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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
joins us live. and the race to 2024 officially heating up, the first challenger to donald trump for the republican nomination. his one-time ally turned opponent. what nikki haley is saying about pushing back on belize, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good valentines evening, i m stephanie ruhle. we may be on the verge of several major legal battles involving the justice department. donald trump, and his former vp mike pence. a source tells nbc news that the former vp plans to challenge a subpoena from special counsel, jack smith. smith wants pence to testify under oath in the investigation in trump s role in the january 6th riot. pence was the focus of a major pressure campaign by trump himself to block biden s victory. pence had to certify those electoral resorts before a joint session of congress, you know when, january 6th. the votes for president of the united states are as follows, joseph r. biden junior of the state of delaware has received 306 v
of a major pressure campaign by trump himself to block biden s victory. pence had to certify those election results before a joint session of congress, you know when, january 6th. the votes for president of the united states are as follows, joseph r. biden jr. of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. donald j trump from the state of florida has received 232 votes. the announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the united states. each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january, 2021. the special counsel is also running the inquiry into trump s handling of those classified records. nbc has learned jack smith has asked a judge to compel trump lawyer evan corcoran to and questions before the grand jury in that case. we are also soon going to learn more about georgia prosecutor, fani willis s investigation into trump and election interference
and next door is the airfield and, because of that, manston has been welcoming new arrivals for years. in the 20s the students arrive for pilot training, in the 50s it was used as a base to carry out drills. now as an airfield it is hosting new arrivals again. thousands are coming across the channel by small boat. many are taking to this facility. you have an asylum system completely gridlocked. and as more people arrived, the government has condemned an invasion. the system is broken. illegal migration is out of control. and so the small village in kent finds itself as part of a story that raises fundamental questions about how that uk responds to those who arrive on our shores. hello, welcome. now, this is the plan this week. we will talk about migration in a moment. i will also look at whyjoe biden thinks republicans relationship with the truth risks the path to chaos. and these are workers in china fleeing their factory, we will explore the reasons why they ve done this