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republicans in the legislature live doing what they were doing in the midnight hours of the closing session of that legislature which doesnt meet again until 2025. >> theyre out. >> two years. two years. thanks, chris. >> you bet. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so today was the big day, the day the man who was widely seen as the strongest potential competitor to president trump in the republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the bigg...

hello im sumi somaskanda. we begin right here in washington dc where democrats and republicans are scrambling to close a deal on raising the federal debt limit. there is still no deal in place but as many lawmakers leave for a holiday weekend, president biden has hinted a deal might be not be too far away. with regards to the debt limit, things are looking good, im very optimistic. i hope we will have some clearer evidence tonight, before the clock strikes 12, that we have a deal. but ...

welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing this businbusy news day with us. the president called the latest debt ceil ing meeting productiv and a sign of good progress. but kevin mccarthys morning after update is rather bleak. nowhere near a deal. this as the treasury begins checking how long agencies can pay their bills. plus legal quick sand for donald trump. his words at a cnn town hall push e. jean carroll to seek more damages and his instruct...

face a growing competitor-- online programming. [laverne] it would take a revolution for someone like me to have a career as an actor, and the revolution is netflix. youre right. [man] theres a new player in the original content game. uh, is this a bad time? [man] this flood of actors, writers, ideas just gushing into tv. i dont have time to explain lesbian shit to you. the people who are gonna change the narrative out there is us. [woman] theres an avalanche of new streaming services....

for radio 4 called frontlines ofjournalism, billed as your reflections on the most difficult stories you have covered. one of those is certainly ukraine. we heard the news that the afp journalist had died, killed, were told, by russian artillery. he was 32 years old and this is a conflict you know very closely. yes, he was killed somewhere in the east, somewhere near bakhmut, where i have spent quite a bit of time, i was there at the end of last year. these things are tragic and in all...

for a year, the countrys media—savvy president has declared war on gangs... ..imposing emergency security measures and giving police sweeping powers of arrest. thousands are now behind bars. and the country is transforming before peoples eyes. but theres a dark underside hidden from view. human rights groups are dismayed, as are relatives, as thousands have been arbitrarily arrested. peace may have come to el salvador, but at what price? teacher audelia has lived here since the late ...

where officials there have dismissed claims that the city of bakhmut has fallen to russia, after wagner mercenaries said theyd begun handing over control of the eastern city to moscows army. the battle for the city has been the longest and bloodiest of the war. this aerialfootage taken earlier this month shows intense shelling in a residential area, most people had already fled before fighting broke out. bakhmut is of little strategic value to moscow, but its capture would be a symboli...

he is pushing for more powerful weapons in his fight against russia. now, heres video of the ukrainian president. hes already meeting with the italian prime minister. thats the video youre seeing here. hes been asking for about eight months for f-16 fighter jets. finally the u.s. changing its stance and starting to train ukrainian pilots. that training, though, could take more than a year. overshadowing this trip, the impasse over the debt ceiling. >> it is definitely a subject of inte...

covers. lets start with this fighter jet covers. lets start with this fighterjet coalition, because this was something he was specifically asked about. the biden administration had originally said that wasnt really the way forward, or they hadnt seen it as a way forward. now they are announcing there is this coalition to train ukrainian pilots was to what has changed, because it was asked that specifically?— specifically? you know, sullivan _ specifically? you know, sullivan was _ sp...