welcome to all of our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton here ahead on cnn newsroom. we put the citizens of america first. we didn t do it by taking the easy way. u.s. house speaker kevin mccarthy taking a victory lap after the house passes a bill to raise the debt ceiling but it s liz leadership now in jeopardy. plus one of our show s most decorated soldiers loses a defamation case against several newspapers. we will go live to sydney for the latest. no letup and russian airstrikes on kyiv. there s been a another overnight missile attack on ukraine capitol. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with paula newton. so it hasn t been easy but the hard-fought deals to suspend the u.s. debt ceiling and not a catastrophic default is now headed to the senate this bite weeks of handling and hanging, it clear the house. but you know it was a comfortable bipartisan margin? more than 300 voting yay at 117 nays. conservativ
the way he s characterizing this bill? yes, he is lying. members of the house caucus like congressman roy and bishop are still struggling to come with a strategy to actually block the deal tonight. and there is also a divide over whether to oust mccarthy as speaker. as for the republican leader he says he s not concerned about losing his post and can t seem to understand what all the fuss is about. i m not sure what in the bill people are concerned about. it is the largest savings of 2. 1 trillion that we ve ever had. a quick refresher share of what is in this deal over this memorial day weekend. it would replenish our near empty treasury with borrowed cash by suspending the debt ceiling for two years. it also includes caps on federal spending, more work requirements for food stamps and cuts to irs funding among other things. neither party got everything they wanted, something the senate republican leader noted on the floor earlier as all of this gop infighting plays
i m laila harrak. republicans already raising concerns over the agreement in principle on the debt ceiling as both president biden and house speaker mccarthy race to seal the deal with their allies in congress. the gop turns on one of its own in texas in an unprecedented move to impeach the state s attorney general. details and how that official is reacting. and we re live for you in istanbul as voting there gets under way for turkey s presidential runoff election. we begin in washington where congress is drafting new legislation on the u.s. debt limit hours after officials reached a deal to try to avoid a disastrous default. the white house and republicans say they agreed in principle to raise the u.s. debt ceiling and cap government spending. house speaker kevin mccarthy says law maeshls are now expected to vote on that agreement this wednesday. before it can move forward, he must convince hardliners that it s worth it. here s how he characterized the deal. after week
our viewers here in the united states and around the world. audio of donald trump that undermines what he said about classified documents he kept after leaving office. we ll bring you a cnn exclusive. plus the bill is passed. narrowly averting a default. the house passes the plan. who was a winner in this deal? right now, we are at 95,000 people in our care. thousands of asylum seekers arriving in new york. but the numbers at the border are in fact down. can the biden administration take this as a win weeks after title 42 ends. so, we begin this hour with exclusive cnn reporting. federal prosecutors now have donald trump s own words as an important piece of evidence in a classified documents investigation. that word from multiple sources say the former president can be heard on tape acknowledging he held on to a classified pentagon document. that admission could undercut his defense amid a probe of a trump campaign spokesperson has now called meritless and shame
u.s. the debt limit is now set for a vote on the house floor in the coming hours. the republican say that the speaker s job is on the line. depending on how it goes. [sirens] air raid sirens sound in japan, and south korea after north korea tried. but failed to launch this space spy satellite into space. but it s time we impose our will on washington d.c., and you can do any of this if you don t win. ron desantis kicks off his 2024 presidential campaign, in iowa with some not so subtle digs at his one time ally, former president donald trump. so, a deal to avoid defaulting on tens of trillions of dollars of debt is moving forward. but the u.s. government it, is by no means out of the. what s now, in the coming, hour two u.s. house members will vote on the bill to raise the debt ceiling as well as other measures tapped on to the spending limit. well some lawmakers seemed confident they will get the vote to send the bill to the senate, the house speaker will be busy trying