i m yasmin vossoughian on a very busy start afternoon. breaking news, the president just signed the debt ceiling bill. into law. it happened just a couple of moments ago. it comes after the president took a victory lap, a victory many thought he could not achieve. i know bipartisanship is hard. and unity is hard. we can never stop trying. because in moments like this one, the ones we just faced, where the american economy in the world economy is at risk of collapsing, there s no other way, no matter how tough our politics get, we need to see each other not as evident adversaries, as fellow americans. fellow americans. right now in iowa, a cavalcade of gop presidential candidates, all in one place. with one notable exception. that exception may have bigger things to worry about, new reporting on the special counsel investigation in the former president, and the document donald trump s lawyers cannot seem to find. all of that, plus, we are following the horrific scene in in
possible serial killer now on the loose. arthel: senior correspondent claudius in a west coast beer with the very latest on this. what more can you tell us? what s arthel residents are on edge one if a serial killer is preying on vulnerable women there. the bodies as you mentioned of six women have been found within 100 miles of each other on the sides of roads, in the woods or in remote rural areas always in the last four months. the first victim was found in february the most recent last month. 22-year-old ashley was found on may 7 after vanishing at the end of march. 32-year-old joanna speaks and mother of three disappeared at about the same time. her body was found on april 8 for the medical examiner said she died of blunt force trauma to the head and back. her death has been ruled a homicide. remains out bridget webster one week after gerry perry had disappeared in early march. also on april 24, the body of an unidentified native american woman was found there a freeway
all? was this all just bluff? when you say was it a bluff? just to be clear, you are saying your best defense would be that he was lying about the documents. possibly and president biden signing the debt ceiling deal into law, and inca drama that had the country on the brink of default. passing this budget agreement was critical. mistakes could not have been higher. if we failed to reach an agreement on the budget, there would ve been extreme voices threatening to take america for the first time in over 247 year history, and default on our national debt. nothing, nothing would have been more irresponsible. later this hour, i m gonna speak to congressman jimmy gomez who voted no on the debt ceiling bill. all of that, plus, let s put on a show. i want you all to know that i m not a man anymore. are you saying you are a lady not a woman, either. a group of teens who had a play with an lgbtq twist on the robinhood story, canceled by their school, r
economists say this one should not hurt the economy. joining me now is cnbc senior analyst, congressional continue, julie tsirkin, and nbc news white house correspondent, al allie raffa. i want to read a few notable things. jason fuhrman, the former deputy director of obama s national council says the fed will be happy. the economy needs cooling off and this takes pressure off interest rates in accomplishing cooling off. a jpmorgan chase analyst says the agreement could function as the equivalent of a quarter point increase in interest rates in terms of helping to restrain inflation, and ben harris, a former deputy treasury secretary says the most important impact is the stability that comes with having a deal. markets can function knowing that we don t have a cataclysmic debt ceiling crisis looming anymore. so, ron, explain that to us. explain what they re talking about. so katy, i m going to take answer number three as the most accurate one. i just think avoiding a debt
also tonight, new video showing a carnival cruise ship battling violent seas off south carolina. waves crashing in to the ship, winds gusting up to 80 miles per hour. hallways flooded. the ship returning to report nine hours late. the debt ceiling deal heading to congress. will it pass the house and senate before the new june 5 deadline? speaker mccarthy facing push back from some conservative republicans. president biden working the phones with democrats. our team pressing him, will this get done by june 5? the house vote set for wednesday. the abc news exclusive, a 11-year-old boy shot and wounded by a police officer responding to a 911 call from his home in mississippi. the boy describing what happens and what it felt like getting shot in the chest. authorities looking for a missing couple disappearing during across-country drive from tennessee to california. the couple last heard from in arizona following a reported altercation with her boyfriend in new mexico. the holida