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january 6th select committee hearings, judge luttig called out donald trump and his cronies as a clear and present danger to american democracy. you will recall that when the disgraced twice impeached four times indicted ex-president was pressuring mike pence to help him overturn the 2020 election results, pence in his moment of legal need called judge luttig for advice and in no uncertain terms he told mike pence that legally and constitutionally he could not help trump do what he wan...

here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour, president biden today will sign the debt ceiling bill into law. averting a disastrous default two days before that deadline. the president is using his first oval office address to praise the bipartisan agreement, and stressed its importance. >> it was critical to reach the agreement. and its very good news for american people. no one got everything they wanted. the american people got what they needed. we a...

the battle for votes and mccarthys first big test all happening right now on capitol hill. lawmakers meeting over this debt deal with some hard line republicans and the speaker isnt just fighting for support on his agreement. he could be fighting to keep his job. and moscow is rocked. drone attacks hitting residential buildings in the residential capital, at the same time kyiv is facing a bombardment overnight. well have the latest from the front lines. and this could turn your sto...

good morning, everybody, it is 11:00 a.m. in the east. 8:00 a.m. pacific. im yasmin vossoughian. its good to see you. in just a couple of minutes, the president is set to deliver remarks on this memorial day at arlington national cemetery. were going to bring you that live, and youre seeing live pictures there. but first a major breakthrough on the bipartisan effort to raise the debt ceiling and save the economy from what would be a historic debt default. and now the race is on to get ...

you are live in the "cnn newsroom," im jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with donald trump arguing that lobbying owe election officials to overturn the 2020 election was within his official responsibilities as president. that argument was part of a brief filed last night in which attorneys for the former president asked an appeals court to dismiss his criminal election subversion case, one day after the supreme court refused to decide for now whether he is protected from pro...

the senate is on the clock. lawmakers are passing the debt limit bill that would invent a disastrous default. we are following the latest. trump is caught on tape :sources say federal prosecutors have a recording of him talking about holding onto a classified document. what could that mean for the special counsels case against the former president? ukraines capital is rocked again by russian missiles. one family is just devastated, 9-year-old girl and her mother are among the dead ...

>> lets do it. we begin with questions about our 80-year-old president. pres president biden was in colorado to deliver a commencement address at the united states air force academy. his remarks were quickly overshadowed after he tripped and fell over a sand bag on the event center stage. thankfully president biden was quick to get up and later joked about the incident while at the white house. yesterday wasnt the first time weve seen president biden stumble in public. there was the ti...

so were gonna move right to it. >> have a great show. >> thanks, alex. the breaking news of the night is that the colorado supreme court made 43 decision ruled that donald trump, quote, is disqualified from holding the office of president under section three of the 14th amendment of united states constitution because he is disqualified it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the colorado secretary of state to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. ne...

once again with already crowded republican field set to get even bigger. we are learning former new jersey governor chris christie is set to announce his bid for the white house on tuesday of next week with former vice president mike pence expected to launch his campaign the next day. meanwhile the already declared candidate sweeping through crucial primary states. former president trump returns to iowa with several campaigns with a town hall with sean hannity airing on fox news this e...

based on a fox news poll, the field has catching up to do. how is this race shaking up? lets go to julia manchester, kristen hahn and gop pollster lee carter. lee, start with you. governor desantis getting ready for a week where he will go to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. they sound familiar. how important is it that he makes traction in those states? >> its critical. hes message has to get big traction. it didnt last week. hes got a big job ahead of him. he has in many ways to ...