the bill moved a step closer last night, passing through the house of representatives on wednesday, but the clock is ticking. and do you know your o s from your e s, your g s from yourj s? the pressure mounts in washington, as the final of the national annual spelling bee gets under way. i ll put our panel to the test. but first the legal challenge launched by the government. it s over demands from the covid public inquiry that ministers whatsapp messages from the pandemic are released. in a letter, the cabinet office said it was doing so with regret but that the request goes beyond the remit of the inquiry. a deadline for the government to submit the messages passed at 4pm this afternoon, but the inquiry says it instead received notice of legal action. in response, borisjohnson said he was happy to hand over unredacted material if asked. let s talk about it with the panel, and, jim, what do you make of this? because the government here is saying we are not going to ha
is joe thden running on ? the economy is in danger ofe ec recession. his foreign policy blunders have created an america with less power and influence, while unholy alliances led by china keep growing. and oh yeah, the massive corruption engulfing his presidency shows no sign ofno sg abating. watch this remarkable momentn ti ngfrom the white house briefing yesterday. it was one committee trying to get by alleging that president biden took bribes. there s another irs whistleblower whose religion was a cover up in the investigation. the middle of this, there was partner ed harris poll this month that found that 53% of the public, including a fourth of democrats, believe, quote, joe biden was involved with his son in an illegal influence peddling scheme. there s, of course, evidencethes the president interacting with his associates from china, mexico, kazakhstan, russia, ukraine. so what do you say to thessia, a majority of americans who believe thatuld you sa the prest is him
$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
amendments from us china trade to something about the us mexico border and an attempt to scrap a particularly unpopular energy project. as we have been watching through the evening, it was all moving pretty slowly and just roll calls of names as the amendments were bought through but this was actually the senate going pretty quickly, the expedited the process to get the bill before them tonight, they were being hurried along to try and get to the real deal, the final vote, they have done that, 63 to 36 and now we move on to possibly the only not unpredictable part of the process. i m surejoe biden will sign this into law very shortly. they will therefore avert this potential crisis which was looming on monday. crisis which was looming on monda . ., , crisis which was looming on monday- crisis which was looming on monda . .,, ,., ,. monday. there was some descent on both sides monday. there was some descent on both sides for monday. there was some descent on both sides fo
begin at capitol hill for that that bill is almost a done deal. its past the seven and will go to the presidents test -. chad pergram s life with us on the hill. good evening it was a congressional crunch to get the bill approved before the government collided with the debt ceiling. tonight the scent with the hous and the vote 63 tash 36. all but five democrats voted yes . the democrats are feeling very good tonight we save the country from the scorch of default, even though there were was some on the other side who wanted default, who wanted to lead us to default. thirty when gop members vote no and they were suspect of the plan. people think this is dramati and mccarthy thinks this is the best deal ever. this is going to do nothing. president biden talked the nation tomorrow and signs the bill as soon as possible. the senate spreader through a series of votes before getting to the final passage. senate majority leader chuck schumer played the role of trac coach.