good morning, everyone. we begin this hour with breaking news overnight. last-minute changes to house speaker kevin mccarthy s debt limit bill. the rules committee worked through the night, ajudge at 5:20 this morning as mccarthy scrambles for republican support ahead of today s possible vote. breaking news just in. ukrainian president zelenskyy has just had a conversation with chinese president xi jinping. that s notable. they had not spoken since before russia invaded ukraine. also, a multi-state manhunt underway this hour for four inmates who escaped from a mississippi jail. one them accused of killing a man and stealing his truck after breaking out of prison. where that investigation is this morning. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin on the u.s. economy and breaking news. house speaker kevin mccarthy reversing course and making big changes to his debt limit plan in the early morning hours as he scrambles to try to get enough republican vot
taliban, not just to the u.s. and the general area. so they want they were sorry, they said to me, news of this had broken into the public because they fear that will be a recruitment tool for isis-k in the region. and then i asked how things are doing because clearly the women s issue is an absolute abomination there and they have lied, lied, lied. the u.s. pulled out, handed the place back to the taliban. the taliban lied and women are, and girls, completely and utterly res utterly wretched, unable to go to school. it s a terrible situation. my source, who belongs to the morning, if there is such a thing, pragmatic kabul-based wing of the taliban, says this is a terrible crisis for all of us. we need our women to go back to school and work. the fundamentalists in kandahar are not allowing that to happen. so many of us ask that question of the biden administration to lawmakers