good morning good morning, everyone. let s get started. it is wednesday, april 26th. a debt ceiling plan vote today. it s no the clear if they have the votes, right? president biden says he is going to veto the bill. sounds like they don t. also today, the taliban killed a suspected isis mastermind who was behind that 2021 suicide bombing at the kabul airport. that is when they killed 13 u.s. service members. this is according to the white house. the pentagon says the u.s. was not involved in that operation. also, the woman who says president trump raped her could take the stand today in her battery and defamation lawsuit against him. court is going to get under way in the e. jean carroll case. and the former ( gorepublica governor of arkansas is running so far in the primary. and kim kardashian says she is willing to step away from the cameras and become an attorney full time. our wide-ranging conversation coming up. cnn this morning starts right now. i like how
good morning, everyone. we begin this hour with breaking news overnight. last-minute changes to house speaker kevin mccarthy s debt limit bill. the rules committee worked through the night, ajudge at 5:20 this morning as mccarthy scrambles for republican support ahead of today s possible vote. breaking news just in. ukrainian president zelenskyy has just had a conversation with chinese president xi jinping. that s notable. they had not spoken since before russia invaded ukraine. also, a multi-state manhunt underway this hour for four inmates who escaped from a mississippi jail. one them accused of killing a man and stealing his truck after breaking out of prison. where that investigation is this morning. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin on the u.s. economy and breaking news. house speaker kevin mccarthy reversing course and making big changes to his debt limit plan in the early morning hours as he scrambles to try to get enough republican vot
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
i ve never met this person in my life, he said, in 2019 after carol told the story in her book she s not by type, he added a few months later in an interview with the hill. today, during carol s testimony, he called the case a made-up scam he said her lawyer is a political operative and that carol should have produced the dress she was wearing that day joining me now from outside the u.s. district court in new york city is nbc news correspondent ron allen. so ron, some very heavy testimony today. what else did carol say, and how was she how was she pushed back how did donald trump s lawyers push back against her testimony? reporter: they re going to zero in based on their opening statement on some things that they say are just unbelievable for example, she could not tell the jury exactly when this incident, this alleged incident happened she says it was probably sometime in the spring of 1996, but she has said she doesn t know the exact month, the exact date when this hap
attempts by other countries to evacuate their citizens from sudan have been abandoned because it is currently too dangerous to move. the head of the sudanese army says he can see only a military solution to the fighting. general abdel fattah al burhan has said he sees no room for talks with paramilitaries of the rapid support forces. in new york, the un secretary general antonio guterres appealed for an immediate, three day truce to mark the muslim holiday of eid. 0ur africa correspondent andrew harding has sent this report. another sunrise over khartoum, but still no sign of the promised ceasefire in sudan s shell shocked capital. across this vast country, hospitals are increasingly overwhelmed. these, the victims of a power struggle between two rival armies, a war that s being waged in crowded cities with no regard for civilian life. doctors can t even reach many of the wounded. 0ur volunteers didn t feel safe to go and to provide service apart from hospitals very close to