and i m max foster. just ahead briefing after briefing, phone call after phone call, all behind the scenes letting democrats know that they need their support for once in a long, long time washington is actually going to spend less money. stop passing the buck to subsequent generations to clean up your mess. d.c. has imposed its will on us for far too long. it is time we impose our will on washington, d.c. [ sirens ] this was expected. north korea had said that it was going to try to put a military satellite into space. it does kind of change the dynamics in terms of how we perceive north korea as a t threat. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, may 31, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where the u.s. house is set to vote on a critical bill. while many seem confident that they will get the votes, the house speaker will be busy trying to wrangle last minute support. kevin mccarthy say
uh. here i ll take that. -everyone: woo hoo! ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein, one gram of sugar. enter the nourishing moments giveaway for a chance to win $10,000. just one hour from now, speaker mccarthy faces his first major test on the hill. will hard-line republicans tank this debt deal? is mccarthy s speakership potentially at risk? we re on top of it. plus the united states assessing what happened after drone attacks reach moscow. the kremlin is accusing ukraine of terrorism. we re going to take you live to kyiv with the ukrainian response and the explosions that shook the capital city. new developments in the james brown death mystery. bags of evidence that a woman handed over to the fulton county district attorney s office has disappeared. we re following these major stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. one hour from now, the hard-fought debt deal forged by president biden and speaker mccarthy will face its first
saying he feels closer to a deal today than he has before, but not everyone in his party is as optimistic. one top republican negotiator warning the deal is still teetering on the brink and could fall apart entirely. meanwhile, the national deficit continues to soar to new heights and treasury secretary janet yellen says there are only eight days remaining to pay america s bills. is everyone on board? reporter: we ll see about that. he came in to the capitol this morning and told reporters he s feeling optimistic and thinks progress has been made and really they re focused on a few remaining sticking points for this deal. i am told the goal is to have a deal announced by the end of today. we ll see if they can get there. we have new reporting about what the outstanding issues are. one of them is a provision to impose new work requirements on some social safety net programs. i m told they made some progress on that in negotiations last night. we re going to see today wheth
ensure that the police and the city pay for what they describe as a reckless act. plus, the desantis campaign says they have 8 million reasons why voters should forget about their rocky rollout and get on board with their campaign, but is the desantis strategy focused on winning or just hoping everyone else s campaign falls apart. and is the debt drama almost done? the markets surging today on word that negotiators may be on the verge of agreement. that s just part one. the latest on the fight still to come as time and money continue to run out. we start with those new developments in the latest devastating story that once again is bringing police brutality to the forefront of american conversation. we are hearing from yet another mother of another black son, this one only 11 years old trying to make sense of yet another police shooting. this time aderrien murry survived being shot in the chest, and his physical wounds may heal, but emotionally and logically the family
conclusion. it s going to be remarkable. have a great memorial day weekend. that does it for us this morning. yasmin vossoughian picks up the coverage right now. hey, everybody, it s 10:00 a.m. in the east, i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera this morning. urgency in washington with less than a week to avoid a catastrophic default. there s optimism that a deal is close, but can they get it done and before too much damage is done? we have a lot of hangups. do you think it s possible to get a deal by this weekend. look, we re not going to stop negotiating. this is a priority. plus, we ve got more questions about donald trump and classified documents at mar-a-lago. new exclusive reporting from the washington post, sources saying that two employees moved the boxes the day before a visit by fbi agents. what could that mean for the special counsel s investigation? growing outrage in mississippi, an attorney for an 11-year-old says the child was shot after he