officials and other colleagues trying to understand what the implications were. so i am going back to the hill today, going to meet with a lot of of my colleagues and get to where we need to go. i know we have to pay our bills. that is probably the most overriding thing driving me. but as i said yesterday, there are parts of this bill that i would not vote for if they were a free standing bill. the whole process is not one that is the way that the government should operate. we need regular order. that to me, congresswoman, sounds like a reluctant yes at this point. am i reading that right? i am not going to tell you one way or the other because i am going to keep asking questions and if i learn anything that s very disturbing today, i will have you know, i want to understand how precedent setting this bill is. how will this impact future bills? what are the domestic spending cuts, what are the programs really going to cut? are seniors going to be hurt. real questions th
good morning, everyone. we begin this hour with breaking news overnight. last-minute changes to house speaker kevin mccarthy s debt limit bill. the rules committee worked through the night, ajudge at 5:20 this morning as mccarthy scrambles for republican support ahead of today s possible vote. breaking news just in. ukrainian president zelenskyy has just had a conversation with chinese president xi jinping. that s notable. they had not spoken since before russia invaded ukraine. also, a multi-state manhunt underway this hour for four inmates who escaped from a mississippi jail. one them accused of killing a man and stealing his truck after breaking out of prison. where that investigation is this morning. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin on the u.s. economy and breaking news. house speaker kevin mccarthy reversing course and making big changes to his debt limit plan in the early morning hours as he scrambles to try to get enough republican vot
right now, a high stakes meeting behind closed doors adds congress clashes over trillions of dollars. house speaker kevin mccarthy wants to force president biden to the negotiating table. the big problem, his own party might not be on board with his plan to hold a vote today. the clock is tick to go cut a deal. rolling out the red carpet. the nuclear threat when president biden is preparing for a state visit with south korea s president this morning. we will bring you those important moments ahead. an urgent manhunt across multiple states after four detainees escape a mississippi jail, one of them suspected of shooting and killing a man right after he got out. the latest from police coming up on cnn news central. we begin on capitol hill where right now republican house leadership is meeting behind closed doors discussing a big course reversal in their one-year plan to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion while making deep spending cuts. speaker kevin mccarthy and
e. jean carroll takes the stand in her sexual battery case against the former president. the new warning that the judge issued just moments ago. and a race to get four mississippi jail escapees back in custody. one of the men is now accused of killing someone after he broke out of jail. we are following these major developing stories and all coming in to cnn news let s begin on capitol hill where there has been a shift this morning, it seems. house republican leaders are now confident that they have the votes to pass speaker mccarthy s $1.5 trillion debt ceiling bill and while there were big questions and probably still are, they could still vote today. do you hear all of the caveats i m throwing into this? what did kevin mccarthy have to throw in on to get all of this? manu what is the very latest you re hearing about this? there have been months after negotiations will pass the house as soon as today. it will require 218 votes in the republican-controlled votes
soon, president biden will welcome south korea s president to the white house ahead of a critical meeting. biden and president yoon suk-yeol set to roll out a new plan to boost u.s. and south korean cooperation amid north korea s escalating threats. our correspondents are covering this meeting from washington to korea. cnn s arlette saenz is joining us from the white house. cnn s jeff zeleny is in washington, d.c. for us and paula hancocks is live from seoul, south korea. let us start with arlette. can you tell us what is happening at this hour? we heard the band playing the last time we spoke to you not too long ago. what s going on there now? sarah, any minute now we are expecting south korean president yoon arriving at the white house setting off the pomp and circumstance that president biden is holding for him, but it also comes as the two leaders are set to announce a significant agreement when it comes to efforts to try to deter north korea s nuclear capabilit