e. jean carroll takes the stand in her sexual battery case against the former president. the new warning that the judge issued just moments ago. and a race to get four mississippi jail escapees back in custody. one of the men is now accused of killing someone after he broke out of jail. we are following these major developing stories and all coming in to cnn news let s begin on capitol hill where there has been a shift this morning, it seems. house republican leaders are now confident that they have the votes to pass speaker mccarthy s $1.5 trillion debt ceiling bill and while there were big questions and probably still are, they could still vote today. do you hear all of the caveats i m throwing into this? what did kevin mccarthy have to throw in on to get all of this? manu what is the very latest you re hearing about this? there have been months after negotiations will pass the house as soon as today. it will require 218 votes in the republican-controlled votes
courthouse. she will be testifying soon and i also heard there was a new warning from the judge? what s going on there? yeah. right when we got into court it start at 10:00 a.m., carroll s attorneys showed the judge a post. he called this a hoax. it s one of the phrases that carroll s attorneys said was defamatory and carroll s attorney was a political operative and that was something the judge had warned them that was one area not to go before the jury. he had no idea about the post and he told the judge he would talk to hihihihi today and the judge had warned everyone to stay away from talking about this case in a public way that could be viewed in any way to try to influence the jury and the judge telling trump s attorney that this comment is getting into an area in which the client may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability and i think you know what i mean.
republicans should stop engaging in political games and ensure they take default off the table. the president has said he would veto this bill if it would pass the house and it does not appear there s imminent movement when it comes to negotiations between the white house and republicans. arlette, thank you so much. john? so this morning e. jean carroll arrived at a downtown manhattan court for the second day of her civil battery and defamation trial, this against donald trump, the former magazine columnist is expected to testify this afternoon or sooner at this point. during fiery opening statements carroll s attorney said he will call witnesses to show the former president s, quote, clear pattern of violent behavior. trump s attorney fired back and questioned the plausiblity of carroll s allegations. carroll claimed trump raped her in a new york city apartment store dressing room in the 1990s and defamed her when he repeatedly denied her claims. cara skinell is outside the
carroll called the first witness, the manager at bergdorf s. they are setting the scene of the lingerie department on the sixth floor. the doors automatic lock and the the two people could fit there. they did staff the floor when the alleged assault took place and there were times when people were not on the floor that this was an empty floor and when she was attacked there was no one there working at the time. that s when the issues of could someone else corroborate that this had happened? the defense is already on cross-examination of this witness. we do expect carroll to be the next witness so she could be on the stand momentarily and this could be the main witness for carroll s team and also the main witness for the defense because trump s attorney has said he is going to put s lot of their energy into going against carroll s witnesses and bringing their defense case by poking holes in their testimony and they ve already said they