welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in washington with erin burnett in new york. breaking now, 37 criminal charges against donald trump revealed in a detailed federal indictment that s now public. the former president of the united states accused of storing and hiding very sensitive, highly classified documents as mar-a-lago allegedly conspireing with an aide to defy a subpoena for the material. wolf, prosecutors say trump kept secret information in a ballroom, up on a stage, in a bedroom and in a bathroom and even in a shower. the former commander in chief showed off documents including a document trump is said to have described as a, quote, plan of attack. tonight, erin, special counsel jack smith is vowing a very speedy trial arguing laws must be enforced as the indictment warrants trump risked exposing military and nuclear secrets of the united states and its allies. this is a special edition of the situation room. the
clear that donald j. trump is a target of the investigation. we ll have legal analysis what that means for a possible indictment in just a moment. meanwhile trump s former running mate is now his newest challenger in the 2024 presidential race. we ll have more from mike pence s campaign launch. plus that hazardous haze that s been covering the northeast is expected to kick back up today. we ll get the latest time line for when the wildfire smoke from canada could finally clear out. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that former president donald trump s attorneys have been told that trump is a target of the justice department s investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents after he left the white house. prosecutors told trump s attorneys about their client being a target in that probe during their meeting monday at the doj headqu
world. ahead on cnn newsroom, crisis averted. biden set to sign off on a deal to raise the federal borrowing limit. heartbreak in india. search efforts now underway after one of the deadliest train crashes in the country s history. plus, new video shows the moments before an iowa apartment building came crashing down. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. the debt limit crisis in washington is over for now, and perhaps no one is more relieved than u.s. president joe biden. in his words, crisis averted. the stakes were enormous, the threat of failure hung over the country for weeks as the white house and republican leaders seemed locked in stalemate. but the hard work finally paid off late thursday when the u.s. senate voted to suspend the debt ceiling and avoid catastrophic default. in his first oval office address on friday night, the president summed up his view of the make or break moment in u.s. history. passing this budget agreement was critical. the stakes
be very clear. not one republican should vote for this deal. it is a bad deal. i thought the last plan wasn t good enough. i had no idea. i had no idea that we would see a plan as ephemeral as this plan. anyone who s spent any time on capitol hill will tell you those hard liners were probably never going to vote for any compromise. by necessity, it would not be what they wanted, which was major spending cuts to social programs but here is where it gets tricky. as part of the deal to get the gavel, mccarthy put a number of those hard liners on the rules committee in the house. and now two of them, chip roy and ralph norman, are openly trying to sink deal. will they, even though they re trying to sink it, still allow it to go to the floor for a vote? that that is an open question. we re going to ask garrett haake about it in a moment. there s also the question of whether enough house dems will sign on. the conventional wisdom is yes. that there s no way democrats will all
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. can they get to 218 by tomorrow? with growing frustration over the debt deal on the right and the left, we have got latest on the arm twisting, political messaging and veiled threats coming out of capitol hill. all of it with a full house vote tentatively planned for tomorrow night. plus, desantis in des moines. the governor, how will his florida blueprint go over with the folks in iowa? and the war next door hits home for vladimir putin. literally. drones exploded on a moscow neighborhood while buildings were set fire in kyiv. we start with conservative republicans vowing to do everything in their power to kill the debt ceiling bill, demanding their colleagues vote it down. their opposition raising new fears about the future of the legislation and reigniting concerns that the country could be headed back to the brink of a catastrophic economic default. if you re out there watching this, every on