claiming the release of the documents would have in his words, significant damaging consequences. the attorney general has refused to cooperate offering to provide subpoenaed documents only if the committee agrees in advance to close the investigation. no investigator would ever agree to that. the likes of the committee chairman. he will call the role call momentarily. want to know if senior justice officials knew if the fast and furious program was flawed. fe
china have hit a brick wall. why and who will take their place as the next hot emerging markets? then andrew sullivan on why he had to wait almost 20 years to get a green card in the united states. it s a fascinating, troubling story. we re also going to look at the war on drugs in mexico. could it actually be working? first, here s my take. a new poll in the united states shows that americans are still deeply frustrated at the slow pace of the economic recovery. that s understandable. unemployment stays stubbornly high. i was just in europe, and they think america is booming. consider this. the u.s. economy is on track to grow between 2% and 3% this year. in europe, by contrast, half the euro zone economies are going to actually shrink this year and not one major european country will grow over 1%. last thursday christine lagard, the head of the international monetary fund and former french finance minister, said there were dark clouds hanging over the global recovery an
today the world is asking what happens next. i m wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our special our viewers through our special coverage of kim jong il s death. we re covering all the angles of this developing story. we have reporters across the world from beijing to the pentagon, to london, to the white house and beyond. instability in the region is a major worry right now. stan grant is in beijing and is joining us now live. stan, just a couple of hours ago we learned north korea test fired a short-range missile. what s the reaction in china, which obviously has the closest of relations with north korea? reporter: no reaction to that report of the short-range missile being fired. we know that north korea has these and has carried out these types of test firings before. out of south korea there have been reports that they don t see this as having been a hostile act towards south korea or anything related to that. however, this once again leads to the uncertai