my buddy phil is here. good morning. good morning. thank you for letting me come back. i wasn t sure after yesterday. you re such a pleasure. you make these mornings great. did you get some sleep? i did. little bit. thanks for having me. we have a lot going on today. five things to know for this tuesday, may 9th, 2023. vladimir putin speaking from red square claiming the, quote, real war is being waged on russia during a scaled back victory day ceremony, the speech comes hours after russia launched several cruise missiles at kyiv. also the gunman behind the texas mall shooting had a very disturbing online history, full of posts about nazis and mass shooters. police say he killed eight people, ranging in age from 3 years old to 37. and happening today, president biden hosting a high-stakes meeting with congressional leaders to discuss the debt limit. country is at risk of default if a deal isn t reached by early june. e. jean carroll s rape trial against donald t
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, june 7th. we have important new reporting this morning on the status of the gun safety talks in washington. negotiators met late into the night, and it seems there are areas of possible agreement. narrow agreement, but agreement. word of a measure that might change how people younger than 21 buy semiautomatic weapons. both the killers in buffalo and uvalde were 18, they used semiautomatic ar-15-style weapons. this would not be a ban on sales to those under 21, which the president and others have called for, but something of an adjustment and we will have details on that in just a moment. since friday, gun violence has killed more than a dozen people and injured dozens more in 13 mass shootings in the united states. awful scenes at graduation pop particulars, night club, tainment district and strip mall. let s go to lauren fox on capitol hill to get the latest on what is being disc
And we thank her for her decades of service to this country. All of our thoughts with her family. We will continue this breaking News Coverage the death of senator Dianne Feinstein continues now with cnn news central. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. And we do continue with the breaking news, Scrat Cdemocrati senator Dianne Feinstein has passed away at the age of 90 years old. We have of course seen the senators struggles with her health in recent years, she has been previously hospitalized in august after a fall. We now want to get to Cnns Wolf Blitzer who is taking a look back at her life and incredible legacy. Announcer Dianne Feinstein emerged on the National Stage after a 1978 tragedy in San Francisco. Mayor moss coney and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. Reporter after the Assassinations Feinstein was sworn in as the first female mayor of the city by the bay. Mayor feinstein quickly got the attention of the National Democratic party on a short list of vp cand
that s what is so confusing so to many people right now. ed, just hours before this opinion came down to leave the state to get her abortion, how are her lawyers responding to what we learned last night? they said she simply was running out of time. she is now 21 weeks pregnant. she felt like she needed to make this decision. after the attorney general had appealed to the supreme court, they essentially paused that lower court ruling, giving her the permission to get the abortion legally and waited for three days for the texas supreme court. so because of that, they described her situation as being in legal limbo and described the weekend as hellish for her. that s why she arrived on monday and made the decision to leave the state to get this abortion. and what many critics of the abortion law and the situation in texas is saying is that texas supreme court ruling really sends a signal to many women across the state of texas that you cannot go to a court and get that p
that kind of means things aren t in an ideal place. take a listen. there is no plan b. our plan is for congress to act to address the debt limit without conditions, just like they have done 78 times in the past, just like they did three times under president trump. all right. we re covering this from all angles from capitol hill to wall street. let s go to lauren fox on capitol hill. phil set the stage beautifully for us about what s realistic. it was striking to hear from the white house in that interview with jake, there is no plan b. reporter: yeah. i mean, poppy, that is the big question going into this meeting. how are they going to resolve this? if they can t, what options are on the table. and phil laid them out beautifully. the options aren t great. but when kevin mccarthy, the house speaker, walks into this meeting today at the white house, he is the leader to watch. and in conversations i ve had with key allies, as well as close aides to the speaker over