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im paula reid in washington. jim acosta has the day off. we are following several developing stories on this busy afternoon. the u.s. takes another step closer to running out of money to pay its debts. despite a deadline as close as 12 days away, the high-stakes negotiations between the white house and republicans have broken down. and its not clear when they will resume. meanwhile, president biden will cut short his asia trip to address the looming debt crisis, but before heading home...

appointed a new cabinet, but sir keir starmer has said he must step down immediately or labour will try to bring a no confidence vote in parliament. he needs to go completely — none of this nonsense about clinging on for a few months. hes inflicted lies, fraud and chaos in the country. well have all the latest reaction from here in westminster as well as from our correspondents and voters around the uk. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. borisjohnson has resigned as ...

That strategy. >> you said that boris tried to prevent you from conducting searches. what searches are those. >> this is the searches at bedminster initially. there was a lot of pushback from her where he didnt want us doing the search and we had to eventually overcome him. >> why didnt he want you to do the search? >> i dont know. boris is -- you know, he is a lawyer. he spent about 18 months at a big firm doing transactional work and i think he thinks based on the experience he knows better ta...

Our defense strategy to educate merrick garland as to how best to handle this matter, he was preventing us from engaging in that strategy. >> you said that boris tried to prevent you from conducting searches. what searches? >> the search at bedminster initially. there was a lot of pushback from him. he didnt want us doing the search. and we had eventually overcome him. >> why didnt he want you doing the search? >> i dont know. you know, boris is -- you know, he is a lawyer. he spent about 18 mon...

Vote of no confidence and prevent him from taking us down this course. >> this is helpful. my understanding was theresa mays problem was she was stuck with a parliament that wouldnt dissolve but couldnt muster a majority for any of the options. they kept having a million different votes. >> yeah. >> boris johnsons strategy is bugger off parliament. well get rid of parliament, then the brexit deadline is going to come and were going to brexit out? >> boris is -- hes smart enough not to want to br...

For a week when parliament returns on the 3rd of september. a lot of people are saying effectively this is a move to push through no deal brexit and prevent parliament from debating johnsons strategy. it does seem to bring us potentially closer to a no deal brexit because it reduces the amount of time parliament has to debate, perhaps to initiate a vote of no confidence and prevent him from taking us down this course. >> this is helpful. my understanding was theresa mays problem was she was stuc...