Arizona student arrested and accused of bringing AR-15 and ammunition to high school - CNN

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A student in Phoenix faces “a number of serious felony charges” after police accused him of bringing an AR-15 weapon and ammunition to a high school, authorities said.

Phoenix Police Department officers and two school security officers responded Friday afternoon to a call of a student with a gun on campus, the department said in a news release Saturday.

School administrators called police after learning of a possible weapon at Bostrom High School shortly before 1 p.m., the Phoenix Union High School District said in a statement emailed to CNN.

“During our investigation, we discovered the report was accurate, and local authorities intervened and confiscated the weapon,” the school district said in an email.

Arriving officers detained the male juvenile student in the main office of Bostrom High School, authorities said.

Police said they "acted quickly" Friday to arrest the student accused of bringing a semi-automatic weapon to Bostrom High School in Phoenix.

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Police said they “acted quickly” to arrest the student, who was found to have brought additional ammunition in his lunchbox and backpack, according to the statement.

School administrators placed the campus on lockdown during the investigation, according to the high school district.

The Phoenix Police Department’s Crime Gun Intelligence Unit is assisting with the investigation, and the department said it’s working closely with school and district officials.

Clark County Sheriff and Nevada Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo gives a victory speech during a news conference on Nov. 14, 2022, in Las Vegas. Lombardo ran against incumbent Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak.

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“We commend those who originally reported the possibility of a weapon on school grounds to adults on campus who immediately called police,” police said in the statement.

The police did not immediately release information on where the semi-automatic rifle came from and why the student allegedly brought it to campus.

The student’s name and age were not released because he is a minor.

His arrest comes days after an 18-year-old man in Farmington, New Mexico, used an AR-15-style rifle and two other guns to shoot and kill three people and injure six others, including two police officers, CNN reported.

CNN’s Andy Rose, Steve Almasy and Amy Simonson contributed to this report.

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The debt ceiling crystal ball - Fox News

"This is not going to go the way you think." Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode VIII, The Last Jedi

We don’t really know how the next two or three weeks are going to go on the debt ceiling.

In fact, it may take longer than two to three weeks.

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"It will happen before the markets get disrupted," predicted Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Fox News. "I’m not so sure about June 1st."

Of course, June 1st is the general deadline. Or early June. Or sometime in early June.

It’s hard to say. Even for the Treasury. We just know it’s around that date.

And seeing how Treasury may shift the due date – based on revenue flowing in the door – no one is truly sure.

The key is keeping the markets at bay.

The markets experienced a slight hiccup Friday when the talks hit "a pause," as described by lead GOP negotiator, Rep. Garret Graves, R-La.

Then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told FOX Business the talks would resume.

WASHINGTON, DC  May 16, 2023: US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)

They truly don’t have much track, regardless of when the deadline is.

But let us peer into the crystal ball and look at possible pathways which may consume the next few weeks.

The House is in session next week. The Senate is not. But a Senate recess is not expected to be the issue. The House likely goes first in this exercise – provided there’s an accord. And soon. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told senators Thursday that they were on call. He could summon them back to Washington on 24-hour notice.

McCarthy said he needs a framework by the end of the weekend. McCarthy also says the House then needs "three or four" days to process the bill. McCarthy insists that he will adhere to the House’s "72-hour rule." That means that if the House GOP sticks to the letter of the policy, the bill must sit for three whole days for members to digest it. Supposedly, the House would not make alterations to the bill. But Republicans made varying degrees of changes on their own debt ceiling bill and a border security bill just before the House debated and voted on their measures. However, the House could waive that provision and just put the bill on the floor if there is a time crunch – provided Members don’t cry foul.

So, if there’s a deal, don’t expect the House to tangle with this until the end of next week.

And while we cruise into the present weekend with towers of uncertainty, next weekend - yes, Memorial Day weekend - is a likely target for a weekend session. That includes Memorial Day itself. Several lawmakers with whom Fox News spoke groused about that possibility. Lawmakers like to be back in their home states and districts for Memorial Day parades.

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But, if the nation faces a fiscal crisis?

Time is of the essence.

Finding the right cocktail of votes in the House will be fascinating. The chasms between the sides yawn. This exercise requires just the right mixture of Democratic and Republican votes to pass the bill. Both sides must absorb quite a hit.

The House Freedom Caucus announced Thursday it would only support the House GOP-passed bill. In fact, the Freedom Caucus declared nothing should happen until the Senate passes that very bill. However, it’s impossible for that to happen. Moreover, the measure would never secure 60 votes to break a filibuster. In addition, Republicans carped for months that President Biden wouldn’t negotiate. It may be fair to criticize Mr. Biden for waiting so long to engage in negotiations. But it’s inconsistent to demand negotiations – yet require your opponent to accept your proposal.

So, things "paused" for a spell on Friday. The market rebounded slightly at the end of the trading session. In fact, the market was up for the week.

But the pause achieved something important.

UNITED STATES - MAY 16: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., address the media after a meeting with with President Joe Biden on the debt ceiling at the White House on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., also attended. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Both sides can’t appear as though they are giving up too much too quickly. McCarthy needs to show that he’s fighting for as much as he can in the House approved bill. For instance, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said that she was "watchful" of what the White House was doing in the talks.

"We should not reward the hostage takers," said Jayapal.

So once the House finishes the bill, the measure goes to the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., believes that any package negotiated by the President and Speaker can "easily" pass the Senate. McConnell has only been a bystander to this process so far. Some still believe McConnell may swoop in if things go sideways.

"He’s the best poker player in Washington," observed one longtime Senate hand.

If the Senate can forge an agreement among all 100 senators, it can move very fast. But if a band of senators objects, it can stretch out the process for several days. Running the Senate traps and breaking a filibuster could take close to a week.

And, if the Senate changes the bill, the measure must return to the House.

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That presumes that the House can accept the changes and vote for the revised Senate version.

This is why the House and Senate are really cutting it close if Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is accurate on when the U.S. may crash into the debt ceiling. It’s entirely possible that the Senate may not even finish the bill until much deeper in June. We’ll see how calm the markets remain.

"The big intangible is faith from the markets. It will be front and center," said FOX Business contributor Gary Kaltbaum. "The market will rule. Politicians will follow the market. And if it goes down, that will feed on itself. And potentially, there goes the economy."

Also, keep an eye on efforts by liberal senators, imploring President Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment to avoid a debt ceiling crisis. The White House dismisses this gambit. But it bears watching.

Section 4 of the 14th Amendment reads "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law…shall not be questioned."

There is a legal theory that the President could simply point to the 14th Amendment via proclamation or executive order and the debt ceiling question would dissolve.

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 16: U.S. Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) speaks to reporters as he laves a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden and congressional lawmakers continue to work on a deal to raise the debt ceiling ahead of the June 1 deadline, when U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the United States would default on their debts. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

No President has ever taken this path.

But not so fast.

The clause "authorized by law" is problematic.

One could argue that the debts incurred – above the current statutory debt ceiling – are valid because Congress authorized that debt via a "public law." Laws approving programs for veterans. The law establishing Social Security. You get it.

But one could also argue that Congress has approved no new "law" to account for the spending beyond the present debt ceiling.

That could create problems.

This would be subject to court challenges. Some legal and Constitutional scholars also believe the President would stand on shaky legal ground for this. Plus, the markets may not buy it. That’s an issue if the maneuver is so extraordinary that the markets lose confidence in the presidential declaration about the debt.

But, Democrats could also point to the 14th Amendment as giving the U.S. cover until Congress passes the bill.

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So these are scenarios of what could happen over the next few weeks.

However, remember the sage counsel of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. No matter what happens, "this is not going to go the way you think."

Chad Pergram currently serves as a senior congressional correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in September 2007 and is based out of Washington, D.C.

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Utah mom accused of poisoning husband with fentanyl in cocktail took out $2 million in life insurance policies on him - Yahoo News

PARK CITY, Utah — A woman who allegedly spiked her husband's drink with fentanyl and then wrote a children's book about grief after he died is now accused of secretly taking out almost $2 million in life insurance policies on him.

The allegations against Kouri Richins were raised in an amended court document filed Thursday that led to the postponement of a detention hearing originally scheduled for Friday.

Richins, 33, is charged with aggravated murder and three counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute following the death of her husband, Eric Richins, last March 4.

He was found unresponsive in the bedroom of their home in Kamas, about 40 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, after she made him a Moscow Mule to celebrate a business deal. An autopsy and a toxicology report found that he died from a fentanyl overdose, according to a probable cause statement.

Prosecutors said Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into the cocktail.

A year after his death, she published a book about grief titled “Are You With Me?” to “create peace and comfort for children who have lost a loved one,” according to a description on Amazon. She dedicated the book to “my amazing husband and a wonderful father.” It has since been removed from Amazon.

The court document filed Thursday alleged that in September 2020, Eric Richins found out that his wife had obtained and spent a $250,000 home equity line of credit on their home in Kamas, had withdrawn at least $100,000 from his bank accounts, and spent more than $30,000 on his credit cards.

Richins is also accused of appropriating distributions made from her husband's business "for the purpose of making federal and state quarterly tax payments and not paying the taxes," the document alleged. The stolen tax payments totaled at least $134,346, it said.

Eric Richins confronted his wife about the money and she agreed to pay him back, according to the document.

Eric Richins. (Walker Mortuary)

The following month, in October 2020, Eric Richins consulted a divorce lawyer and an estate planning lawyer, the document said. Unbeknownst to his wife, he changed his will, formed a living trust, placed his estate under the control of his sister Katie Richins-Benson, and designated the trust as the beneficiary of his $500,000 life insurance policy, according to the filing.

It further alleged that between 2015 and 2017, Richins bought at least four life insurance policies on her husband totaling almost $2 million. Eric Richins was unaware that she had purchased the policies, the document said.

Richins also allegedly changed a separate life insurance policy that her husband had to list herself as the beneficiary. The policy had initially listed his business partner as the beneficiary.

Eric Richins was alerted to it and was able to change it back to his business partner, the filing said.

Kouri Richins (KPCW.org via AP)

The document also provided additional details on Richins' alleged attempts to poison her husband with fentanyl pills she obtained from an acquaintance identified in court documents as C.L.

Eric Richins' family has said that she tried to poison him multiple times.

One of those attempts happened last Valentine's Day. According to the filing, Richins allegedly made her husband a sandwich and left it on the seat of his truck with a love note.

"Shortly after consuming the sandwich, Eric Richins broke out in hives and had difficulty breathing," it said. "Eric found his son's EpiPen and administered it to himself and slept."

Eric Richins believed he had been poisoned and told a friend that he thought his wife was trying to poison him, according to the document. Despite his suspicions, he stayed in the marriage because of his children, his family’s spokesperson said.

Late last February, Richins allegedly asked C.L. to get stronger fentanyl pills, the document said.

"C.L. initially stated that the defendant specifically asked for 'some of the Michael Jackson stuff' during this request for fentanyl, but subsequently conceded that the defendant may have made the Michael Jackson reference during her first request for fentanyl," it said. (The pop superstar died in 2009 at his Los Angeles home after having received a lethal dose of propofol.)

C.L. obtained the pills for Richins, the document said.

A medical examiner said that Eric Richins had five times the lethal dosage of fentanyl in his system when he died and that it was “illicit” fentanyl, not medical-grade. It is also believed he ingested the drugs orally, according to the statement.

Days after her husband's death, Richins allegedly had a locksmith drill into his safe, which contained between $125,000 and $165,000 cash, according to Thursday's filing. When Eric Richins' sister suggested that Richins should not touch the money, she allegedly became enraged and punched the woman in the face and neck.

The document alleges that last March 9 or March 10, after her husband's death, Richins told C.L. to leave more fentanyl pills in a fire pit at a home she owned.

Prosecutors said they needed more time to provide discovery related to the new allegations in the document, according to a motion filed Thursday.

Richins' attorneys said they needed time to review the discovery and prepare for the hearing.

"The State amended the charging Information and has not turned over discovery yet that supports it," Skye Lazaro, an attorney for Richins, said in an emailed statement. "Therefore we couldn’t be prepared to argue about the sufficiency of the evidence."

The new detention hearing is scheduled for June 12.

Alicia Victoria Lozano reported from Park City, Utah, and Minyvonne Burke from New York City.

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Disney cancels plans for $1bn campus in Florida amid battle with DeSantis - The Guardian

The Walt Disney Company is scrapping plans to build a nearly $1bn corporate campus in Florida that would have housed 2,000 employees amid its ongoing legal battle with Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis.

Josh D’Amaro, the Disney parks chief, said in an email to employees on Thursday that “changing business conditions” prompted Disney to reconsider its 2021 plan to relocate employees, including its imagineers who design theme park rides, to a new campus in Lake Nona.

The company was expected to spend as much as $864m on the project, according to the Orlando Sentinel, for a campus that would have served as a base for Walt Disney Imagineering and the Disney Parks, Experiences and Products division.

Disney’s decision to move the California-based Imagineering staffers across the country drew complaints from employees, many of whom said they did not want to move to Florida.

“Given the considerable changes that have occurred since the announcement of this project, including new leadership and changing business conditions, we have decided not to move forward with construction of the campus,” D’Amaro wrote. “This was not an easy decision to make, but I believe it is the right one.“

A week ago, the Disney CEO, Bob Iger, publicly questioned Florida’s interest in the company’s continued investment in the state. In a call with investors to discuss quarterly results, he noted that Disney employed more than 75,000 people in Florida, attracts millions of visitors each year to Walt Disney World and had plans to invest $17bn to expand the resort over the next decade.

“Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people and pay more taxes, or not?” Iger asked.

DeSantis’s press secretary, Jeremy T Redfern, wrote that while Disney announced the possibility of a Lake Nona campus nearly two years ago, “Nothing ever came of the project, and the state was unsure whether it would come to fruition.”

Redfern wrote that given the company’s financial position, “it is unsurprising that they would restructure their business operations and cancel unsuccessful ventures.”

Disney and DeSantis have been locked in an increasingly acrimonious battle that started in March 2022, when Disney’s then CEO, Bob Chapek, criticized legislation in Florida that would limit discussion of gender identity and sexuality in elementary schools.

DeSantis, who is expected to soon announce that he will seek the 2024 Republican nomination for US president, then moved to strip Disney of its longstanding self-governing power over Walt Disney World in Orlando. The governor argued that “woke Disney” should not receive special treatment in the state.

Disney called the move political retaliation over what should be protected free speech and sued the state last month to have the moves reversed.

Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign was quick to seize on the news, with the Trump War Room account tweeting that DeSantis’s actions cost the state jobs and investment. Linda Stewart, a Democratic state senator, called it “disappointing” that Florida would lose jobs.

Former congressman Carlos Curbelo, a Republican who represented Miami, praised DeSantis’s leadership during the pandemic, but said the governor was tarnishing his own record and dissuading businesses from coming to Florida or expanding in the state.

“This is first obvious negative consequence of an overly aggressive approach to governing and to politics,” Curbelo said.

Iger’s predecessor announced plans in July 2021 to relocate jobs from southern California to a new facility in central Florida, citing its “business-friendly climate”. While Disney has never disclosed the value of its investment, the Los Angeles Times reported that it would receive nearly $580m in tax credits over the next 19 years.

“I remain optimistic about the direction of our Walt Disney World business,” D’Amaro wrote. We have plans to invest $17bn and create 13,000 jobs over the next 10 years. I hope we’re able to do so.”

The company also announced on Thursday that it would close its immersive Star Wars-themed luxury hotel in Orlando in September, less than two years after it opened, as the media giant cuts costs throughout its entertainment and parks businesses.

Iger said in February that the company plans to reduce costs by $5.5bn.

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Texas sends ban on gender-affirming care for minors to governor's desk - CNN

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The Texas legislature Wednesday night voted to ban gender-affirming care for most minors, sending a bill to the governor’s desk that, if enacted, would put critical health care out of reach for transgender youth in America’s second-most-populous state.

Senate Bill 14 would block a minor’s access to gender reassignment surgeries, puberty blocking medication and hormone therapies, and providing this care to trans youth would lead to the revocation of a health care provider’s license.

The legislation was held up for days by protests and procedural delays by Democrats in the House. House Republicans approved an amendment that makes minor exceptions for children who had begun receiving non-surgical gender-affirming care before June 1, 2023, and underwent 12 or more sessions of mental health counseling or psychotherapy six months prior to beginning prescription drug care.

Children to whom those exceptions apply can continue their care but must “wean” off from the treatment with the help of their doctor. The Senate vote to agree to that change was the last step required for final passage.

“Here in Texas, we will protect our kids! Thank you to everyone who supported and helped pass my bill. I look forward to @GovAbbott’s signature soon,” bill sponsor state Sen. Donna Campbell tweeted after the Senate’s vote.

If signed by Abbott, the ban will take effect September 1.

Gender-affirming care spans a range of evidence-based treatments and approaches that benefit transgender and nonbinary people. The types of care vary by the age and goals of the recipient, and are considered the standard of care by many mainstream medical associations.

Though the care is highly individualized, some children and parents may decide to use reversible puberty suppression therapy. This part of the process may also include hormone therapy that can lead to gender-affirming physical change. Surgical interventions, however, are not typically done on children and many health care providers do not offer them to minors.

Some Republicans have expressed concern over long-term outcomes of the treatments. But major medical associations say that gender-affirming care is clinically appropriate for children and adults with gender dysphoria – a psychological distress that may result when a person’s gender identity and sex assigned at birth do not align, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

If Abbott signs the bill, it would make Texas the fifteenth state to restrict access to gender-affirming care for trans youth this year. Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning the care in his state Wednesday and Oklahoma placed their own care ban on the books at the beginning of May. Around 125 bills that target LGBTQ rights, especially health care for transgender patients, have been introduced nationwide this legislative session, according to data compiled by the American Civil Liberties Union.

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8-year-old girl dies in Border Patrol custody - Yahoo News

A U.S. Border Patrol agent directs asylum seekers near the U.S.-Mexico frontier. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press)

An 8-year-old girl died in Border Patrol custody in Texas on Wednesday, officials said.

The death occurred at a local hospital.

"The child and her family were in custody at the Harlingen Station where she experienced a medical emergency," U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. "Emergency Medical Services were called to the station and transported her to the local hospital where she was pronounced dead."

Customs and Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating, and the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general has been notified.

This appears to be the first death of a child in border custody since 2019, when the death of a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy led several politicians to decry the Trump administration's immigration policies and vow to investigate.

The Biden administration had struggled to manage an increase in migrants arriving at the border ahead of last week's end of the controversial Title 42 policy, which allowed agents to expel migrants quickly without providing them access to the asylum system. Although border crossings have fallen since the policy expired Thursday, the number of people in Border Patrol custody ballooned to more than 28,000 last week, above normal capacity.

Administration officials had been relying on a policy that allowed them to quickly release migrants without court notices to prevent what they said would be dangerous overcrowding. A federal court in Florida later blocked that effort.

In recent days, the number of migrants crossing has dropped dramatically.

Homeland Security officials said this week that since the expiration of Title 42, border agents have encountered about 4,400 migrants a day, down from more than 10,000 per day early last week.

As of Sunday, according to court records, the number of migrants in custody had dropped to just over 22,000.

“It is too early, but the numbers that we have experienced over the past two days are markedly down over what they were prior to the end of Title 42,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said on CNN on Sunday.

U.S. officials warned in court records last week that without the ability to quickly release people they would face difficulties.

“At the current operational pace, and without any additional measures such as Parole with Conditions, [Border Patrol] would have over 45,000 individuals in custody by the end of the month. Further, the [Homeland Security Department] Chief Medical Officer has concluded that ‘current conditions pose an increased risk of adverse health outcomes,’” a filing from the Department of Justice said.

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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State Department will allow House Foreign Affairs Chairman to view Afghanistan dissent cable - CNN

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The State Department will allow the top two members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to view a dissent cable on the withdrawal from Afghanistan at the State Department – a significant concession to Republican Chairman Michael McCaul ahead of a planned resolution to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress.

“In our letter to the committee today, we will invite Chairman McCaul and Ranking Member Meeks to view the dissent channel cable here at the State Department in camera with appropriate personal information redacted,” State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said Wednesday.

“Chairman McCaul himself has said that this is what he is interested in, and so it is our sincere hope that our offer here will sufficiently satisfy their request for information,” Patel said at a department briefing.

Patel said the letter would be sent later in the day.

The move comes after McCaul announced earlier Wednesday that the committee planned to mark up a resolution next week to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the classified cable, which McCaul subpoenaed in late March.

“it is unfortunate that the House Foreign Affairs Committee has continued to pursue this even before the State Department had the opportunity to respond to the Chairman and the committee,” Patel said of the planned resolution markup, and reiterated that the department believes “that we have provided sufficient information through our classified briefing, through the written summary, and we believe that these efforts already should have and would satisfy their request for information.”

Asked by CNN why the State Department did not offer the private review of the cable from the get-go, Patel emphasized the State Department’s argument about the need to protect the “integrity” of the dissent channel. He said he believes that review will protect that integrity of the channel.

“In any information request with a congressional body, there is a natural accommodation and discussion process, and we were engaged deeply in that and continue to be engaged deeply in that,” he added.

“I will also note that at every turn, the State Department has offered legitimate and sufficient steps forward to convey the information that was requested. We have even before this new Congress was sworn into office we have understood the importance of legitimate oversight requests and requests for legitimate information on the time period of our evacuation from Afghanistan, but on other foreign policy issues as well, and so we have engaged with Congress on all of the matters in good faith,” he said.

CNN’s Alayna Treene and Melanie Zanona contributed reporting.

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