Bret, good evening to you. Donald trumps closest advisers are spinning this indictment to advantage. Meanwhile his former number two, former Vice President mike pence who refused to overturn the results of the election is in attack mode. Former Vice President mike pence running against his old boss is coming out swinging. It wasnt just they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes and literally coas would have ensued. Indictment pence allegedly told trump he had no authority to do so, according to the indictment, in response, the defendant told the Vice President youre too honest. Trump is staying positive at least publicly. Posting on social media hours ago thank you to everyone. I have never had so much support on anything before. The 45page indictment lays out an overarching theme. The defendant lost the 2020 president ial election despite having lost the defendant was determined to remain in power.
new york city in the path tonight. rob marciano on this and the record heat. he s tracking it all. new reporting tonight on former president trump s handling of highly classified documents, abc news learning donald trump s lawyers were unable to find the sensitive document trump was allegedly recorded discussing about a potential u.s. attack on iran during the trump years. pierre thomas reporting. also a word coming into night that the cia director, william burns, has made a secret trip to china for the biden administration. martha raddatz standing by with late reporting. the senate passing the debt deal overnight, and president biden a short time ago addressing this from the oval office, on the bipartisan nature of the agreement, arguing neither side got everything they wanted. mary bruce in washington. also, major news on the economy tonight, the u.s. adding 339,000 new jobs last month, nearly doubling predictions. the stock market soaring today on the news. in california,
you. we have got a lot more coming, up everybody. you are watching msnbc, or second hour starts right now. starts right now hey everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian. if you re just joining, us welcome. if you are sticking with, us we are so thankful for that. collision course, the president in the air right now, flying back to washington and right into a debt ceiling showdown with speaker mccarthy. the two men sit to meet tomorrow sometime, to try to resolve the gulf of differences between them as they face a deadline. it could lead to the unimaginable default by the united states of america. my assessment is that the odds of reaching june 15th will be unable to pay all of our bills. it s quite low. based on what i ve offered, i would be blameless. on the politics of, it no one would be blameless. it seems as though he wants to default more than he wants a deal. speaker mccarthy is allowing himself in the entire nation to be held hostage by the biden republicans. just by
now, i will say, this is a great day to be a mouse. this is a wonderful day to be an infected mouse. this is not going to be on the market for humans any time soon. you have to make sure it is safe. okay. but this morning we ll celebrate for for mice everywhere. elizabeth, thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. top of the hour. not trying to scare you there. tell what you that was in a moment. in case you re traveling for the holiday weekend. so glad to have my friend erica hill with me today and next week. but that video was a flight in south korea, today someone parentally opened the emergency exit door while the plane was coming in for landing. no one was seriously hurt. this, here in the united states, summer travel season is kicking off and promising to be the busiest memorial day weekend since 2005. air travel roaring back after the pandemic. we ll take you live to reagan national as they face a critical stress test.
coming. a plus, to moccasin style in danger. fulton county georgia tsn enis drawing signal about how the president could be indicted. for trying to overturn the 2020 election. but, this indictment is just another legal liability for the guy who can explicitly still pull in strong with the gop. joins me in studio a little later to break it all down. later, unmask a medical racism, how the color of our skin could be the difference between life or death. we re going inside the fight for fairness and health care. all this is much more is coming up. a good sunday morning to you all, i am katie phang. we are going to start today show with an urgent new message from president biden on the debt ceiling showdown. it s time for republicans to accept that there is no bipartisan view to be made solely, solely on their partisan terms. they have to move as well. all four congressional leaders agree with me that the default is not, let me say it again, default is not an option. i expect