possibility. right? somehow, by hook or by crook. good talker. thanks, chris. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we start tonight with significant breaking news, the new york times is confirming that mark meadows, donald trump s former chief of staff has testified to a federal grand jury as part of special counsel s jack smith ongoing investigations into trump s mishandling of classified information and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. this is a major development, and we are going to talk about it in just a minute with representative jamie raskin, who served on the january 6th committee. but we start with mar-a-lago. at this point you probably have seen a picture of trump s florida resort, once the winter getaway of areas mar-a-lago it is massive. it sits on about 20 acres of land, it has more than 50 bedrooms, and it has all the hallmarks of luxury. all the fancy stuff. italian stone, spanish tiles, a lot of marble, gold plated fixtures, exp
we begin tonight with breaking news straight from capitol hill. we are getting word that the white house and house republicans are getting closer to a deal to raise the debt ceiling. one week before the u.s. runs out of money. what do we know right now about where the deal stands between kevin mccarthy, house republicans and the white house? i think we should caveat by saying nothing has been agreed upon yet. nothing has been finalized. they are moving closer to a deal. we have seen progress over the last 12 hours, particularly on the spending issue. that s been something that has been really bedevilling the talks. they started floating the idea of a potential compromise that both sides could try to claim as essentially a win. one of the things they are discussing is raising the debt ceiling for two years, which would be longer than what house republicans had proposed in their debt ceiling plan in the house. then instituting spending caps for two years. caps on federal spen
ongoing threat to democracy. and in ukraine cnn is speaking with the anti-putin rich shan fighters claiming responsibility for cross border attacks. they say they re using american military vehicles during the raids. we ll get reaction from a key white house official, john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin with new ve developments in the special counsel s criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents. josh, tell us what you and your colleagues are now learning. right, wolf. what we re learning is that one day before federal authorities came to mar-a-lago last june to pick up classified documents in return for a subpoena that video employees, two employees of the former president in mar-a-lago, moving boxes back into the storage room. as you remember, when the feds arrived at mar-a-lago, trump s team said, come with us to the storage r
market. april s surprising jobs report. all this coming in right here to cnn news central. all right, surprising and impressive jobs numbers just in this morning from the labor department. employers added 253,000 jobs last month. that is a lot more than the 180,000 that were expected. the unemployment rate also dropped slightly, now 3.4%, it s down from 3.5%, and 3.4% is like the lowest level it s been since 1969. this report comes just two days after the fed raised interest rates for the tenth consecutive time, all in an effort to rein in inflation. rahel solomon is with us. these are good numbers. these are good numbers and the labor market continues to defy expectations. 253,000 jobs added in the month of april. as you said, stronger than almost every economist that was polled was expecting. also stronger than the months prior. i want to put that 253,000 in perspective. we did get downward revisions for the prior two months so stronger than that, but you can see this i
propaganda. russia points to the united states and says washington is somehow behind that brazen drone attack on the kremlin. the white house calls this claim bs. a there s a word that comes to mind. i would tell you he s lying. it s a ludicrous claim. the united states had nothing to do with this. and the special counsel puts the trump organization in his sights. sources telling cnn jack smith s prosecutors are zeroing in on how long time president trump employees handled the evidence. up first for us, major breaking news right here in washington, d.c. a major victory for the justice department after prosecutoring leaders of the i object sur recollection. five members were convicted for various felony charges a short time ago. four of them, including the leader, was convicted of the most serious charge. that charge being seditious conspiracy. trial testimony detailed how the proud boys organized after trump s call for supporters to flood washington on the day the elect