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nation's debt limit after a last-minute rewrite. and we're tracking the speaker's efforts to get gop holdouts to get in line. joe biden strikes a landmark deal to send a nuclear submarine to south korea for the first time in 40 years. the president and his south korean kocounterpart going to n lengths to deter kim jong-un and his escalating nuclear threats. and oath, testimony by the woman who alleges that donald trump assaulted her decades ago. cnn was there as e. jean carroll took the stand. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you...

staff burned documents. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." ♪ ♪ tonight, transportation secretary pete buttigieg tells me the biden administration will hold southwest airlines accountable for the meltdown in its operations that has left thousands of flights canceled and thousands of passengers stranded. gabe, what is the situation there right now? >> reporter: wolf, thousands of travelers are still stranded. the lines to rebook here in baltimore have been more than three hours long at times tod...

Going to come up for a vote any moment now, should joe biden start actual negotiations with the speaker? >> i think that the president should always, you know, entertain talks with the speaker. but it's not going to be based on this bill. this bill is dead on arrival. you know, basically it cuts funding for science, education, health care, research, and even renewables. including the electric vehicle tax credits that my constitch wents and others are relying upon to buy their next evs. so this bill is going nowhere. but we should extend the debt limit. we should increase the debt limit and pay...

Former white house chief of staff mark meadows with peter navaro, one of the former president's top economic advisers. i mean, these are people with outlandish conspiracy theorys, and they were being talked about and trafficked in the white house. she talks about even the president being told by margie taylor green at a georgia rally, she said a lot of my constitch wents are i don't know and they'll all be there. >> the idea that it's being pushed by a adviser like navaro, saying take a look at this, these are good ideas, it raises questions about the type of judgment, the type of discretion t...

Either successfully or unsuccessfully. i think many members, and one of the criticisms i had, the way we handle health care in the house, is many colleagues saw health care reform as a speed bump on the road to tax reform. there was too much discussion about tax baselines, making sure the baseline is low enough to do tax reform, instead of talking about how people are going to be adequately covered. that made our debate in the house that much more difficult, and i think to a certain extent the same is true in the senate. >> what is the blowback that senator johnson would face from president tr...