here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour, president biden today will sign the debt ceiling bill into law. averting a disastrous default two days before that deadline. the president is using his first oval office address to praise the bipartisan agreement, and stressed its importance. it was critical to reach the agreement. and it s very good news for american people. no one got everything they wanted. the american people got what they needed. we averted an economic crisis, an economic collapse. in this debate, i refused to put what was responsible for all of this progress on the chopping block. i ve never been more optimistic about america s future. brand new details today, reports the special counsel has a recording of donald trump talking about a classified document regarding the new york times says the justice department issued a subpoena for that document, trump lawyer say they can t find. it last night msnbc s are allanburg
$2.1 trillion we ve ever had. if i can parrot to when republicans were in the majority when they had the house, the senate and everything, they didn t cut anything. that s house speaker kevin mccarthy defending the debt limit agreement hours before the bill barely cleared a republican led house committee. we ll have a look at where the vote count stands in the full house as lawmakers from both parties continue to criticize the bill. also ahead, we re learning more about what was reportedly happening inside mar-a-lago as the justice department ramped up the pressure on donald trump to turn over classified documents. plus we ll have an update from eastern europe following another drone strike inside russian territory. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning on capitol hill where the house rules committee voted in favor of advancing the debt ceiling bill to a
tonight on all in. i have the right to take stuff, i have the right to look at stuff. the ex president caught on tape bragging about classified documents. tonight, the increasingly strong case against trump and the timeline of the investigation. then, as his lawyers lineup to defend him. if you have the authority to declassify you are not there is new trouble on team trump. plus, how joe manchin s pet pipeline project just got expedited from the debt bill. the president s former chief of staff on that deal in the latest mcgovern from republicans trying to investigate joe biden. let s put it this way that there, there s accusations. it s not for me to make a judgment about one of these accusations if they are accurate or not. all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. the evidence is piling up in the special counsel s investigation into trump s mishandling of classified documents and the subsequent attempt to obstruct every inquiry
good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. less than two hours ago, the house passed a bipartisan plan to head off a disastrous default, which the treasury warned could come as soon as monday. the bill clear the house at a critical time for our economy, with the risk of recession still a concern. 314 members voted in favor of the bill. 117 voted against it. among the no votes, 71 republicans, including members of the freedom caucus. they were not alone. 46 democrats were also in the no column. but before the vote took place, several members from both sides went to the floor to make the case for the bill. thank goodness for joe biden s legislative skill, we will not go over the edge. and they are prepared to take us over the edge. the bill contains spending cuts that takes a step towards the right direction to restoring fiscal sanity in washington. we need to avoid a default that would stop checks to our seniors, benefits to our veterans. house democrats were c
things of what happen in texas also some of the allegations there, it s going to be interesting in just a few weeks during that trial. indeed. thank you, my friend and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. for the past several months we have watched the far right wing of the republican party hold the u.s. hostage far right republicans in congress demanded major concessions from the biden house or else it would blow up the pretty fragile u.s. economy, they would tank the stock market and push hundreds of thousands of people onto the unemployment so potential catastrophe of their own making. and now there s a deal on the table to stop that catastrophe from actually coming to pass. over the weekend president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy hammered out an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default. and republicans, they got some of what they wanted in this deal. itd claws back unspent covid relief funds. it creates new hurdles for some people