Thanks you for joining us this hour. Theres a lot going on. Fiona hill is going to be joining us live tonight. Fiona hill, of course, with senior director for russia and europe at the National Security council during the trump presidency, which means she had a somewhat terrifying Front Row Seat to some of the weirdest things and the u. S. President has ever tried to get away with. Fiona hill is here tonight, as there have been dramatic developments today about the informant who provided the central allegations at the heart of Congressional Republicans efforts to impeach President Biden this year. This informant today was sent to jail indefinitely by a federal judge in california. He is in jail awaiting trial. Prosecutors arrested and indicted him a week and a half ago, alleging that his statements to Law Enforcement about President Biden and his family not only were lies, but this man had been fed lies and disinformation about President Biden by Russian Intelligence. Despite those ties
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with the most important sales pitch in washington this week selling the deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the call that was scheduled for two hours ago has not happened yet. a default could be disastrous to the u.s. and that threat still looms ominously. up on capitol hill there are lawmakers from both parties grumbling. passage is not guaranteed at this point. let s go to priscilla alvarez. what is there to make of this biden/mccarthy phone call. do we think that s going to happen any time now? any update on that? reporter: there s every expectation that this call will happen. it hasn t happened yet according to a source i spoke with half an hour ago. president biden when he arrived at the white house earlier this afternoon did say that the intent of this call was to, quote, dot the is and cross the ts. when asked weahether there were any sticking point, he said none. throughout the day, w
hundred concrete recommendations, jim, with direct deadlines about when they ll deliver on it. it s fairly stunning in a really positive way. let s listen to what the president had to say about that. let s listen to that. it s on all of us to stop it. we must say clearly and forcefully, anti-semitism and all forms of hate and violence have no place in america. silence is complicity, cannot remain silent. i will not remain silent and you should not either. silence. that seems to be part of this. folks sitting on the sidelines, not objecting to it, i guess, sticking their heads in the sand, is that part of this too. is that part of the problem? entirely. one of the pillars of this four-part plan is reversing the normalization of anti-semitism. and when athletes, entertainers,
discussed but they are neither recommended nor dismissed. it is reliable that commissioners did not practice civil disobedience in regard to their charge and service of a vision for real reform. the left is not happy about sort of the lack of concrete recommendations i would change the court as it currently is. i wish the commission would ve said we are against court packing gives every knows we shouldn t do that. unfortunately i think what is going to happen is if we get a good pro-life decision for the united states supreme court in the mississippi law, i think you re going to see a move the very next day to go back to this court packing scheme. and i just think that is where it is going to go. and there will be all kinds of pressure on president biden to do it and get rid of the filibuster to do it. let us hope that doesn t happen. we need the courts to say the number has been and should always be. that is how the process should bring. but democrats are willing to get rid of the f