Its 4 00 in New York. A major hurricane, the largest city under indictment, ukraines president at the White House right now, and just 40 days to go until Election Day in america. No shortage of big stories, big news on multiple fronts today. Down in florida, Hurricane Helene is bearing down on the Gulf Coast threatening to bring surging waters that officials warn are, quote, unsurvivable. It is currently a category 3 but expected to strengthen before it makes landfall later today. Well get an update at 5 00 eastern. Then Vice President harris has just wrapped remarks in a joint appearance with ukrainian President Zelenskyy. One of the biggest Foreign Policy crises facing President Biden and the next american president right into the 2024 president ial contest. Donald trump lashing out at ukraines leader, making claims that could have come straight out of the mouth of Vladimir Putin. Well have all those stories and much more over the next two hours. We begin with the stunning News Right
good evening. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. in just the past few minutes, the house voted to pass the debt limit bill. this is a huge relief for president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy and you can argue, the global financial system. a vote could happen in the senate as soon as tomorrow. we ll take you live to capitol hill. plus, first on cnn, the justice department has an audio tape of donald trump at a meeting in the summer of 2021 acknowledging that he kept a classified pentagon document after he was out of office about a potential attack on iran. sources say he suggested he would like to share that info with a group of people at his golf club but he was aware that there were limits to his ability to declassify documents. that, of course, is the opposite of what he later claimed that he could just declassify anything by thinking about it. what does this development mean for the special counsel investigation? a lot more only in a moment. and neil de grassi is
classified documents case. evidence that paints a potentially damning portrait of efforts by the expresident in the expresident s push to retrieve important and sensitive security documents from that washington post report, quote, two of donald trump s employees moved boxes of papers the day before fbi agents and a prosecutor visited the former president s florida home to retrieve classified documents in response to a subpoena. timing that investigators have come to view as suspicious, and an indication of possible obstruction. according to people familiar with the matter. trump and his aides allegedly carried out a dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers, even before his office received the may 2022 subpoena. that is according to people familiar with the matter who spoke anonymously to describe a sensitive ongoing investigation. the washington post has new details on a question that has loomed over the entire investigation. what did donald trump do with his trove of
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news. yet another shootdown of a high altitude object. this one in the skies over northern canada. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau this afternoon gave norad the order to shoot it down and a u.s. fighter jet successfully just did that. it is not clear if it is related to yesterday s incident off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border. nor is it clear if it is related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. natasha joins us now along with paula newton. what do we know about this latest shootdown? obviously significant enough for the canadian prime minister to tweet about this in the last hour or so. and given the week we ve had with these objects, it is pretty predictable that he would want to be fully transparent about it. we were talking about norad, the north american aerospace command observed this high altitude object, confirm