with the grand jury investigating donald trump s attempts to overturn the election and his role on january 6. the former president reacting to john allen. mr. president, what do you think of mike pence testifying today? i don t know what he said. i have a lot of confidence in him. pressure rising. calls for president biden and house speaker mccarthy to restart talks on raising the debt ceiling and mounting fears over the real-world impact of a potential and historic u.s. default. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. for the first time in modern history a vice president has testified in a criminal probe about the president he once served. mike pence spent seven hours before the grand jury thursday in the special counsel s investigation of donald trump s attempts to stop the peaceful transfer of power and trump s role in the capitol attack. pence was brought in by jack smith early in the morning thursday after just the night before the appeals court rejected don
breaking overnight, russia launches the largest missile attack in two months on ukraine killing at least 20 civilians. this morning ukraine is promising to fight back. here at home, water continues to rise across the midwest and what is being called a slow moving disaster. there is widespread flooding along the mississippi river. and the worst is yet to come. former vice president mike pence testified before the special grand jury investigating former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll play for you what trump had to say about it. and a tense back and forth between donald trump s lawyer and the woman who says trump raped her which he denies. what it was like in the room during e. jean carroll s cross examination. we begin this hour with that breaking news out of ukraine. overnight, a deadly wave of air strikes, 20 people were killed including three children in a strike on a residential building in the central ukrainian city of uman according
this is the sunday show. this week, they are service in this marks 100 days under maga control led by speaker kevin mccarthy allegedly. it is also the bodies firs week back following an extende break, and their list of priorities continues to grow guns, abortion, leaks of classified documents, it may b the most important, the debt ceiling is the nation s abilit to borrow money to pay its bills is set to run ou sometime this summer according to reporting fro politico s, speaker mccarthy will be holding a conference call today with his republican caucus to finalize a proposa that would raise the deb ceiling for roughly one year but there is a catch mccarthy s budget proposal i reportedly i wish list of no starters for democrats including across the board cut to discretionary spending, climb back unspent covid relie funds, and stricter work requirements on programs lik food stamps. speaker mccarthy is expected t lay all this out tomorrow in a speech about the debt limit at the n
control back to the top of america s minds. yesterday, gop members wer actually in nashville tennesse for a private donor retrea with the future of the party was a central topic. trump gave the keynote speec there last night according to a copy of his remarks, - former president declared that older republican is gone and i it s never coming back trump defined that old republican party as a part known for starting wars, cutting social security an medicare, are offering amnesty to undocumented immigrants instead as part of his big return to the white house, h vowed to crack down on the border, pledged to vote, kee men out of women sports. and not to the current anti-trans women within th republican party what went unmentioned in his speech, however, was abortio and climate change those are two key issues tha animated younger voters an voters of the other generation even though other speakers a the retreat urge the party t move on from trump, he doe remain at the top of the repu
minutes. we will bring that to you when it begins. alabama governor kay ive tweeted, this morning, i agree with the people of dadeville and my fellow alabamians violent crime has no place i our state, and we are stayin closely updated by law enforcement has details emerge again, we are expecting a news conference momentarily and wil bring it to you as soon as i starts but for now we turn t the race for the 202 republican presidentia nomination as it gets going there is broader discussion underwa about what the future of the republican party will look like in a private retreated nationa this weekend that was a centra theme for speakers and attendees alike. former vice president mike pence and new hampshir governor christen uno both perspective personal strateg candidates that spoke at the retreat made big appeals to th republican party to move o from donald trump. the former, president however, gave the keynote speech last night. and according to a copy of his remarks obtained