brink of default. we re going to come together. because there is no alternative. everybody is working hard. the president ends his overseas trip with no deal in sight. is there still time to avoid economical amity. plus it is go time. i think in florida we showed what it takes to not just win, win big and then deliver big. desantis is finally set to announce his 2024 run but does he have what it takes to topple the front-runner. and hbo election nightmare. with 100,000 milwaukee absentee missing, every vote must be counted. the question succession viewers are asking, could it happen in real life? welcome to inside politics and i m abby phillip. with this morning, with as few as 11 days to go until a possible default, the full faith and credit of the united states till hanging very much in the balance. earlier this morning, during a news conference wrapping his trip to the g7 summit in japan, president biden called once again for republicans to move
japan s prime minister wants to double the defense spending including buying 400 american tomahawk cruise missiles to send a not so subtle message to china. no stranger to new york. he spent part of his childhood right there in new york and visited washington earlier this year. as you said back in january, when you were at the white house, i think the quote is we face one of the most complex environments in recent history, security environments. and i couldn t agree with you more. but i m proud that the united states and japan are facing it together. when our countries stand together we stand stronger and i believe the whole world is safer. president biden will be in japan through sunday. the trip was supposed to include three-point papua new guinea and australia the unresolved ceiling talks in washington has forced biden to cut his trip short. the president sounded optimistic about his talks before catching a flight to japan. i m confident that we ll get the agreemen
tonight about immigrants at the border. the governor of texas is now launching a new tackle force there point fingers and do little else. jacqui heinrich at the white house with the president s slumping approval data and the latest on the expiration of title 42 we begin with correspondent bill melugin along the border in brownsville, texas. good night good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. texas governor greg abbott made a major announcement today saying is he going to be deploying several hundred elite texas soldiers down here to the southern border equipped with riot gear in an effort to block any mass migrant crossings into his state. is as we are now just three days away from the end of title # 2 and, already, we are seeing record high illegal crossings. president biden s open border policies is going to cause a catastrophic disaster. bill: today, texas governor greg abbott announced the formation of a new elite border response force made up of hundr
cnn this morning continues right now. deep uncertainty on capitol hill over kevin mccarthy s plan to lock down the votes to get this passed. when you maxed out your credit cards, it s a pretty good time to evaluate your spending habits. no one in this country can afford the risk of default which is why republicans should take it off the table. e. jean carroll expected to take the stand today. they say donald trump raped carroll in a dressing room. trump s lawyers say she schemed. and two other women will testify who allege that trump forced himself on them can also take the stand. mastermind of the 2021 suicide bombing at kabul airport has been killed by the taliban. the white house hasn t said when he was killed or how. the chairman of the house foreign relations committee said, quote, any time a terrorist is taken off of the board is a good day. but this does not diminish the biden administration s call pablt. culpability. incompetence, that s how
america s gun violence epidemic. plus, ruben gallego joins me here in the studio as he launches his bid to evict conservative former democrat kyrsten sinema from the senate. and the latest from the devolder files. george santos claims to have been mugged on one of the busiest and fanciest avenues. when it comes to the january 6th assault on the capitol and the attempt to subvert our democracy, the wheels of justice are indeed actually turning. in the two years since the insurrection, the department of justice has made more than 950 arrests. nearly 500 of those people have pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges. at least 40 have been found guilty at contested trials. just yesterday, four members of the extremist group the oath keepers were found guilty of the most serious charge lobbed in the attack, seditious conspiracy. this follows november s conviction of two other oath keepers including the group s leader, elmer stewart rhodes under the same charge. and righ