good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it s kasie hunt. it s thursday, 5:00 a.m. here in washington. it s 4:00 a a.m. in iowa. there are now four days until the caucuses. hours ago, ron desantis and nikki haley went head to head on the cnn debate stage in the fight for number two. both deploying the pants on fire strategy. you have said it again. stop lying. she said she never said it. you re lying. it doesn t change the fact that ron is lying because ron is losing. you lie a the lot. hnikki haley gives him a run fo his money. you get the point. they both also took some time to go after the no-show, far away republican front runner, donald trump. i think what happened on january 6th was a terrible day. i think president trump will have to answer for it. he sat in the white house and tweeted law and order. but he did nothing to ensure law and order. as your president, i will never let our city burn. at that very moment, trumps wa
default. that was senate majority leader chuck schumer late last night after his chamber passed the debt ceiling bill. we ll have more on that vote and the continuing fallout in the house over the agreement. meanwhile florida governor ron desantis seizes on a potential weakness in donald trump s third presidential bid while both men campaign in iowa. and also ahead a rough moment for president biden at a graduation ceremony, which will fuel more questions about his age as he seeks a second term. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with an official deal in washington. the senate passed the biden-mccarthy debt ceiling bill last night in a rare bipartisan act in the capitol. the move ensures the united states will not default on its debt after weeks and weeks of uncertainty. the final vote was 63 yeas to 36 nays with more democrats voting for the deal than
let me be the first to tell you that there is finally a new speaker of the house, and the 118 congress has officially been convened. it took four days, and 15 tries, but in the early hours of this morning, the california congressman, kevin mccarthy, was finally elected the new speaker, putting him third in line for the presidency of the united states. it was a tough road getting there, especially last night, when tensions between republican members themselves, almost reached a breaking point. from the house reconvened at 10 pm last night, republicans appeared hopeful that they had votes to elect mccarthy on the 14th ballot, but when that seem headed for baylor, mccarthy s allied huddled around the florida congressman, matt gates, to get him to vote for mccarthy. instead, gates voted present, which is not good enough to win mccarthy in speakership. after the roll call, mccarthy himself approached gates, the two exchanged words amid a group of other lawmakers. mccarthy was the
I was on the road all through 2016. it s something we have seen persist through this race as well, which is that there hasn t been anyone that has seemed to be big enough to take on the personality that has been donald trump. there s a much different campaign in 2016 than 2020. certainly in the wake of january 6th 2021. jeff, your word for him was a thug. i want to ask you about something we heard from donald trump. he had a counterprogramming town hall last night on fox news. and he was pressed on that question around his dictator on day one, which came from another fox event. here s how trump seems to try to clairify that this tomb. can you say tonight that political violence is never acceptable? of course, that s right. and of course, i m the one that had very little of it.
Office has obtained a recording of trump discussing a classified document he took with him after leaving the white house. nbc news has confirmed the report citing a source directly familiar with the matter, though we should note nbc news has not actually heard the recording on. on the tape made in july 2021 trump reportedly acknowledged the planning document he took was related to iran and it was indeed classified. the source tells nbc news the recording was made during a meeting at trump s golf course at bedminster new jersey and included people helping former white house chief of staff mark meadows write his memoir. the source adds the tape was played during testimony provided to the grand jury that has been investigating trump s handling of classified documents. during a town hall last night on fox news trump again claimed it s all a, quote, witch hunt and then pivoted in an effort to blame the current president, joe