we didn t to it by taking the easy way. right now on early start, can the senate now fast track the debt limit bill just days before the default deadline. plus the former president on tape talking about a document he kept. and the republican race for president heating up with mike pence and chris christie about to jump in. who is next. welcome to our viewers in the united states and arntround the. i m christine romans pl the bill is in the hands of the senate. yeas are 314, nays are 117. the bill is passed. last night the house overwhelming passed a bipartisan agreement cutting spending and suspending the debt ceiling through next year. speaker kevin mccarthy took a victory lap after the house passed the deal. i wanted to do something no other congress has done. that we would literally turn the ship. for the first time in quite some time, we d spend less than we spent the year before. tonight we all made history. because this is the biggest cut and savings this
good afternoon. i m sara sidner in for victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. the january 6th committee just released yet another big batch of witness interview transcripts from their investigation into the capitol insurrection. the new list includes interviews with 19 witnesses including the former president donald trump jr. and kimberly guilfoyle, christina baab, stephen miller and those to try to overturn the election like doug mastriano. cnn s paula reid is joining me now. you re going through this. i know it s a lot. there are hundreds of people with many, many pages of transcripts. what has stood out to you so far? reporter: well, we have the support of a big team combing over this. sara, i want to start with some of the revelations in the transcript from donald trump jr. specifically, the transcript reveals new details about text messages that the former president exchanged with then white house chief of staff mark meadows. we ve reported on some of these t
unauthorized parties access to private videos. markets around the world, asia finished mixed. new home prices spell for the first time in four months. eurozone inflation eased in may to 6.1%. on wall street stock index futures are bouncing back here. u.s. markets fell yesterday as the debt ceiling vote slowly moves ahead this congress. investors are closings book on may with debt ceiling drama and recession fears. last month tech stocks stood out. the nasdaq gained nearly 6%. s&p 500 was practically flat. and the dow fell 3.5%. global oil prices are falling here this week which could lead to even lower gas prices ahead. gas prices fell a penny overnight to $3.57 a gallon, $1.10 cheaper than last year. weekly jobless claims, mortgage rate data and private sector employment data due out later this morning. and we re looking at the
cnn s matt egan joins me now live. matt, what do these numbers show? and also, i m hearing new mortgage rate data. and you don t have a smile on your face. so, i m assuming that rate well, let s start with the good news. the good news on the jobs market, even though, yes, initial unemployment claims yeah, they ticked higher. they remain low, not much above the pre-covid levels. this is a sign that a lot of bosses don t want to let go of the workers they have because there s a worker shortage, they re worried they won t be able to get new workers. claims remain well below the level that cause economists to be worried. mark moody told me today, he believes the jobless claims is the key reason why this economy could avoid a recession next year. now, you mentioned mortgage rates, they did tick higher, 6.4% is the latest average that comes after six straight weeks of falling rates. but 6.4% that is more than twice as high as they were a year ago.