right now, a high stakes meeting behind closed doors adds congress clashes over trillions of dollars. house speaker kevin mccarthy wants to force president biden to the negotiating table. the big problem, his own party might not be on board with his plan to hold a vote today. the clock is tick to go cut a deal. rolling out the red carpet. the nuclear threat when president biden is preparing for a state visit with south korea s president this morning. we will bring you those important moments ahead. an urgent manhunt across multiple states after four detainees escape a mississippi jail, one of them suspected of shooting and killing a man right after he got out. the latest from police coming up on cnn news central. we begin on capitol hill where right now republican house leadership is meeting behind closed doors discussing a big course reversal in their one-year plan to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion while making deep spending cuts. speaker kevin mccarthy and
e. jean carroll takes the stand in her sexual battery case against the former president. the new warning that the judge issued just moments ago. and a race to get four mississippi jail escapees back in custody. one of the men is now accused of killing someone after he broke out of jail. we are following these major developing stories and all coming in to cnn news let s begin on capitol hill where there has been a shift this morning, it seems. house republican leaders are now confident that they have the votes to pass speaker mccarthy s $1.5 trillion debt ceiling bill and while there were big questions and probably still are, they could still vote today. do you hear all of the caveats i m throwing into this? what did kevin mccarthy have to throw in on to get all of this? manu what is the very latest you re hearing about this? there have been months after negotiations will pass the house as soon as today. it will require 218 votes in the republican-controlled votes
negotiate. as vice president he put the bide em team together to negotiate. the democrats have done this every time. when president trump was in, nancy pelosi said you cannot pass a debt limit without having negotiations on spending. this is how it is happened all of the time before. the senator at the time, senator b biden, voted four times to raise the debt limit if they did something on the fiscal end and then when he voted it against it, he only voted against it thinking the economic changes didn t go far enough. so what has changed mr. president? you ve gone so fares you won t even negotiate to put america in debt? that is not how the leader of the free world should act. that is not how america wants to you act. you said at the very beginning we had to show you a plan, and not only did we show you a plan, we re the only ones to pass a plan. so i think it is up to you now, whether the economy goes in any trouble, it is you. because the republicans raised the debt limit. y
, we are getting word of the suspects of five killings in texas have not been captured. the fbi will hold the news very soon. the alleged killer was asked by neighbors to stop shooting before he turned the gun on them. a nine-year-old boy and his mother or among those who were senses the kilt. the suspect is an undocumented immigrant who have been deported four times over the last decade, so we will get the news conference to you as soon as it happens just a short time for now but that is where cnn s at 11 there is in texas right now. it, what do we know about this arrest? we know that town of cut and shoot texas, which is about 10 to 11 miles north of where we are here in cleveland area texas, which is about an hour s drive north of houston. in the four days that francisco oropeza has been on the run from law enforcement, he has not traveled a great distance. i think what we have seen over the last couple of days with patrols in the area, there s always this inclination
the lead starts right now. a critical vote possibly just minutes away as speaker mccarthy pushes house republicans to sign off on his debt limit plan. i ll speak on one holdout about the offers. clemency request denied. a parole board votes against sparing the life of kdeath row inmate in oklahoma. plus, disney versusdy san tis. the major new lawsuit accusing the florida governor of weaponizing his political power. everyone. i m in for jake tapper today. we start with our politics lead. do they have the votes? right now, house republicans are in the middle of last-minute negotiations as house speaker kevin mccarthy tries to get his party s debt ceiling plan across the finish line. we expect that vote to start in minutes. he had zero democratic support, and he can only lose four republicans, a narrow margin that forced him to make some 11th hour concessions. but even if he can get this bill across that finish line, it is dead on arrival in the democrat controlled senate