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
ridiculing the effort by the special counsel to have a gag order in play put in place on the former president. they re calling it an unconstitutional overreach by the special counsel. and their say this is actually a ploy to help joe biden in the election. i ll read you some of what this filing said tonight. it says like manhattan district attorney alvin bragg jack smith is seeking to restrict president trump s camp campaign speed as the first presidential debate approaches at the end of the month, that s of course the debate that s going to be here on cnn then later this month, they go on to say the following. they say that the motion is a naked effort to impose totalitarian censorship of core political speech under threat of incarceration in a clear attempt to silent president s silence, president trump s arguments to the american people about the outrageous nature of this investment and prosecution. and look, what the former president s lawyers are really homing in on. and
A Missouri appeals court judge has denied Eric DeValkenaere’s request to be released on bond. Attorneys and legal experts said freeing DeValkenaere again would have been “rare” and “unprecedented.”
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s office has also received “hundreds of additional calls and requests from private citizens” on DeValkenaere’s behalf, the governor’s spokesperson said.