any deal will needs to be approved by a divided congress, with a vote expected on wednesday. mccarthy spoke in the past hour. ijust got out i just got out of over the president. i spoke to him twice today. after weeks of negotiations we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do. but i believe this is an agreement in principle that is worthy of the american people. it has historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, rain in government overreach. there are no new taxes, no new government programmes. there is a lot more within the bill. we still have more work to do tonight to finish all the writing of it. i do want to take a moment, though, and thank gary graves and patrick mchenry for their work on this. and for all the work that we re going to continue to do. and i know you will have a lot of questions. i m not going to take them tonight. out of respect i to breathe our members
coming out of washington, dc, at about ten minutes past the hour. we ll be monitoring that as well and we also know that republican leaders and republican leaders and republican lawmakers will be holding a call around 9:30pm eastern time, so it about 20 minutes, and there will be briefing republican lawmakers on the deal that has been agreed in principle. i believe we also have a tweet from the republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. he might be giving some more information on what could be an ideal, what we are expecting next, but again, this is something we have been tracking for many days and weeks and months in terms of what could be in this deal and whether or not lawmakers could come to an agreement about raising the debt limit here in the united states. of course we know that the deadline had been extended to june five, when know that the deadline had been extended tojune five, when the us treasury said that essentially the country would no longer be able to me
make. and we ll be the first time something like this is happening on social media. with real-time questions and answers. not scripted. yeah, he will become the seventh declared candidate following tim scott, who is facing new racially charged attacks on his bid. here s the view doubling town today. he s like clarence thomas, black republican who believes in pulling himself by your bootstrap rather understanding the systemic race as that african americans face. he doesn t get it. neither does clarence. that s why they re republicans. tim scott responded just a short time ago. quaking in their boots. when an african american conservative that believes in the future of this nation stands up to be counted, they push back. that s a good sign we re on the right message. let s bring in tomi lahren, host of tomi lahren is fearless on outkick.com and juan williams. juan, to you first. i want your thoughts on ron desantis jumping in the race, the timing, the format. elon
paparazzi relent leslie pursued the couple for two hours in new york. the scary event triggering many emotions more than 25 years after his mother s death in an auto accident. plus abortion battles across the united states. as lawmakers battle. breaking his silence, but no apology for ja morant. will the nba put up with this? we are following these stories and many more right into inn cnn news central. the duke of sussex and his wife were in a car bush adding it was a relentless pursuit by paparazzi that lasted for more than two hour. a new york police and the security detail had though figure out a, we are also getting new video of meghan and harry arriving at that event. max foster is following all of this. you just spoke to a member of their security detail. what have you learned? well, it was a two-hour ordeal late last night after the awards ceremony that meghan had attended. immediately there were about a dozens vehicles chasing the group, there was a limous
good morning to you, a day of vote counting here in washington. i m jim sciutto. vote counting part deuce, i m erica hill. good morning. we are keeping a close watch on washington for just that purpose. a few short hours from now the gop controlled house set to gavel in for a second day as they try to elect a speaker because of course remember without one not much is happening. new members can t even be sworn in. after three rounds of voting presumptive front runner kevin mccarthy not only failed to corral his caucus and secure the 218 votes needed to become speaker, he actually lost support as the day dragged on. we are live from capitol hill. and we will be talking to a member of congress who is central to these negotiations, plus buffalo bills damar hamlin remains sedated in critical condition on a ventilator. this after experiencing that shocking cardiac arrest during monday night football. his uncle tells cnn that he had to be resuscitated not just once on the field