good morning good morning, everyone. let s get started. it is wednesday, april 26th. a debt ceiling plan vote today. it s no the clear if they have the votes, right? president biden says he is going to veto the bill. sounds like they don t. also today, the taliban killed a suspected isis mastermind who was behind that 2021 suicide bombing at the kabul airport. that is when they killed 13 u.s. service members. this is according to the white house. the pentagon says the u.s. was not involved in that operation. also, the woman who says president trump raped her could take the stand today in her battery and defamation lawsuit against him. court is going to get under way in the e. jean carroll case. and the former ( gorepublica governor of arkansas is running so far in the primary. and kim kardashian says she is willing to step away from the cameras and become an attorney full time. our wide-ranging conversation coming up. cnn this morning starts right now. i like how
right now, a high stakes meeting behind closed doors adds congress clashes over trillions of dollars. house speaker kevin mccarthy wants to force president biden to the negotiating table. the big problem, his own party might not be on board with his plan to hold a vote today. the clock is tick to go cut a deal. rolling out the red carpet. the nuclear threat when president biden is preparing for a state visit with south korea s president this morning. we will bring you those important moments ahead. an urgent manhunt across multiple states after four detainees escape a mississippi jail, one of them suspected of shooting and killing a man right after he got out. the latest from police coming up on cnn news central. we begin on capitol hill where right now republican house leadership is meeting behind closed doors discussing a big course reversal in their one-year plan to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion while making deep spending cuts. speaker kevin mccarthy and
e. jean carroll takes the stand in her sexual battery case against the former president. the new warning that the judge issued just moments ago. and a race to get four mississippi jail escapees back in custody. one of the men is now accused of killing someone after he broke out of jail. we are following these major developing stories and all coming in to cnn news let s begin on capitol hill where there has been a shift this morning, it seems. house republican leaders are now confident that they have the votes to pass speaker mccarthy s $1.5 trillion debt ceiling bill and while there were big questions and probably still are, they could still vote today. do you hear all of the caveats i m throwing into this? what did kevin mccarthy have to throw in on to get all of this? manu what is the very latest you re hearing about this? there have been months after negotiations will pass the house as soon as today. it will require 218 votes in the republican-controlled votes
president already threatening to veto it, are we all just racing towards disaster? and she just told a jury that donald trump raped her. she s taking the stand in her defamation and sexual battery case against the former president. why she says she waited 27 years to bring these charges. the world health organization is warning of a potential humanitarian crisis in sudan. hospitals at only 16% capacity and that laboratory seized by militants is now entirely without power. diseases such as measles, polio, cholera and worst case scenario could be leaked. we are following these major developing stories and more coming in here to cnn news central. we begin this hour on capitol hill where overnight, house speaker kevin mccarthy made a series of concessions on the republican debt ceiling bill to appease far right members of the house. he is hoping to pass that legislation as early as today. president biden says he s willing to meet with mccarthy but with one condition. here i
the search in several states across the south for the remaining fugitives now. 24 hours after declaring he is running for reelection, our mary bruce asking president biden about his age, whether he considered agent s own decision and if his decision to run would have been different had donald trump not run again. how he answers it all. columnist e. jean carroll taking the stained in her lawsuit against former president trump, declaring today i am here because donald trump raped me. the judge issuing a warning to trump s lawyer about the president. our parent company, disney filing a lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis accusing him of i targeted campaign of retaliation. click on how the governor is responding and what s behind all of this. tonight, the first call between president zelenskyy and china s president xi. what president she warned about nuclear war. back in the u.s. tonight three high school seniors under arrest in the deadly rock throwing spree near de