good friday morning, everybody. i am erica hill with rahel solomon. poppy harlow is off today. nice to be friday. isn t it? we are here for that. five things to know for this friday. june 2nd, the debt ceiling bill on its way to president biden s desk and once signed the threat of a u.s. default is off the table until after the 2024 election. also, new questions this morning about that partial building collapse in davenport, iowa. just days before the wall came crashing down an engineering firm said, quote, bricks appear ready to fall imminently. you can see the gap in the new pictures. three people are still missing. the former president now responding to reporting that they have him on tape. the denver nuggets one step closer to making franchise history after beating the miami heat, they are up taking the first game in the nba finals. an eighth grader crowned the new national spelling bee champ. we will put him to the test when he joins us live on cnn this morni
the leader of hamas, ismail haniyeh, has arrived in cairo for talks on a fresh ceasefire. israel s president has said his country is now ready for what he calls another humanitarian pause . nearly 20 thousand people are now reported to have been killed in gaza. 1,200 were killed and 240 taken hostage when hamas attacked israel on the 7th of october. the un security council is about to start discussing a new draft of a gaza resolution and a vote could take place any minute now. the white house has just said discussions for a humanitarian pause are quote very serious . it s all about the wording of the text. it s all about the wording. the draft is very long, but the key section talks of extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the gaza strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access . it remains to be seen if the wording is now acceptable to the united states. in the past half hour, the us secretary of state
wreaked havoc on the just economy and global economy. we are keeping a close eye on wall street. chuck schumer hailing the deal as a victory for democrats. house republicans were ready to take default hostage in order to pass a radical, hard-right agenda that never could have passed with the american people. so many of the destructive provisions in the republican bill are gone. this bill was a total rejection of what the republicans wanted and look at the vote. that proves that our strategy was the right strategy. great strategy but not every democrat is excited about what came of that strategy, in fact. some refusing to support the bill, voting against it. one of the biggest complaints stricter work requirements when it comes to s.n.a.p. benefits, commonly known as food stamps. should never been put in this position to begin with. this is about paying the ransom to a bunch of hostage takers and that s not how we should run this government. it s not good for the peopl
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
did someone tamper with the tapes? plus, senator manchin on the debt ceiling, biden s re-election. that interview is coming up. who was behind the drones the kremlin say were sent to kill putin? let s go outfront. good evening. i m pamela brown in for erin burnett. breaking news, tapes at mar-a-lago. special counsel jack smith is now asking questions about the handling of surveillance tapes from trump s home in florida. whether the tapes could have been tampered with. smith of course is leading the criminal investigation into trump s handling of classified documents. they want to hear from one or two executives. they re said to know a lot about mar-a-lago s inner workings. trump went on fox news to boasts about the tapes he handed over to prosecutors. they raided mar-a-lago. vicious ly raided mar-a-lago. i have tape, i gave them tapes. i gave it to them. i could have held that back. i gave them tape. but you know the tape they don t want me to reveal, if possible,