christine romans. it s memorial day here in the u.s. glad you re with us. let s get going. we begin this morning with president biden defending the deal he made with house speaker kevin mccarthy to raise the debt limit for two years. it takes the threat of catastrophic reform off the table. protects our hard-earned economic recovery. and the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. mccarthy agreed to raise the debt limit in explain for cuts to the budget. even though, the president insisted to reporters he wasn t actually negotiating on the dead limit. want to try to make it look like i made some grow myself in the debt ceiling, i didn t. i made a compro 3450is on the budget. that s what they wanted a compromise on the budget, that s what you ve done, even though you haven t gone as far as you wants, in that right? sure, can you think of an alternative? the president praised mccarthy, although he avoided predicting whethe
states, and all around the, world i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, back from the, brink the u.s. congress passed as a compromise deal to spending the federal governments that ceiling for two years. a song speaks on the ground outside a collapsed building, waiting for inspectors day before the accident. and, a sure pose submitting mount everest to a missing climber, we will show you this uptick rescue. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. and so president biden s knee only thing needed now to suspend the debt ceiling, and avoid an economic meltdown that could have impacted the entire world after weeks of talks that run hot and cold, mostly hot in the u.s. senate on thursday, more than 63 to 36 to pass the critical legislation after cleared the u.s. house the day before. now that was following the vote to the president issued a statement thanking lawmakers, saying tonight, senators from both parties of voting to protect the heart of cu
degree murder and home invasion in the shooting death of his estranged wife. the tv appearance from three years ago did not come up at the trial but the marital troubles were central to the prosecutor s theory of the motive in that case. thanks for joining us. cnn tonight starts with alisyn camerota right now. that was a plot twist, abby, that i did not see coming. i thought that was your kicker. do not kill your wife. that s not a good idea. thank you for sending us off on that message. we will all take that to heart, abby, thank you very much. see you tomorrow. evening, everyone. we re awaiting the senate vote on the debt ceiling bill. we ll take you live to capitol hill to see if there are any last-minute obstacles. more follow-up to donald trump caught on tape discussing i classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. now team trump is trying to defend the former president with an array of different excuses, so we will fact check what they re sayi
to the effect of, you know, if i can show you this if you undermine these arguments. but making clear that he doesn t believe he can show it to them. and i think that is a key part of the story. it s very much is. the other part is that this really gives us one of the first indications of what else might be here. it is not just letters from kim jong-un, what do we know based on your reporting about the military significance of the documents that we are talking about. right, that has kind of been the dispute over was a classified, was not classified. this is a plan that we are told was essentially about potentially striking a run. obviously the u.s. is a lot of plans for the pentagon, backup pans, in case of emergency. and that is what we are told this was. that he was referencing. trying to say, essentially, but it was something that general milley had prepared for him. obviously milley is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. we are told actually that this was not a
we still have a lot of work to do. but with lawmakers on both sides skeptical, do they have the votes to actually pass it? i ll speak exclusively with house progressive leader, congresswoman pramila jayapal and gop congressman, dusty johnson, next. and room to grow? more republican presidential hopefuls jump in. i m running to lead our great american comeback. i m the candidate, the far left fears the most. with the former president dominating the polls, can they cut into his lead. republican governor chris sununu joins me exclusively. plus, fallen heroes. this memorial day, veterans reflect on their comrades who did not come home. i think about them probably every day almost. yeah, really. you don t every forget it. a look at some of the incredible americans we lost at war, coming up. hi, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is waiting to exhale. president biden and speaker mccarthy last night announced that they have struck an agree