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in iowa where a key battle kicks off not many months away. sir? >> no, thats not the case, neil. not many months away. look at what is happening here. you have a number of candidates coming to iowa. the former president will be here in a couple hours from now. hes doing that fox news town hall with sean hannity. he had a full day in iowa. close to the des moines area. the former president is just finishing up his final campaign event of the day. part of a two-day trip to iowa. got here...

speed bump. on the republican side, new skepticism over next weeks default deadline. and a day of raw grief and remembrance in uvalde, texas, where almost one year to the moment a gunman walked into robb elementary school and killed 19 students and two teachers, forever changing the community and the nation. well hear from one mother who lost her daughter, lexi, and is now demanding change. >> im hoping that seeing her face, hearing her story encourages other moms and dads to join us i...

a surprise visit and a major show of support. secretary of state tony blinken on the ground in ukraine and meeting with president zelenskyy. blinkens message for ukraine and also for americans back home. we are burning up. this summer were experiencing the hottest temperatures ever recorded in human history. is this the new normal? im sara sidner with the masterful kate bolduan and john berman. this is "cnn news central." ♪ later today a historic first in the various criminal cas...

Conservative end of this spectrum, echoing to their colleagues that they need to hold the line. congressman chip roy is one of those who put out a memo this morning reiterating what he told his colleagues in person yesterday, that he wants this to be a conversation where republicans continue flooding the zone with their messaging about needing to trim spending. democrats at this point, i think getting a little bit nervous about the way the messaging has played out on their side. im starting to h...

>> republicans believe the reason the president is going light on spending cuts and demanding the budget deal include another increase in the nations debt ceiling is clear. >> this isnt about getting a handle on the deficits or debt for him. its about spending even more than he already has. >> white house aides reject republican claims that holding the debt limit over the president head is the only mechanism to get him to trim spending. >> you are going to keep the debt limit goes higher and you...

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-- cant be engaged in iraqi trades for their own profit and create a resolution authority to wind down firms that threaten our entire financial system. no longer will we have companies that are, quote unquote, too big to fail. >> theres a difference between the u.s. and europe that mirror differences between democrats and republicans about whether the countries should continue to go into debt or whether they should begin to now -- in order to create jobs, whether they should begin now to cut tha...

Propose to cut, what, $60 billi billion? >> reporter: thats what it adds up to in general if you listen to republicans and how they describe cutting back spending to 2008 levels. your answer to the question to who is paul ryan, he is a very young guy, certainly an up-and-comer. he has already come, probably one of the most powerful in recent history. hes 40 years old and has made some waves in some of the things hes proposed in the past like ways to trim the budget, trim spending, from his persp...

The fact that they want to trim spending, the fact to make tax cuts permanent, the fact to repeal the presidents health care plan and there are some small pieces in here that i think are interesting and i should show our viewers and clearly bones, if you will, to tea party voters trying to placate. first of all, pledging weekly votes on spending cuts. also, pledging to cut congresss budget and a net hiring freeze of non-security federal employees. and a vote on every regulation costing more than...