it is thursday. i m off tomorrow for my daughter s first play. this is very exciting. you re looking particularly beautiful this morning. oh, gosh. you are so sweet. it s true. we have a lot going on this morning. let s get started with five things to know for this thursday, june 1st. also i had mom s birthday. happy birthday, mom. really significant news here first on cnn. caught on tape. federal prosecutors have donald trump in his own words acknowledging he held on to a classified pentagon document after he left the white house. and told people he couldn t share it with them. this is first on cnn reporting. what does it mean for the investigation? and speaking of trump, his former number two mike pence about to take him on for the white house. pence will announce his run next week as will former new jersey governor chris christie. the house overwhelmingly passing that debt limit deal in a move to avert a national and global economic crisis. the fate of the bill w
we didn t to it by taking the easy way. right now on early start, can the senate now fast track the debt limit bill just days before the default deadline. plus the former president on tape talking about a document he kept. and the republican race for president heating up with mike pence and chris christie about to jump in. who is next. welcome to our viewers in the united states and arntround the. i m christine romans pl the bill is in the hands of the senate. yeas are 314, nays are 117. the bill is passed. last night the house overwhelming passed a bipartisan agreement cutting spending and suspending the debt ceiling through next year. speaker kevin mccarthy took a victory lap after the house passed the deal. i wanted to do something no other congress has done. that we would literally turn the ship. for the first time in quite some time, we d spend less than we spent the year before. tonight we all made history. because this is the biggest cut and savings this
about little changes, not that little, that do happen. they are smart but they all meaningful. they re meaningful. i think that s why you see a lot of tension in this country. because the progress happens in small steps, but it s happening. in palpable ways. it s happening. this evening was interesting, the speech by president biden, the address from the white house. i thought what was interesting about it was the quiet normalcy. the idea that the lack of superlatives, there isn t punditry all over the place. twitter is not it could be a tree falling in the woods. the president of the united states gives an important address. first of all. and it s okay. and said nice things about republicans and nobody set their hair on fire. that s the way it has to work. you pointed out, even in the obama days, it would ve been hard-pressed to pay a compliment to the speaker of the house. yes. that s what joe biden did tonight. the normalcy was the part that amazed me
even the kremlin calling this situation larming. what we re seeing as a completely new phase alaunching it in russia. we re very clear with the ukrainian that s we do not support attacks inside russia. the 2024 gop presidential race is about to get more crowded. mike pence will throw his hat into the ring. chris christie feels he s the only candidate that is willing to take on donald trump directly head-to-head. are they going to get in the race and tactually say somethin about him, to him? it s a difficulty. and the guide saved a climber s life hauling him down mt. everest for six hours. it was important for us to rescue him. we saved his life by coming down the summit. good morning, everyone. miracles do happen. i love that story. we ll get much more of that ahead. happy to be joined by erica hill. good morning. nice to be with you this morning. p. nice to have you. we start here. federal prosecutors obtained a recording of donald trump saying he
trump on tape acknowledging he kept a classified document after leaving the white house. what it could mean for the ongoing doj investigation. one of the most powerful bank ceos in the world deposed for hours in a lawsuit over jeffrey epstein s sex trafficking crimes. what lawyers want to know about jpmorgan s long time relationship with epstein. amazon will shell out more than $30 million after being accused of violating user privacy for years. this is cnn news central. we begin with a story you saw first on cnn. federal prosecutors now have a tape of former president trump acknowledging that he held on to a classified pentagon document and suggesting that he wanted to share it but had a limited ability to declassify records after leaving office. the tape is from a meeting at his new jersey golf club in the summer of 2021 with the team working on mark meadows autobiography. while cnn has not obtained the recording, multiple sources have described it saying the tape