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British for now, but after todays agreement, not for much longer. The islands are all uninhabited, save for one. An important one. DieGo garcia. It is home to a vast and secretive american Military Base, used to refuel bombers during the wars in iraq and afghanistan. Foghorn but for years, the Island Nation of mauritius has been staking claim to the ChaGos Islands, planting their flag on one of the tropical atolls here and demanding that britain give up what some have called the uks last colony ...

You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta. It is a busy evening on capitol hill. Over the last several hours, lawmakers have dramatically backed away from the brink of a Big Government shutdown. Were not Out Of The Woods yet. With surprising speed and bipartisanship, the house passed a stopgap Spending Measure that would fund the government for the next 45 days. The white house has signaled the president will sign it. First it has to get through the senate and that vote may have hit a dela...

Breaking news from capitol hill. Any moment now House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy is expected to hold a gaggle with reporters, and we will bring that to you when it begins. This comes as two sources confirm reports the speaker will formerly endorse an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden, and as the House Returns today after a six week recess, lawmakers need to accomplish a lot before the end of the month. What more do we know about speaker mccarthys plans to endorse an Impeachment Inquiry . Well...

Enough. what a lot of folks are expecting to happen is theyre expecting to be a continuing resolution to kick the funding deadline to september. the underlying concerns and differences between the concerned stakeholders in this negotiation is not changing. conservatives are still pushing for steeper spending cuts. moderates want to hold back from that. and you have the large difference between the house and the senate where theyre marking up the bills at a far lower levels than the senate which ...

Supporters dont like this deal. its not giving him everything he wants so hes taking this time to say, im looking at it, im adding it, im working on it, trying to make it better. the deal is what it is. theres not a lot thats changed at this point and this is him sending the signal hes trying to work hard. yes, we hear hes likely to sign it. not only that we hear that he is likely to do one of these -- use one of these executive orders to find some money from other pots of money and take that an...

Country during the last shutdown as a blip. said its been recovered from. because this story has a possible shutdown at the end of this week, and i dont want people to forget that, that that could be end game here, i want to play a little bit more of the president on the shutdown possibility. well talk about it on the other side. >> i dont think youre going to see a shutdown. i wouldnt want to. if you did have it its the democrats fault and i accepted the first one and im proud of what we have a...

Possible shutdown at the end of this week, and i dont want people to forget that, that that could be end game here, i want to play a little more of the president on the shutdown possibility. well talk about it on the other side. >> i dont think youre going to see a shutdown. i wouldnt want to go to it. if you did have it, its the democrats fault. i accepted the first one and im proud of what weve accomplished because people learn during that shutdown all about the problems coming in from the sou...

Clubs. >> self-portraits. >> yes. >> classic charitable item, a portrait of yourself. >> thats right. >> so while thats happening, again, to remind you general flynn in a courthouse, the sentencing hearing were told has been underway now for roughly four and a half minutes. judge emmitt sullivan called that hearing to order there at 11:13, so we are going to stand by and find out precisely whats going on inside that courtroom. were going to ask our panel to stay put. well talk about that. also, ...

Shortly for the middle east where hell meet leaders in egypt, jordan, and israel. first high-level trip since the trump demonstration announced plans to recognize jerusalem as israels capital and move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv, possibly as soon as next year. defense secretary jim mattis says china and russia have replaced terrorism as the top national security priorities. the pentagons new strategy calls for increased investment to make the american military more lethal, agile, and ready to...

Ran for president one time and won. >> and president trump rattling off his resume there after his tweets that he is, quote, like really smart and a very stable genius. in a few hours, he is going to be back in the white house after spending the weekend at camp david with other gop leaders whom you saw there congratulating each other on their achievements in 2017. >> and making plans for this year. here is the presidents to do list. he says he wants to be very involved with the midterm elections...