agreement in a late night vote avoiding a disastrous default that would have crippled the economy. that bill now on its way to the president s desk, and we ll hear from him in a prime time speech planned for tonight. and later, donald trump reacting to the news that the special counsel has a recording of him talking about classified documents. two attorneys join us to talk about the legal peril that evidence could pose. and the gloves are off, trump and desantis going round for round trading blows. governor, how come you re not taking questions from voters? coming up to me talking to me, what are you talking about? are you blind? what? are you blind? he got very angry at the press. you re not allowed to get angry at the press. we re live in south carolina where the florida governor is campaigning this morning. let s get straight to those breaking economic numbers right now, the jobs report revealing a huge number for the month of
today three people are still missing and we re expecting an update any minute from officials. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. a big vote on capitol hill as soon as tonight. these two republican u.s. senators, florida s rick scott and utah s mitt romney, just told cnn s manu raju, the goal is to get a final vote on that debt ceiling bill tonight. it would go to the president s desk to be signed into law just ahead of that monday deadline or the government would otherwise run out of money to pay its bills. manu raju is on capitol hill covering this from the beginning. is that where the momentum, to get that done tonight so senators can go home for the weekend and don t want to interrupt their weekend plans? yeah, the smells of jet fumes
building and missed what happened on the floor. john thune thought it would be tomorrow and now shehe says tonight. maybe if i stay away it will be this afternoon. i don t know if it will move that quickly. do you think this is a hard vote for democrats? no, i don t. it gets down to a bottom line question. do we want to default on the national debt for the first time in our history. do we want to endanger families and businesses who could see interest rates really start hurting and their savings start diminishing? the answer to all of those is an obvious no. if that s the case, you have to vote bottom line to pass this measure. do i like all of it? no. that s the nature of congress and compromise. a lot of people upset about the process and upset too about what is in the bill, what may
which did so much to move us forward. i don t know the details on who was notified and who should have been notified. we ll face a tough vote with two friends on opposite sides. so do you think that the white house should have more seriously considered the 14th amendment as an authority for raising the debt ceiling? this is something that your democratic colleague, senator blumenthal, urged earlier today. here s the problem that i saw. if this went into the courts, there is no guarantee that there would be a timely decision, enough time for us to avoid defaulting on our debt. i happen to think there s a good argument about section 4 of article 14. perhaps now we can find a way to bring it before the court. but ultimately that decision will be made by a supreme court which is not predictable on a subject like this. so to have the fate of the american economy hanging in the balance of a long court process or uncertain supreme court decision and then dumped back in