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
china. erin? will ripley thank you very much for that amazing report. thank you for joining us. anderson is now. one for the history books tonight. former vice president mike pence testified today before the federal grand jury investigating the former president s actions surrounding the january 6th riot and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. i m john berman in for anderson. just pause and listen to that again. a former vice president just testified in an investigation about whether a president, his running mate illegally tried to overturn an election. so much has happened the last few years, it s easy to get numb to the mind-bending historical explosions taking place. it s the first time in modern history a vice president has been compelled to testify about the president he served beside. to add to that, he might run against trump in 2024. it s also the first time that this vice president has testified under oath about the day where rioters were seen yelling hang mi
the fda has just authorized the first updated booster vaccine targeting the omicron variant. americans could get the new shots as soon as friday. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the latest developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. the trump legal team under deadline to respond to last night s explosive new filing from prosecutors. i m told by a source familiar that they are expected to meet that deadline. i want to bring in our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. he has been on the story around the clock, shall we say. evan, trump s attorneys have until 8:00 p.m. to file their response. the justice department is accusing the trump team of trying to obstruct an investigation and they re using a photo to help make their case. that s right, pamela. that photo certainly was a bombshell. what it does is it shows the number of docume
Also tonight, donald trump is wasting his time in the bronx, following a Head Spinning week as a criminal defendant. Purveyor of nazi rhetoric, and bald faced liar that he was a target for assassination. Plus, how ron desantis fresh from his humiliating president ial campaign, is coopting the Civil Rights Era term Freedom Summer, to push his hateful agenda. We begin tonight with a very stark reality in america. Elections have consequences. And because this country elected donald trump in 2016, we have the most Extremist Supreme Court in modern history. Yesterday, the niemsz reported that Justice Samuel alito didnt just fly an upside down flag outside his virginia home, he also proudly displayed a flag that has become a symbol of Christian Nationalism outside his new jersey summer home. The flag seen here is called the appeal to heaven flag, which like the inverted u. S. Flag was carried by the Rioting Insurrectionists at the capitol on january 6th. Now, some will claim its a Revolution
ohio voters have voted to guarantee abortion rights. supreme court overturned roe versus wade last year. voters in seven states, including republican states like kansas, kentucky, in montana, voted to protect abortion rights. the vote tonight nullifies the states six-week abortion ban passed by republicans in the legislature which is being now challenged in court. joining us now, we think, is steve kornacki, the national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc. or perhaps not. the control room of thought we had steve kornacki, and we thought he was going to be wandering into this studio, but he may be stuck between studios somewhere on this floor. we re going to find. him were going to get him back. instead, joining us now is shan, round and craddock senator from ohio, senator brown what is your reaction to this major news tonight that the voters of ohio have delivered? not surprised and thrilled of course, lawrence i m gonna hijack your show just for a moment and do