some point but this is big. a former vice president of the united states testifying before a federal grand jury probing his former boss, former president donald trump. pence sat before the grand jury here this washington, d.c. for several hours this afternoon, as you mentioned an appeals court late yesterday cleared the way to make that happen. now pence left the court house before appearing before this grand jury, bret, normally a secretive process. this is related to the special counsel probe looking into former president donald trump s potential involvement in trying to overturn the 2020 election. pence said recently he would cooperate with the probe, though he would not discuss his role as president of the senate on january 6th, 2021 itself. here he is just days ago on this very subject. listen. we ll obey the law. we ll tell the truth. and the story that i have been telling the american people all across the country, the story that i wrote in the pages of my memoir tha
remaining fugitives now. 24 hours after declaring he is running for reelection, our mary bruce asking president biden about his age, whether he considered age in his own decision and if his decision to run would have been different had donald trump not run again. how he answers it all. columnist e. jean carroll taking the stand in her lawsuit against former president trump, declaring today i am here because donald trump raped me. the former president not in court. the judge today issuing a warning to trump s lawyer about the former president. our parent company, disney tonight filing a lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis accusing the governor of a targeted campaign of retaliation. how the governor is responding and what s behind all of this. the war in ukraine. tonight, the first call between president zelenskyy and china s president xi. what xi warned about nuclear war. back in the u.s. tonight, three high school seniors under arrest in that deadly rock throwin
lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. a pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking and a song that echoes through the past the violins that survived the holocaust and the people who saved them announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. it is like the worst of winter in reverse as excessive snow melt poses a rising disaster threat in parts of the country tonight. along the mississippi river, flood warnings up from st. paul to north of st. louis in places like davenport, an agonizing wait for residents powerless to halt the creeping waters still days before the river is expected to crest. almost 2,000 miles away, the atmospheric rivers that brought massive snowpacks to california s high country are gone, but war
good morning good morning, everyone. let s get started. it is wednesday, april 26th. a debt ceiling plan vote today. it s no the clear if they have the votes, right? president biden says he is going to veto the bill. sounds like they don t. also today, the taliban killed a suspected isis mastermind who was behind that 2021 suicide bombing at the kabul airport. that is when they killed 13 u.s. service members. this is according to the white house. the pentagon says the u.s. was not involved in that operation. also, the woman who says president trump raped her could take the stand today in her battery and defamation lawsuit against him. court is going to get under way in the e. jean carroll case. and the former ( gorepublica governor of arkansas is running so far in the primary. and kim kardashian says she is willing to step away from the cameras and become an attorney full time. our wide-ranging conversation coming up. cnn this morning starts right now. i like how
right now, a high stakes meeting behind closed doors adds congress clashes over trillions of dollars. house speaker kevin mccarthy wants to force president biden to the negotiating table. the big problem, his own party might not be on board with his plan to hold a vote today. the clock is tick to go cut a deal. rolling out the red carpet. the nuclear threat when president biden is preparing for a state visit with south korea s president this morning. we will bring you those important moments ahead. an urgent manhunt across multiple states after four detainees escape a mississippi jail, one of them suspected of shooting and killing a man right after he got out. the latest from police coming up on cnn news central. we begin on capitol hill where right now republican house leadership is meeting behind closed doors discussing a big course reversal in their one-year plan to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion while making deep spending cuts. speaker kevin mccarthy and