altering the filibuster on issues like voting rights and the debt limit increases. also tonight the house voting to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt of congress for defying a subpoena. late tonight the cdc director approving booster shots for the moderna and j&j vaccines, endorsing the recommendations from the agency s vaccine advisory committee. so, we ve got a lot to talk about. let s bring in mr. david axle robi rod, and mr. bakar ri sellers. thanks for the tie. yeah. david, hello to you. so much at stake thanks for my tie? what s going on here? bakar ri is not wearing a necktie. i said tie, t-i-e. should i take my tie off. i m going fror the youthful sexy look at 11:00. it s 11:00 and it hasn t happened. i m not going to attempt the youthful sexy look, so let s just keep going. back on the tracks. so, there is a lot at stake for the president tonight. he had to sell his domestic agenda, which still isn t over the finish line yet. so, how do you think
together and pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and his social safety net plan, saying and i quote here i do think that we ll get a deal. and saying he s open to altering the filibuster on issues like voting rights and the debt limit increases. also tonight, the house voting to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt of congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection at the capitol. and late tonight, the cdc director approving booster shots for the moderna and j&j vaccines, endorsing the recommendations from the agency s vaccine advisory committee. we ve got a lot to talk about. let s bring in now cnn senior political commentator mr. david axelrod, a former obama senior adviser, and political commentator mr. bakari sellers. thanks for the tie. david, hello to you. no thanks for my time? no. bakari is not wearing a neck tie. i said t-i-e. you want me to take my tie off? no. we re good. we re good. i m g
congressman byron donald. plus, the gut wrenching words of the a witness who watched as a gas station owner in south carolina chased down a 14-year-old and shot him in the back, quote, everyone s getting trigger happy. the shooter says he thought the teenager was shoplifting. he wasn t. now the gas station owner is facing charges, his store is in ruins after being vandalized by protesters and another community is in mourning. we begin with one of those rare days on capitol hill where high political drama and debate collide with the critical job of governing, in this case trying to keep the u.s. economy from going off the cliff, and no one knows exactly how it s going to play out. not only could tonight s vote seal the fate of the debt limit agreement between president biden and speaker mccarthy, it may also be a defining moment for mccarthy himself. he s been engaged in open warfare with far right republicans of the freedom caucus arguing over whether the legislation is a
that elected us. and thes bing i can say or that i think can be said about the current deal on the debt ceiling is that it could have been much worse. that was republican senator mike lee and then independent senator bernie sanders sharing their pretty negative opinions on that debt ceiling deal, which is now headed to their chamber. we ll go through the tight time line the senate now has to get this bill to president biden s desk ahead of default. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis is ramping up up his criticism of donald trump after taking heat from the former president for months, and that comes as two more prominent republicans are ready to jump into the 2024 race. we ll look at the impact chris christie and mike pence may have on the growing field. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 1st. we are in june. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a big deal on capitol hill. the house
john: just two weeks to go now before title 42 ends, biden administration is announcing new measures to tackle illegal immigration and human smuggling. scrambling to set up tents, tables and portable toilets to process migrants as they overwhelm border towns like brownsville texas. the surge is agents from 200 miles away are coming in to help. shelters in el paso, texas, overrun with migrants while an estimated 35,000 more are waiting across the border for title 42 to end. national border patrol council president brandon judd standing by. he ll join us on this and more coming up. john: but first, president biden taking the podium yesterday for his first news conference in more than a month and appearing to rely on cheat sheets to pull it all off. hello, john roberts, nice to spend friday eve as we like to call it around here with you. aishah: good to see you, john. this is america reports. 80-year-old commander in chief caught holding note cards featuring an expected