the debt ceiling has been hit and the treasury department is starting to take extraordinary steps to avoid default. the devastating results that could have on our economy. does kevin mccarthy even have a plan? and then, rupert murdoch under oath. the lies told on his network promoting the big lie. his testimony is significant in the case where truth matters. and the george santos saga continues, he is now accused of swindling a disabled veteran and his dying dog as the 11th hour gets underway on this busy thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. buckle up kids, the u.s. just hit it debt limit and the stage is now set for a major partisan battle in washington. today treasury secretary janet yellen told kevin mccarthy extraordinary steps are now underway so that the u.s. can keep paying its debts until early june, but she urged congress to act promptly to protect the full faith and credit of the united states. that means an increase in the debt ceiling,
here from our nbc team, with the department of justice saying to republicans on the hill, hey, bring it on. the new letter to house oversight. and what it said about any possible cooperate on new congressional investigations. plus the white house going public against a private group who they are now labelling a transnational criminal organization, we ll talk about the sanctions imposed today. and i m hallie jackson and i want to bring in senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell joining us live from outside of the white house. i want to start with you here. and what we ve just heard now, from president biden, as he is casting his eye toward 2024, although with no formal announcement. at least toward the next two years of his presidency. while also having to manage the political footballs that he s got on his plate right now. to mix a metaphor and i m sorry about that. the white house has just released a clip of a conversation between the president and his vp. i want
the shooter. also this morning in washington, the fbi conducting a historic search of president biden s home in coordination with his attorneys and finding more classified documents now as the white house deals with the legal implications, the political fallout is also getting worse. a warning from russia this morning. if germany sends its leopard 2 tanks to the war zone, ukraine will pay. this comes as two major western allies are locked in a standoff. a tv weather man jumped on the subway by a group of teenagers after he tried to help an elderly man. now these teens are free. cnn this morning starts right now. we ll start here in. after the massive manhunt, the gunman is dead, the sheriff said he shot and killed himself in his own van when police tracked him down hours after the mass shooting. we re told that he also went to a second dance studio to kill even more people, but the people inside were able to wrestle his gun away. cnn has learned the gunman was a fre
festive nights of the year. how this case is an outlier on so many levels, from the age of the suspect to the age of the victims, to the town where it happened, traditionally known as one of the country s best places to live. plus, democratic congressman ruben gallego wants wants to che arizona independent kyrsten sinema for her senate seat. how it could pave the way for something we rarely see, a three-way race that could help decide control of the senate. finally, yeah, it may be hard to believe, but we have entered year four of the covid pandemic. how do we balance the fact all of us are ready for this to be over with with the fact that we are still averaging nearly 50,000 new cases every week? we will start in southern california where police are trying to put the pieces together in one of the more unusual mass shootings in recent memory. a 72-year-old man is accused of opening fire inside a popular dance hall in monterey park. it was filled with mostly senior citizen
we re expecting a briefing from california authorities any moment on the latest on the search for a mass shooter in the los angeles suburban of monterey park, california. ten people are dead and at least ten more are in the hospital. i want to get straight to natasha chen who is on the scene. natasha, what more can you tell us? reporter: dana, we are expecting an update really soon here. so we ll step aside if they begin speaking. we are at a roadblock here a couple blocks away from the business where this happened. what police have told us so far is that last night at 10:22 p.m. they were called to shots fired at the star ballroom dance studio on grar arvey street whe there were lunar festivities going on. they say when police went inside they found additional gunshot victims. there were ten people pronounced dead on the scene and at least an additional teen people taken to local hospitalsment right now there is very little information about the suspect who left the scene.