cnn this morning continues right now. deep uncertainty on capitol hill over kevin mccarthy s plan to lock down the votes to get this passed. when you maxed out your credit cards, it s a pretty good time to evaluate your spending habits. no one in this country can afford the risk of default which is why republicans should take it off the table. e. jean carroll expected to take the stand today. they say donald trump raped carroll in a dressing room. trump s lawyers say she schemed. and two other women will testify who allege that trump forced himself on them can also take the stand. mastermind of the 2021 suicide bombing at kabul airport has been killed by the taliban. the white house hasn t said when he was killed or how. the chairman of the house foreign relations committee said, quote, any time a terrorist is taken off of the board is a good day. but this does not diminish the biden administration s call pablt. culpability. incompetence, that s how
good day, everyone, i m andrea mitchell in washington where the biden administration is bolstering support for close ally south korea in response of course to kim jong-un s nuclear threat, a growing threat for the first time in four decades, u.s. nuclear armed submarines will dock in south korea for what national security officials are calling official visits, but no american nukes will be deployed onto the peninsula as part of the new agreement. and the u.s. has agreed that south korea will have a role in any u.s. use of nuclear weapons in a conflict with the north joining me now, nbc white house correspondent and today co-host, kristen welker. also jen psaki and victor cha, senior vice president for asia and korea chair at the center for international studies. the biden strategy on north korea is nothing more than love letters from president trump and kim jong-un. that s absolutely right what we re seeing today is effectively this show of force, pomp and pageantry that
where he mistook carroll for his ex-wife. it s marla, trump said when shown the photo. that is marla, yeah, that s my wife. breaking overnight, house speaker kevin mccarthy reversed course in the early hours of the morning and changed the debt limit bill that he put forward agreeing to make two major changes in a bid to try to get enough republican votes to pass in the house today. mccarthy and allies scrambled to find a way to convince holdouts to back the legislation. they re accelerating work requirements and when they go into infect by one year. that was a major ask by matt gaetz, for example, leaning against the bill last night. the number two request, change leadership says that it would not repeal some of the biofuel tax credits that caused major heart burn for some midwestern republicans in the house. and the timing here is important. there is a new fear that government could default on its debt as soon as early june
House GOP leaders, struggling to shore up Republican support for their debt-ceiling bill, gave in and moved to preserve some, but not all, of the biofuel provisions that would be repealed or scaled back by the legislation.
house speaker kevin mccarthy is trying to secure the 218 votes he needs to win a floor vote on his widely contested bill to tie debt ceiling approval to major spending cuts on nondefense programs the plan finally made it out of the powerful rules committee overnight after a late-night deal to increase snap work requirements and kill sections that would have reduced biofuel tax credits. even if mccarthy can find the votes he needs, chuck schumer says the bill is dead on arrival but does give him leverage with the white house. president biden said he will veto anything other than a clean bill, just raising the debt ceiling to cover the expenses the government has already spent. mccarthy hopes the house passage will pressure the white house to start talks. for more, let s bring in nbc news capitol hill reporter ryan nobles and ryan buck