christine romans. it s memorial day here in the u.s. glad you re with us. let s get going. we begin this morning with president biden defending the deal he made with house speaker kevin mccarthy to raise the debt limit for two years. it takes the threat of catastrophic reform off the table. protects our hard-earned economic recovery. and the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. mccarthy agreed to raise the debt limit in explain for cuts to the budget. even though, the president insisted to reporters he wasn t actually negotiating on the dead limit. want to try to make it look like i made some grow myself in the debt ceiling, i didn t. i made a compro 3450is on the budget. that s what they wanted a compromise on the budget, that s what you ve done, even though you haven t gone as far as you wants, in that right? sure, can you think of an alternative? the president praised mccarthy, although he avoided predicting whethe
be controversial. it should be done in one voice. sadly, it has become political. we have to end this. what happened to paul pelosi s despicable, unacceptable. unfortunately, it has become a more dangerous place me have to do everything we can to lower the rhetoric, have a civil conversation but make sure people are safe. we are counting down to midterms, now just nine days away. we are looking at the biggest issues driving people to the polls. a new abc abscess poll shows the economy, inflation, and abortion as the top three concerns, respectively. today the chairs of both republican and democratic campaign committees gave their message to voters. exploding cost of living, a crime wave in our major cities that is the result of this defund the police nonsense. those are the issues that are top of mind for every voter in this country, that is why they are going to show up on november 8th. that is why democrats a republicans are going to win in the midterms. we will pla
i don t know whether to be excited or bummed out. no one wants a snowless streak in new york city. and i m surprised by the favorite movie. thanks so much. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. we re waiting for a news conference from monterey park, california. that s where ten people were killed. at least ten others hurt in this massacre inside a dance hall saturday night. now this is the deadliest mass shooting in the u.s. since the uvalde massacre last may, and 1 of 36 mass shootings in the u.s. this year. police say the shooter is a 72-year-old man who had visited the ballroom before. after the rampage, police say the gunman headed to another dance hall about ten minutes away north where he was confronted by brandon tsay. that s the hero who fought off the gunman and he told gm good morning america, he did not know the shooter. i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon, and we had a struggle. we
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the russian ministry of defence says its troops have left the strategic town of lyman, in eastern ukraine. a ministry spokesman was quoted by russian news agencies as saying the withdrawal was carried out because of a threat of encirclement. earlier, the ukrainian military said its troops were inside the town. lyman was a key strategic target, used by russia as a major logistics hub, and sits in the donetsk region which the government in moscow has just declared to be a part of russia. video footage shared online shows ukrainian soldiers waving their national flag on the outskirts of lyman. we cannot however verify exactly where the flag raising is taking place. this report is from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. ukraine s counteroffensives have slowed, but for ukrainians, progress is still progress. traces of occupation are being removed, and quickly. lyman was a logistics hub for russia s invasi