uncovered classified material. they have witnesses talking about how it was handled after a subpoena was issued. also tonight the new york times reporting former trump chief of staff mark meadows has testified to one of the grand juries in that special counsel investigation. we will discuss all of this with the panel a little later. also breaking tonight, shocking news in the sports world. more specifically the golf world. the announcement hit this morning the pga tour is now merging with the saudi backed liv golf organization and the dp world tour to create a new power house in the game. the move is already raising questions about how some golfers and fans will react. what it means for the future of professional golf and why the sudden shift in messaging and plans from the pga. we ll talk with sportscaster jim gray up in a few moments but first up national correspondent william la jeunesse in los angeles with the latest. good evening, william. good evening, bret. you kno
start? with its the debt ceiling, do i go into the presidential politics, the candidates in the gop field? do i look at the investigation, the special counsel investigation? what do i start? with you tell me. i will tell you that point, the rnc, first debate is this august? like, are we there already? when did that happen? we are there, we are officially there, my friend. have a good show. welcome back, we must. you good to see you, enjoy the rest of your evening off. good evening, welcome to ayman tonight. warning, there are tapes, new reporting on the incriminating trump reporting about a classified document he had in his possession, after he left the white house. and then, the porcelain candidate. that is around desantis is being described after refusing to engage with reporters. but how long can he hide in his safe space? and republican rollback, the latest gop trend is loosening child labor laws. i will speak to democratic senator john hickenlooper, one of the
today three people are still missing and we re expecting an update any minute from officials. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. a big vote on capitol hill as soon as tonight. these two republican u.s. senators, florida s rick scott and utah s mitt romney, just told cnn s manu raju, the goal is to get a final vote on that debt ceiling bill tonight. it would go to the president s desk to be signed into law just ahead of that monday deadline or the government would otherwise run out of money to pay its bills. manu raju is on capitol hill covering this from the beginning. is that where the momentum, to get that done tonight so senators can go home for the weekend and don t want to interrupt their weekend plans? yeah, the smells of jet fumes in the air in the senate tonight as a push to get this done is intense. in fact john thune, number two republican who s deep in these negotiations to try to ensure that al
former president acknowledging he held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. also the vote that almost did not happen, just hours after it squeaked onto the house floor. and rattling russia. a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results, bringing the war in ukraine onto russian soil. prosecutors investigating the former president s handling of classified material have in their possession a recording from the summer of 2021, in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his resort in bedminster that he has held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn is reporting, this undercuts his argument that he declassified everything. and on the tape, as he spoke, it sounds like he was waving a piece of paper around, raising the question, was he holding the classified document in question. which goes to what kaitlan collins asked him at the town hall earlier this month.
before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my