Good friday morning, everybody. I am erica hill with rahel solomon. Poppy harlow is off today. Nice to be friday. Isnt it . We are here for that. Five things to know for this friday. June 2nd, the Debt Ceiling Bill on its way to President Bidens desk and once signed the threat of a u. S. Default is off the table until after the 2024 election. Also, new questions this morning about that partial Building Collapse in davenport, iowa. Just days before the wall came Crashing Down an Engineering Firm said, quote, bricks appear ready to fall imminently. You can see the gap in the new pictures. Three people are still missing. The former president now responding to reporting that they have him on tape. The Denver Nuggets one step closer to making franchise history after beating the miami heat, they are up taking the first game in the nba finals. An Eighth Grader crowned the new National Spelling bee champ. We will put him to the test when he joins us live on cnn this morning which starts right
not defaulting. days before a portion of an apartment building in iowa collapsed repair work was under way on that section. three people remain missing. i said, if you value your life, get away from that building and an hour later i heard the building fell. the inspection never failed. it was incomplete. so the work was still in progress. this needs to be done in a way that it respects that this is a resting place. president biden tripped over a sandbag and fell. because this wasn t the president s first stumble it has gotten a lot of attention. according to white house official, totally fine. remember to stay true to ourselves. jokic knocks down the three. the first finals game in franchise history is a rousing success. p-s-a-m-m-o-p-h-i-l-e, psammophile. that is correct. after much anticipation about a spell-off, a 14-year-old dev shah won the 2023 scripps national spelling bee. it s surreal. i didn t even let it settle in. my legs are still shaking.
good friday morning, everybody. i am erica hill with rahel solomon. poppy harlow is off today. nice to be friday. isn t it? we are here for that. five things to know for this friday. june 2nd, the debt ceiling bill on its way to president biden s desk and once signed the threat of a u.s. default is off the table until after the 2024 election. also, new questions this morning about that partial building collapse in davenport, iowa. just days before the wall came crashing down an engineering firm said, quote, bricks appear ready to fall imminently. you can see the gap in the new pictures. three people are still missing. the former president now responding to reporting that they have him on tape. the denver nuggets one step closer to making franchise history after beating the miami heat, they are up taking the first game in the nba finals. an eighth grader crowned the new national spelling bee champ. we will put him to the test when he joins us live on cnn this morni
washington. we begin this hour with the breaking news. president biden s advisers are rejecting calls for the presumptive democratic nominee able crumbled last night. now the question is whether biden can rebuild it and 81-year-old president stumbled and stammered through much of the primetime debate on cnn. all you have to do is read some of these headlines to see how his performance has raised serious new doubts if he can remain the democrats nominee biden is toast red one fumbling performance and time to go joe to name a few the top democrat in the house says biden should not step down in an adviser tells cnn that the president plans to debate. again in september, but make no mistake last night was filled with cringeworthy moments it d be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for when i ve b
trump s conduct in on january 6, related to january 6 is fundamentally different to that of someone who just simply showed up to the capital engaged in violence and an obstructed the proceeding in that way, there are many pieces of evidence that they can use to tie donald trump s alleged conspiracy back to documents or to the effort to essentially delay the proceedings to obstruct them in process, all that sort of stuff. so i think there are many arguments let me made to leave those charges in, but it will require really changing the sort of evidence that they think about putting in front of the jury. so bottom line is basically a variant encouraging good day for donald trump. no question. donald trump benefits from this, from this ruling, even if it s just in the context of creating numerous issues for him to challenge the indictment, to challenge the charges before this case ever goes on in the process, delay any criminal we ll trials, which is what he s trying to do. r