plus, donald trump and the supreme court, the former president asking justices to intervene in the decision banning him from colorado s ballot. the argument his legal team is making this morning. and we are tracking breaking news of a shooting investigation at an iowa high school. the latest from perry, iowa, in just a moment. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, i m chris jansing in for ana cabrera. the list of famous men connected to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein just got longer as court documents that were kept hidden now go public. more than 900 pages of legal documents were unsealed in federal court, part of a 2015 civil defamation case against the late financier s convicted accomplice ghislaine maxwell accused of grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse. joining me now laura jarrett, and msnbc legal analyst and former prosecutor, kristen gibbons feden. laura, for years, there had been rumors, reports that bill clinton, donald trump, prince andrew, and others were menti
big moves in arizona cutting off building permits so they don t have to cut off the water and far-reaching effort to make sure that everyone in arizona has enough. and new research in breast cancer, and researchers fiending new results of clinical research. this is cnn news central. the important big development this hour, the us j tis department has officially closed its investigation into vice president mike pence and his handling of classified documents. this is when an attorney for mike pence found about a dozen documents marked classified in mike pence s possession. evan perez and katelyn polantz is with us. i am going to you first, kate. well, it is clear that the justice department is not bringing any criminal charges related to the discovery of classified records or records with the classified markings with them in the possession of former vice president mike pence. what happened to start this investigation, buzz that back in january, a lawyer had gone to penc
Everybody, especially my special late night hosts or whats left of them. James corden is on his way back to england. The rest of them are shutdown because their writers are on strike. Thats one way to make their show funnier. Who knew they had writer . On gutfeld, my writers dont strike, i strike the writer. And that was for writing a good joke. The only collective bargaining around here is which ones get to shave my back. Yes. But, there is big news out of arkansas this week. That has to be the first time anybody ever said that. Hunter biden appeared in court over a contentious battle. Hunter wants that reduced. I dont blame him. All those jobs and unqualified crack addicts have since dried up. Somebody got to take care of that kid. There is no such thing as someone elses child. There is no such thing as someone elses child. No such thing as someone elses child. Our nations children are all our children. Oh. That explains why he never asks parents if he can sniff near kids hair. [laug
behind us, end quote. not really. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer. he s in the situation room, actually he s replaced by alex marquardt today. i ll see you soon. happening now, donald trump brushes off questions about a report you heard first right here on cnn, that is, federal prosecutors now in possession of audiotapes undercutting trump s defense over retaining classified documents. we re also getting reaction from one of the former president s previous attorneys. in the senate the debt ceiling deal could come to a final vote as soon as tonight. even as members of both parties raise serious concerns. majority leader chuck schumer telling senators, they have to stay in session until the bill passes. and russia says that regions near the border with ukraine have suffered dozens of attacks in just the last day. the kremlin condemning international silence over the recent strikes on russian territory. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and
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