today three people are still missing and we re expecting an update any minute from officials. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. a big vote on capitol hill as soon as tonight. these two republican u.s. senators, florida s rick scott and utah s mitt romney, just told cnn s manu raju, the goal is to get a final vote on that debt ceiling bill tonight. it would go to the president s desk to be signed into law just ahead of that monday deadline or the government would otherwise run out of money to pay its bills. manu raju is on capitol hill covering this from the beginning. is that where the momentum, to get that done tonight so senators can go home for the weekend and don t want to interrupt their weekend plans? yeah, the smells of jet fumes in the air in the senate tonight as a push to get this done is intense. in fact john thune, number two republican who s deep in these negotiations to try to ensure that al
make a safe return home miguel almaguer, msnbc news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, new details in the growing story coming out of the doj that we just broke on msnbc minutes ago. what we know about the two people arrested for operating an illegal overseas police station of the chinese government right here in lower manhattan. plus, inside a massive prisoner swap in ukraine a live report on the ground where more than 100 prisoners of war were just released as part of the major exchange with russia what kevin mccarthy calls a ticking time bomb. the republican leaders no holds bars speech on the country s debt before the new york stock exchange plus, the white house responds a very different view of the problem by the biden administration and their take on the upcoming debt ceiling battle our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments let s begin with house speaker kevin mc
he is going to be covering this extensively next hour on his show. so, jake, first off, what s on this tape and why is it seen as so critical a piece of evidence for the special counsel? so cnn reporters, paula reid, katelyn polantz and kaitlin collins broke this story. what it is is an audio tape the special counsel has from july 2021. expresident trump, former president trump at bedminster meeting with some individuals that are writing an autobiography of mark meadows. on the tape we are told donald trump is pushing back on an article in which mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is described as keeping trump from attacking iran. trump is angry about this and basically holds up a document. we hear the rustling of papers. we re not sure if it s actually the document in question. but he refers to a classified
using their power to try to help expresident trump beat the 34 counts of fraud that he has been charged with. i want to bring in washington post congressional investigations reporter who covered the house judiciary field, jackie alemany. also with us, former u.s. attorney joyce vance in set, in studio so glad to have you here how did this hearing play out today, and what does it mean for the larger battle between bragg and the house gop we have seen playing out for a number of weeks now? yeah, i think it s really important to start with the facts here which is that in bragg s first year in office in 2022, which was the center of the hearing, this morning, there were 78 homicides in manhattan which was a drop of 15% from the year before, a helpful statistic that the associated press called out was that in palm beach county, there were just as many residents as new york. there were 96 homicides. that is why i think it s
calling the concept an insane scenario, a not so elaborate troll, a zany idea trumped up at an opium debt. if republicans take control of the house next year, it could phasebly maybe decide to put the former president in charge, which would put him behind joe biden at the state of the union and give him the final say on what gets voted scan what doesn t in the house. here s what matt gaetz had to say. if you do take the house, would you want expresident trump to be the speaker? i would. have you talked to him about it? i have. what did he say? oh, i keep my conversations with the former president between the two of us. let s bring in mark murray. let s just put a few like things out into the universe here. number one, donald trump loves the dangle. he loves the idea of this dangling out there even though