we ll see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. so we are on to the united states senate, where things might take a while, because of the fact that the amendments are allowed, as you pointed out. but it is pretty clear that chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell are going to get this thing through the senate intact. they sure are. it s clear that tim kaine has a lot of, he is wounded, i think, in many ways, by the way the white house put the mountain valley pell plane in the steel. but it sounds lake the democrats believe they need to be the adult in the room and set aside the personal concerns and ultimately say yes to something they never wanted to be part of to begin with. well, democrats, of course, have the curse of responsibility. yeah. they are the responsibility party. the other party is the not serious party, and so democrats frequently found themselves casting difficult votes in
all right, good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we are watching right now debate wrap up at this hour, as the house gets ready to vote on the crucial debt ceiling deal. that s the speaker of the house speaking right there. earlier today, the republican proposal passed a key procedural vote, but it only passed with the help from democrats. it did not have the votes to pass it on their own, after 29 republicans defected. as of now, the bill is being discussed on the floor. it s expected to pass within the hour, despite that fairly significant republican opposition. this debt ceiling vote has been a crucial task for house republicans. for the moment, they took control in january, the big question was how the maga caucus, the majority of whom, let s remember, voted for trump s coup on january 6th, after the sacking of the capital, how are those folks going to actually govern? empowered with one of the two houses of congress. one half of one third of the federal governme
degree murder and home invasion in the shooting death of his estranged wife. the tv appearance from three years ago did not come up at the trial but the marital troubles were central to the prosecutor s theory of the motive in that case. thanks for joining us. cnn tonight starts with alisyn camerota right now. that was a plot twist, abby, that i did not see coming. i thought that was your kicker. do not kill your wife. that s not a good idea. thank you for sending us off on that message. we will all take that to heart, abby, thank you very much. see you tomorrow. evening, everyone. we re awaiting the senate vote on the debt ceiling bill. we ll take you live to capitol hill to see if there are any last-minute obstacles. more follow-up to donald trump caught on tape discussing i classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. now team trump is trying to defend the former president with an array of different excuses, so we will fact check what they re sayi
good evening. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. in just the past few minutes, the house voted to pass the debt limit bill. this is a huge relief for president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy and you can argue, the global financial system. a vote could happen in the senate as soon as tomorrow. we ll take you live to capitol hill. plus, first on cnn, the justice department has an audio tape of donald trump at a meeting in the summer of 2021 acknowledging that he kept a classified pentagon document after he was out of office about a potential attack on iran. sources say he suggested he would like to share that info with a group of people at his golf club but he was aware that there were limits to his ability to declassify documents. that, of course, is the opposite of what he later claimed that he could just declassify anything by thinking about it. what does this development mean for the special counsel investigation? a lot more only in a moment. and neil de grassi is
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