plus on to the senate now for a big bipartisan breakthrough. a month scramble of meetings, breakdowns and near rebellions leads to 314 yes in the house on a deal to steer the united states around a debt default. from wall street to the whout, one of the most powerful men in corporate america doesn t say no to a future in politics. up first for us, critical new cnn report ing on a special counsel investigation evidence trail that we now know includes a record ing of donald trump admitting he kept a classified record when he left the white house. trump right now is on the campaign trail between iowa. a reminder of the unprecedented place we find ourselves. a state investigation sb n georgia and two tracks of the federal special counsel investigation. and yet, he is at the same time the front runner for the 2024 republican nomination. ask he vows to carry on his campaign no matter what prosecutors allege. this exclusive new cnn reporting is this. special counsel jack smith h
that s knowledge that of what he has in his hands. it contradict what is he told kaitlan collins at the town hall. listen. i was there, i took what i took. it gets declassified. did you show those classified dlts to anyone? not really. i would have the right to. awhat do you mean not really? i have the right to do whatever i want with them. to the point that notwithstanding what the former president said at the town hall, the idea that if trump had a document and said, i d love to share this with you, if you re jack smith trying to build a case not just about obstruction, but about misappropriation of classified materials, put that evidence into con texas. it s extraordinarily important because often the sticking point in a prosecution is proving the defendant s state of mind. i used to send out fbi agents sometimes with notices that i
food with other people. but now, all you can eat buffets have made a comeback. visits to golden corral, pizza ranch, and some of the other leading buffet chains, up about 125% in march from their january 2021 levels. and it is really being driven by folks looking for value, getting hit by inflation, and trying to find cheaper prices. pizza ranch, you say. i don t know. i learn something every week on this show. nathaniel, thank you so much. golden corral. i do know that. today, millions across the midwest are facing a severe weather threat. certainly, let s focus in on texas, though. a big storm is expected to hit parts of that state. let s bring in cnn s allison chinchar with more. we ve got two different areas. the area in the midwest and the area farther down to the south and the thing to note, too, is that not only is flooding going
to be a concern here, but it is a tremendous amount of lighting, you ve got a lot of strong and severe thunderstorms possible today across not only texas but oklahoma, and areas of arkansas, and louisiana, and then yes, also the separate area in the midwest. and just in the last 24 hours, we ve already seen some pretty significant rainfall amounts, that del rio, down to laredo area, already picking up several inches, same thing with points along southern texas, and then it s going to rain even more today. and when you start factoring in that cumulative amount, that s why you ve got the flood watches in effect, because it is not just rain, yesterday, more rain today, and even additional rain expected tomorrow. and that s going to saturate the ground, but you also have the potential for damaging winds, and especially some hail for a lot of the same areas as we go through multiple rounds of storms today and tomorrow. thank you. so 130,000 dollars in your pocket, that is the price tag
but the numbers have changed. reporter: so will that change be temporary? i think that s yet to be seen. so i think what we will also see in the days ahead at least part of the focus shifts to some of these, in the interior, like denver, chicago, washington, d.c., new york city, where i ve been covering this for the last year, where many of the people that crossed here, eventually, they don t stay here. they want to head further north, and that s where major american cities are now left wondering what will happen to the number of asylum seekers that have ended up in their communities as well. and that s why you are seeing, in fact, just recently, a team of democrats, turning to the white house, asking for some sort of humanitarian relief that will give them work authorizations because though we may see some relief on the border, the numbers in the cities that we just mentioned, those will continue to increase. the new york city mayor had planned to put some migrants on buses and se