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you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with the most important sales pitch in washington this week selling the deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the call that was scheduled for two hours ago has not happened yet. a default could be disastrous to the u.s. and that threat still looms ominously. up on capitol hill there are lawmakers from both parties grumbling. passage is not guaranteed at this point. let s go to priscilla alvarez. what is there to make of this biden/mccarthy phone call. do we think that s going to happen any time now? any update on that? reporter: there s every expectation that this call will happen. it hasn t happened yet according to a source i spoke with half an hour ago. president biden when he arrived at the white house earlier this afternoon did say that the intent of this call was to, quote, dot the is and cross the ts. when asked weahether there were any sticking point, he said none. throughout the ....
tonight now we know where the white house cocaine went. who was on that plane? chairman durbin has continued to block this. jesse: dick durbin still blocking the epstein flight logs. trying to kill me? jesse: now breathing causes climate change. plus if you could banything for just one day, what would you be? a french poodle. jesse: there s nothing quite like christmas at the white house. from winston churchill spending his christmas with the roosevelts in the midst of war, to jackie kennedy being the first first lady to decorate the halls with nutcracker ornaments and tweufrpb twinkling lights. but who can forget barny camp. everybody is looking for you and you re supposed to be working. here you are playing. i know you ve been out here a long time because you ve got snow everywhere. jesse: nancy reagan brought mr. t to the white house for christmas in a crimson santa suit with his signature gold chain. melania trump decked the halls with glam and ....
I spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. Twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. Its antisemitic in some cases and the platform. As the conservative Supreme Court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. We get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the Midterm Election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. As and as nbc noted democratic president s in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. Democratic president s in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 hou ....
conservative donors. this time directed to the wife of a supreme court justice. tonight, senator sheldon whitehouse on the ongoing cover-up in plain view, and what democrats will do about it. then, the former president s sworn testimony in his civil rape trial is released to the public. when you re a star they let you do it. historically that s true with stars. and breaking news from fulton county. this is not a game at all. eight fake electors have cut a deal with prosecutors. what it means for the criminal investigation of trump world in georgia. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we begin tonight with a question. just how much money has secretly flowed from right-wing donors and interest into the household and supreme court justice clarence thomas? and the reason we have to ask there s the stunning series of revelations one after another after another after another that we have seen in the last few weeks. the latest ....
cnn s casey hunt above that discovery. because of the intelligence community made this a priority after the direction of president biden, we enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace. we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things as the trump administration wasn t able to detect. we were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns. and that led us to come to understand that during the trump administration as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed american airspace, and american territory. okay, let me bring in our guest now. we have cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. political commentators era louis and scott jennings, and national security analyst john turner. sean, i wanna start with. you help us understand how the intel community can enhance their detection process and look into the past to see how many balloons floated over years ago. yeah, i ll say it s cle ....