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♪ youre live in the "cnn newsroom." im jim acosta in washington. and we begin this hour with the war in ukraine and its global implications. the director of the cia confirms what cnn has been reporting that the u.s. is confident that china is thinking about providing lethal aid to russian troops in ukraine. the agency does not believe a final decision has been made. and today, the white house is urging caution. >> you know, beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it p...

now. president biden was wrong back in december when he predicted that inflation was at its peak and said this. >> i think youll see it change sooner than -- quicker, more rapidly than it will take than most people think. >> leader mcconnell is standing by. first, gene sperling. good to have you with used too. the question that comes up again and again is that the messages that we received from all left fields of the white house and treasury have been wrong. so how did you get this so ...

more children could die. ill be joined by correspondence to discuss the conservative leadership contest in the crisis in ukraine and the departure from iraqi politics. stay with us on bbc news. hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after two months of campaigning, and eight initial candidates whittled down to two, well find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be t...

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [laughter] >> greg: all right. dont clap. dont clap. so like paul pelosi driving down a 2-way street, pretty obvious that merrick garland crossed the line. and now the media realizes their whole narrative is falling apart like a pot roast in a hot tub. whatever happened to the story about the nukes? yeah, apparently trump stole valuable nuclear secrets he was planning to sell to someone. i dont know about you, but this seems like a strange career tran...

>> martha: molly, heres ron klain saying no, the net cost is still zero because we raised more than enough revenue to pay for every investment without raising taxes on anyone making less than $400,000, which is tough to figure out given all of this stuff a has been stripped out of here by senator sinema and senator manchin. >> they dont have a good idea how theyre going to fund this massive spending bill. again, remember, it was not that long ago that spending $700 billion on tarp was met with s...

Republican on the floor of the house can step up and say im not going to -- theyre now all in. there is no other way for them to go. i was rereading stuff a historian who wrote hamilton said that really applies here and he said without the facts we cannot have an honest disagreement. and i think that is what is going on here. >> even jonathan turley, who was the republicans legal expert, he criticized the call and said it was not perfect, but house republicans are so -- i dont know how youd desc...

Come on to the economic issues this is the basis of our strength and is the prerequisite for opposition in the world because if were not economically strong were not going to be politically strong and i am very pleased to have looked at or shown close junkers plan the investment fund which has had a considerable impact over the past few years and has five hundred billion euro is invested. twenty twenty three hundred fifty year already in the pipeline and a good program for better investment is s...

Growing and the infrastructure that partly still dates back to colonial times is extremely insufficient so the pressure on african governments to to finance infrastructure development is extremely high and now some organizations are lobbying for debt relief but experts say that that alone wont solve the problem if widespread corruption isnt tackled whats your take on that well thats absolutely true christophe i mean without a public sound public management of the countrys finances of course ther...

I just noticed weve got a couple outstanding members of congress here. weve got allyson schwartz. now, i just finished getting a tour of the kinects workshop. i have to say, it makes me wish that joel had invented this stuff a little sooner when i was a kid. back then you couldnt really build a roller coaster out of your erector set. and i also got a chance to meet some of the folks who have been working around the clock to keep up with the christmas rush, and thats a good thing. you know, these...

It. house republicans, house speaker john boehner included, went into a closed door session a few minutes ago. harry reid expected to be on the floor as early as 10:30, possibly a whole lot later if talks run long. he was supposed to be on at 8:00, then 9:00, now theyre saying 10:30 or later. talk of a deal to extend negotiations another three days, then another week. weve heard stuff a stop-gap deal was close, then there was no deal. right now the shutdown less than two hours away. were waiting...