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we begin in the us, where the treasury secretary — janet yellen — has sounded a stark warning over the country's debt ceiling. this is the amount of money the us government is allowed to borrow to pay for pretty much everything they do. speaking to abc, she says that if lawmakers fail to raise that ceiling the us could be left unable to pay its bills by the beginning ofjune. it is congress's job to do this. if they fail to do it, we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making and there is no action that president biden and the us treasury can ta...

we will get reaction tonight to that and to the calls for a ceasefire. now is not the time, says labour leader sir keir starmer, who — in spite of the loud protests within his party — is backing israel's response. not an easy time though for america'sjewish community, with antisemistism on the rise at colleges and universities. with us tonight to discuss the fallout from the war. the former adviser to president obama's state department, joel rubin and the deputy comment editor at the telegraph, annabelle denham. maybe get her thoughts as well, on dominic cummings evidence to the ...

And myself and the other secretaries are working hard to pass this legislation. you know, the president made it clear on friday a couple of things he was concerned about was not enough invested in job creation. not enough investment in the climate. those are issues top priorities to the president and top priorities in moving our country forward. i want to commend the president, he spent lots of hours having conversations and some of the conversations were good conversations with trying to move a package forward in a way that could be a bipartisan bill, which i think is important to send a stro...

Protected status. that is going nowhere in the house of representatives where speaker nancy pelosi will bring a package of bills this week in the house that would expand border funding by a billion dollars. it is border security money and not border wall money. that is a key distinction. meanwhile in the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will bring a package forward that looks a lot like the president's proposal that would include an extension of the violence against womens act all intended to put pressure on democrats to break from their leadership in the senate and get on with the end o...

The big story was the torture report. this morning, new evidence measuring how much the revelations contained within that report appear to be resonating with the country. but we want to begin this hour with more on the funding fight. it's not really about keeping the government open, which is now tearing washington apart. within the last 36 hours we've learned how powerful elizabeth warren is. her influence in the wake of this only figures to grow. senator warren who sparked a revolt over a wall street-friendly provision in the bill to keep the government open urged democrats on the other si...