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awe >> greetings everyone, youre watching simone. theres a lot of talk on capitol hill about how speaker kevin mccarthys so-called been win -- but i have to ask, how can it be a win if the country is still at risk of defaulting on its own debt? congressman -- is here to weigh in on this and much more. former vice president mike pence testifying before a federal grand jury this week as part of the special counsel investigation into donald trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election res...

as we near the end of the year, theres a lot on my mind. as usual, most of it having to do with politics. i wonder, for instance, if the democratic party has learned any of the correct lessons from the midterms. a lot more congressman, pat ryan about, it just ahead. and it wont be long until the russian invasion of ukraine reaches the one year mark. well ukraine be able to keep forcing russia back? what do the off-ramps for peace look like now? plus, from abortion rights to protests in...

thanks for watching. >> takes it from here. thanks hes in uvalde as we speak, its the presidents second visit to the site of a mass shooting and just many weeks. we have live coverage of texas. also, some way republican friends say hardening schools into mass shootings is the way to prevent these heinous attacks. my question is, what do these 12 -- to be safe when asked the houston independent schools a. and were heading into the culture corner today, britney griners been detained in r...

This is al jazeera live from new york city. Parts of californias pipeline are closed today after a Big Oil Spill now the governor has declare add state of emergency crews are combing the shoreline. So far, they have scooped up about 7500 gallons of oil but upwards of 105,000 gallons leaked to a pipeline ruptures onshore, jacob ward joins us live. That is just outside of Santa Barbara. And jake, whats the latest oen the clean up effort there. Well, tony what we are seeing here is over 300 contrac...

Breaking news on capitol hi. The Government Shutdown is over. And the debt ceilins been raised. Brian webb tells us signed the bill of no strike tomorrow. First, we want to get to the breaking news of capitol hill of the Government Shutdown is over. President obama signs the bill 90 minutes ago. Brian. And the crisis lasted 16 days. The solution means hundreds of thousands of federal employees go back to work tomorrow and it keeps the u. S. In good financial standing around the world at least fo...

Im richard lui. It happened again. A mass shooting at ft. Hood, texas. Four Service Members are dead and including the gunman. 16 others were injured. It comes four and a half years after 13 people died in a shooting rampage at the same base. Nbcs Charles Hadlock joins us from ft. Hood today. Good morning to you, charles. We know the shooter is an iraq war veteran being treated for anxiety and depression at the time. What else have you learned . Reporter yeah, good morning, richard. Authorities,...

West palm beach airport, following the president s First Physical exam as president. According to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. Before leaving washington for this Martin Luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. And throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congres...

What the last ten years to host this dinner. >> i mean, for if you want to throw wolf, and she was a contributor, she was a correspondent. its just, i dont know, between nations and saturday night live, it seems that the press corps gravitate towards. its an honor, its also like, i called it almost like a deployment. where you just get summoned. first off, when you get the call for the correspondents dinner, its not, like him, and david lederman want you to come. its like, weve seen the eventual...

And offered to evacuate zelenskyy, because they thought kyiv would fall very quickly. indeed, the ukrainians have surprised us all. >> julia, volodymyr zelenskyy recently told david lederman that if there were no putin, there would be no war. but lets flip it around, how different with this war have been a volodymyr zelenskyy were not part of it? if he truly instrumental to the ukrainian resistance, cannot resistance survive if something were to happen to him? how crucial is he been to the story...

Ukraine back then. just weeks before the invasion, general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told lawmakers on capitol hill, it would take the russians three days to seize the ukrainian capital of kyiv. and that vladimir zelenskyy, the comedian turned president of ukraine, would be swiftly deepest or even killed. you know that turned out? i think we all do. despite the death and destruction, despite the millions of refugees fleeing the war zone, kyiv still stands. and so do...