get ready to watch the battle for the most iconic trophy in sports showing nhl on tnt for the best of seven series. where the two best teams in the nhl will battle it out to be named stanley cup champions. it s tonight at 8:00 only on tnt. next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. glad you re up. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it s june 3rd. i m victor blackwell. and thank you for spending time of your morning with us. here s what we re watching. lawyers for former president trump say they have no idea where classified document on iran is after the former president was heard talking about it on tape. how that could play into the special counsel probe into his handling of classified documents. no one got everything they wanted, but the american people got what they needed. we averted an economic crisis. president biden taking a bit of a victory lap from the oval office after the senate passes that bipartisan debt deal to avoid an economic melt
hello, thanks for joining me. i m paula reid in washington in this weekend for fredricka whitfield. this just in, president biden has now signed the debt ceiling bill into law, keeping the u.s. out of a default on its loans. this suspends the debt limit through early 2025, taking the threat of default off the table until after next year s presidential election. let s get right to cnn s priscilla alvarez at the white house. what is the administration saying about this bipartisan deal? reporter: well, paula, with this signature, president biden averting the first-ever default in the united states. this has been a threat looming over the white house for weeks and months, and led to some tough negotiations between white house negotiators and republican negotiators. we have been covering that minute by-minute, and last saturday is when president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy had to reach a tentative agreement, and now a week later that is signed into law. president bide
hi everyone, thank you for tuning into this hour. when we bring you tomorrow s news tonight. we have our great line of reporters tonight with me. sara fischer, personnel, also joining us with the breaking news millenia. melanie, has the u.s. avoided economic catastrophe at this hour? they have alison but just barely with just a few days to go with that default deadline. really just a few votes to spare here. the final vote tally was 63 to 36. they needed 60 votes to pass the senate. i wanted to give you a breakdown of who voted in support. it was 46 democrats who voted in favor, along with 17 republicans. that was a coalition that banded together that means that the opposition was mostly republicans here. which was five democrat voted against this bill. they ve got it done, they now have four signature. it was no easy feat to get here. there was opposition on both sides of the aisle. democrats did not like the stricter work requirements for food stamp recipients, they d
states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead here on cnn newsroom, the deal to suspend the united states debt limit passes the senate, putting an end to the drama over whether the u.s. would default for the first time in history. donald trump says he doesn t know anything about a report on his handling of classified documents. more fallout from cnn s exclusive story on an audio recording of trump that s now in the hands of federal prosecutors. and this mun dayne video of a friday night in kyiv goes viral, sparking a massive debate about russia s war on ukraine. we ll talk with the person who shot it and find out what it really shows. announcer: live from cnn center this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. the white house has announced that u.s. president joe biden will make his first oval office address to the nation on friday evening. he s expected to speak about the debt limit bill that just cleared the u.s. senate late thursday. that crucial vote ens
the former president dump subpoenaed for records, all of this in the wake of the tape, where he was caught discussion holding on to a document. attorneys have not been able to find that key documents. jobs reports shattering expectations. president biden is touting the red-hot labor market, could that mean the federal reserve may need to do more to rein it in. could there be an 11th all coming in right here to cnn news central . we have a major development in the handling of classified documents. sources tell cnn the former president s attorney turned over more this time, discussion a classified documents. that tape sparked a subpoena in march, seeking in and all documents. with a specific iran document that is mentioned on the record is not morning the terms that his team handed over. back in march, margot martin testified before the grand jury, now, they asked her, because she was one of the people in that meeting back in july 2021. initially we have learned that t