tonight on all in my heart it is with this eight-year-old little boy. i don t care if he was here legally. i don t care if he was here illegally. shock and outrage after another mass murder in texas and the unbelievable attack on the victims by the state s governor. cried out for a little bit of compassion for some leadership. of course, we got neither of those. and then the woman accusing donald trump of rape at leaves in the witness stand. what we learned from the cross-examination of e. jean carroll. plus the highest court in the land should not have the lowest standard of ethics and the federal government. the senate moves to check the supreme court amid new reporting on massive earnings for the wife of a chief justice. and joy reid joins me to talk about how republicans can t stay out of their own way when it comes to restrictive bans on abortion. i think we will get it done on some level. it could be different levels. we will get it done. all in st
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
achieve a, quote, major break through. they re building up an extensive system of trenches in the south. tell us what you re seeing. yeah, there has been an extraordinary network dug possibly according to this british intelligence report the largest we ve seen since world war ii across the southern area of vap wreegsa and we ve driven along the ucrayian side of it for quite a past number of weeks here. often these are deep trenches followed by a significant sand back backed up by razor wire and these dragons teeth peer med shaped pieces of concrete form a complex set of defenses but certainly a challenge. there ll be very much in the mind of ukrainian forces as they probably in the days ahead if not already in the days behind begin the counter offensive in these areas. we simply don t know the full details of their plan to be honest, and weather is potentially playing into it. there s been an extraordinary lack of videos from ukrainian military over the past weeks they norm
nation s debt limit after a last-minute rewrite. and we re tracking the speaker s efforts to get gop holdouts to get in line. joe biden strikes a landmark deal to send a nuclear submarine to south korea for the first time in 40 years. the president and his south korean kocounterpart going to n lengths to deter kim jong-un and his escalating nuclear threats. and oath, testimony by the woman who alleges that donald trump assaulted her decades ago. cnn was there as e. jean carroll took the stand. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to capitol hill for the latest on the very high stakes showdown over raising the nation s federal debt limit. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is following all this. republicans have been scrambling to hold a vote today on their plan to raise the debt ceiling. where do things stand right now? reporter: wolf, the chamber is just here to m
an fbi tip and a four-day manhunt. the military heads to the border. the biden administration is sending 1,500 unarmed active duty troops to help out at the southern border, not to do law enfo enforcement, ahead of an expected surge next week. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york. u.s. officials are looking into the provocative but unverified russian accusation that ukraine attempted to assassinate vladimir putin overnight. with a drone strike on the kremlin. the kremlin saying that its defense systems destroyed two drones over putin s recollection residence but he was not home. ukraine insists they wage an exclusively defensive war and calling it a trick. some experts agree, cautioning the claims could be a possible false flag used to justify further escalation against ukraine ahead of tomorrow s victory day sell bra celebratio square. u.s. officials tell us the u.s. had no warning. at a world press freedom day, secretary of state blinken expressing his