we ve got lawson uso cover, and lots of questions to answer. so let s get started. that ceiling showdown, house speaker kevin mccarthy not just a win in the house, but his victory lap may run out of gas in the senate. or live on capitol hill with the latest as the nation inches closer to a debt default. plus, telling their side, the same moment a woman suing former president trump for an alleged rape it is giving tearful over price jerry six insurrection in d.c.. we re going in-depth on all those trump troubles ahead. later, desantis drama, florida governor ron desantis arrives at the white house, while the house memos hits him with the federal lawsuit. we go inside the drama and how it will impact his presidential aspirations. all of this and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. we start today s show with the standoff over the debt ceiling. speaker kevin mccarthy is taking a premature victory lap after house republicans narrowly lashed
if they re successful in putting that together, wire fraud is a bread and butter triage for and something that they re very adept at bringing. nbc news is also reporting that mike pence is inside testifying for the entire day. what kinds of questions, joyce, is pence facing by special counsel, jack smith, considering there s no executive privilege, because the court says that doesn t apply, and there s a very narrow lane of speech and debate protections for mike pence. right, so we don t know how broadly pence decided to interpret his speech or debate clause immunity. we don t know how many or what types of questions he declined to answer. in that situation, where he is refusing to answer questions, prosecutors would then have to go back to the judge for a ruling. that s an annoying and time consuming process. we do know, at least, that pence was there for roughly seven hours. prosecutors are very likely
prevented them from intervening and providing health care, in this case, and abortion. willow s heart was still beating, and i wasn t considered sick enough, that my life was at risk. until one of those two things changed, there was nothing that they felt like they could do without potentially being prosecuted under the texas law. talk about that traumatic waiting period, where you had to wait for something to happen. that waiting period between learning that you weren t going to be able to have your baby and when you developed sepsis. what were you thinking and feeling? . we it was the absolute worst three days of my life. it s a three days for me to go into septic shock, which at that point, they were able to intervene. for those three days, you know, i look back on them and i think, it was a blur for me because it
least brings republicans to the negotiating table. now they can put pressure on president biden, who s been wanting, who doesn t want to negotiate over the debt ceiling in conjunction with spending cuts. now speaker mccarthy saying, here we, pass something, now it s time to talk. julie tsirkin, as always, thank you for joining us this morning. we re gonna turn now to some breaking news. a shooter on the run after a deadly mass shooting overnight in the state of texas. officials confirm five people tragically, including an eight-year-old, are dead, and three others are wounded. this all happened at a home in cleveland, texas, which is about 45 miles north of houston. the sand has saying throw a total of ten people were in the house at the time of the shooting. investigators haven t released the shooter s identity, but the nbc affiliate reports that they are looking for a suspect right now. we re going to update the story as more information becomes available. meanwhile, parts of iow
are as a first lawsuit of this nature since the overturning of roe, and so we re hopeful that, because we know that this is happening across the country and this is happening to so many other women, that hopefully, we can be the first, but it can give other woman who might have been through something similar, the courage to take similar action in their states. we know that this is going to take all of us, and we re going to have to fight across the country. somebody has to be the first, but we re hoping that others will join us along the way. well, amanda, i want to share with you that i wish you and your husband and your family the best of luck with this. i want you to come back and keep us posted on what is going on. you talk about the courage, but that s what you have, in your ability to speak out and tell the story, if you didn t, there would be a lot of people that weren t aware of about how important it is to have reproductive freedom. amanda zurawski, i thank you so