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
producer and my executive producer, phillip, the people that write things that come out of my mouth, the things that make sense. susan is great and other senior producer alyssa welldon. i just have really wonderful people who know me. it s like a mind meld. but i was presented with an opportunity that i can t pass up at this network, and we have a new boss, who is a morning show e exmpreario. and he wants a show to kick off things every day. and saying he moved me he asked me and i said yes. i could have said no. this is my show. i have a contract for this show. i decided i would take him up on that. this is not someone saying you must move to the right don lemon and give so much of your perspective. that is not real. this is fodder for twitter. this is an opportunity. this is a promotion. this is an opportunity for me to create something around me and i get to work with two great ladies who you know, poppy harlow, who i have known for decades. i knew her children and husba
search of donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. it s the first time in american history the bureau has searched the home of a former president. sources say agents removed boxes of items and trump s attorney confirmed papers were taken. cnn has learned the warrant is tied to an investigation about how presidential documents were handled, including ones that were deemed classified. the former president, while at trump tower in new york, confirmed the fbi was in his home and he says broke into his safe. top republicans are rallying behind the former president after the search, which likely was approved by leaders of the justice department, including trump appointed director of the fbi christopher wray. joining us now, cnn s gabby orr, and katelyn polantz, unprecedented, as we said, what do we know about the search. this was a search that began in the morning yesterday, and as far as we know lasted quite some time. law enforcement went in to mar-a-lago. they were focused on trump s
preventing the surge in the first place. the border patrol officers told me that the biden administration policies, they are enriching, they are empowering the drug cartels in mexico who make money off the people that they assist in smuggling them into the state of texas. the cartels make money off of these migrants that you and your viewers see on tv. they also tell me about the escalating number of people coming across the border. eric: for more on how president biden plans to try and stop this, david spunt is in wilmington, delaware, where the president is spending the weekend at his house. reporter: president biden and his team not calling this a crisis at least publicly, they are calling it a challenge. this is quite a big undertaking though for the department of homeland security and fema, to be part of this. it shows that the administration on the border especially when it comes to an influx of unaccompanied children. homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas
with a bottle in his hand. he was spotted as a seventh woman comes forward with allegations against him. detailed alleged instances of unwanted touching and humiliation by the governor. 24 new york congressman including chuck schumer, kirsten gillibrand and alexandria ocasio cortez are demanding cuomo reside. they join 135 state lawmakers which is enough to impeach. we are here with pete texas, will cain, these are astounding numbers we are seeing, 7 people, plenty of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle coming forward saying it is time. maybe he should take a polygraph which he suggested brett kavanaugh do. or face accountability, the funniest part of this is blaming cancel culture, pulling words cancel culture, not what i did but cancel culture, it is laughable at this point. at this point i don t like trial by media. you are innocent until proven guilty, investigations should happen. i don t like those aspects of it. at the same time this is a power moment for andrew