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
which all other rights depend. if you can t defend yourself, te can t defend your family and your property, you don t have any rights at all. you re a l.. by definition. so you may be wondering in this moment of creeping authoritarianism, how is the right to self defense doing in our country? ou we can give some kind of long lecture, but instead, how about some examples? consider two shootings that took place at gas stations in the past year in the united states . the first shooting occurred around two p 2:0m.m on october a the state of missouri, a twentyo three year old felon called javon taylor with a long criminal record convictiontaylor armed robbery, for example, began threatening a female clerk, apparently becausn es st the gas station didn t carry the kind of cigars that he wanted. that s when an off firemanat sw called anthony santae, who was inside, decidehed to step in.or. he told javon taylor to leave ty the storloe. response to that, taylor began threatening h
continues and it is a lot of news on cnn with wolf blitzer, the one and only in the situation room, have a good weekend happening now, president biden tries to bounce back from his struggles out there on the debate stage. holding a fiery campaign rally today. and volley to win the election. but many democrats are in panic mode right now suggesting at least privately, he should consider sinner stepping aside. i get reaction from a key house democrats. this hour also tonight, donald trump is seizing on president biden s performance and slamming him as incompetent trump team celebrating as their candidates. so many debate lies were overshadowed by president biden s troubles. this hour, we re getting a new read on how cnn s historic presidential debate played in key battleground states that could decide the election talking to voters in the pivotal swing state of pennsylvania welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. a, you re in the
he s boasting about the fact that he that he canceled roe v. wade. i think joining us thank you to our viewers. thanks very much for watching our special coverage of debate night in america continues right here, right now on cnn with anderson cooper and erin burnett good evening from cnn headquarters in atlanta. we re just two hours from now. history will be made joe biden and donald trump s squaring off on the stage. we are showing you in the earliest ever presidential debate, the first ever between the president and ex-president the first in which one of the candidates is also convicted felon awaiting three other criminal trials and so much sets this debate apart from others, including rules tailored just for this occasion in and agreed to by both candidates. but there are so many unknowns about what will happen tonight. anderson, can president biden overcome the difficulties that so many incumbent presidents have faced in their first debates, can donald trump do what